Oh that winter – a challenge to regular vehicles, and more so to automated vehicles. Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) rapid emergence is poised to deliver significant benefits while confronted with real-world challenges. Our expert guest delves into the cold hard truth of one of the main CAV challenges and provides concrete insights into the CAV ecosystem, which is crucial to the sector’s growth, covering the major players and the role of IoT in it.  We also discuss Canadian CAV innovations and the ecosystem roles of start-ups and small and medium enterprises.

Guest

Our guest is Barrie Kirk, Executive Director at CAVCOE. Barrie is a well-known speaker, broadcaster, and consultant in the Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) space, including the use and impacts of CAVs. His extensive experience includes senior positions at Ottawa-area companies and more than thirty years of consulting across the U.K., U.S., and Canada on the impacts of emerging technologies. Barrie is a Senior Advisor to the Thompson (Manitoba) Winter Weather Testing Campus, and also serves on advisory boards of several CAV-related organizations.  Barrie received his Electrical Engineering degree from Coventry University in the U.K.

Links

Barrie on LinkedIn:   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrie-kirk-p-eng-059b4039/

CAVCOE online:

Website: https://cavcoe.com/

 

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