Richard Barnbrook

(Technical Specialist) Beng. MSc.

10 years experience working as an Engineer in the Automotive Business 8 of which in Consultancy. 

1998-1999 Rover Group.
CVT control including integration with the vehicle’s Electronic Stability control Program (ESP).
1999-2007 Ricardo UK Ltd
CVT control for multiple applications, eLSD for various applications including the Bugatti Veyron, Torque Vectoring control for multiple demonstrators and various simulation based projects using IPG’s CarMaker.
2008 to present Vocis Driveline Controls.
eLSD control implementation for a rear wheel driven high performance vehicle.
DCT control for various customer focused projects.
 

Alan Barlow

Senior Software & Instrumentation Engineer

Alan Barlow graduated from The University of Nottingham in 2003 with a masters degree in Electronic Engineering. He then joined Conekt where he focused on communications based bespoke test equipment design, initiating a new modular software design process to increase software reuse during the design process. His current role requires him to use this experience to deliver an innovative solution to manage the increasing complexity of the typical automotive environment.
 

Dr. Philip Clarke

Business Manager, dSPACE

Philip Clarke currently works for dSPACE, a supplier of systems for the development and test of electronic controllers.  He has a first degree in Pure Mathematics and a Masters in Control, both from Sheffield University.  In 1993 he completed a Ph.D. in software engineering at Aston University.  He then went on to work for Rolls-Royce Aero Engines in Derby.  For the past 12 years he has worked for software vendors such as WindRiver(ISI) and The MathWorks in the area of high integrity control systems.

Vivien Delport

Applications Engineering Manager, MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY

Vivien Delport is an Applications Engineering Group Leader at Microchip Technology Inc. He has been with Microchip since January of 1996, when he joined the company as an applications device-support engineer. Currently, Vivien is responsible for managing a cross-functional engineering team, including a customer-support team for Microchip’s low pin-count PIC ® microcontrollers. He has 16+ years of industry experience in embedded microcontroller designs, remote keyless entry (RKE) and passive keyless entry (PKE) systems, as well as low-cost security applications.

Mr. Delport holds a BS from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix, USA.

Nick Ford

Senior Consultant, FROST & SULLIVAN

Nick has worked closely with business planning, providing strategy guidance and market development support throughout his career.

In his previous role he was Product Planning Director at TRW with global responsibility for their L3 billion automotive steering business providing strategy guidance for their electric steering products. Nick has 9 years of automotive experience preceded by 23 years in Aerospace and Defence at British Aerospace and Lucas. As well as holding senior management positions in these corporations, Nick has been MD of EMM Computers, a technology start up company which exceeded $ 1 million turnover in its first year of operation.

Since joining Frost & Sullivan last year Nick has been working closely with senior executives in the automotive domain developing their business and product strategy.

Simon Fürst

Team leader AUTOSAR, BMW Group

Simon Fürst studied Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. In 1993 he started as a research assistant at the department of System Dynamics and Flight Mechanics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. His research area was on an onboard autonomous, vision based system for navigation and landing of airplanes and helicopters. In 2001 he started at IABG in Ottobrunn as a project leader and consultant for the qualification of the high risk avionics software in the tiger helicopter and the Eurofighter. Since 2003 he is with BMW. There he is one of the authors of an internal software development standard for embedded software. He is a member of the software group of the FAKRA AK16 and a software expert in ISO TC22 SC3 WG16 working on WD 26262, the upcoming functional safety standard for the automotive domain. In 2004 he started in the FlexRay Safety Working Group and in the AUTOSAR Safety Team. In 2006 Mr. Fürst became BMW project leader for AUTOSAR. In 2008 he switched from AUTOSAR Project Leader Team to AUTOSAR Steering Committee.

Andy Gurd

Director of Product Marketing, TELELOGIC

Andy Gurd is Director, Product Marketing for the Telelogic DOORS® family of Requirements Lifecycle Management products. Since joining Telelogic in 2000, Andy has progressed from providing consultancy and training into a number of product management / marketing positions. Andy has over seventeen years experience of the systems and software development arena and prior to moving into the application lifecycle management tools market also worked as a systems engineer for the world’s largest systems integrator on a variety of civil and defense projects.

Matt Lee

Matt Lee, Business Development Manager, XJTAG

Matt Lee has been in the Computing Industry since he graduated in Computing and Cybernetics in 1978. He worked in Advanced R&D for Acorn, Cambridge; set up Olivetti Research Lab in Cambridge with Prof. Andy Hopper CBE; co-founded Active Book Company with Hermann Hauser CBE; has recently left ARM after 10 years, retired, got bored, stopped retiring and consulted for a couple of years whilst doing some Business Angel Investing.

Ross McMurran

Project Manager, WARWICK MANUFACTURING GROUP

Ross McMurran is responsible research projects at the in areas of Automotive Electronics and Software within WMG at the University of Warwick. He leads a team of researchers from industrial and academic backgrounds with interests in the design, validation and diagnostics of automotive electronics, who work closely with a range of industrial partners. He was formally a Senior Manager in the Electrical Department of Jaguar and Land-Rover, with sixteen years experience in a variety of roles. Today a major part of his role is as the consortium project manager for the EVoCS project.

Fabienne Nouvel

Professor of Research, IETR - INSA RENNES, FRANCE

Fabienne Nouvel was born in France on Ocotber, 1962. She received a PhD in electronic in 1994 in the University of Rennes/INSA. From 1985 to 1990, she worked on networks application. From 1990 to 1998, she worked on power line communication for automotive application.

Since 1998, her research interests include PLC communication, telecommunication based on OFDM/MC-CDMA/MIMO, embedded network, dynamic reconfiguration of design and implementation. Since 1995, she is a professor in Institute INSA ( Institut National Sciences Appliquees) of Rennes. Her teaching interests are in the area of digital communication, digital conception and implementation aspects of signal processing systems, network. She is participating in several research projects related to CPL and Software Radio : Tech@image, MATRICE, PREDIT CCPE, CPER PALMYRE ANR CIFAER, ..

Dr. Steve Prosser

Chief Engineer - Component Engineering & Benchmarking, TRW Electronics Engineering

Steve Prosser graduated in 1979 from Oxford University with a degree in Chemistry and continued there to complete his doctorate in Physical Sciences in 1982.

His industrial career started with THORN EMI Central Research Laboratories developing novel silicon-based chemical sensors. In 1985 he joined Lucas Industries (now TRW) and has led the development of advanced sensors for automotive and aerospace applications. Expatriate assignment with Lucas in 1996 took him overseas for three years working as Engineering Manager for Lucas Control Systems (Schaevitz Sensors) in Virginia, USA.

In 1998, he returned to the UK to become Chief Engineer - Technology within TRW Automotive Electronics. He is responsible for component engineering, benchmarking and technology roadmapping for advanced electronics in steering, braking, driver assist systems and passive safety applications. During the past few years, he has also led TRW’s global lead-free electronics development programme.

Alistair Robertson

Powertrain Systems Engineer, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR

Alistair Robertson graduated from The University of Glasgow with a European Masters Degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering. Having specialized in optoelectronics and quantum mechanics he spent six months on semiconductor laser research with Thomson-CSF, Paris. This work was focused on research into GaAs based quantum cascade laser technology, resulting in two publications. In 2001 he started working as an applications engineer for Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector based in East Kilbride, Scotland. Working in the automotive group he focused on support for the MPC500 family of Powertrain microcontrollers in areas of hardware design & software. In 2004 he progressed to the Advanced Powertrain Systems group of the newly formed Freescale Semiconductor. He is currently working on the definition of the next generation of microcontrollers targeted at the high-end Powertrain applications and specializes in the areas of performance benchmarking and DSP applications. He has several published application notes, papers & patents related to MPC500 & MPC5500 applications.

Brian Randall

Test & Validation Manager, TESLA MOTORS

Brian Randall started his engineering career as a development engineer with Ricardo Consulting Engineers, working on many aspects of internal combustion engines, including performance and noise.  A spell doing consultancy for many of the company’s Far Eastern clients was followed by the setting up of a fledgling marketing department.  Brian was then tempted by Lotus Engineering to move to deepest Norfolk, where he helped project manage a new world engine for GM.  Following a few years in business development Brian was made redundant in a ‘restructuring’.  Wishing to stay in Norfolk, he secured a position as Project Manager for a marine survey company in Great Yarmouth.  At the beginning of 2006 he was tempted back into the automotive industry when offered the role of Test and Validation Manager with Tesla Motors Ltd.  He is responsible for all UK based vehicle testing on the Roadster.  His extensive experience with internal combustion engines has proved only slightly useful, but he can now talk convincingly about three phase four pole induction motors.

Barry Shrier

CEO Liberty Electric Cars

Barry Shrier is the Founder and Chief Executive of The Liberty Europe Network, a group of businesses focusing on Wireless Internet expansion throughout the EU. Previously, Barry was hired by Deutsche Bank to launch Paybox, the world’s first international mobile payment system. Barry was the spokesman for Paybox and a leading speaker on Mobile commerce. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Barry worked for several strategic marketing consultancies where he developed his expertise in the application of cognitive psychology to understand consumer behaviour. He managed various international projects for Unilever, Guinness, Procter & Gamble, Mars & Nestle.

Barry speaks regularly at international events in Europe and North America on the subjects of wireless
technology and consumer behaviour. He is recognised as a charismatic and admired public speaker known for delivering informative, entertaining, and provocative speeches, lecturing to MBA level and often being voted ‘Best Speaker’. Barry was also the author of the published market research report ‘Wireless in London - Observations in 2002 on the status of high-speed Public Access WLAN’s’. Documented as an industry leader he continues to be in demand as a wireless expert and an ambassador for the Wireless Telecoms industry.

As an active member of the Institute of Directors (I.O.D), Barry is a passionate supporter of entrepreneurial innovation. He is also a Board Member of the Wi-Fi Group, Europe’s leading business organisation promoting future Wireless Technologies.

Barry has an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Politics from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.