Serge Van Themsche Author

Serge Van Themsche

PM.BD Consulting

Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence specialist in the transportation sector

35 years of experience in the transportation & energy market

Providing BD consultancy services for start-ups & corporations

Author of 3 academic books

Centered on Artificial Intelligence, Driverless technologies & Cybersecurity

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PM&BD provides consulting services in Project Management & Business Development in the Transportation and Energy markets. The company specializes in system integration, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and driverless technologies.

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Serge has a keen business acumen combined with international market experience. He brings a seemingly endless amount of passion to his work, and continually thinks outside the box to help stimulate new ideas and ways of viewing opportunities His professionalism, experience, and multi-cultural background have contributed greatly to the success of our team, and his personal approach is highly valued.

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/Transportation Industry Director, Waterfall Security Solutions

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Cybersecurity requirements for operators and authorities in public transport tenders UITP (2023-2024)

IT-TRANS 2024 Intelligent Urban Transport System (2024)

Cybersecurity for small to medium public transport operator UITP (2024)

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ChatGPT n’est pas encore intelligent

French edition

By examining how e-mobility technologies, business models, and IoT-driven smart cities will reshape transportation, this work highlights the disruption of markets and transformation of work, travel, and society, while exploring the opportunities, challenges, and systemic changes driving unmanned vehicle systems.

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What's on their mind Biological Artificial Intelligence

What’s on their mind ? Biological and Artificial Intelligence

English edition

Delve into a thought-provoking journey that explores AI’s transformative potential, blending neuroscience, philosophy, and technology to demystify intelligence, consciousness, and humanity’s future alongside smart machines, while uncovering how these advancements redefine our understanding of the mind.

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Serge Van Themsche - The Advent of Unmanned Eletric Vehicules

The Advent of Unmanned Electric Vehicles: The Choices between E-mobility and Immobility

By examining how e-mobility technologies, business models, and IoT-driven smart cities will reshape transportation, this work highlights the disruption of markets and transformation of work, travel, and society, while exploring the opportunities, challenges, and systemic changes driving unmanned vehicle systems.

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6 Risk Mitigation Strategy for software obsolescence in railways

6 Cyber Risk Mitigation Strategies For Software Obsolescence In Railways

Serge Van ThemscheJanuary 21, 2021
Software obsolescence is probably the most undervalued risk in railway operations, which can become a...
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AI in Cybersecurity

Is AI Needed For Railway Cybersecurity

Serge Van ThemscheAugust 27, 2019
What are the commonalities between the recent Baltimore’s “RobbinHood” and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency...
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Brain VS Computer System : Data Processing

Brains VS Computer Systems : data processing

Serge Van ThemscheSeptember 4, 2018
Failing to use a better analogy, various scientists and philosophers compare the brain to a...
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Philosophical works publication read knowledge

5 Great Philosophical Works You Should Read

Serge Van ThemscheJuly 25, 2018
While writing “What’s on their mind? Biological and Artificial Intelligence,” I came across many interesting...
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What is Artificial Knowledge (AK) ?

Serge Van ThemscheJuly 24, 2018
The best way of describing AK is first to understand what knowledge is. We all...
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Harness the power of IoT with AI

Harness the power of the IoT revolution with AI

Serge Van ThemscheOctober 17, 2017
Harness the power of the IoT revolution with AI By 2020, the Internet of Things...
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What's on their minds?

What’s on their mind?

Serge Van ThemscheJuly 17, 2017
What's on their mind? There isn’t a week that passes by without information on AI...
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ANNs ; Artificial Neural Network ; Synapses ; Onboard ;Learning ; Processing data ; Software ;

How to make unmanned cars much more intelligent?

Serge Van ThemscheFebruary 17, 2017
  How to make unmanned cars much more intelligent? If you are reading this article...
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Private transport is associated with conventional cars. Cars pollute, run empty during peak hours, stay idle 95% of the time and are privately owned. Fifteen years from now, the first driverless cars will start hitting the road in large numbers. By then most cars will be electric. If the service-oriented business model takes on momentum, a fleet of unmanned taxis will compete directly with buses and light trains. At that point in time, differences between public and private transport will only be semantic. After all, metro, buses and cars will all be unmanned, electric and managed by a fleet operator. As a consequence, city developers will have problems, justifying subsidies to bus and light vehicle operations. Without these subsidies, buses and light trains will have problems, competing with car transport. Unmanned taxis will cut journey cost by around 60% to 80%. New taxi apps allowing for car sharing will slash cost even further, making unmanned taxi fares unbeatable. Furthermore, driverless taxis will provide better services, picking up and dropping off passengers where they want to rather than stopping at each station. So if unmanned taxis are cheaper and provide better service, what selling arguments are left for buses and light metros? Transport capacity? Not really! In fact, a fleet of unmanned taxis using platooning technology (cars following each other at one-metre distance) and car sharing apps would achieve around 15.000 PPHPD per lane, more than a bus and equal to light train operations.

Will Electric Driverless Cars Kill Bus And Light Train Operations?

Serge Van ThemscheJanuary 31, 2017
Will Electric Driverless Cars Kill Bus And Light Train Operations?   Private transport is associated...
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