Jim Misener is Senior Director, Product Management and the Global V2X Ecosystem Lead for Qualcomm. He develops and execute C-V2X deployment strategy across all global regions, working with automotive, road owner-operator and telecommunications partners to accomplish broad C-V2X deployment. Jim also develop IoT solutions for transportation markets. Previously at Qualcomm, Jim led the automotive standards team.

Jim was a pioneer in vehicle-highway automation and vehicle safety communication at the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at UC Berkeley. He has served as the PATH Executive Director, Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and as an independent consultant. In these roles Jim has experience and reputation of delivering dozens of technology projects with large scale safety impact.

In addition to his roles at Qualcomm, Jim serves as a 5GAA Board member, ITS America Board member, ITS California senior advisor, and serves on the IEEE ITS Society Board of Governors. He established and is the immediate past chair of the SAE C-V2X Technical Committee. Jim also serves as an Advisory Council member to Mobility 21-Traffic 21 led by Carnegie Melon University and on the Technical Advisory Board to the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation and the University of Michigan. Jim is also a member SAE WCX Technical Advisory Committee. Jim holds BS and MS degrees from UCLA and USC. Jim is an IEEE Fellow.