Speaker

Derek Sellin

Vice President, Marketing, Rightware

Derek leads product marketing, partner marketing, and communications for Rightware, the leader in automotive UI software. Building on a career in product management and strategic planning in smartphone software and hardware platforms as well as telecoms, he most recently led cloud and data center community evangelism at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Derek’s degrees span technology and business, with an engineering master’s degree from the University of Michigan, business studies at Aalto University in Helsinki, and ongoing doctoral studies in technology-driven businesses and platform economies.

Company

Rightware

Rightware® provides tools and services for development of advanced digital user interfaces. The Kanzi® philosophy is based on designer empowerment, prioritizing ease of use, rapid prototyping, workflow efficiency, high performance, and cross-platform support. Our passion is to unleash creativity and to enable fantastic user experiences. As a ThunderSoft® company, our combined skills and assets allow us to deliver fully integrated HMI solutions, engineering support, and design services for automotive customers across the globe. Rightware continues to operate as an independent subsidiary, headquartered in Finland with a presence in the United States, Germany, Italy, China, South Korea, and Japan. Trusted by over 40 car brands, we are on track to powering the user experience in over 20 million cars by 2022.