Connected & Autonomous Vehicles - Safe, Cyber-Secure, Private? How confident are you?

Brought to you by The Automotive & Transport Group

The Automotive Industry is going through profound change, with the rapid emergence of next generation connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles being tested daily on our roads.

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About the event

We are creating the biggest transformation of the motor vehicle in its 150+ year history: for the first time, the driver will no longer be exclusively in control and the implications are truly disruptive.

How secure will these vehicles be and from what threats? Will they be secure enough and by whose measure? Manufacturers must deliver robust in-vehicle platforms that are also resilient to influence from externally connected systems, by whatever means. With many manufacturers connecting vehicles to third party cloud services the opportunities for mischief and worse loom large. The challenge will be to keep up with the ever-growing ‘threat profile’ and develop platforms and test solutions that deliver future-proof vehicles with certified resilience to these threats.

How will the motor industry, insurers and governments respond to the challenges and what are the societal implications of this not being executed well, right from the start?

This Special Interest Group meeting will bring together five insightful views of these challenges, from different industries and perspectives.

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Hosted by Connected Places Catapult

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Agenda

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12:00

Registration over lunch and refreshments

13:00

Introduction to Automotive & Transport SIG from Andrew Ashby, Plextek Consulting

13:10

Quantifying the risk of the connected and autonomous vehicle: Andrew Miller, Chief Technical Officer, Thatcham

Motor insurers have historically played a proactive part in improving vehicle security in the UK, which is now widely regarded to be the most secure in the world. The new connected vehicle landscape provides new threats and Thatcham Research will be charged with understanding and quantifying this. We examine the potential threats and timescales for these, and suggest a strategy for managing these in the UK.

13:50

Q&A

13:55

Cyber security – hype, myths and an engineering approach: Mike Parris, Head of Secure Car Division, SBD

Mike Parris will review some recent claims and reported ‘hacks’, separating the noise from reality. He will then explore some of the issues facing OEMs and their suppliers in addressing the growing threat of cyber security attacks and suggest a pragmatic way forward to meet the demands of the automotive industry.

14:15

Q&A

14:20

Refreshments and networking

14:50

Laying the foundation for connected vehicle security: digital trust & identity: Nick Cook, CIO, Intercede

Nick explores the need for digital trust as a cornerstone of connected vehicle cyber security and discusses how, with proper lifecycle management of strong digital identities, it is possible to establish digital trust and then maintain it throughout the life of the vehicle.

15:10

Q&A

15:15

Application specific cyber security the way ahead in distributed automotive systems: Peter Davies, Technical Director, Thales e-Security

Automotive systems are made up of components supplied by multiple vendors with a legal obligation not to lock suppliers out of the supply chain. Furthermore, these systems are increasingly integrated with global information and management networks. In the face of cyber-attacks it must be possible to understand how remediation may be rapidly applied. This talk will argue that there is no option to do this by seeking to control the global attack surface and that many of the techniques being discussed will in fact worsen the ability of distributed systems to defend themselves. Understanding what is reasonable, or semantically sensible, for a component of a certain type to be doing offers most promise in defending in a quantifiable way automotive security systems.

15:35

Q&A

15:40

Panel session with all speakers chaired by SIG Champion, Nigel Wall, Climate Associates

16:30

Event closes

Speakers

Nick Cook - CIO, Intercede

Peter Davies - Director, Thales

Neil Fulton - Programme Director, Connected Places Catapult

The Transport Systems Catapult is one of eleven elite technology and innovation centres established and overseen by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

Andrew Miller - Chief Technical Officer, Thatcham Research

Mike Parris - Head of Secure Car Division, SBD

SIG Champions

Andre Burgess - Strategic Partnerships, Security and Resilience, National Physical Laboratory

NPL’s nominated SIG Champion, Andre Burgess runs Strategic partnerships for the Digital Sector at NPL where he is also leading on its activities in CAV R&D as well as the development of new testing infrastructure for future integrated communications networks. Andre has a long experience in product and service innovation in the TMT sector, including NTL (now Virgin Media) and Three. He subsequently established a successful business designing and deploying disruptive digital end user products and services. More recently he turned his focus on the energy and environment sector, working with distributed generators, housing providers and local authorities, to develop innovative data centric services to optimise localised energy generation and affordable smart home services. With a mission to ensure data can be trusted and shared openly in the future, he joined NPL in 2017.

John Okas - CCO, Real Wireless

John has worked in wireless and telecommunications throughout his career. Initially with Motorola and Racal in engineering and product marketing roles. He was a founding director of NTL (now Arqiva), initially as Business Development Director building and managing the complete commercial organisation. He also managed the R&D Group which developed one of the first commercially available MPEG video compression systems. Then as Managing Director - Telecommunications he was responsible for growing NTL's wireless business using NTL’s extensive tower portfolio and nationwide field operations capability and entering the fixed telecommunications and satellite services markets. Moving to Pell Frischmann, the consulting engineers, he started a telecommunications business and was involved in several large transportation projects including the Highways Agency's NRTS Project which updated the communication systems on the strategic Road Network and he first got involved in smart metering. Currently as CCO for Real Wireless he undertakes business strategy and development activities, as well as delivering various projects. Recent projects include assessing the implications of the sunset of 2G and 3G networks in the UK and analysing various aspects of smart metering in the UK. He takes a strong interest in the evolving NTN and M2M markets and the evolution of energy communication networks.

Tom Robinson - CPO, Conigital

Tom has worked in the software and advanced technology industry for over 35 years with 25+ years in automotive. During this time Tom has provided leadership in several world class automotive consultancies including Pi Technology, Ricardo, Applus IDIADA and Conigital. For 6 years Tom supported InnovITS (UK Centre of Excellence for Tranport Telematics and Sustainable Mobility) as a non-executive director, helping promote the establishment of UK ITS capability. He has championed and directed several world class innovation programmes in the ITS field including TfNSW’s Ute, EU’s SARTRE, InnovITS FaCITS, TSB’s ERTOC and Innovate UK’s MuCCA, CONNECTOR and MACAM projects.  Tom is currently working at EVIE Autonomous, a technology company developing and offering level four off-highway self-driving technology systems that can be installed into any vehicle.  In 2022 EVIE acquired the assets and IP of Westfield Autonomous Vehicles, adding the world’s most successful autonomous PRT platform (as run at Heathrow airport) to EVIES matchless CAVONIX autonomous vehicle stack. As CPO at EVIE, Tom is helping drive the future towards CAV.

Nigel Wall - Director, Climate Associates Ltd

Nigel has been involved with connected vehicle research since 1992 when he led BT’s mobile data research team – initially using modems on first generation analogue TACS mobile phones! Since 2001 he has provided consultancy complex-systems, with a primary specialism in connected vehicles. He acted as the Monitoring Officer for twelve of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle research projects supported by Innovate UK and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Climate Associates provides consultancy on delivering pragmatic sustainable systems and services, based on life cycle assessments where wholesale replacement of current systems with lower footprint solutions may not be the most sustainable option.

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Transport Systems Catapult, 170 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9

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