The automotive industry faces increasing pressure to deliver higher power performance within progressively smaller and lighter electronic designs. As vehicles incorporate electrification, advanced driver-assistance systems, and connected technologies, engineers are required to balance power density, efficiency, reliability, and safety without increasing size or weight.
On 19th February 2026 at 2pm UK, Electronic Specifier will host a webinar, Maximising Power in Minimal Space: Automotive Electronics Challenges, which will examine the technical and design approaches used to meet these requirements. The session will focus on current challenges and emerging solutions in automotive electronics, with particular attention to power electronics architectures, thermal management techniques, and advanced packaging strategies.
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Our line-up of speakers include:
Greg Green, Director of Automotive Marketing, Vicor Corporation
Greg has 38 years of experience in the automotive industry, spanning across manufacturing, design engineering, and product line management. Greg’s previous auto industry positions include positions at Ford, Visteon, Chrysler, and Sensata before joining Vicor.
Greg holds a B.S. Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Manufacturing Management from Kettering University. He holds 9 patents and has authored 2 SAE papers.
He also serves as the Chair for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) New England Chapter and is on the Executive Board for the Scouting America Mayflower Council.
Darwin Fernandez, Systems Manager, Automotive Power Design Services, Texas Instruments
Darwin Fernandez is a Systems Manager in the Automotive Power Design Services team at Texas Instruments.
He has been at TI for 16 years supporting several power product lines as an applications engineer designing buck, flyback, and active clamp forward converters. He has a BSEE and MSEE from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Günther Hasna – Senior Director, R&D Engineering, Synopsys Innovation Group, Ansys, part of Synopsys
Günther studied at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in the field of Mechatronics which he finished in 1989. After working at TEMIC in Nürnberg (a DaimlerChrysler company) in the field of optoelectronic sensors he joined 1996 the company OPTIS SAS. Based in France for 15 years he was working in the field of optical simulation. Since 2011 he is working for Ansys based in the Munich (Ismaning) office on strategic research projects in the field of autonomous driving extending his knowledge also to radar sensors. He joined the Ansys CTO office as Chief Technologist in 2020 in the field of digital engineering. Now he is part of the Synopsys Innovation Group (SIG) and working in Europe Funded Research programs in the field of battery design and power electronics (Projects “PowerizeD” from 2023 – 2025 and “BATTwin” from 2024 until end of 2026). The later projects include the use of AI tools to build metamodels for reliability and sustainability analysis which are included into digital twins in the field of mobility, energy, and industry.
Vijay Bapu, Sr. Manager Product Marketing, Microchip Technology Inc.
Vijay Bapu is a Sr. Manager of Product Marketing for Microchip’s dsPIC33 products for power applications.
Vijay has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in power applications as an engineer and a product manager. He has engineering experience developing point-of-load power converters and experience developing power management ICs for major Tier 1 smartphones. Most recently, Vijay has been extensively involved in product management of digital power for server and automotive applications. As a product manager, he has experience in creating business cases for new technology development, product definition, silicon and solutions feature road mapping, project planning, pricing, and marketing communications.
Vijay holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from R.V college of Engineering in Bangalore, India, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York, and an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles.
