The Road of Self Driving: Where are we and What to expect

Marco Pavone is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. He is also Chief Science Advisor at Lacuna Technologies. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was involved in the Mars 2020 mission. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America’s 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. He is serving or has served on the advisory board of a number of autonomous driving start-ups (both small and multi-billion dollar ones), he routinely consults for major companies and financial institutions on the topic of autonomous systems, and is a venture partner for investments in AI-enabled robots.

Luciano Marton, 50 anni, laurea in Economia Aziendale a Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, è dal gennaio 2019 General Manager Garage Equipment e Telemobility di TEXA, azienda leader nel business della diagnosi elettronica in ambito automotive con 730 dipendenti, export in oltre 100 paesi nel mondo, 135 Milioni di fatturato. Nel periodo 2017-2018 ha ricoperto, nella stessa azienda, la funzione di sales director. Prima di entrare in TEXA, ha operato per 20 anni in ruoli di crescente responsabilità nel gruppo Mermec, azienda specializzata nelle tecnologie di diagnostica e controllo dimensionale per i settori ferroviario, siderurgico, logistica e industrial. Dal 2019 è membro del consiglio di sorveglianza di Smact, il Competence Center ad alta specializzazione nelle tecnologie in ambito Industria 4.0, di cui TEXA è una delle aziende fondatrici.

INTERVENGONO:

Marco Pavone – Associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics a Stanford University

Fabrizio Dughiero – Prorettore al trasferimento tecnologico Università di Padova

Luciano Marton – Direttore Generale TEXA S.p.A.

Roberto Siagri – Amministratore Delegato Eurotech S.p.A.

Mauro Conti – Professore ordinario Cybersecurity – Università di Padova

La conferenza sarà in italiano.