Joe Gibbs is General Manager of Lero, the SFI Centre for Software Research Prior to joining Lero in 2015, he spent over 20 years in the technical management and commercialisation of innovative ideas in Software, Automotive and Aerospace industry sectors having led large multi-disciplined R&D teams across Europe and the US for various multinational companies including Snap-on Diagnostics and Borg-Warner. Since 2017 he has been responsible for bringing together the industry partners for Lero’s Autonomous Vehicle research programme.