Driving Innovation by Sonatus

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Apr 2026

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Dig into wide-ranging technical topics about modern vehicle technology with industry leaders, hosted by Sanjay Khatri, Head of Product Marketing, Sonatus.

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April 28, 2026Episode 1716 min

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.

September 3, 2025Episode 1610 min

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.

July 15, 2025Episode 1516 min

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.

May 19, 2025Episode 1413 min

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.

March 12, 2025Episode 135 min

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.

October 10, 2024Episode 1211 min

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.

June 18, 2024Episode 116 min

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

May 9, 2024Episode 104 min

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.

April 9, 2024Episode 914 min

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.

March 7, 2024Episode 814 min

Marelli: Bringing Personalized Vehicle Experiences | Ep 8 | Driving Innovation by Sonatus

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.