CO-LOCATED EVENTS

Speaker

Willem Strijbosch

Head of Autonomous Driving, TomTom

Willem Strijbosch is the Head of Autonomous Driving at TomTom. He is responsible for the cloud-to-car HD Map service, from observations in the car, to aggregating them in the cloud, to turning them into an HD map, to delivering that map to a car. The HD Map service is a crucial component for autonomous driving, increasing safety and comfort of an autonomous vehicle. The HD Map service helps seeing through the car in front of you, around the corner, and two miles ahead to the next exit.

Prior to TomTom, Willem worked at McKinsey & Company, serving clients in technology industries ranging from semiconductors to consumer electronics.

Willem holds a Master of Science in Physics from University of Twente in The Netherlands and an MBA from INSEAD in France, both with distinction.

Company

TomTom

omTom created the easy-to-use navigation device, one of the most influential inventions of all time. Since then, we have grown from a start-up, into a global technology company. We design and develop innovative navigation products, software and services, that power hundreds of millions of applications across the globe. This includes industry-leading location-based and mapmaking technologies, embedded automotive navigation solutions; personal navigation devices and apps, and the most advanced telematics fleet management and connected car services. Combining our own R&D expertise with business and technology partnerships, we continue to shape the future, leading the way with autonomous driving, smart mobility and smarter cities. Headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in 37 countries, we offer advanced digital maps that cover 137 countries, and our hyper-detailed and real-time TomTom Traffic information service reaches more than five billion people in 69 countries.