Maitê Alves Bezerra

Principal Analyst, Software Defined Vehicles at Wards Intelligence

Advisor, Speaker

Maitê explores the automotive industry transition to the software-defined vehicle. She follows the evolution toward new electric/electronic vehicle architectures, software development frameworks, revenue streams, and how the automotive supply chain ecosystem is changing. Her latest project aims at defining the different stages of SDV adoption and tracking automakers’ efforts and strategies to update their vehicle fleets.

Maitê started her career as an academic in international business, pivoting to market research after seven years’ experience. Before joining Wards, Maitê worked as an automotive and smart mobility industry analyst for ABI Research, notably covering areas such as next-generation infotainment, HMI, ADAS and autonomous driving architecture and applications, driving monitoring systems, infotainment OS and connected services monetization. She also developed new forecast models for connected vehicle subscriptions, adoption of different V2X radios in vehicles and road infrastructure, and micro-mobility. Prior to ABI Research, she worked as a research analyst for Juniper Research.