Speakers 2024

Matt serves as the Chairman and as a Board Member of COVESA, the alliance was previously known as the GENIVI. COVESA brings together like-minded organizations from across the globe with the shared goal of developing open standards and innovative technologies for connected vehicle systems including in-vehicle, on-edge and in-cloud services, interfaces and data exchange.

Professionally, with nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Matt now oversees technology strategy and embedded experience at Ford Motor Company.

Until recently, Matt led the delivery of safety-critical connected intelligent systems as Wind River’s Corporate Vice President of Global Engineering. Accelerating the digital transformation across verticals from aerospace to industrial, defense to medical, and networking to automotive,

He was previously at Virgin Hyperloop One, where as Senior Vice President he led the Software and Embedded Hardware Engineering teams; tasked with providing all the systems needed to manage, control, and operate an autonomous hyperloop system. This included embedded software and electronics, networking, cloud data and services, as well as customer-facing applications. Prior to Virgin Hyperloop One, he was chief product officer at moovel Group, Daimler’s mobility solutions company. Before moovel, he was director of future technology at Jaguar Land Rover.

Matt holds a Master of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer within the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).

Presenting:

• Standardization and Collaboration / Partnerships in the Software-Defined Vehicle Era