CO-LOCATED EVENTS

Speaker

Elmar Berghöfer

Research Officer, BeamNG

Elmar Berghöfer has been working for the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2011. He worked as a researcher and project leader in different public funded and industry projects. Topics of his projects and research interests include machine learning in different fields, in particular autonomous driving. At the moment he leads the project Dreams4Cars at the Robotics Innovation Center (DFKI Branch in Bremen).

After a previous cooperation between DFKI and BeamNG, Elmar Berghöfer joined the BeamNG GmbH in 2018 where he organizes and advises the use of the BeamNG.drive technology for research and professional R&D use cases.

Company

BeamNG

Since its establishment in 2013, BeamNG managed to become an international indie gaming studio with a diverse team of over 30 people. With our headquarter being located in Bremen, Germany, we additionally have experts working. from many different parts of the world. The people working for BeamNG are our most valuable asset and to support them in their creative work is very important to us. Our team members are passionate about what they’re doing and together we are able to push the boundaries of what is possible in the simulation world. Our proximity to the university campus allows us to enrich our team with talented students and offer them an insight into the practical work of a gaming studio. Student events like the Open Night of Code or the Global Game Jam are a great way to connect and we actively try to participate and support these events each year.