Bio:

Ned Curic was appointed Chief Technology Officer and a member of Stellantis’ Top Executive Team on August 30, 2021. From June 2017, Ned Curic was Vice President, Alexa Automotive at Amazon spearheading Amazon’s efforts in the Automotive industry. Ned Curic started his career in 1996 in the field of Engineering Systems at Northrop Grumman, an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. After a short stint in the financial industry, in 2000 he joined Microsoft where he held various roles in Consulting, Product, Security and Advisory. He entered the automotive sector in 2013, as Group Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Toyota Motor North America and, in 2015, became Co-founder and Executive Vice-President, Technical Director and Board Member at Toyota Connected. Ned Curic studied Informatics and Computer Science, and received a Master’s in Business Administration (Pepperdine University, George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management) in 2012.

Abstract:

Technologies have the power to reshape the auto industry, change the way we experience mobility and, ultimately, transform our life and our society. In guiding this transformation, we need to make sure that we don’t develop tech for tech’s sake but rather a tech made for real people, designed around their needs, delightful and easy to enjoy, whose impact is also fair, respectful of the environment and sustainable.