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Over the past decade, the SoftwareDefined Vehicle (SDV) has moved from buzzword to baseline for most automotive companies. Hardwareled innovation is becoming harder to sustain, while software driven differentiation is opening up entire markets and delivering real competitive advantage. As with many advances that don’t come for free, however, testing and validating software integration in the actual vehicle has become a major bottleneck. For many automotive programs, this directly impacts delivery timelines, quality, and engineering effort. At Intellias, we have been researching this challenge closely for our clients, with the goal of offering a bespoke testing approach that leverages Softwareinthe-Loop (SIL).

WAWTech 2025 brought together more than three thousand IT professionals for two days of talks, panels, networking, and hard conversations about AI, careers, and where the industry is heading. Some came for jobs, some for answers, some just to realize they’re not alone in their doubts. How was WAWTech 2025 for you — what did you spend most of your time on?

Olha Rybenchuk is a Junior Robotics Engineer at SoftServe. Recently, she completed an internship at CERN in Geneva — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — where she had the opportunity to inspect the Large Hadron Collider.