Moderator, speakers and panelists of the part 2 (SIS 30)

Richard EASLEY CAPP E-Squared Engineering, USA	Richard Easley, graduate of Texas State Technical College with an AAS in Civil Engineering Technology, is the president of E-Squared Consulting Corporation, in the areas of Intermodal freight, transit, traveler information, commercial vehicle operations, electronic payment systems and parking. He has served on various ITS related committees, incl. as chairman of the ITS America Intermodal Task Force. He is the past co-chair of the International Parking Institute’s and of the IPI Technology Committee. He worked for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) as an interim Director and senior staff engineer where his duties included serving as the national coordinator for commercial vehicle operations, advanced public transportation systems, intermodal passenger and freight task force...
Richard BISHOP Bishop Consulting, USA	Richard Bishop has over 25 years of experience in the domain of intelligent, connected, and automated vehicles and how these interact with our transportation system and society, including automated cars, trucks, and robotaxis. He provides strategic consulting to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and tech firms, as well as advising federal and state government agencies, the National Academy of Sciences, and government agencies overseas. Mr. Bishop serves as 2nd Vice Chair of the American Trucking Association?s Automated Driving Study Group. He chairs the International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation, which will have its 22nd Annual Meeting this year. Prior to establishing Bishop Consulting in 1997, Mr. Bishop was Program Manager for Vehicle-Highway Automation at the USDOT Federal Highway Administration. He holds technical degrees from Auburn University and Johns Hopkins University, plus an M.A. Transformational Leadership and Social Change from Tai-Sophia Institute.
Alessandro CODA Chief Technology Officer CLEPA, EU	Currently Chief Technology Officer of CLEPA - The European Association of Automotive Suppliers in charge of all the technical aspects including future strategies, regulations, standards and research and innovations activities. Among other tasks, he coordinates the strategic activities of the Energy & Environment and Safety & Mobility groups and the global Research & Innovation activities. He has been Research Coordinator at EUCAR (European Council for Automotive R&D) in Brussels since January 2006 till September 2016. Previously at Fiat Auto - Engineering & Design in Turin, Italy he held the position of General Manager for methodologies, intellectual properties and regulations responsible (2004-2005) and for innovation projects (2001-2003).
Bernard JACOB Deputy Scientific Director IFSTTAR, France	Bernard Jacob is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He was Technical Director for Road Safety and Operation, and head of the division for road operation signs and lighting with LCPC, and since 2011 Deputy Scientific Director of IFSTTAR. He has expertise in bridge safety, traffic loads on road bridges, heavy vehicle load measurement and overload detection and control, road operation and safety and vehicle trajectories, traffic monitoring and measurement. He is vice-president Science of the International Society for WIM (ISWIM), member of the board of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology (IFRTT), and French secretary of the PIARC technical committee CT2-3 on Freight Transport.
Steven SHLADOVER Professor University of California Berkeley, USA	Dr. Steven Shladover has been researching and developing driving automation systems for the past 45 years. He led PATH's pioneering research on driving automation, including its truck platooning research, from 1989 until his retirement last year and he continues to be active in development and evaluation of cooperative automation systems for heavy trucks, as well as applications for other types of vehicle platforms. His research at PATH has shown the technical feasibility of achieving smooth vehicle control and good energy savings from CACC and platooning of heavy trucks, while also demonstrating good driver acceptance in field tests and demonstrations.
Kenji UEKI Director METI, Japan	Kenji Ueki joined Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 1999 and has worked for various policy domains such as technological innovation, regulatory reform and regional development in METI or other departments of the government of Japan. This July, he is appointed as Director of ITS and Autonomous Driving Promotion Office in METI and also Sub-Leader for SIP-adus in Cabinet Office. He holds the Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Hossein ZAKIZADEH Head of Connected Vehicle Technology Volvo	Hossein Zakizadeh, M.Sc. in Software Engineering, is head of Connected Vehicle Technology within VOLVO Group, with 19 years of experience in product development, research and advanced engineering Consortium in Europe and CAMP consortium in the US. He has been even involved in the EC C-ITS Platform as well as EU CCAM Single Platform. He is currently managing the national funded project Sweden 4 Platooning and European funded project Ensamble. Developing the most promising and appropriate communication technology and services for Automated Operation of Heavy Vehicles is right now the main focus for his team.