Dig into wide-ranging technical topics about modern vehicle technology with industry leaders, hosted by Sanjay Khatri, Head of Product Marketing, Sonatus.
How Edge AI Is Transforming Driver Safety | Ep 18 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
In this episode of the Driving Innovation podcast, Siva Yoganathan, VP of Engineering at MOTER Technologies, discusses how edge AI and foundational models are transforming automotive insurance into real-time, contextual driving intelligence. He also highlights MOTER's partnership with Sonatus to streamline model deployment across diverse OEM platforms while improving privacy, processing speed, and cost efficiency.
28 Apr 2026
How Nissan is Accelerating its Vehicle Development Cycle with Sonatus | Ep 17 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
In this podcast episode, Engineer for e-Planning, Coding and Cybersecurity Sarah Dorey of Nissan Technical Center Europe (NTCE) explains how NTCE is using Sonatus AI Technician and Collector AI to transition from manual, on-site vehicle validation to a remote, AI-driven workflow. This digital transformation has significantly boosted efficiency by allowing global teams to collaborate in real time and reducing root-cause investigation times from two weeks to just two days.
3 Sept 2025
Unleash the Power of In-Vehicle AI with Sonatus AI Director | Ep 16 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
This episode of The Driving Innovation Podcast explores how in-vehicle edge AI is reshaping the automotive industry and introduces Sonatus AI Director, an end-to-end orchestration platform that makes large-scale AI deployment in vehicles practical and cost-effective.
Steve Stoddard, Product Manager for AI Products at Sonatus, explains how AI Director helps automakers optimize, deploy, and manage diverse AI models on today’s ECUs and vehicle hardware—enabling smarter, adaptive, and personalized driving experiences.
The discussion highlights Sonatus’ ecosystem partnerships, spanning silicon providers, cloud platforms, and AI model vendors, to accelerate a wide range of embedded AI features. Together, these collaborations mark a major step forward in bringing AI from concept to production, advancing the vision of truly intelligent, software-defined vehicles.
15 Jul 2025
Unlocking the Potential of In-Vehicle Edge AI | Ep 15 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
In this episode, Sonatus Product Manager Steve Stoddard and Head of Product Sanjay Khatri, discuss the opportunity and challenges of deploying in-vehicle edge AI beyond ADAS and AD to transform the vehicle driving and ownership experience. The topics discussed here are explained in detail in the Sonatus White Paper, Unlocking the Potential In-Vehicle Edge: The Role of SDV Technologies and Flexible E/E Architectures.
19 May 2025
Sonatus AI Technician Builder | Ep 14 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
This podcast delves into the revolutionary role of AI in the automotive industry, particularly through Sonatus's AI technician builder. Steve Stoddard, the product manager, highlights how AI enhances the vehicle ownership experience by addressing misunderstandings between drivers and technicians. The AI technician not only benefits vehicle owners but also streamlines service for technicians and OEM engineers, fostering customer loyalty. With access to real-time vehicle data, the AI technician can adapt and improve service policies, showcasing a significant transformation in how vehicles are maintained and experienced.
12 Mar 2025
The Future of Commercial Vehicles is Software-Defined | Ep 13 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
The white paper from Sonatus titled “The Future of Commercial Vehicles is Software-Defined” explores the opportunities and challenges for commercial vehicle manufacturers amidst the robust growth in transportation and mobility services. This podcast summarizes the paper, including the key ingredients vehicle makers must embrace to succeed.
10 Oct 2024
What OTA Update Solutions Must Deliver in the SDV Era | Ep12 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
This episode touches on key topics from Sonatus' eBook, "What OTA Update Solutions Must Deliver in the SDV Era". This eBook explores how OTA update solutions must evolve in this new era of software-defined vehicles.
18 Jun 2024
Realizing Future-Proof Architectures for Software-Defined Vehicles | Ep11 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
This Driving Innovation podcast episode provides a summary of ”Realizing Future-Proof Architectures for Software-Defined Vehicles”, a white paper from Wards Auto sponsored by Sonatus, which describes the lessons the automotive industry can learn from the transition of legacy hardware-centric data centers into modern software-defined application platforms. The white paper covers how the lessons can be applied to architect flexible foundations for vehicle E/E architectures to support rapid and continuous innovations.
Download white paper: https://wa-resources.wardsauto.com/c/pubRD.mpl?secure=1&sr=pp&_t=pp:&qf=w_defa6601&ch=SonatusLink
9 May 2024
Maximizing the Value of Vehicle Data | Ep10 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
In this episode Sonatus Head of Product, Sanjay Khatri, provides a preview of Sonatus’s recently published customer case study, “Maximizing the Value of Vehicle Data”. We summarize the vehicle data collection challenges of one of the world’s largest automakers, and how they are using Sonatus Collector to overcome them to become data-driven across all facts of their business. The benefits include an 80X improvement in their use of vehicle data, among other tangible outcomes.
9 Apr 2024
Sonatus Advanced Vehicle Data Collection with AWS | Ep9 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
Dr. John Heinlein, CMO at Sonatus, and Michael Garcia, Principal Product Solutions Architect at AWS, discuss and demonstrate the tight integration of Sonatus’ real-time data collection platform with AWS for dynamic data enhancement, enabling OEM and downstream services. Recorded at CES 2024 at the AWS Theater.
7 Mar 2024
Marelli: Bringing Personalized Vehicle Experiences | Ep 8
Eric Monjalon, Product Manager at Marelli, and Sanjay Khatri from Sonatus, present and discuss how the transition to software-defined vehicles will unleash the potential for vehicle owners and consumers to personalize their vehicles according to their individual preferences and needs. Recorded live at CES 2024.
22 Feb 2024
COVESA: Unlocking the Potential of Connected Vehicles | Ep 7 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
Steve Crumb, Executive Director of COVESA presents the mission of COVESA, their goals how they are working to bring important standards such as the Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) to the market, which Sonatus supports in our Sonatus Collector and Sonatus Automator products. Steve also talks about how to get involved in COVESA. Recorded live at CES 2024.
6 Feb 2024
Arm: Making SDV’s a Reality | Ep 6 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
At CES 2024, Robert Day from Arm presents their strategy for making software defined vehicles (SDV) a reality, spanning technical initiatives, product roadmap, alliances and industry initiatives. This wide-ranging discussion gives a rich picture of critical elements for the future of automotive from Arm.
24 Jan 2024
Adaptive Lighting for SDVs | Ep 5 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
In this episode of Driving Innovation, recorded live at CES 2024, Michael Rosenauer, Plastic Omnium Director of Innovation, Lighting Division and Yu Fang from Sonatus present the collaboration between the two companies to activate innovative lighting from Plastic Omnium using the flexible Sonatus Automator platform that can enable dynamic actions from the vehicle.
4 Jan 2024
Sonatus Updater | Ep 4 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
Over-the-air (OTA) vehicle updates are an integral part of the transition to SDVs. In this episode, we will cover the key challenges that OTA solutions must address as vehicle software infrastructure evolves, and how Sonatus Updater addresses those challenges.
7 Dec 2023
Vehicle Personalization Solution | Ep 3 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
The Sonatus Vehicle Personalization Solution allows OEMs to build end user applications for the smartphone, web or the in-vehicle infotainment system that allow vehicle owners to define routines to automatically configure their vehicles according to personal preferences and needs.
7 Dec 2023
Software-Defined Component Solution | Ep 2 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
This episode provides a description of the Sonatus Software-Defined Component Solution, and how it enables vehicle components beyond domains such as IVI and ADAS to be continuously updated and enhanced throughout the life of the vehicles.
9 Nov 2023
Modern Networks are the backbone of SDVs | Ep 1 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus
As vehicles get more technology-laden and software-enabled, it is essential to have flexible, secure and highly configurable networks to create seamless and holistic driving and user experiences. In this episode, we will provide an overview of the challenges and limitations of existing vehicle networks and how modern network technologies, standards and practices can be applied to in-vehicle networks to facilitate software-driven innovation.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:04 Challenges and limitations with current vehicle networks
04:21 How modern vehicles address these challenges
07:23 Securing networks with MACsec
09:36 Mixed criticality
11:15 Centralized network management
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