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- Open Auto Drive Forum on September 3, 2025Improving Safety, Comfort and Sustainabilityfor ADAS and AD with OADF Standards – September 3, 2025 | Hybrid Event We are excited to welcome you to the next Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) meeting, taking place on September 3, 2025, at ERTICO, Brussels, with an option to join the morning session online. The free event will… Read more: Open Auto Drive Forum on September 3, 2025
- Review: 20th Open Auto Drive Forum on June 24, 2024June 24 marked the successful completion of the 20th Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) meeting. Below is short recap of the meeting. Welcome Notes and Introduction The meeting began with a warm welcome from Steffen Kuhn (Elektrobit), the OADF spokesperson, who gave an overview of the forum’s organizational structure, mission, achievements, and plans for the… Read more: Review: 20th Open Auto Drive Forum on June 24, 2024
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 20th Open Auto Drive Forum on June 24, 2024The 20th Open Auto Drive Forum will be online on June 24, 2024, 09:00-14:30 CEST. Please find our agenda below and here for download! Participation is free of charge and open to all interested parties. Attendees can look forward to interesting updates on ADASIS, NDS, TISA, TN-ITS, SENSORIS and SIP-adus as well as on ASAM… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 20th Open Auto Drive Forum on June 24, 2024
- New OADF Speaker: Steffen KuhnThe Open Auto Drive Forum is proud to announce its new OADF Speaker, Steffen Kuhn, Head of Consulting at Elektrobit Automotive GmbH. Steffen Kuhn has been confirmed as the new Speaker by the OADF Steering Committee, representing ADASIS, NDS, SENSORS, SIP-adus, TISA and TN-ITS. Steffen Kuhn succeeds András Csepinszky (Director of Advanced Automotive Technology AG… Read more: New OADF Speaker: Steffen Kuhn
- Announcement: 20th Open Auto Drive Forum on June 24, 2024The 20th Open Auto Drive Forum Event will be held as an online event on June 24, 2024, starting at 9:00 am CET The Open Auto Drive Forum is celebrating its 20th anniversary event on June 24, 2024 with an online event. Stay tuned, the registration will open soon!
- Review: 19th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 9, 2023On May 9, 2023, the 19th Open Auto Drive Forum event was held at HERE in Chicago, USA. Originally planned as an onsite-only event, it was eventually also possible to participate online. The event was opened by Jeff Raimo, Sr Director Product, at HERE. He welcomed to Chicago and introduced UniMap, HERE’s mapping technology that… Read more: Review: 19th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 9, 2023
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 19th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 9, 2023The 19th Open Auto Drive Forum Event is on May 9, 2023, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm at HERE in Chicago, USA We are pleased to announce the 19th OADF event on May 9, 2023, 9:30am to 5:30pm (CDT) at HERE in Chicago. This event is free of charge. The meeting will provide you with… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 19th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 9, 2023
- Review: 18th Open Auto Drive Forum on November 22, 2022The 18th Open Auto Drive Forum event on November 22, 2022, was attended by more than 100 online participants. Andras Csepinszky of NNG, the OADF spokesperson and co-chair of SENSORIS, warmly welcomed the attendees and recalled the history and goals of OADF. He also gave an overview of recent OADF activities related to reliable maps… Read more: Review: 18th Open Auto Drive Forum on November 22, 2022
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 18th Open Auto Drive Forum on November 22, 2022The 18th Open Auto Drive Forum Event is on November 22, 2022, 08:00-12:30 CET We are pleased to announce the 18th OADF event. It is planned as an online-only event and is free of charge. The meeting will provide you with an overview of OADF’s structure and activities. OADF member organizations, including ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS,… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 18th Open Auto Drive Forum on November 22, 2022
- Review: 17th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 17, 2022The 17th Open Auto Drive Forum event on May 17, 2022, was the first OADF event since 2019 where participants met on-site. The on-site portion took place in Frankfurt, Germany, where approximately 30 participants gathered. Another 130 people attended the meeting remotely. The OADF speaker and co-chair of SENSORIS, Andras Csepinszky of NNG, warmly welcomed… Read more: Review: 17th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 17, 2022
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 17th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 17, 2022The 17th Open Auto Drive Forum is on May 17, 2022, 09:00-15:00 CET (07:00 AM – 13:00 PM UCT) We are pleased to invite you to the 17th OADF event. The meeting is planned as a hybrid one. The in-person part will be in the re:mynd event location, Hanauer Landstraße 154, 60314 Frankfurt, Germany. After… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 17th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 17, 2022
- Review: 16th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 14, 2021The 16th Open Auto Drive Forum event on September 16, 2021 attracted up to 170 participants from the automotive sector to discuss advances in standardization related to automated and autonomous driving. Andras Csepinszky from NNG, the new OADF speaker and co-chair of SENSORIS, opened the meeting and introduced the event and its background. Two keynote… Read more: Review: 16th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 14, 2021
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 16th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 14, 2021The 16th Open Auto Drive Forum will be online on September 14, 2021, 13:00-17:00 CEST We are presently finalizing the agenda. As always, it will include interesting contributions from (industry) experts as well as updates on the activities/plans of Standardization Organizations regarding Autonomous Driving: ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS, SIP-adus, TISA, TN-ITS as well as ASAM OpenX.… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 16th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 14, 2021
- Review: 15th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 6, 2021The 16th Open Auto Drive Forum event on September 16, 2021 attracted up to 170 participants from the automotive sector to discuss advances in standardization related to automated and autonomous driving. Andras Csepinszky from NNG, the new OADF speaker and co-chair of SENSORIS, opened the meeting and introduced the event and its background. Two keynote… Read more: Review: 15th Open Auto Drive Forum on May 6, 2021
- Review: 14th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 23, 2020More than 180 automotive experts from all over the world joined the 14th Open Auto Drive Forum event to discuss advancements in standardization related to automated and autonomous driving. Before the official start of the meeting a workshop for the on-site participants took place under the lead of Teun Hendriks from TISA. In this workshop,… Read more: Review: 14th Open Auto Drive Forum on September 23, 2020
- REGISTRATION OPEN: 14th Open AutoDrive Forum on September 23, 2020The 14th Open Auto Drive Forum is a combined online/on-site meeting. For online participants, the meetings starts at 17:00 CEST (11 AM USA Eastern Standard Time). This part of the meeting comprises an introduction to OADF, Keynote(s) from Industry Experts (t.b.c.) and updates on the activities/plans of Standardization Organizations Regarding Autonomous Driving: ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS,… Read more: REGISTRATION OPEN: 14th Open AutoDrive Forum on September 23, 2020
- Review: 13th Open AutoDrive Forum on July 9, 2020The 13th Open Auto Drive Forum event took place on July 9. It was the first OADF online-only event and a completely new experience. Almost 250 participants joined the meeting – more than twice as much as in the ‘traditional’ meetings. The meeting was opened by Matthias Unbehaun, OADF Speaker and TISA Executive Director and… Read more: Review: 13th Open AutoDrive Forum on July 9, 2020
- 13th Open AutoDrive Forum on February 18th, 2020The 13th OADF meeting will be hosted by Kuandeng and take place on February 18th, 2020 in Beijing, China.
- Review: 12th Open AutoDrive Forum on June 12, 2019The 12th Open Auto Drive Forum event on June 12 took place in the Leonardo Royal Hotel in Munich, Germany. With nearly 120 participants, it was the best-visited OADF event ever. At the beginning, Matthias Unbehaun, OADF Speaker and TISA Executive Director, introduced the new participants to the history, structure and objectives of the forum:… Read more: Review: 12th Open AutoDrive Forum on June 12, 2019
- Review: 11th Open AutoDrive Forum on February 5, 2019On February 5, the Electronics Research Lab (ERL) of Volkswagen Group of America in Belmont, CA, hosted the 11th meeting of the Open Auto Drive forum. Nikolai Reimer, Senior Vice President and Executive Director ERL, and Mattias Unbehaun, OADF Speaker and TISA Executive Director, opened the meeting. In their keynote ‘Autonomous Driving, past present and… Read more: Review: 11th Open AutoDrive Forum on February 5, 2019
- Review: 10th Open AutoDrive Forum on July 12, 2018On July 12, 2018, the Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) organized its 10th meeting in Wuhan, P.R. China. The meeting was hosted by SAIC Kotei Big Data Cooperation (SAIC KBD), a joint venture between the car manufacturer SAIC Motor Corporation and Kotei Wuhan Informatics. The meeting was opened by Wang Junde, CEO of Wuhan Kotei… Read more: Review: 10th Open AutoDrive Forum on July 12, 2018
- Review: 9th Open AutoDrive Forum on March 6, 2018The 9th Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) meeting was hosted by NNG in Budapest, Hungary. After the last meetings in the USA in May and in Japan in November 2017, it was the first meeting in Europe again. As such it focused on the alignment with Standardization activities in Europe. The speaker of OADF, Dr.… Read more: Review: 9th Open AutoDrive Forum on March 6, 2018
- Review: 8th Open AutoDrive Forum on November 13, 2017The 8th meeting of the Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) took place on November 13, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting was used to harmonize the activities between OADF and SIP-adus in Japan. One major insight was that the OADF member NDS is the only known organization which provides an already available standard for high-definition… Read more: Review: 8th Open AutoDrive Forum on November 13, 2017
- Review: 7th Open AutoDrive Forum on May 22, 2017The 7th meeting of the Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) took place on May 22, 2017 in Lincolnshire (Chicago), IL, USA. The meeting was opened by L. Mbekeani from Harman hosting the meeting and by Dr. V. Sasse, the spokesman of OADF. The first session was dedicated to presentations by standardization initiatives and cooperations. They… Read more: Review: 7th Open AutoDrive Forum on May 22, 2017
- Review: 6th Open AutoDrive Forum on February 16, 2017More than 100 international stakeholders met at the 6th Open Auto Drive Forum to discuss the latest cross-domain topics in the area of automated driving. This time, the meeting on February 16, 2017 was hosted by TISA in Brussels, Belgium. Featuring a number of interesting presentations by speakers from industry and academia as well as… Read more: Review: 6th Open AutoDrive Forum on February 16, 2017
- Review: 5th Open AutoDrive Forum on October 14, 2016The 5th meeting of the Open Auto Drive Forum (OADF) on October 14, 2016 in Beijing, China was the first meeting on the Asian continent and with more than 100 participants the best-visited OADF meeting ever. The keynote speech was presented by Donghai Dai, CTO of NavInfo. He provided insights into the way NavInfo is… Read more: Review: 5th Open AutoDrive Forum on October 14, 2016
- Review: 4th Open AutoDrive Forum on June 29, 2016On June 29, the 4th Open AutoDrive Forum (OADF) meeting was held at Club Auto Sport in San Jose, CA, USA. As the first non-European OADF meeting, the objective was to reach companies working on autonomous driving in Silicon Valley along with the rest of the USA. The meeting garnered 85 participants – the highest… Read more: Review: 4th Open AutoDrive Forum on June 29, 2016
- Review 3rd Open AutoDrive Forum on April 12, 2016The 3rd meeting of the Open AutoDrive Forum (OADF) took place on April 12, 2016, at TomTom in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The forum is a platform for stakeholders that are active in the area of digital maps and autonomous driving. It currently includes the consortia ADASIS, NDS, SENSORIS and TISA. The forum’s third meeting since… Read more: Review 3rd Open AutoDrive Forum on April 12, 2016
- Review: 2nd Open AutoDrive Forum on February 23, 2016On February 23, 2016, the 2nd Open AutoDrive forum took place at HERE (Germany) with participants from 35 international companies, including car manufacturers, system providers, map and service providers. The unique composition of the participants representing the stakeholders of all relevant fields for autonomous driving was a major factor for the success of the meeting.… Read more: Review: 2nd Open AutoDrive Forum on February 23, 2016
- Review: 1st Open AutoDrive Forum on Dec 15, 2016The 1st Open AutoDrive forum took place on December 15 at Here in Schwalbach, Germany with representatives from the three consortia. In total, more that 30 companies were represented by more than 50 participants in this meeting. After a keynote speech by BMW stating the importance of collaboration for autonomous driving, the consortia NDS, ADASIS… Read more: Review: 1st Open AutoDrive Forum on Dec 15, 2016