Dr Sweatman has over 30 years of experience in transportation research and innovation, and the application of R&D. That experience encompasses vehicles, drivers, and infrastructure and impinges on technology, policy, and strategic planning. He is a trusted international voice on connected and automated vehicles, safety, ITS, transportation research and education, and freight technology and policy. He has worked extensively in Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the United States.

Dr Sweatman is the recipient of the 2020 Max Lay Lifetime Achievement Award, read more here.

Carla is the President and CEO of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), and is a leader in engineering and vehicle program management with 35 years of experience in the automotive industry. Under Carla’s leadership, CAR continues to be a preeminent resource of objective and unbiased research, analysis, and information regarding the North American automotive industry.

In addition to her role at CAR, Carla is the 2016-2018 vice president of automotive for SAE International, a global association of more than 138,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries.

Jeevak brings energy, passion & curiosity to his role at Sundberg-Ferar. With his unique blend of education and experience in industrial design, engineering and business, he is a rallying voice for the alignment and optimal inclusion of the end user’s unmet needs, and unspoken wants in the core value proposition of a company’s products & service portfolio to generate sought-after shareholder value.

Jeevak has more than 23 years of professional design experience, first in India for 7 years at Tata Motors, and then in the U.S. for 16 years at GM Design and now Sundberg-Ferar. Beyond his role at SF, Jeevak is a board member of many prominent design associations and think tanks including the Michigan Design Council, Aether Design Group, and Detroit Creative Corridor. He also served on IDSA’s International board for 6 years and chaired IDSA’s 2017 flagship International Design Conference: “Design IS Business”.

Dr Cai is a senior manager at EY, working towards accelerating the adoption of AI and digital twin in transformational industries. He obtained a PhD in Transport at University College London, began his research career at National ICT Australia (NICTA), moved to CSIRO as NICTA was merged with CSIRO to form Data61, where he founded the Transport Analytics group.

The group was the recipient of numerous awards: NSW Premier’s Innovation Initiative, Committee for Sydney Award, iAward, CSIRO Collaboration Medal, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Australia Awards. The core of group followed him to join EY in June 2022. He was an elected board director of ITS Australia from 2017 to 2021.