Volvo software boss to join free Autocar-Siemens webinar on 25 June

Technology elephantine Siemens has been named arsenic the sponsor of the 2025 Autocar Awards, which volition observe the radical and organisations shaping the aboriginal of automotive - arsenic good arsenic the champion cars connected sale.

This year's awards ceremonial takes spot connected 24 June, wherever Autocar and Siemens volition sanction the industry's astir innovative and impactful individuals, and supply a level for them to archer their stories. 

As portion of Autocar's collaboration with Siemens, the 2 brands volition besides big a free, interactive webinar connected 25 June successful which we volition delve into however bundle is defining the aboriginal of automotive.

As its relation successful conveyance improvement and functionality becomes ever-more important, determination are immense questions implicit what bundle means for however we usage our cars - and what the aboriginal holds.

Siemens is simply a exertion person with a important power connected the mobility sphere truthful is good placed to assistance reply those questions and uncover the afloat imaginable of bundle successful this space.

How tin manufacturers upgrade cars post-purchase? Does your car person untapped technological imaginable built successful already? What is simply a software-defined vehicle? These are conscionable immoderate of the questions we’ll question to reply successful our free webinar connected Wednesday 25 June from 14:00-15:00.

Join Siemens caput of automotive, artillery and mobility Uday Senapati, Volvo Cars bundle engineering brag Alwin Bakkenes, Autocar lawman exertion Felix Page and different peculiar manufacture impermanent – to beryllium announced successful the coming weeks – for an insightful and interactive deep-dive into the satellite of automotive software.

Mark Tisshaw, Autocar editor, said: “Throughout our collaboration with Siemens, it has go wide conscionable however profoundly connected the institution is to the automotive industry and however influential its relationships are astatine each level.

“We are thrilled to spouse with Siemens to archer the stories of the industry's astir awesome individuals and companies astatine this year's Autocar Awards ceremony and to perceive however the company's insights and expertise are shaping the aboriginal of the car successful our upcoming webinar.”

The webinar volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected Wednesday 25 June from 14:00-15:00, with the accidental to enactment questions to our adept guests.

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Meet the panellists 

Uday Senapati

As caput of automotive, artillery and mobility for the EMEA portion astatine Siemens Advanta, Uday is helping to grow the company's portfolio f consulting and implementation services for the e-mbobility industry. 

Having worked astatine General Motors, JLR, Bentley and Group Lotus, helium has a wealthiness of automotive acquisition that helium volition leverage successful his efforts to found Siemens arsenic a starring consulting and integration spouse for the expanding fig of businesses making a strategy displacement towards electrical mobility. 

Alwin Bakkenes

Alwin is caput of bundle engineering and R&D astatine Volvo Cars. He leads the squad liable for improvement of the exertion stack astatine the bosom of Volvo's in-car systems and wider idiosyncratic experience.

He has acquisition successful merchandise strategy and programme execution that helps usher Volvo's improvement of next-level information exertion - moving towards autonomy and a software-defined platform.