Overview
Stephen Lernout is the co-founder and CEO of Deontic, a company he co-founded in December 2022. He is based in Leuven. He has also been managing director of SUMA BV since January 2013.
Between January 2018 and September 2022 he was responsible for strategy and innovation at Nalantis. Earlier, he was CEO of Miia from April 2008 to December 2017, and from May 2009 to February 2012 he was founder and director of Fibrespaces.com.
Career history
In the news
- Welcome to the team Vigneshwar! Great to have you on board 🤝
- Welcome to the team Vigneshwar! Great to have you on board 🤝
- Come meet me in Munich this week! 👋
- Standards make autonomy machine-readable. Agentic AI makes it scalable. This week, Deontic is heading to Munich for the ASAM e.V. International Conference 2026 and its ASCS e.V. ENVITED pre-event, where our Co-Founder & CEO, Stephen Lernout, will take the stage for three presentations and a panel discussion. As autonomous driving evolves into Physical AI, the challenge is no longer validating one vehicle. It's validating every Operational Design Domain (ODD), every jurisdiction, and every software release. Four sessions.
- Come meet me in Michigan next week. I'll be showcasing how Deontic transforms natural-language requirements into ASAM e.V. OpenSCENARIO/OpenDRIVE scenarios, parameter sweeps, coverage metrics, and traceable validation evidence. If you’re working on ADAS/AD validation, simulation, safety, or homologation, come visit our booth at Vehicle Tech Week #AV610 in Novi.
- Glad to have you onboard Pramod Gurudatt, PMP! Looking forward to building a great product together. 🚀
- Happy to share that I'll be speaking at From SDV to AIDV: Enabling Smart Vehicles Through Data-Driven Engineering! Make sure to attend it on November 3 ahead of the International ASAM e.V. Conference. Come meet me in Munich 👋 Marius Dupuis Egon Wiedekind Alexander F. Walser
- Meet me at Vehicle Tech Week in Novi, Michigan in a few weeks 👋
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