Over 100 Companies Converge at COVESA’s All Member Meeting

COVESA welcomed 107 individual companies during its October 22-23 All Member Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This number included 10 OEMs and 11 Tier-1 organizations. Demonstrating the open collaborative community around COVESA, this number also included 45 companies that were not COVESA members, showing significant draw from the broader automotive ecosystem. If this trend continues, we may have to change the name of the event to the COVESA All Non-Member Meeting. Seriously, the event was a highlight during the challenging year for the automotive industry.

We are very grateful to the awesome list of sponsors for helping make the event such a success:

Keeping with the numbers theme, the event program had 56 sessions on a wide variety of topics of business and technical interest. Slide decks used for many of these sessions can be found on the Wiki. The event swelled in attendance during the ever-popular Wednesday evening Showcase and Reception, during which 30 organizations represented their products and services, showed their proofs-of-concepts, and answered questions from attendees. The evening ended with two organizations receiving COVESA’s Outstanding Contributor Award. Join me in congratulating Virtual Vehicle (partnering with Bosch) and one of COVESA’s newest members, Cox Automotive. COVESA’s next Showcase event will be held at the Bellagio Ballroom during the first evening of the CES 2026 event. We hope to see you there!

Event attendees also enjoyed a first look at COVESA’s latest projects, the Vehicle Data Model (VDM) and Simplified Semantic Data Modeling (S2DM), both of which show great potential for extending the value of the COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS). Other topics discussed included in-vehicle payments,  cybersecurity, connected road safety, fleet management, and several talks about various applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in OEMs, Tier-1s, and large technology organizations.

COVESA was pleased with the great turnout of members and non-member companies in Ann Arbor. And we look forward to gathering again on April 22-23, 2026, in Porto, Portugal, for the next opportunity to bring the connected vehicle ecosystem together.