Stephan Matz

managing director

Dr.-Ing. Stephan Matz is a co-founder and managing director of Driveblocks, where he is responsible for operations and business. He did his PhD at the Institute of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich, after which he worked in the automotive industry as project manager and department lead for a well-known Tier 1. He also has experience as an independent consultant in the mobility sector and as an early-stage investor.

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Presentation

A robust multi-industry autonomy stack for the next generation of machines

The agricultural, construction and mining industries are facing very similar challenges: a constantly growing pressure on productivity, quality and ecological sustainability, with sparse production resources such as land, water and energy availability and shortage of well-educated labor. Driveblocks develops a scalable autonomy stack tailored to the specific technical and business needs of mobile machinery. Combining machine learning with a multidomain foundation model and a unique multimodal sensor fusion algorithm, we achieve superior performance in critical scenarios with ten times less data demand. Our modular AD stack and universal data model enable scaling to various industries.