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-: Hi, Kevin. Welcome.
Great to have you with us today.
-: Thanks for having me, Aakash.
I really look forward to this.
-: For our audience that may not know about Aptiv,
what role does Aptiv play
in the dynamic automotive technology industry?
-: Aptiv's a technology that principally serves
the automotive industry,
but I don't want to lose the opportunity to say
that we also have presence in the telecommunications,
industrial, aerospace, and defense markets as well.
When you think about Aptiv, what makes us unique?
We say we have both the brain
and the nervous system of the vehicle.
The brain, that includes all the sensors in the vehicle,
the compute, as well as the software stack.
The nervous system, that's the vehicle architecture.
So, that's what distributes power
and data through the vehicle,
and quite frankly, allows that brain
to operate in an optimized way.
-: What are some of the innovations
that you see transforming these industries?
-: Sure.
Well, as you know, the automotive industry
is going through a tremendous change.
The most change over the last five years, 10 years
than we've seen the previous hundred years.
And the areas where we're seeing
the most significant advancement,
the most demand from our customers,
are in and around areas like active safety.
Those are principally software-enabled,
advanced compute-enabled.
And then, on electrification, how do we enable the path
towards fully electrified battery vehicles?
But in between, how do we make sure
that there's solutions in and around hybrids,
plug-in hybrids, technologies like that
that help reduce CO2 emissions for our customers.
-: Aptiv is rated as one of the most innovative companies
in the world.
How do you capture value through innovation at Aptiv?
-: Given how dynamic the market is today,
given all the changes in the automotive industry,
it's really important where you're deploying capital.
Are those areas, are those solutions
that your customers really want and need?
Five years ago, the demand for active safety
and the technology that was serving the market,
we saw that as a very big growth opportunity.
Consumers want safe vehicles.
Therefore, safe vehicles enable our customers
to sell more vehicles,
and being able to leverage our capabilities in software,
our capabilities in compute,
our capabilities in perception systems,
package those together in platforms
that effectively reduced our customers' costs
while, at the same time, providing them with great solutions
to make their vehicles safer, has been outstanding.
-: GenAI is one of the key innovations
that has come up in the last 12 months.
How is Aptiv incorporating GenAI
in its innovation portfolio?
-: That's a great question.
AI-ML is actually a tool Aptiv's been using
for quite some time,
but from a product-development standpoint,
in areas like our perception systems
for active safety systems, driving policy solutions
for active safety systems.
So, it's something that we're certainly well aware of
and have been utilizing.
More recently, what have we been focusing on
from a GenAI standpoint
is, in addition to perception systems,
how do we utilize those tools
to do things like simplify the testing
and validation process,
better understand customer requirements
and be able to respond to that,
using the technology and tool for things
like contract management, supply chain management.
Those sorts of things are operational,
as well as the technology solutions,
the innovations that we deliver
that ultimately go into a vehicle.
-: Well, thank you so much for coming in to talk to us today.
These are some really valuable insights.
-: No, Aakash, thanks for having me.
Really appreciate it.
-: Thank you.
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