Day 2 Speaker

Dave Tsai is chief technology officer of Toyota Connected North America in addition to serving on TCNA’s board of directors. As one of TCNA’s founding members, Dave has led the organization by scaling telematics solutions, helping bring TCNA’s telematics platform from a third party to in-house, servicing more than two million new vehicles annually. He has created processes for TCNA that guide how it operates, from its inception as just a handful of employees to more than 400 team members today. He has created go-to-market UX solutions for enrollment in connected services and holds six patents for UX and scaled automation testing and fleet deployment. In his TMNA role, Tsai leads the democratization of AI across every part of the organization. He chartered the division with the goal of enabling Toyota team members to harness the power AI to supercharge productivity. Prior to working with TCNA, Tsai served as an enterprise architect and worked in TMNA’s applications engineering during the early era of telematics development. He had previously served an engineering program manager at Facebook. Tsai earned his bachelor’s degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.