Graham previously held the position of Chairman and President at GENIVI Alliance and has now returned as Chairman of the Board for COVESA. Graham has been with the BMW Group for over 30 years and now is a research lead focusing on data and program sharing among OEMs and suppliers.

Thomas Bloor is Director of Automotive at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the industry leader in DDS-based communication software for automotive and other mission-critical systems.

With over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, Thomas started his automotive career n business development at Intel, where he built the foundations for Intel's automotive business working with major OEMs in North America and Europe. Subsequently he worked as the Head of Global Business Development for BlackBerry QNX, and then as Director of Sales and Business Development for BlackBerry QNX in the Americas, where he worked extensively with startups and traditional OEMs across North America.

As the Director of Automotive at RTI, Thomas manages the automotive business and strategy to accelerate the transition to software-defined architectures. Thomas holds a BEng(Hons) in Materials Engineering from Birmingham University.

Munakata had strived to utilize various OSS (like Linux kernel, Chromium, Wayland,..) in Renesas automotive target silicon over ten years. And he established a close collaborative connection to various OSS community stakeholders and Industry consortia leaders now.

Florian Baumann has been the Director for Cloud & Software Strategy at Aptiv since 2021. From a young age, Florian has been obsessed with technology especially machine learning (ML), leading up to a PhD on the topic from the Leibniz University of Hannover. He brings that experience to the table developing AD/ADAS solutions.

Prior to this appointment, Dan was General Motors Vice President of Global Electrification, Controls, Software and Electronics where he led the organization from 2019 to 2022. Prior to that, Dan was General Motors Vice President, Global Propulsion Systems. In that role he was responsible for all propulsion products including engines, transmissions, fuel cells, electric drive units and batteries.

Dan began his General Motors career as a co-op student at Buick Motor Division. He has an extensive background in product engineering at GM and has progressed through a series of leadership positions including director of controller integration, director of engine calibration, chief engineer for V8 engines, managing director of GM Powertrain-Germany GmbH, executive director for global powertrain embedded controls, Vice President of Global Quality and Vice President of Global Powertrain.

Dan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.

Dan is a registered professional engineer in the state of Michigan. He is on the SAE Board of Directors and serves as Vice President Automotive. He is also a past president of the Engineering Society of Detroit, a past president of FISITA and was recognized in 2019 as an Automotive News All-Star.

Stephen is a principal engineer representing Renesas within the COVESA Alliance. He is highly skilled at Embedded Systems and software and was formerly the global representative of the GENIVI Linux automotive alliance Baseline Integration Team (BIT). He also was a maintainer of the Renesas R-Car SoC Genivi Yocto BSP. Stephen is highly skilled in Linux kernel development within the Linux team of the European Design Centre for global automotive markets. His focus has principally been in the area of SoC for high-end Car Information Systems (CIS). Stephen holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Ted Guild is the Connectivity Standards Lead at Geotab. His role consists of standards participation and coordination, strategy, and partner engagement. He came to Geotab in May of 2021 from MIT where he had been for 21 years, most of that time as Head of IT for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In his last seven years at MIT, he led W3C's Automotive activity, developing standards for connected vehicles and conducting cybersecurity research. He remains active in the W3C Automotive activity as a co-chair and is involved in the broader, joint Common Vehicle Interface Initiative with COVESA.