Maged Zaki, Director, Corporate Technology Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies
Shailesh Patil, Principal Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm Technologies
Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) is an important technology for improved road safety and the future of autonomous driving, and momentum continues to build around C-V2X with a broad ecosystem support. Following Audi, Ford, Groupe PSA and SAIC announcing their support of Qualcomm’s first C-V2X commercial solution, more news started to break about automotive Tier 1 suppliers using Qualcomm’s C-V2X solutions for testing and upcoming commercial implementations. Automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, mobile operators, semiconductor companies, test equipment vendors, telecom suppliers, traffic signal suppliers, road operators and municipalities are closely collaborating to accelerate C-V2X technology development and commercialization. The recent news from AT&T, Ford, Nokia, Qualcomm and McCain announcing the first US C-V2X trials in San Diego is just an example of this collaboration.
Why is C-V2X gaining traction and support from key automotive players?
Join our Qualcomm experts for this webinar to know why and get your facts straight about:
- What are the design aspects that enable C-V2X to provide superior performance and reliability for automotive safety?
- Can C-V2X be ready for commercial deployment in cars for 2020? How?
- How does the C-V2X evolution to 5G address new complementary use cases, while maintaining backward compatibility?
- What are the economic benefits that C-V2X brings to automakers, as well as infrastructure providers?
Scott Ferguson, Co-Editor, Enterprise Cloud News
Prior to joining Enterprise Cloud News, he was director of audience development for InformationWeek, where he oversaw the publications' newsletters, editorial content, email and content marketing initiatives. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief of eWEEK, overseeing both the website and the print edition of the magazine. For more than a decade, Scott has covered the IT enterprise industry with a focus on cloud computing, datacenter technologies, virtualization, IoT and microprocessors, as well as PCs and mobile. Before covering tech, he was a staff writer at the Asbury Park Press and the Herald News, both located in New Jersey. Scott has degrees in journalism and history from William Paterson University, and is based in Greater New York.
Maged Zaki, Director, Corporate Technology Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies
Maged Zaki serves as director of technical marketing for Qualcomm Technologies. In this role, he is currently responsible for driving technology marketing programs around Cellular V2X, 5G, and artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. Zaki has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry, spanning technology marketing, strategy consulting and system engineering.
Shailesh Patil, Principal Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm Technologies
Shailesh Patil is a Principal Engineer/Manager at Qualcomm Technologies. There he leads the C-V2X (Cellular V2X) research and 3GPP standardization group. Previously, he led the standardization of device to device communication in 3GPP LTE. This was the first time that device-to-device communication was standardized in any cellular standard. He has 43 granted patents and more than 80 pending patent applications.
Jim Misener, Senior Director, Technical Standards, Qualcomm Technologies
Jim Misener leads automotive standards activities for Qualcomm. In this role, he participates externally in many standards forums, including as immediate past Chair and current Vice Chair of the SAE DSRC Technical Committee and participation as US ISO TC204 expert and with IEEE 1609 and LTE technologies 3GPP. Recently, he was instrumental in founding and is on the board of the 5G Automotive Association, with other founding members Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel and Nokia. This year, Jim founded a new SAE standards committee, the SAE C-V2X Technical Committee. As part of his daily activities, he also provides broad internal consultation and support with automotive and transportation matters on emerging technologies, standards, deployment and spectrum issues. He was an early pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley, beginning in the mid 1990s. He has served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton and an independent consultant with clients ranging from Silicon Valley startups, the automotive industry and Federal and State government agencies.
Durga Prasad Malladi, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies
Durga Prasad Malladi joined Qualcomm in 1998 as an engineer. Over the past 19 years, he has worked on 3G and 4G systems and was the Project Engineer of 4G LTE-Advanced in Qualcomm Research from 2008 until 2015, responsible for design, standardization, prototype implementation, pre-commercial operator trials and inter-operability tests with vendors. Currently, he oversees the 5G and 4G cellular projects in Qualcomm Research, spanning Mobile Broadband Communications, Millimeter Wave based Backhaul and Access systems, Shared Spectrum Access, Internet of Things (IoT), Mission Critical Services and Cellular Vehicular Communications (C-V2X). In addition, he heads the Systems Engineering department in Qualcomm Research. He is the recipient of Qualcomm's IP Excellence Award, Qualcomm Distinguished Contributor Award for Project Leadership and Upendra Patel Achievement Awards for Outstanding Contributions to HSPA and LTE.
Jovan Zagajac, Connected Vehicle Technology Manager, Ford Motor Company
