This month the Autotech Council invites you to join our meeting where we feature presentations from high-quality innovators, startups, and scale-ups that are developing cutting-edge LiDAR solutions for perception, improving accuracy, resolution, speed, and range, while reducing cost and size. We'll also look at how AI layers are added to improve object identification and tagging and leveraging the 3D point cloud.

LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, has emerged as a critical perception technology with applications across the automotive sector from vehicle safety and self-driving to robotics and industrial automation. Innovation in LiDAR has been strong and steady over the past 5 years, with almost 30 LiDAR companies having presented their technologies to the Autotech Council over that time. There is still a lot of new technology to discover, and new companies, putting LiDar to work across mobility and transportation.

LiDAR offers precise sensing and perception. Compared to cameras, which rely on interpretive image processing to estimate depth, LiDAR directly measures thousands of distances by emitting laser pulses in various directions and timing the reflected light. This results in a more accurate and reliable 3D point-cloud representation of the surroundings, crucial for applications like autonomous navigation and robotics.

This agenda highlights the innovation in perception and sensors, from improvement in accuracy, resolution, speed, and range of LiDAR, to reductions in cost and size of sensors, and a host of interesting AI tools layered on the sensor data, icluding:

• AV & ADAS
• AI for sensor fusion
• Manufacturing & Industry

• Edge AI
• Self-Driving & Robotics
• Surveying & Mapping

An important trend on our RADAR (so to speak) is the ability of AI to take advantage of sensor diversity in autonomous systems. By combining LiDAR with other sensors like cameras and RADAR, AI can create more robust and reliable perception output. Using different RF emissions, the sensor suite gets more diverse, and is less likely to be foiled by atmospheric conditions (direct sun, rain, ice) or hacks. This is crucial for redundancy that increases the safety and reliability of autonomous machines operating in complex and dynamic environments.

Join Autotech Council members, carmakers, Tier 1 vendors, mobility investors and cutting edge startups to discover the next generation of computer vision and meet the companies working on automotive perception for self-driving cars.

Hosted at Sensors Converge

Sensors Converge has evolved over decades as an event focusing solely on sensor technology, to a larger and more diversified event focusing on electronics technologies and embedded systems that work hand-in-hand with sensors. From enabling innovation, to process design & control development, to transforming markets, Sensors Converge covers technologies and applications that are driving smart sensor innovation into the era of sustainable living. 

Meeting Format

This agenda includes perception and LiDAR, experts focused on vision applications in automotive, and technology companies working on new perception solutions. Attendees will have time for technology demos and to followup with speakers, and startups during the networking break.

Introduce your product or service to OEMs, Tier1s, and tech scouts. Applications are reviewed and invitations extended based on fit.

Meeting Tables will be available to presenters who wish to demo their product or service to our audience in a private networking space.

Share your thought leadership or market analysis on this topic.  Keynote, Analyst and Panel positions may be available.

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Fees & Options

This meeting is onsite only.

• REGISTRATION: $200 (free for members)
  Onsite attendance includes pitches & demos and time for networking.

• TECHNOLOGY PITCH: $200
  Admission and a Rapid Fire pitch to introduce a relevant technology, company, or product to attendees and Council members at large.

UPGRADES

• MEETING TABLE: $200 ($50 for members)
  Tables are inside the meeting room, and can be used to show demos or start conversation with other attendees before, during, and after the main agenda. They are 30” round / 42" tall cocktail tables with black linen, power, and Wi-Fi when available, and signed with your logo.

Venue

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