The inaugural Vehicle Tech Week Europe, held at Messe Stuttgart on June 23-24, 2026, saw the launch of several new initiatives to encourage peer-to-peer discussion. Among them was a program of VIP Executive Club Roundtables, hosted in the VIP Lounge in the Hall 1 Gallery. These 90-minute sessions enabled senior professionals from OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to exchange insights across sectors and disciplines.

On June 24, Vehicle Tech Week association partner ASAM hosted the ‘Standardization in the age of AI’ roundtable attended by representatives from passenger and commercial vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, software companies and autonomous-driving firms to discuss a challenge facing every industry: the impact of AI.

Continue reading Vehicle Tech Week: ‘Standardization in the age of AI’ roundtable highlights risks and opportunities at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe (part of Vehicle Tech Week) took place in Stuttgart, Germany, last week, once again bringing together engineering departments, development teams and business units from across the intelligent vehicle sector. Visitors were able to experience the core technologies shaping the future of mobility, while sourcing new suppliers ready to help solve validation, scalability and deployment challenges.

“It’s my job as a chief strategist to figure out where are the opportunities, so coming to this [event], where I can talk with experts and see new technologies and how everything’s coming together, is a benefit that I can share with the whole team,” said Julia Grab, Ford’s chief strategist and planner for European passenger vehicles.

Continue reading SHOW REVIEW: Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe 2026 at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Razvan Has, a staff systems engineer at PlusAI, which released SuperDrive 6.0, the latest version of its autonomous driving software engineered for commercial-scale deployment earlier this year, sat down with the AAVI team to discuss scalable V&V frameworks for Level 4 autonomous trucking during the conference at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo. 

Has’s presentation on Day 2 described PlusAI’s systems and safety engineering framework, which Has said has been explicitly tailored to overcome the “validation mileage fallacy” for Level 4 autonomous trucking deployments globally. He explained how the company has decoupled execution spaces into distinct problem, solution, verification and validation layers to ensure that engineering overhead converges toward zero as new commercial missions are expanded. 

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: PlusAI shares its scalable V&V frameworks for Level 4 autonomous trucking at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Waymo, Waabi, Volvo, Wayve, Euro NCAP and Parallel Domain are the winners of the second ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International Awards, recognizing industry innovation in vehicle safety and automated driving.  

The winners were announced during a live ceremony on June 24, at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo, part of Vehicle Tech Week (June 23-25, 2026). 

Coordinated by ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International (AAVI) magazine, the awards celebrate the very best innovations and new technologies across the ADAS and autonomous mobility sector from the last 18 months, acknowledging the achievements of the most remarkable projects and companies.  

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The second day of the conference at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo saw a fascinating presentation from Dr Marta Glinka, a psychophysiologist working for Harman International, which recently acquired the ADAS business of ZF Group. During her speech, titled ‘Driver distraction and readiness across levels of automation’, Glinka examined driver cognitive performance across over- and under-stimulation scenarios relevant to different levels of automation.

“While automation improves safety, sustaining driver alertness remains a challenge, as drivers remain vulnerable to both external distractions and internal cues,” she said.

Glinka showed how for ADAS (L1-L2), vehicle control taxes limited cognitive resources, and secondary tasks increase the risks of overload, stress and fatigue.

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: The critical need for reliable, appropriate driver readiness assessment at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Day 2 of Vehicle Tech Week Europe 2026 is well underway at Messe Stuttgart, Germany, bringing together the full vehicle technology ecosystem across Automotive Testing Expo Europe, Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe and Automotive Interiors Expo Europe.

Keep reading for a few highlights of what Day 2 at AutonomousVehicle Technology Expo Europe 2026 has had to offer so far…

AVSimulation’s new AI simulation assistant delivers fast, simple scenario description

AVSimulation is showcasing RAY, an AI-powered simulation assistant built into the SCANeR platform that enables engineers to describe a test scenario in plain language and receive a ready-to-run scenario file in seconds, eliminating manual scripting. 

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: Highlights from Day 2 at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe 2026 at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

After a strong start to Vehicle Tech Week Europe 2026, at Messe Stuttgart, Germany, which brings together the full vehicle technology ecosystem across Automotive Testing Expo Europe, Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe and Automotive Interiors Expo Europe, Day 1 has seen thousands of industry professionals thronging the halls in search of the technologies and solutions they need to succeed.

As the doors close after a busy Day 1, here are a few of the highlights from the show floor:

Apriorit showcases end-to-end engineering ownership of OS security

Apriorit is in Stuttgart to demonstrate end-to-end engineering of automotive OS security – from secure boot through SELinux policy, Autosar firmware, OTA and threat modeling.

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: Highlights from Day 1 at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Europe 2026 at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

The afternoon session of the conference on the first day at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo began with an update from Sophie Pohlmann, head of portfolio management at MOIA, which first started testing self-driving ID. Buzz prototypes on public roads in Hamburg in 2023, with passenger service trials underway since December 2024. 

In a presentation titled ‘How customers drive the change towards a new mobility era’, Pohlmann argued that we are entering a critical phase in which customer lifetime value, acceptance and trust are as important as technological capability. 

“As autonomous driving and new mobility services evolve, customer journeys are becoming more complex and increasingly shaped by ecosystems rather than single vehicles,” she said. 

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: MOIA makes the case for a new mobility era at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Dr Huan Zhao Ternehäll, ADAS solution architect, Geely Technology Europe, delivered a presentation titled ‘ADAS in the SDV era: Opportunities, limits and safety challenges’ on the first morning of the conference at Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo. 

“The shift toward SDVs promises unprecedented flexibility, scalability and continuous feature evolution across the automotive lifecycle,” said Ternehäll. “However, for ADAS this transition exposes a unique set of technical and safety challenges. While SDV architectures aim to abstract hardware through centralized compute, virtualization and middleware, ADAS perception pipelines remain tightly coupled to sensor physics, accelerator-specific optimizations and deterministic real-time constraints.” 

During her presentation, Ternehäll highlighted the key challenges in deploying portable, updatable ADAS across heterogeneous hardware.

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: The challenges of true hardware-agnostic ADAS at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

At the Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Conference this morning, Prof. Philip Koopman, faculty emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, gave a thought-provoking presentation on the subject of embodied AI (eAI), also called physical AI, which uses artificial intelligence based on machine learning to interact with the physical world.

“We are already seeing eAI deployed in the real world in robotaxis, smart medical devices, household robots and other applications,” said Koopman. “However, everyone is struggling with the safety of these devices: how to design for safety, how to evaluate safety and how to think about whether any particular eAI system is acceptably safe.”

Koopman’s presentation provided an overview of his new book on this topic, with robotaxi safety as a concrete example.

Continue reading EXPO NEWS: Testing alone is not enough to improve embodied AI safety at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.