Keynote Speakers
Simona Pepe
Data Science Team Lead at Electra Vehicles
Abstract:
Many industries play a vital role in accelerating the transition towards electrified transportation, all pointing towards making better, smarter cars with better, smarter batteries. Solutions to the challenges of battery lifetime, performance, and user experience can come from a variety of players, ranging from next-generation battery manufacturers to fleet operators, chipmakers, OEMs, and connected mobility software providers. At the core of the solutions is a need to understand battery performance and degradation and enable clear and actionable insights for innovators in the industry. Electra Vehicles stands at the forefront of this innovation, integrating sophisticated battery analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques to deliver state-of-the-art, high-impact battery software solutions. Our presentation will briefly introduce Electra’s commercial offerings, to delve then into the Electra Core Platform, which incorporates Secure Data Processing, Battery Insights derived through machine learning, and Automated ML Training. This platform ensures robust data security while facilitating the continuous evolution of battery performance metrics through AI-enhanced processes. Furthermore, we will discuss our Adaptive Cell Modeling System, a cornerstone of our technological suite that merges AI with fundamental physics to assess battery efficiency and durability. This system is designed to adaptively learn from a variety of data inputs and intelligently model solutions to monitor battery life and enhance reliability across different environments. The session will outline how our integrated approach not only addresses key challenges within the EV landscape, such as improving range and reducing wear and tear, but also sets new standards for the industry’s move towards software-defined vehicles. By focusing on the synergy between physics, AI and practical applications, Electra Vehicles is helping shape a sustainable future in intelligent transport systems.
Bio:
Vittorio Loreto
Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Phys. Dept. Sony CSL - Rome
Abstract:
Modern cities are at the centre of a passionate debate about their future. The recent pandemic exacerbated the existing challenges and made clear the urgent need for a radical rethink of our lifestyles: from the organisation of our societies and cities to the relationship between urban and rural areas, from our production systems to the breaching of ecological ceilings. Thus, tackling urban areas’ challenges beyond pure optimisation schemes is paramount, keeping instead a transformative eye. New tools are therefore needed, allowing for a tomography of the current situation and “what-if” machines to assess how a change in the current conditions can affect and modify future scenarios, with an eye to inclusivity and sustainability. In this talk, I will present several scenarios and discuss their applicability and sustainability. The notion of proximity-based cities will be the starting point of a little journey to explore whether a universal model exists for future cities and how it is possible to summarise what is known to plan the next steps.
Bio:
Vittorio Loreto is a Full Professor of Physics of Complex Systems at Sapienza University in Rome. From 2017 to 2023, he directed the SONY Computer Science Laboratories in Paris, where he also ran the “Innovation, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence” team. In 2021 he founded a new Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome (CSL-Rome). Established through a Joint Initiative with the “Enrico Fermi” Research Centre, CSL-Rome is tackling Sustainable Development Goals with specific initiatives focused on Sustainable Cities, the Infosphere, and the Augmented Creativity. His scientific activity mainly focuses on the statistical physics of complex systems and its interdisciplinary applications. Over the years, he has been active in the fields of granular media, complexity and information theory, network theory, social dynamics, and innovation dynamics. Vittorio Loreto published over 200 refereed international publications and chaired several workshops and conferences.
