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Arilou Technologies mainly focuses on the field of Automotive cyber security. Arilou’s vision is to protect human lives and OEMs revenues by providing unique solutions for high-end cyber security threats, and to create simple yet effective solutions that cannot be hacked or bypassed

Yves Matton is currently in charge of business development for Local Motion in Europe. Before joining Local Motion, Yves has been working as a consultant at McKinsey&Company where he shared his time between business development topics in particular in the cloud industry and operational excellence projects in the services and in the automotive industries. He studied at École Polytechnique in France and at MIT in Boston where he worked on several green technology and shared mobility projects. 

Damien joined the team in early 2011 to run the XC2V program. He is focusing his efforts on the opportunities and partnerships to develop the Local Motors Business. Damien has a background in mechanical and production engineering, and a master in management. He has worked in the battery industry, the automotive after market in Europe, and in various sales and marketing positions. Before joining Local Motors, Damien was working on a project to put enthusiastic eco-friendly cars on the European roads through the use of co-creation and partnership with OEMs.

Vehicle Data Science makes driving safer and more efficient by establishing representative patterns from crowdsourced vehicle data. We mine logs from GPS receivers and other vehicle sensors in order to detect roadway features and characterize how drivers negotiate each of them. The resulting information is a Kinematic Map, which is used to provide intervention thresholds to driver assistance systems, support trajectory planning and validation in autonomous vehicles, and to more accurately predict the trajectory of third-party vehicles. We are also developing risk-scoring capabilities for insurance carriers by comparing individual trips to a representative sample.

Flavia Fontana Giusti joined VDS in September 2014 to be in charge of Business Development in Europe. Until June 2014, she worked as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Intitute of Transportation, and at Renault’s Silicon Valley office, investigating emerging shared-use vehicle services as a potential new market for Renault’s electric quad. Before that, she worked as a junior project manager for the French consultancy firm FaberNovel, where she managed public transportation innovation projects. Flavia is a graduate from HEC Paris and she holds a Master of Science in Innovation and Design Management from the École Polytechnique.