Florian has been the Senior Director of Product Management, Middleware and DevOps at Aptiv since May 2022. From a young age he has been obsessed with technology, especially machine learning (ML), leading up to a PhD on the topic from Leibniz University of Hannover. He uses that experience to develop AD/ADAS solutions. He has published more than 20 studies on human action recognition and object tracking and is a regular speaker at conferences and other events.