SDVCon 2024

Lecturer, industry-Insider and researcher, aiming to bridge the gap between industrial innovation and science. After almost 10 years in a leading automotive tech company, Marco has just found his way back into academia to convert experience into new ideas. He authored more than 40 research papers and filed around 20 patents during his career. Marco earned his diploma degree from Heilbronn University in 2009 in the field of Automotive Systems Engineering. Furthermore, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Koblenz–Landau, Germany, in 2015 for his work in adaptive software and system architectures for the vehicular domain.  
Between 2014 and 2018, Marco served as a researcher in the Corporate Sector Research of the Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany where he worked on a broad field stretching from vehicular networking technologies, automotive system architectures and the application of AI methods. From 2019 to 2021 Marco hold several positions in the field of technical and product management in the Automated Driving Sector of Bosch. In these years, he was responsible for products around embedded AI and MLOps for autonomous vehicles and their subsystems. Between 2021 and February 2023, Marco acted as a Solution Lead for the Bosch subsidiary ETAS in the area of the Software-Defined-Vehicle (SDV). 
Since March 2003, Marco serves as a professor for artificial intelligence in technical systems at the School of Engineering of Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany.