April 5-7, 2022|Santa Clara Convention Center| Santa Clara, CA
Dr Kirsten Matheus is engineer and economist. For the last 16 years, she worked in the automotive industry; 10 of which at BMW. At BMW, she is responsible for the in-vehicle networking strategy. This entails ensuring the availability of suitable in-vehicle networking technologies ahead of time. In this context she successfully introduced Ethernet as a networking technology into the automotive industry. In her opinion, only open standards provide the basis for long term sustainability of networking technologies. She and her former colleague Thomas Königseder describe their experiences, background and technical concepts behind the use of Ethernet in the automotive industry in a book titled “Automotive Ethernet”. Kirsten heads the technical working group in the Automotive Serdes alliance