Tomorrow at 9am!
Advanced Mobility Project: Beyond the Connected Vehicle
The future of cars – Self-driving cars
Connected cars -Telematics – Smart Cars– Shared Cars
Re-imagined buses, trucks, transportation systems
Advanced Safety Systems – Shared vehicles
Live – Online – Starting at 9am tomorrow morning – Free
Take a look into the future of the automotive and transportation industries on February 21st by joining the live, online Beyond the Connect Vehicle Conference from 9:00a.m-4:30p.m. Listen to keynote speakers and interactive discussions on how we can make moving from point A to point B safer, cheaper, greener and, perhaps, driver-less.
The conference is being produced by Next Energy and made available online by Detroit Public Television. It is the first event for the recently announced Advanced Mobility Project which is focused on the future of transportation.
Click here to watch the conference starting at 9am on Friday: www.dptv.org/connected
The auto industry is moving fast to embrace vehicle connectivity, but that’s only the beginning. This conference will feature some of the world’s best advanced mobility thinkers and explore exciting new trends for personal transportation. Some of the topics include:
· The connected vehicle – what it is and how it’s changing everything
· How connectivity impacts our ability to get where we want, when we want
· How smart devices can add “day one” value
· Apps in vehicles vs. apps in smartphones
· How connected electric vehicles impact sustainability and quality of life
· Lessons from innovative mobility projects in deployment
· Where we go next: evaluating the timeline and factors for large volume consumer adoption
Who’s speaking? The complete conference agenda is below. For more information go to: http://www.advancedmobilityproject.org/
AGENDA ADVANCED MOBILITY PROJECT – 2-21-2014 – NEXTENERGY CENTER
WELCOME
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Bill Hampton, Publisher, AutoBeat Group
Jean Redfield, President & CEO, NextEnergy
KEYNOTE: THE CONNECTED VEHICLE – WHAT IT IS & HOW IT’S CHANGING EVERYTHING
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.
Nick Pudar, Director, Urban Active Solutions, General
Motors Company
HOW SMART DEVICES CAN ADD “DAY ONE” VALUE
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Ed Griffor, Walter P Chrysler Technical Fellow,
Chrysler Group, LLC
Scott McCormick, President, Connected Vehicle Trade Association
Moderator: Brian Daugherty, Associate Director, Advanced
Development and Intellectual Property, Visteon Corporation
HOW CONNECTIVITY IMPACTS OUR ABILITY TO GET WHERE WE WANT, WHEN WE WANT
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Ben Stanley, Global Automotive Lead, IBM Institute of
Business Value
Michael Somoza, CEO, GottaPark
Moderator: Jessie Feller, Managing Director, Meeting of the Minds
2014 ITS WORLD CONGRESS: REINVENTING TRANSPORTATION IN OUR CONNECTED WORLD
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Jim Barbaresso, Vice President, ITS & Chair, HNTB Corporation
LUNCH, NETWORKING & TOURS
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
APPS IN VEHICLES VS. APPS ON SMARTPHONES
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
John Ellis, Global Technologist & Head of the Ford
Developer Program, Ford Motor Company
Jeff Klaumann, Head of Samsung Apps US, Samsung Electronics
Moderator: Josh Diskin, Business Development, Detroit Labs
HOW CONNECTED ELECTRIC VEHICLES IMPACT SUSTAINABILITY & QUALITY OF LIFE
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.
Chris Borroni-Bird, VP, Strategic Development, Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc.
Jean Redfield, President & CEO, NextEnergy
Moderator: Gordon Feller, Director, Urban Innovations,
CISCO Systems
LESSONS FROM INNOVATIVE MOBILITY PROJECTS IN DEPLOYMENT
2:40 – 3:40 p.m.
Ann Arbor Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot: Peter
Sweatman, Director, UMTRI, University of Michigan
Automated Transit Options: Corey Clothier, Business
Development Strategist, Comet LLC
Integrated Transportation Systems in Detroit:
Sharmila Mukherjee, Supervising Planner & Project
Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Connecting the Dots: Sue Zielinski, Managing Director,
SMART at University of Michigan
Moderator: Tim Johnson, Director, Transportation
Initiatives, NextEnergy
KEYNOTE: EVALUATING THE TIMELINE & FACTORS FOR LARGE VOLUME CONSUMER ADOPTION
2:40 – 4:00 p.m.
Larry Burns, Professor, Engineering Practice,
University of Michigan & Former Corporate VP, Research
& Development, General Motors Company
WHERE WE GO NEXT
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Nigel Francis, Senior Vice President, Automotive Office,
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Jean Redfield, President & CEO, NextEnergy
Moderator: Bill Hampton, Publisher, AutoBeat Group
Rich Homberg/President and CEO – @RichHomberg
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