Dr. Michael Karner is lead researcher at VIRTUAL VEHICLE in Graz, Austria. He received a master’s (Information and Computer Engineering) and doctoral degree (Electrical Engineering) from Graz University of Technology. He was the coordinator for the ECSEL project SCOTT (focussing on cost-efficient solutions of wireless, end-to-end secure, trustworthy connectivity and interoperability in the Internet of Things), with a budget of 40M€ and involving nearly 60 partners from 11 European countries and Brazil). Currently, he is coordinator of the ECSEL InSecTT (Intelligent Secure Trustable Things) project dealing with bringing the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence together and making it trustworthy, with a budget of over 40M€  and involving more than 50 partners from 12 countries. He has more than ten years industrial and scientific experience in the field of intelligent and connected systems (including artificial intelligence, automated driving, Internet of Things, trustworthiness...).