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DESCRIPTION:IEEE Event Agenda - Tuesday May 12\, 2026\n\n🔹 5:00 PM – 5
 :30 PM\n\nRegistration\, Refreshments\, Food &amp; Networking (Meet &amp; Greet)\n
 \nFeatured Speakers &amp; Sessions\n\n🔹 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM\n\nTopic 1: Ind
 ustry Talk – Standardizing Automotive Firmware for SDVs\n\nExperts from 
 Mercedes-Benz\, Arm\, and Athos Silicon will discuss the urgent need for a
  standardized\, secure\, and vendor-agnostic firmware foundation.\n\nKey f
 ocus areas:\n\n- Overcoming fragmented firmware ecosystems\n- UEFI as a sc
 alable automotive standard\n- Enabling functional safety\, cybersecurity\,
  and interoperability\n- Supporting chiplet-based and next-gen ADAS archit
 ectures\n\nSpeakers:\n\n- François Piednoël – [LinkedIn](https://www.l
 inkedin.com/in/francoispiednoel/)\n- Sachin Athanikar – [LinkedIn](https
 ://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-athanikar-18ba5914/)\n- Dong Wei [– Linked
 In](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dongweimba/)\n\n🔹 6:15 PM – 6:45 PM\n
 \nTopic 2: Academic Keynote – Safe Embodied AI: From Theory to Deploymen
 t\n\nProf. Ding Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University)\n\nTopics include:\n\n- 
 Rare-event safety in autonomous systems\n- Safe reinforcement and imitatio
 n learning\n- Generalizable and adaptive AI safety\n- Future of trustworth
 y embodied AI at scale\n\nSpeaker:\n\n- Ding Zhao – [LinkedIn](https://w
 ww.linkedin.com/in/ding-zhao-01130730/)\n\n🔹 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM\n\nTop
 ic 3: Industry Talk – Static Safety Is Dead: Continuous Risk &amp; Complianc
 e for SDVs\n\nAkshay Chalana (CEO &amp; Co-founder\, Saphira AI)\n\nModern veh
 icles evolve continuously through software updates\, AI-driven functionali
 ty\, and increasing connectivity—yet safety and cybersecurity practices 
 remain largely static.\n\nThis talk explores:\n\n- What breaks when tradit
 ional safety assumptions no longer hold\n- Real-world ADAS/autonomy failur
 e propagation: dataset bias\, requirement drift\, and system boundary ambi
 guity\n- Cross-domain challenges between safety and cybersecurity\n- A new
  model for continuous\, system-aware risk assessment and compliance\n- Tre
 ating compliance artifacts as live infrastructure integrated into developm
 ent pipelines\n\nThis session provides a practical path to maintaining cer
 tification-grade rigor while operating at software velocity.\n\nSpeaker:\n
 \n- Akshay Chalana – [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaychalan
 a/)\n\n🔹 7:15 PM – 7:30 PM\n\nQ&amp;A and open discussion - Aditi Ramadwa
 r\n\nAbout This Technical Forum\n\nThis technical forum brings together OE
 Ms\, Tier-1 suppliers\, semiconductor leaders\, researchers\, and innovato
 rs to address the challenge of fragmentation and define a unified\, future
 -ready mobility stack.\n\nWho Should Attend:\n\n- Automotive engineers and
  architects\n- Safety and cybersecurity specialists\n- Semiconductor and e
 mbedded systems professionals\n- Researchers in autonomous vehicles and AI
  safety\n- Technical decision-makers from OEMs and suppliers\n- Students i
 n Automotive\, Compute\, Mechanical &amp; Electrical Engineering\n\nWe would b
 e delighted if you could join us and participate in shaping the future of 
 intelligent transportation.\n\nSpeaker(s): Francois\, Wei \, Sachin\, Zhao
 \, Akshay\n\nIn-Person at:  SEMI Headquarters\, 673 S Milpitas Blvd\, Milp
 itas\, California\, United States\, 95035\, Virtual: https://events.vtools
 .ieee.org/m/551666
LOCATION:In-Person at:  SEMI Headquarters\, 673 S Milpitas Blvd\, Milpitas\
 , California\, United States\, 95035\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee
 .org/m/551666
ORGANIZER:talkwithvikas@gmail.com
SEQUENCE:174
SUMMARY:The Intelligence of the Machine.. The Rigor of the Road!!
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