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Emil Dautovic leads business development at RemotiveLabs, working with car makers, suppliers and industry alliances. He has built automotive businesses at Mapillary, QNX Software Systems and The Astonishing Tribe, and holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Lund University.

Emil Dautovic RemotiveLabs portrait

Emil cited in

Work and commentary that have been featured outside remotivelabs.com.

European SDV Ecosystem Summit: collaboration and contributions from COVESA (FEDERATE, speaker, 2025)
Mapillary introduces a new generation of maps (TISA, presenter)
Megatrends Europe 2013 (Automotive World, speaker, 2013)

Meet my colleagues

Aleksandar Filipov RemotiveLabs portrait

Aleksandar Filipov

CTO and co-founder

Johan Karlberg RemotiveLabs portrait

Software engineer

Jan Kronquist RemotiveLabs portrait

Emil at RemotiveLabs

Software-defined vehicle programs depend on many companies agreeing on shared building blocks. Emil works with car makers, suppliers and industry alliances to show how RemotiveLabs tooling lets them develop and test vehicle software together, long before hardware is ready.

He is active in the open-standards community. At the European SDV Ecosystem Summit 2025 in Munich he co-presented collaboration and contributions from COVESA with Jan Kubovy of BMW.

Background and related experience

Before RemotiveLabs, Emil was VP Automotive at Mapillary, the street-level imagery and map data company. At QNX Software Systems he was automotive business development manager for Europe, and at The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) he built the automotive HMI business from the ground up. He started as a consultant at AU-System, working on GSM base station development and later sales to mobile phone makers.

Emil holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University (LTH). He has spoken at industry events such as Automotive World Megatrends Europe.

Latest article contributions by Emil

Multi-ECU regression test in SIL RemotiveTopology

10x faster multi-ECU regression testing in SIL

Measured impact at a European vehicle OEM: Complementing HIL with virtual integration testing to offer a faster and more accessible alternative for regression testing. The outcome? 10x increased feedback speed for end to end integration tests, less dependency on HIL, and the ability for developers to run near-hardware realism tests involving multiple ECUs directly on their own laptops.

September 8, 2026

RemotiveTalk - with Michael Fait

How to shift left automotive testing with Michael Fait

Expert interview

Putting the automotive test pyramid into practice

RemotiveTalk #2: Shift left testing is on every automotive software team's roadmap, but most organizations are still finding bugs too late and at too high a cost. Emil Dautovic sits down with Michael Fait (Thoughtworks) and RemotiveLabs CEO Per Sigurdson to discuss what the automotive test pyramid looks like in practice, what genuinely gets in the way, and where to start.

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remotiveTalk with Florian Rhode vECUs

Expert interview

Why virtual ECUs (vECUs) are not a silver bullet

RemotiveTalk: Virtual ECUs are often described as the future of automotive software development — as a complement to hardware testing to avoid "integration hell”. Emil Dautovic (RemotiveLabs) sits down with Florian Rohde (iProcess) and RemotiveLabs´ CEO Per Sigurdson to unpack why virtual ECUs are more powerful when we stop treating them as a single solution and instead use the right level of virtualization for the right purpose.

RemotiveLabs HERE maps demo

Joining HERE and AWS in the SDV Accelerator

RemotiveLabs joins the SDV Accelerator as a partner focused on connecting the ecosystem - ensuring that virtual ECUs, infotainment systems, simulators, and location services can run together in a modern, automated workflow. RemotiveLabs demoed HERE Navigation running in RemotiveTopology at CES2026.

February 23, 2026

Per Sigurdson in front of RemotiveLabs booth at CES2026

Cracking automotive’s late-integration trap - and finally enabling China speed

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – 8 January 2026 – Every legacy automaker faces the same painful truth: the biggest delays and cost overruns rarely come from writing software. They come from discovering – far too late – how systems actually interact across domains, hardware, and software. When multi-ECU features, central compute logic, and HMI flows finally meet on hardware – often 12–18 months before SOP – teams enter “integration hell,” losing predictability, momentum, and control. At CES 2026, RemotiveLabs shows that this cycle is no longer inevitable.

January 8, 2026

Florian Rohde portrait

Expert interview

Succeeding with feature-oriented platforms

Interview with Florian Rohde, iProcess. What are the cultural shifts, processes, and tools needed to succeed with Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) or feature-oriented vehicle platforms in automotive? With experience spanning Continental, Tesla, Nio, and more, Rohde shares his point of view of challenges and opportunities in modernizing automotive development.

February 19, 2025

RemotiveLabs presenting together with OEMs at COVESA AMM

RemotiveLabs presenting together with OEMs at COVESA AMM

Empowering digital services

There is a huge innovation potential for accessing vehicle signals beyond what is available in Android Automotive. A new approach incorporating gRPC and VISS together with RemotiveLabs technology was jointly discussed by representatives from the COVESA Alliance and Volvo Cars at a recent event in Gothenburg. This is also a way of supporting the upcoming EU rules regarding exposing vehicle data to 3rd parties.

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Developing with drive playback

How Volvo Cars advance their AAOS development

Volvo Cars is finding new ways to enable AAOS development in the automotive industry using standardized ways to communicate vehicle signal data (according to COVESA’s Vehicle Signal Specification VSS) with modern and collaborative tooling i.e. RemotiveLabs.

Joining the COVESA Alliance - supporting VSS data sharing

Enabling data sharing and collaboration in automotive including connected and autonomous vehicles. Smoothly turn live or recorded data into filtered VSS data in RemotiveLabs platform.

February 7, 2023