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The Agile Automotive Engineering Summit fuels you with new ideas, connections and new inspiration

From Developers and Product Development Leads, to Project & Process Managers, Engineering & R&D Managers, from Product Owners and Scrum Masters to Agile Experts – whatever hat you wear or wherever you stand on the spectrum of product engineering and development processes, the conference has something of interest for you.
Join more than 150 of the most influential thought leaders from the automotive ecosystem!

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Agile Automotive Engineering Summit at a glance

VIRTUAL AGILE ENGINEERING LEADERS

VIRTUAL SESSIONS WITH AND FROM THE AUTOMOTIVE ECOSYSTEM

HOURS OF UNIQUE NETWORKING

% AGILE IN PRODUCT ENGINEERING PROCESSES

What can you
expect as an Attendee
at the Agile Automotive Engineering Summit?

Community

The Agile Automotive Engineering Summit is Europe’s leading business event on the integration of agile principles, methods, and practices into hardware and software development processes in the automotive industry. Speakers from all over Europe give insights into their agile roll-outs, development as well as restructuring concepts, and present current technologies and strategies that support the automotive industry’s transition to more agile development!

Attendees

150+ senior level executives and leading professionals discuss the most pressing challenges and solutions, technologies, trends and best practice innovations in the application of agile in the automotive industry, and how agile methods, principles and practices can support product development processes for OEMs, T1, T2 & suppliers.

Speakers & Moderators

30+ industry leaders share experiences, forecast trends & technologies, present their best latest research & solutions, evaluate best-in-class projects and explain development in recent projects.

Networking- Multi-Touchpoint

Multiple opportunities in 30+ hours of networking. You are invited to meet and greet with those hard-to-meet executives in a relaxed and social setting. Join our unique networking approach.

Sessions

20+ innovative and interactive sessions ensure that all key topics are covered.

Join over 150 of the most influential agile experts and decision makers from the automotive industry!

Here is a snapshot of companies that are already on board:

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What is the unique Networking Experience at the Agile Automotive Engineering Summit?

We know that networking, ideation, knowledge sharing and getting this „little detail I didn‘t know so far“ is one of the most important reasons to participate at our events. To guarantee the best networking experience, various sessions has been created, tailored to your needs and curated from the industry – we call it Multi-Touchpoint Concept!

Keynotes

Top speakers, trendsetters, evangelists and experts in the field share their personal experience.

World Café Session

Be part of several thematic conversation rounds with changing topics and team constellations.

Challenge your Peers

Parallel round table discussions offer the delegates the possibility to talk about their own challenges

Case Study

Selected brand new case studies from the industry offering insights into strategic approaches, project planning and operative realization. Learn from the most successful practices and use these real business results for benchmarking with the competition.

100 Minutes

Pre-qualified One2One Meetings with matched partners and from delegate to delegate. Use the Business Matchmaking function in your Event App “hubs101” in advance to arrange your meetings.

Matchfinder!
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we.CONECT’s unique Event App & Matchfinder – Use our unique matching platform to make new connections, arrange meetings and find tailored solutions to your needs.

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Meet! Agile Automotive Engineering Summit

Discover who else is participating at the Agile Automotive Engineering Summit. Our unique Polaroid Picture Wall will help you identify who you want to meet at the conference.

Say Hello

Get the show on the road. Discover who is joining the conference and why. To warm you up for the conference we invite you to get to know your conference peers. Have your business cards ready.

Icebreaker

Round tables on the evening before the first conference day. The Icebreaker is a first informal networking.

Networking Dinner

Wind down, enjoy great food and drink in a relaxed atmosphere to absorb all the new stimulations from the day.

Breakfast Club

Start the conference with coffee and… NETWORKING! Join the we.CONECT Breakfast Club – an exclusive area in your hotel – and get into a conversation with other delegates already while having your first coffee.

Tweetback & Connect

The unique interactive live feedback system! Note down your thoughts on comment cards which will be pinned on walls in the networking area for further discussion.

Training Session

An environment that allows participants to be guided through specific topics from experts in small groups.

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What are the
10 reasons to
attend the Agile Automotive Engineering Summit 2020?

What you need to know

about the opportunities and value proposition for applying agile approaches for product engineering processes (PEP) and time to market development.

Gain insights

into basic frameworks as well as organisational structures to enable a change to agile values and how to build agile structures in traditonally non-agile organisations

Find

out what still needs to be done to use agile methods in the complex automotive industry, respective supply chains and development projects with partners

Learn

about the key challenges on the way from classic to agile project management, how to overcome these and how we can integrate agile software development with traditional automotive development processes (such as v model/waterfall)

Exchange

best practices and ideas on how agile methods and principles can support in reducing complexity in development as well as production processes

Discuss

best practices and lessons learned and implementation of agile in practice, in R&D optimization, software and hardware development

Review

which agile development methods have proven their worth and can be applied in automotive process management & product development structures

Gain insights into

software tools used in agile development & functional safety, how agile approaches facilitate work with functional safety and how we should interpret the ISO 26262 functional safety standard’s waterfall-like process

Gain

insights about cross-unit collaboration projects, how to roll out agile /SCRUM in pilot projects and how to motivate, educate and support team members during the agile transition

Explore

future automotive products and how agile will support the development of ADAS features, autonomous vehicles and EVs.

Audience Profile

Geographic Split

Germany

42%

Germany: 42%

France

14%

France: 14%

Australia

10%

Australia: 10%

Benelux

Benelux: 9%

USA

USA: 8%

UK: 6%

ASIA

ASIA: 6%

South Europe

South Europe: 5%

Industry Split

OEM's

41%

OEM's: 41%

Tier 1 & 2's

34%

Tier 1 & 2's: 34%

Vendor & Solution Provider

11%

Vendor & Solution Provider: 11%

Research & Academia

Research & Academia: 9%

Other

Other: 5%

Job Functions

Leader / Head of / Director

43%

Leader / Head of / Director: 43%