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Chaofan CHEN (Director Consulting, Partner of EAST Consulting (China))

Chaofan CHEN

Director Consulting, Partner of EAST Consulting (China)

■ Automotive SPICE® Competent Assessor, with extensive European and Chinese audit experience
■ Professional training in Automotive SPICE® from Houses of Method & Park and KUGLER MAAG CIE
■ Experienced in tool chain application development, guided the application of SIEMENS Polarion ALM tool to successfully pass ASPICE CL2 and CL3
■ Successful ASPICE CL3 process improvement and certification projects for many OEMs in China
■ Successful ASPICE CL2/CL3 process improvement and certification projects for many Tier-1s in China and abroad

Wenyi Cai (Quality Audit Management / Group Total Quality Management of Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd. (China) / Member of Software Quality Advisory Board / Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor)

Wenyi Cai

Quality Audit Management / Group Total Quality Management of Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd. (China) / Member of Software Quality Advisory Board / Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor

■ Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor
■ Member of VDA QMC SWQ Advisory Board China
■ More than 14 years’ experience of Engineering and Software Quality in Continental Automotive
■ More than 20 Automotive SPICE assessments and 1200 hours experience of Automotive SPICE assessments
■ Certified SAFe Agilist, Practitioner, Product Owner/Product Manager
■ More than 3 years’ experience of SAFe/Agile development projects

Kwangho Che (UMovcom Information Technology (Shanghai) Inc. (C&BIS), Principal Consultant.)

Kwangho Che

UMovcom Information Technology (Shanghai) Inc. (C&BIS), Principal Consultant.

■ intacs regional representative of Korea.
■ Chairperson of Korean SPICE Network.
■ Principal Assessor (2009), Competent-level Instructor (2014).
■ Principal consultant of C&BIS (Korea) and UMovCom (China).
■ Over 200 assessments in Japan, Korea, China & USA.
■ Over 400 trainees of intacs official assessor trainings in Korea, Japan & China.
■ Fluent in Japanese, Korean and English.

Mingshan Cui (CTO, Bright Homing)

Mingshan Cui

CTO, Bright Homing

■ Ph.D., Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
■ 15+ years of automotive industry experience, including quality management, product R&D, ALM tools
■ Work on process improvement, tool platform construction, product
line engineering, requirement engineering, architecture design, MBD, software test and CI
■ Automotive Spice ® Competent Assessor
■ Familiar with CMMI/IATF16949/ISO26262
■ Familiar with DOORS/Simulink/Rhapsody/EA/SVN/Git /Polyspace /QAC/VectorCast/Tessy, etc.

Liqiang Dong (Senior Quality Manager of Bosch China)

Liqiang Dong

Senior Quality Manager of Bosch China

■ Senior Manager of Bosch China Corporate Quality Management
■ Quality head of Bosch China Innovation & Software Campus
■ VDA-QMC Software Quality Advisory Board Member
■ ASPICE Competent Assessor

Xiang Gao (Vice President of the New Energy Vehicle Research Institute of EV100, and  in charge of the

Xiang Gao

Vice President of the New Energy Vehicle Research Institute of EV100, and in charge of the "Project of Auto SupplyChain Improvement " jointly initiated by the EV100 and CQC.

Gao Xiang is currently the vice president of the New Energy Vehicle Research Institute of EV100, and he is the person in charge of the "Project of Auto Supply Chain Improvement" jointly initiated by the EV100 and CQC. Graduated from Tsinghua University, once served as the director of Tesla China's public policy and charging infrastructure, created a public policy and charging team, and was selected as a member of the "Fifth Compulsory Product Certification (CCC) Technical Expert Group" by the National Certification and Accreditation Administration .

Kevin Guan (Quality Management Manager/ Trainer, VDA QMC CHINA)

Kevin Guan

Quality Management Manager/ Trainer, VDA QMC CHINA

18 years experience in production quality control, supplier quality manage-ment, QMS, logistics, quality team management and project management. Excellent in VDA band standard, IATF16949 and German OEC CSR.

Already worked in VDA QMC about 5 years. Trained and served clients include SVW, BOSCH, Continental, Schaeffler, BorgWarner, SCC, KINWONG, Huatian Technology, GOTION HIGH-TEXH, Murata, Panasonic etc. famous automobile and components enterprises.

Dirk Hamann (Project Group 13 (VDA ASPICE Standard working group) / Schaeffler AG)

Dirk Hamann

Project Group 13 (VDA ASPICE Standard working group) / Schaeffler AG

■ Dr. Dirk Hamann studied computer science with a minor in economics at the University of Kaiserslautern, followed by a Phd in Software Engineer-ing. During his 10 years of consultancy mainly in the automotive domain, he was leading many assessments and improvement programs at large European OEMs and suppliers. During this time, he also trained > 200 people to become Provisional ASPICE assessor.
■ In 2007, he joined Schaeffler, leading the CMMI EPG in the Engine Sys-tems business division. After various tasks and responsibilities relating to software processes and quality, he is currently responsible for software quality management of the Schaeffler Group and its software suppliers.
■ He has been a speaker or workshop moderator of many international conferences on software engineering and quality, including the VDA Au-tomotive SYS Conference. Furthermore, he is a member of the VDA QMC WG13, which developed ASPICE 3.1 and the VDA ASPICE Guidelines until 2018, currently working on ASPICE 4.0.

Gunnar Harde (Senior-Project Manager at Automotive Quality Institute GmbH)

Gunnar Harde

Senior-Project Manager at Automotive Quality Institute GmbH

Studied physics in Germany and New Zealand, from 2007 to 2016, he managed software development projects at the Central Group Quality Assurance of Volkswagen AG.

Since 2017, Gunnar Harde is senior project manager at the Automotive Quality Institute (AQI) in Berlin, a subsidiary of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). On behalf of the VDA and its member compa-nies, he has led several projects in the field of automotive cybersecurity. He has accompanied and scientifically advised the working group “Automotive CSMS”, which developed the VDA volume "Automotive Cybersecurity Management system Audit", from the very beginning.

In addition to his expertise on automotive cybersecurity, Gunnar Harde is an expert on risk assessment methods and agile software development
(Certified Scrum Master, Product Owner and Scrum Professional).

Brett Hillhouse (Global Automotive Leader for IBM AI Applications)

Brett Hillhouse

Global Automotive Leader for IBM AI Applications

Mr. Hillhouse is the Global Automotive Leader for IBM AI Applications.
His responsibility includes industry and technology strategy, as well customer success for automotive companies around the world. His 25+ years of industry experience includes transformation engagements at global automotive and aerospace OEM's and Tier 1 suppliers. The scope of these engagements include transformation of product development, reuse strategy and implementation, and compliance consulting. Previously, Mr. Hillhouse has held several industry and leadership positions at IBM and Siemens (formerly SDRC). Mr. Hillhouse holds a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

Xintian Hou (Director of cybersecurity platform, China Automotive Research Software Evaluation (Tianjin) Co., Ltd)

Xintian Hou

Director of cybersecurity platform, China Automotive Research Software Evaluation (Tianjin) Co., Ltd

Engaged in the research of automotive cybersecurity and OTA testing tech-nology for many years, LED or participated in the research and formulation of a number of national standards and policies, and participated in the proposal of international CS / OTA regulations; Participated in the writing of industry reports such as "ICV industry development report (2020)" and
"white paper on v2x vehicle cybersecurity management capability". In 2020, he led the team to complete dozens of vehicle and parts security tests, and accumulated rich test experience and cases.

Ken Lai (Senior Director QM Mechatronics software Schaeffler Automotive Technologies)

Ken Lai

Senior Director QM Mechatronics software Schaeffler Automotive Technologies

10 years in Automotive System and Software Quality
■ intacs certified Principal ASPICE Assessor since 2017
■ ASPICE assessments since 2011
■ 2021 – Senior Director QM Mechatronics and Software Schaeffler
Automotive Technologies
Bühl Germany
■ 2017 – 2021 Group ASPICE Manager
GEEDS Valeo, Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany
■ 2011 – 2017 Group ASPICE Assessor and VDA 6.3 Auditor
K-GQ Volkswagen AG
Wolfsburg Germany

Yuheng Li (Technical Expert, Umovcom)

Yuheng Li

Technical Expert, Umovcom

Mr. LI Yuheng graduated from Tongji University with master degree in Automotive Electronics. He was working for SAIC Volkswagen for over eight years and responsible for BMS software development. As the software expert, he firstly introduced Automotive ASPICE into SAIC Volkswagen and established development processes in line with Automotive SPICE and KGAS. He joined UMovcom in 2020 as the technical expert, providing consulting and assessment services for three companies. He is intacs certified assessor, member of China Functional Safety Standardization Working Group, member of China SPICE Network.

Liang Liu (Quality Head, Navinfo)

Liang Liu

Quality Head, Navinfo

■ NavInfo Quality, Functional Safety and Information Security Responsible / Manager of Gorup Qualiy System Department
■ ASPICE Principal Assessor, Functional safety engineer & Functional safety manager
■ 1200 hours experience in ASPICE Assessment
■ Functional safety process certification and product certification project experience;
■ Since 2008, as the head of EPG NavInfo Group, responsible for the introduction and implementation of the group’s ASPICE, functional safety and information security systems;
■ Successfully led 10+ projects in the group company to reach ASPICE Level 3

Di Pace Marco (Principal Consultant, Method Park)

Di Pace Marco

Principal Consultant, Method Park

Marco Di Pace works in the Method Park Consulting team in Shanghai and takes responsibility for the continued development of the service port-folio around Functional Safety. As a Principal Consultant, Marco Di Pace advises, trains, and coaches customers from the automotive industry on the Automotive SPICE® process model and Functional Safety requirements. Before of Method Park Marco Di Pace worked for several international TIER 1 suppliers as software engineer, system engineer, safety engineer, test manager, project manager, safety manager and deputy head of functional safety. Almost 20 years of professional experience in this field are his strength. With profound know-how, Marco Di Pace guides his customers through assessments, shows them their optimization possibilities and potentials in gap analyses, and confirms their compliance with ISO 26262 in audits.

Ralf Merettig (A-SPICE Competent Assessor, SAIC-VW)

Ralf Merettig

A-SPICE Competent Assessor, SAIC-VW

■ Ralf Merettig graduated from Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany with a Master degree in IT Systems engineering. He has more than 15 years of international work experience within the field of automotive software quality. His experience includes responsibilities from supplier, consultant and OEM point of view.
■ As an experienced assessor for Volkswagen Group Quality Assurance, he was appointed to support SAIC Volkswagen to establish A-Spice Assessment capability in 2019.
■ In this position, he conducted and supported assessments and partici-pated in several Chinese A-SPICE® related activities to contribute to the development of software assessment quality at SAIC Volkswagen.
■ In this function, he coach and train the SAIC Volkswagen internal as-sessors and qualified the first Chines based Competent assessor for Volkswagen Group in China.

Jan Morenzin (Automotive SPICE Chief Responsible/ Expert at VDA QMC)

Jan Morenzin

Automotive SPICE Chief Responsible/ Expert at VDA QMC

Dr. Jan Morenzin started working as software engineer and project leader for embedded development in public transport aftermarket solutions. Since 2004 he is working as freelancerin the automotive domain on testing, quality assurance, software architectures and project management for several OEM and suppliers. Since 2010 he is predominantly working as a functional safety manager and engineer. Beside these activities he supports the VDA QMC since 2007 being responsible for Automotive SPICE assessor certification and the VDA Automotive SYS conference. Jan is member of the VDA QMC working group 13 and the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 WG 10.

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Yuanning Qu (FS Sr. Mgr, Senior Manager Engineering System Development, Bosch)

Yuanning Qu

FS Sr. Mgr, Senior Manager Engineering System Development, Bosch

Graduate from Karlsruhe University Germany (KIT) and join BOSCH China Chassis Control (CC-CN) as System Engineering for ESP development in 2009. In 2011 join the system development department as system engineer in New Brake System area for EV/HEV and lead the functional safety activ-ities rollout in CC-CN and related training. In 2013 represent BOSCH join SAC/TC114/SC29/functional safety WG as core team member to establish the China Functional Safety Standard GB/T 34590. In 2015 Setup and lead the Competence Center of Functional safety in CC-CN and extend the Scope to Cyber Security and FOTA in 2016.

Klaudia Schoeps (Senior Consultant, Method Park)

Klaudia Schoeps

Senior Consultant, Method Park

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Consultant, Method Park Consulting GmbH, since 10/2020
■ Process consulting and coaching (Automotive SPICE®)
■ International implementation of training on Automotive SPICE®, Require-ment Engineering, Agile &Automotive SPICE®
■ Management and support of global business development activities
TRAINING EXPERIENCE
IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level
CERTIFICATES
intacs™ Provisional Assessor Automotive SPICE® / ISTQB® - Tester Foundation Level / IREB® - Foundation Level / Prince2 - Foundation Leve / SAFe® Certified Safe 4 Agilist (Leading SAFe®)

Bernhard Sechser (Member of the intacs™ Advisory Board / Co-founder of Process Fellows GmbH)

Bernhard Sechser

Member of the intacs™ Advisory Board / Co-founder of Process Fellows GmbH

Bernhard Sechser is co-founder of Process Fellows GmbH, a consulting company in Ebermannstadt near Nuremberg in Germany. His focus is on coaching, training, and management activities on such topics like Functional Safety, software and systems development processes, implementation of process improvement projects, and Automotive SPICE® assessments since 1996. Bernhard Sechser is a founding member of intacs™ and leads the international Regional Representatives. He is intacs™ Principal Assessor and Instructor and has also deep knowledge on development processes as an ASQF® Certified Professional for Project Management as well as an iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture and an ISTQB® Certified Tester.

Kailai Sun (Director Operations China, Kugler Maag Cie China)

Kailai Sun

Director Operations China, Kugler Maag Cie China

1. Kailai holds the Bachelor degree of EE from Tongji University and the Master degree of EE from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He has over 10 years of experience on R&D and engineering management from the global Tier1 suppliers.
2. He has very good understanding of the active and passive electronics products and its development process, and practical experience of deployment for instance ASPICE and ISO26262 into the series products development.
3. He joined Kugler Maag in Sep.2019 and established the Shanghai office and local team.

Meng Kem Tee (ASPICE Responsible, Supplier Quality Management, Continental AG / Member of Software Quality Advisory Board)

Meng Kem Tee

ASPICE Responsible, Supplier Quality Management, Continental AG / Member of Software Quality Advisory Board

Meng Kem, Tee is part of Continental’s Global Central Supplier Quality Management organization (Software SQM) and is among others responsible for assessing and qualify software suppliers in Asia for product related software and firmware in accordance to Automotive SPICE.

He is now Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor and performing Automotive SPICE assessments and enabling software suppliers to improve their development process aligned with Automotive Quality.

Lawrence Tian (Senior Director, Enterprise Quality and Software Quality, NIO)

Lawrence Tian

Senior Director, Enterprise Quality and Software Quality, NIO

Bachelor and master of Tsinghua University, MBA from Hong Kong University. He has been working for GM, Volvo and NIO. He is now senior director of NIO Corporate Quality and Software Quality, with rich business practice and deep thinking in quality strategy, quality culture, quality system, R&D quality, manufacturing quality, after-sales quality, software quality and other quality fields.

Tilman Tillmann (General Manager at VDA QMC China)

Tilman Tillmann

General Manager at VDA QMC China

■ More than 25-year automotive experiences with focus on supplier development, of which 12+ years in China (5,5 years GM VDA QMC China)
■ Main focus supplier qualification projects in China, Europe, India, USA, South Africa and Russia
■ Worked at Volkswagen Group (Germany, China, India) and supplier Delphi (Europe and USA) and several consulting companies
■ First activity in China in 1995 at SVW: Santana 2000 (Phase 2) task force launch management team
■ Head of Supplier Audits of Volkswagen Group China (VGC) in 2003-2004
■ The responsible coordinator for quality purchase parts of the new launched Brand Jetta in China in 2013-2015
■ Lead VDA QMC China (with Offices in Beijing, Shanghai & Shenyang) since 2016

Frank WU (Associate Director, KPMG)

Frank WU

Associate Director, KPMG

Cyber security expert of KPMG, with 15 years of experience in Information Security and IT consulting. Frank has participated in the research of national cyber policies and standards, especially in the fields of China Cyber Law and MLPS, ISO27001, NIST, GDPR, TISAX, ISO21434, etc., helping enterprises to well understand and realize specific regulatory requirements. Frank is responsible for the TISAX audit and ISO21434/CSMS consulting services
of KPMG, including information security governance and planning for automotive clients.

Haijun Wang (Manager of Intelligent Networking Department-China Automotive Data Co., Ltd.)

Haijun Wang

Manager of Intelligent Networking Department-China Automotive Data Co., Ltd.

Senior trainer, consultant, leader and engineer of the car networking information security consulting team. Ms. Wang is mainly engaged in the consulting and training of automotive information security at the China Automotive Technology Research Center, and has served as the leader
of several vehicle networking information security consulting project teams. She has keen analysis and insight on the latest developments in the information security standards, regulations and policies of intelligent connected vehicles at home and abroad, and has led the preparation of the "White Paper on Internet of Vehicles Information Security", "Internet of Vehicles (Intelligent Connected Vehicles) Management Framework", and
"Network Security Vulnerabilities" Management Recommendations and many other industry guidance documents. As a car networking information security practitioner, Ms. Wang continues to provide think-tank consultation and technical support for the basic work of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Tianjin Municipal Government to carry out the management of the intelligent networked automobile industry.

Martin Wang (Automotive Cybersecurity Consultant, ETAS/ESCRYPT)

Martin Wang

Automotive Cybersecurity Consultant, ETAS/ESCRYPT

Martin Wang, currently serves as an ETAS/ESCRYPT automotive cyber-security consultant, and is mainly responsible for customer CSMS-related consulting and training, such as gap analysis, process establishment, project operation, continuous improvement, etc. With more than ten years of experience in the management systems of the automotive industry, he has participated in the translation and proofreading of the VDA CSMS Red Book, R155&156 Interpretation, ISO PAS5112, etc.

Qi Wang (Chairman of Software Quality Advisory Board / Head of EE-System & New Technique, FAW-VW)

Qi Wang

Chairman of Software Quality Advisory Board / Head of EE-System & New Technique, FAW-VW

Over 13 years in automotive system & software quality
■ Intacs certified Principal ASPICE Assessor since 2018
■ ASPICE assessments since 2012
■ 2021 - Chairman of Software Quality Advisory Board China of VDAQMC
■ 2020 - Head of EE-System & New Technique of FAW-VW
■ 2017 - 2020 Founder & Head of Smart Quality of VGC
■ 2015 - 2017 Coordinator of Field Analysis EE-System of VGC
■ 2012 - 2015 Group Software Quality Engineer of Volkswagen AG
■ 2010 - 2012 System/Software Consultant of T-Systems International GmbH
■ 2008 - 2009 Development Engineer of Johnson Controls Hybrid and Recycling GmbH
■ ……

Xiaojun Wang (Cybersecurity and Privacy Officer, Huawei automotive)

Xiaojun Wang

Cybersecurity and Privacy Officer, Huawei automotive

Worked in ICT and Intelligent Automobile fields over 15 years, engaged in product management, solution, architecture design, and cyber security and privacy protection. Have an in-depth understanding and insight into the ICT and intelligent automobile industry.

Albrecht Wlokka (BBM Quality Management Information Technology (M/QMI) of Robert Bosch GmbH / Leader of Project Group13  (VDA ASPICE Standard working group))

Albrecht Wlokka

BBM Quality Management Information Technology (M/QMI) of Robert Bosch GmbH / Leader of Project Group13 (VDA ASPICE Standard working group)

■ Consultant @ Bosch
■ Software process improvement
■ Software quality management support and governance
■ Automotive SPICE coordination w/w
■ Leader of VDA PG13 (ASPICE)
■ Experience in software product and process quality
■ Software for quality management (1990 – 1997)
■ Quality management for software (1998 – now)
■ Automotive SPICE Competent Assessor since 2005; Principal Assessor since 2015;
■ Certified Lead Appraiser for CMMI-DEV, CMMISVC (2006 – 2015)
■ Certified auditor for ISO20000
■ VDA WG 13 for ASPICE (2005 – 2018),
■ VDA WG for ISO26262 (2004 – 2007)
■ AutoSAR Safety Team (2005 – 2007)
■ VDA working group ACSMS (2018 – 2021)

Jingyu Xiang (Senior Consultant, Method Park)

Jingyu Xiang

Senior Consultant, Method Park

Jingyu Xiang has 7 years’ experience of Quality management and 6 years in VW entities. She is familiar with APQP,FMEA,SPC,VDA 6.3 etc. She is deep involved in VW Software Quality and Cybersecurity Management because she was project lead of VW internal development process quality management and project lead of VW cybersecurity supplier management. She passed examination for A-SPICE Competent Assessor, 370+ hours assessment experience. She is hands on Cybersecurity Projects covering topics of CSMS and VTA for Chinese OEMs and Suppliers.

Vincent Yang (Senior Automotive cybersecurity specialist, Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd. (China))

Vincent Yang

Senior Automotive cybersecurity specialist, Continental Automotive Holding Co., Ltd. (China)

From Security and Privacy Competence Center, he is currently responsible for Conti China's automotive information security training business, acting as the interface for Conti's automotive cybersecurity standard development work in China, and supporting Argu's automotive cybersecurity consulting business in China. Has been cultivating in the automotive industry for about ten years, engaged in electronic and electrical components testing, project management of electronic and electrical R&D departments, automotive cybersecurity process development work, and now as a representative
of Continental China automotive information security, dedicated to the automotive cybersecurity capacity building of Conti China.

Xiaobo Yang (Senior Consultant – Functional Safety, Method Park Consulting (Shanghai) Ltd.)

Xiaobo Yang

Senior Consultant – Functional Safety, Method Park Consulting (Shanghai) Ltd.

Xiaobo Yang works in the Method Park Consulting team in Shanghai. As
a Senior Consultant, Xiaobo Yang advises, trains, and coaches customers from the automotive industry on the Automotive SPICE® process model and Functional Safety requirements. Before of Method Park Xiaobo Yang worked for several international system OEMs as process engineer, quality engineer, APAC audit leader, design quality manager, Corp. agile coach, EOPS manag-er, etc. Almost 18 years of professional experience are accumulated in fields of quality and process compliance, software project audit, design process assurance and system engineering. With profound know-how, Xiaobo Yang guides his customers through assessments, shows them their optimization possibilities and potentials in gap analyses, and confirms their compliance with ISO 26262 in audits.

Fengyou Yu (KPMG partner)

Fengyou Yu

KPMG partner

1. Digital domain expert in auto industry for about 20 years.
2. Leading partner of some key auto clients in KPMG
3. Served major auto accounts in Digital transformation, Data Analysis, AI, Agile transformation, RPA, Cloud transformation areas.

Justin Yu (Head of Product Safety of Hella China)

Justin Yu

Head of Product Safety of Hella China

11 years of working experience in automobile industry, 8 years of functional safety experience, familiar with iso26262 product functional safety develop-ment and functional safety process system construction, VDA QMC advisory board member, currently committed to the company's functional safety and cybersecurity system construction and product development, and actively participate in the formulation, review and discussion of relevant international and national standards.