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<v ->Hi, Kevin. Welcome.</v>

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Great to have you with us today.

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<v ->Thanks for having me, Aakash.</v>

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I really look forward to this.

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<v ->For our audience that may not know about Aptiv,</v>

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what role does Aptiv play

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in the dynamic automotive technology industry?

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<v ->Aptiv's a technology that principally serves</v>

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the automotive industry,

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but I don't want to lose the opportunity to say

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that we also have presence in the telecommunications,

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industrial, aerospace, and defense markets as well.

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When you think about Aptiv, what makes us unique?

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We say we have both the brain

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and the nervous system of the vehicle.

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The brain, that includes all the sensors in the vehicle,

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the compute, as well as the software stack.

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The nervous system, that's the vehicle architecture.

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So, that's what distributes power

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and data through the vehicle,

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and quite frankly, allows that brain

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to operate in an optimized way.

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<v ->What are some of the innovations</v>

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that you see transforming these industries?

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<v ->Sure.</v>

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Well, as you know, the automotive industry

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is going through a tremendous change.

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The most change over the last five years, 10 years

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than we've seen the previous hundred years.

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And the areas where we're seeing

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the most significant advancement,

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the most demand from our customers,

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are in and around areas like active safety.

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Those are principally software-enabled,

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advanced compute-enabled.

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And then, on electrification, how do we enable the path

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towards fully electrified battery vehicles?

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But in between, how do we make sure

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that there's solutions in and around hybrids,

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plug-in hybrids, technologies like that

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that help reduce CO2 emissions for our customers.

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<v ->Aptiv is rated as one of the most innovative companies</v>

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in the world.

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How do you capture value through innovation at Aptiv?

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<v ->Given how dynamic the market is today,</v>

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given all the changes in the automotive industry,

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it's really important where you're deploying capital.

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Are those areas, are those solutions

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that your customers really want and need?

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Five years ago, the demand for active safety

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and the technology that was serving the market,

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we saw that as a very big growth opportunity.

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Consumers want safe vehicles.

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Therefore, safe vehicles enable our customers

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to sell more vehicles,

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and being able to leverage our capabilities in software,

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our capabilities in compute,

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our capabilities in perception systems,

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package those together in platforms

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that effectively reduced our customers' costs

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while, at the same time, providing them with great solutions

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to make their vehicles safer, has been outstanding.

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<v ->GenAI is one of the key innovations</v>

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that has come up in the last 12 months.

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How is Aptiv incorporating GenAI

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in its innovation portfolio?

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<v ->That's a great question.</v>

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AI-ML is actually a tool Aptiv's been using

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for quite some time,

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but from a product-development standpoint,

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in areas like our perception systems

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for active safety systems, driving policy solutions

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for active safety systems.

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So, it's something that we're certainly well aware of

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and have been utilizing.

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More recently, what have we been focusing on

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from a GenAI standpoint

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is, in addition to perception systems,

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how do we utilize those tools

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to do things like simplify the testing

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and validation process,

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better understand customer requirements

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and be able to respond to that,

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using the technology and tool for things

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like contract management, supply chain management.

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Those sorts of things are operational,

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as well as the technology solutions,

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the innovations that we deliver

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that ultimately go into a vehicle.

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<v ->Well, thank you so much for coming in to talk to us today.</v>

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These are some really valuable insights.

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<v ->No, Aakash, thanks for having me.</v>

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Really appreciate it.

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<v ->Thank you.</v>

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