Martin Benedikt is affiliated at the Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH since 2008. He studied Telematics and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering where he investigated numerical algorithms for Co-Simulation. He is certified auditor for quality management systems. At the center he leads the Research Group on “Co-Simulation & Software”, manages developments w.r.t. Virtual Validation and acts as Digital Innovation Manager. Since 2022 he represents the technical coordinator of the center’s subsidiary (SETLabs Research GmbH) located in Munich. In 2023 he initiated a new working group “Modeling & Simulation SPICE” at iNTACS e.v. for development of a process reference and assessment model, in-line with Automotive SPICE.

Philipp Dettling is Tribe Lead for the market leading homologation and registration solution TypeMaster since 2021 working in the area of software developing for homologation and registration. He and his team are working in publicly funded projects like SofDCar and other research groups on the topic of homologation.

Andre Eggers is a researcher at BASt (German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute) since 2006 working in the area of biomechanics, evaluation of dummies, human models and virtual testing. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg and Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University. 2013 he completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin. He contributed to several European research projects like IMVITER, THORAX, ASSESS, SENIORS and OSCCAR. He is representing BASt in Euro NCAP working groups related to injury criteria and virtual testing.

Maren Finck is a Project Manager at carhs.training gmbh. From 2008 - 2015 she worked at EDAG as a project manager responsible for vehicle safety. Previously, she worked several years at carhs GmbH and TECOSIM as an analysis engineer with a focus on pedestrian safety and biomechanics. Maren has been a firefighter at the local fire station since 1994 and uses her experience as a technical rescue instructor.

Holds a degree in physics after studies in electrical engineering, computer science and physics at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe and the University of Cologne. After a scientific collaboration for PHD at the Institute for Extraterrestrial Geophysics of the University of Cologne he is with T-Systems in various management and leading positions in area of Automotive R&D and Innovation. Starting in optimizing processes in Systems Engineering and Embedded Systems for Automotive OEM and developing new business areas for testing of tolling onboard units he continuous in heading the department of technical simulation within T-Systems for several years. Thereafter he took over the position of a Senior Program Manager with profit loss responsibility for multi project management of connected car platform and ADAS for a premium vehicle manufacturer in the south of Germany. Since 2018 he is in his role as Senior Manager SDV / ADAS&AD responsible for offering and new business for Software Defined Vehicles and Automated Mobility.

Valerio Zanetti is System Architect in the Architecture, Portfolio and Strategy Team of T-Systems Cloud Services. He is working on platforms for Data & AI, Analytics, Simulation and AD/ADAS development.