Felix Strauß is working as Lead Expert at Bertrandt Group and is responsible for all X-in-the-Loop related technologies. With 10 years of experience in hard- and software-testing in HiL/SiL-environments for OEM customers he is aware of the challenges the automotive industry is recently facing. For the past five years he has been pushing the evolution of virtual testing activities beyond the well-established SiL-environments that mostly consider application software. His main focus is the virtualization of control units, building cloud-based test frameworks as we as establishing new test processes that worthy the possibilities of the virtual ecu. Felix is equipped with a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT).