Heiko Schilling
Heiko Schilling started out as a mathematician and computer scientist with a focus on software innovation throughout his whole career. From 1989 onwards, Heiko successfully completed 4 academic degrees while running his own businesses or working for large corporations. He joined TomTom 11 years ago, reporting into Management Board. In his current role, he is responsible for TomTom’s Product Unit Navigation that delivers the software components and services for all of TomTom’s navigation products – serving more than 100 million navigation users world-wide with their mobility needs.
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Technology for a Moving World
TomTom builds technology for a moving world. We help drivers – human or computer – to drive the 1.2 billion cars in the world safely. Every day, all over the world, moving goods and people where they need to go. In 1984, TomTom started mapping the world for navigation applications that help drivers find their way from A to B, eliminating the need for paper maps. Later, in 2006, we developed global traffic services and connected navigation applications so drivers could outsmart traffic congestion altogether. Currently, we fight range anxiety for drivers navigating in their electric vehicles, making sure they don’t run out of batteries. Going forward, we are already enabling automated vehicles to see beyond their physical sensors by remapping the world with centimeter accuracy. We’re building applications that assist people as they drive, or even drive a car all on its own – more safely and more efficiently than human drivers can.