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Speaker

Raf Schuermans

Technical Senior Manager – Advanced Powertrain, Toyota Motor Europe

Raf Schuermans graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in Belgium in 1987, and worked for 10 years as transmission engineer at Volvo passenger cars.
Since 1997, he has been in various positions in Powertrain R&D at Toyota Motor Europe, among others as Department Manager of Transmission Design for mass production projects, and since 2018 as Technical Senior Manager – Advanced Powertrain. In this role, he is in charge of advanced technology scouting and research of automotive powertrains, including traction motors. Focus areas on E-motors are electromagnetic performance, cooling, production processes, sustainability etc.

The Pop in Your Job: I enjoy sharing my experience of almost 40 years of powertrain engineering with the younger generations. What gives me energy is their relentless enthusiasm and commitment to advance E-motor technologies to more competitive levels.

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Sessions

Agile and Innovative Engineering - How to Build and Maintain Engineering Teams for Competitive E-Motors in a Dynamic Business and Market Environment?

5 | Scalable Technical Workforce Café

Tuesday, September 30

11:00 am - 03:00 pm

Live in Berlin

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  • What is the ideal composition of an E-motor engineering team, and how shall it interact with other disciplines in the company?
  • What standards or tools (e.g., internal R&D forums, technical documentation systems, digital twins) are most effective for staying current with rapid advancements in e-motor technologies?
  • How to foster technical innovation? What strategies can engineering teams implement to come up with new ideas that make e-motors more competitive?
  • What can E-motor engineering teams learn from the combustion era? What are potential pitfalls that shall not be repeated?
  • How to find a good balance between standardized technologies and uniqueness? Shall E-motors have some brand-uniqueness and how much effort shall be put into that?
Workshop

World Café Harvesting Session

Tuesday, September 30

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Live in Berlin

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Toyota Motor Europe

https://www.toyota.com/
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) oversees the sales and marketing of Toyota, GR (Gazoo Racing) and Lexus vehicles, as well as Toyota’s 8 European manufacturing plants and engineering operations. TME directly employs over 26,000 people and has invested over EUR 12 billion in Europe since 1990. In 2024, TME sold more than 1,2 million vehicles in Europe, with 7.1% market share, and with Toyota being the 2nd best-selling passenger car brand in Europe. TME aims to achieve 100% CO2 reduction in all new vehicles in Western Europe by 2035 and will continue to offer a full range of electrified powertrains to customers across the region with its hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles. In the pursuit of "Mobility for All", Toyota aims to create safer, more connected, inclusive and sustainable mobility to achieve its mission of producing “Happiness for All”.
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Automotive E-Motor Tech Summit 2025 is part of the Smart Mobility Hub Event Series. You can find more events here.
Date
September 29 – 30, 2025
Location
Steigenberger Hotel am Kanzleramt
Ella-Trebe-Straße 5
10557 Berlin
Phone
+49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 0
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