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10 FROM THE TOP » FLÁVIO SAKAI, AEA March 2019 | AutoData “During the development, you talked to the product engineer and that’s it. Today, you talk to him, to the responsible for the IT, the connectivity guy...” What would that mobility engineer be like? Maybe we could call him an infrastruc- ture engineer. And there are several infrastructures: telecommunications, electrification, systems integration, etc. The fact is that previously, when a supplier’s professional went to a manu- facturer, he or she talked to the engineer of that product and that’s it. Today, we talk to that person and the person in charge of IT besides the responsible for the connectivity... we don’t talk just about the product anymore, we talk about the system. And how to explain that to the student who is in college today, or about to gra- duate? Everything is in R&D, which is the goal of Rota 2030, by the way. We can’t be a sustainable industry without advancing in some technologies. The motivation for the future professional is in showing that the area is wider than developing, manufacturing or adapting a product. It is no wonder that much of the new mobility business is connected to star- tups. Today’s career is not just life in a company: we can’t limit ourselves to that anymore because mobility, today, is much more than the automaker, the suppliers and the dealerships. From the talent retention point of view, isn’t that bad for the automotive indus- try?Apractical example is in two proving grounds thatwe have in Brazil, extremely structured but abandoned in terms of professionals and demands... They are different things. One thing is when the professional sees that the world is not just the product and ano- ther is, in the product, defend the things that we can do. The proving grounds will be useful for the electric and hy- brid vehicles, for example, which have different weight, shock absorbers and vibrations. It will be necessary to study, develop, test.