Marek is a senior expert in perception, control, and safety for ADAS and AD at Volkswagen Group. He joined the group’s subsidiary Carmeq in 2007 for work on a research version of today’s long-desired highway pilot systems and has accumulated substantial experience in sensor data fusion and safety concepts for SAE L2 and L3 products. Today he is contributing to the accomplishment of SOTIF within the AD Alliance of Robert Bosch GmbH and Volkswagen’s software company CARIAD SE, on the CARIAD side.

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For me, automated driving on SAE level 3 is a key threshold towards robotics interacting with an open world. From a background in robotics, AI, and automotive sensor data fusion, paving the way for L3 automated driving as an end users' product became my mission just naturally. For me, this is "the automotive Apollo project", a notion that shall summarize both the attraction and the difficulty involved in this journey, together with the fact that the challenge is primarily a technical one. SOTIF (Safety of the Intended Functionality) has become the community's key label for the related effort, and therefore my "office door label". It does provide a good frame, yet nevertheless, the task has occasionally been underestimated in industry.

In the future, a car must be more than just a car. More comfortable. Safer. More sustainable. More entertaining. More digital. More connected. For everyone, everywhere. Based on intelligent software and combined with proven German engineering. At CARIAD, we want to rethink the car. For a better tomorrow. CARIAD is the automotive software company within the Volkswagen Group that bundles and further expands the Group's software competencies to transform automotive mobility. Founded in 2020, it develops the leading tech stack for the automotive industry. Around 5,000 engineers and developers around the world are building a new software platform for all brands of Volkswagen Group, which includes a unified architecture, an operating system and automotive cloud. The new software platform will first come to play at the end of 2024. In addition, CARIAD works on outstanding digital automotive features, including ADAS solutions, a standardized infotainment platform, software functions for linking powertrains, chassis and charging technology as well as new ecosystems and digital business models in and around the vehicle. CARIAD operates in software competence centers in Wolfsburg, Ingolstadt, the area of Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg and Kassel, and is closely co-operating with development teams in Seattle and China.