2026 Key Topics
The Intelligent Cockpit: Multi-Modal Sensing and Fusion
As cabins become more connected and personalised, multi-modal sensing from cameras to audio to biometrics will enable richer, more contextual interactions. This track looks at how sensing and fusion unlock intelligent, adaptive cockpit experiences.
Restraints, Airbags, CPD & Seat Technology for Safe and Adaptive Cabins
This track examines advanced restraints, airbag systems, CPD strategies, and adaptive seating technologies designed to protect occupants across diverse postures and cabin configurations. Beyond crash protection, we also explore how intelligent seat systems enhance comfort, wellbeing, and user experience through posture detection, automated adjustment, pressure and fatigue management, and personalised ergonomics.
DMS + Cognition – What Next?
Driver monitoring is evolving beyond distraction and drowsiness. This track explores cognitive state assessment, intent prediction, behavioural modelling, and how next-generation DMS contributes to safer shared-control driving.
Occupant Safety in Emerging Shared Mobility Models
Ride-hail, shuttles, robotaxis, and subscription fleets bring new safety challenges. This track focuses on occupant protection, seating variation, misuse, and passenger behaviour in shared and multi-occupant environments.
Environmental and Emotional Edge Cases
Understanding Human Behaviour in Complex Environments
Human behaviour changes in non-ideal conditions, and those signals become even harder to interpret when environmental and emotional edge cases occur simultaneously. Sessions will examine how to recognise and reason about these intertwined human and environmental conditions to support reliable in-cabin intelligence and ensure occupant safety and wellbeing.
Privacy, Ethics & Data Governance for the Intelligent & Connected Cabin
As vehicles collect richer behavioural, biometric, and contextual data, ensuring trust becomes essential. This track addresses privacy, transparency, data governance, and ethical AI for in-cabin sensing and connected experiences.
