Dr. Cristina Rico García is an expert in AI-driven automotive technologies, currently serving as Head of In-Cabin Sensing at CARIAD. With two decades of experience in artificial intelligence and software development, she has led initiatives in sensor fusion, camera perception, lidar and radar perception, natural language understanding and machine learning across companies like Bosch, Argo AI and German Aerospace Center. Her work focuses on enhancing vehicle safety and comfort through advanced sensing technologies for all brands of the Volkswagen Group.

In the future, a car must be more than just a car. More comfortable. Safer. More sustainable. More entertaining. More digital. More connected. For everyone, everywhere. Based on intelligent software and combined with proven German engineering. At CARIAD, we want to rethink the car. For a better tomorrow. CARIAD is the automotive software company within the Volkswagen Group that bundles and further expands the Group's software competencies to transform automotive mobility. Founded in 2020, it develops the leading tech stack for the automotive industry. Around 5,000 engineers and developers around the world are building a new software platform for all brands of Volkswagen Group, which includes a unified architecture, an operating system and automotive cloud. The new software platform will first come to play at the end of 2024. In addition, CARIAD works on outstanding digital automotive features, including ADAS solutions, a standardized infotainment platform, software functions for linking powertrains, chassis and charging technology as well as new ecosystems and digital business models in and around the vehicle. CARIAD operates in software competence centers in Wolfsburg, Ingolstadt, the area of Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg and Kassel, and is closely co-operating with development teams in Seattle and China.