Industry Events

Supply chain leaders calibrate strategies to align for the reinvention of car and light truck manufacturing!

The inaugural National Transport Security event will take a 360 degree view of this important issue - particularly aviation and coastal security in the contemporary environment.

The second-annual Connected Car Pavilion brings together top thought leaders from automotive, technology, policy, research and media to drive the conversation on the rapidly evolving connected car and mobility space.

Topics to be covered include:

- How Connected Transportation Will Transform Cities.
- Protecting Drivers and Data
- Future Mobility Solutions
- Getting Cars to Talk
- Learning to Let Tech Take the Wheel
- Wearables and the Connected Car

In addition to lively onstage discussions, the C3 Connected Car Pavilion will also feature vehicles highlighting the latest in-car technologies as well as product kiosks and displays from cutting-edge companies in the connected car and mobility space.

For more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-c3-connected-car-pavilion-tickets-15306872267

The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is built on CIMdata’s over 30 years of extensive worldwide experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and tactics. The program is available to industrial companies that are considering or are already implementing PLM, and to PLM solution and service providers. PLM Leadership Certificate Program participants may register online for either a 3-day or 5-day program.

Brazil is like a continent on its own. It has the fourth largest automotive market in the world and is the 7th largest producer of passenger cars, commercial vehicles and agricultural machines. The sector is responsible for 25% of the manufacturing GDP and 5% of the total GDP in Brazil. Over 60% of all freight is transported by trucks, which supply more than 5,500 municipalities.

To continue on the road of progress, ANFAVEA has proposed a National Fleet Renewal Program –for Trucks – that will replace 30,000 vehicles per year over the next ten years.

In total, OEMs have announced an investment of R$75.8 bn between 2013 and 2017 in the automotive market and estimated an average market growth of 3 to 5% in the coming years.
This has significant opportunities for the commercial vehicle aftermarket where figures up to R$ 19.3 million are being mentioned. Other programs proposed to the government are Inovar-Technology, to research new powertrains and turn Brazil into a hub for R&D, and a program to increase local production of agricultural machines. In addition, other initiatives such as ‘Road to School’ and an increase of the tourism charter market are supporting the expansion of the bus sector.

At the Brazil Commercial Vehicle Summit, senior officials and presidents from government bodies and industry associations along with top-level executives, technical directors and project leaders from major logistic companies, commercial vehicle manufacturers and parts manufacturers will be invited to discuss new development trends and policies, core R&D and manufacturing technologies as well as the end user’s demands and green freight solutions.

Now in its 18th year, the Russian Automotive Forum is the longest-running and largest gathering of automotive industry community in Russia.
Every year the Forum attracts over 500 senior automotive professionals from over 25 different countries.

With over $300bn being invested into passenger and freight rail projects in the region over the next decade, Middle East Rail is your chance to access MENA rail projects in 2015.

CMA Shipping 2015 continues a tradition of bringing 2,500 of the best and the brightest from the international shipping community together in North America's leading commercial shipping center, for two and a half days of business and market oriented activity and superb networking.

Automate 2015 is the largest solutions-based showcase of automation technologies in North America. The show features the latest automation, robotic, vision and motion control technologies and systems on display from leading global suppliers.

The RISSB Rail Safety 2015 conference will bring together key figures to discuss why rail safety is everyone's responsibility as well as hearing about new and existing ideas for safer outcomes.

Venue details:
The Langham, Melbourne
1 Southgate Ave, Southbank, VIC 3006, Australia

European Post & Parcel Services, the worlds top strategic postal conference, covers key themes of e-commerce delivery, mail fulfilment, operations and cross border trade with over 250 delegates.

Russia’s Leading Regional Trade Fair for the Automotive Industry targeting Trade Visitors from North West Russia and the Baltic States

SAE members and guests will have the opportunity to view the 2015 Jeep® Renegade and hear a presentation from key members of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Team.

Register online at www.sae-detroit.org. Registration will close Monday, March 23 at 4:00 p.m. (or when sold out).
There will be no onsite ticket sales and no refunds after March 18.

Dear Colleague,

"The 3rd Annual China Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Summit" will be held on 26th-27th March 2015 in Shanghai. We have opened our registration and sponsorship opportunities. Register Now to enjoy early bird price.

With the support and promotion policies by China and Local government , China Electric Vehicle market is going through rapid growth spurts in 2014. In September, the Ministry of
transportation issued on accelerating the implementation of views to promote the application of new energy vehicles (draft), propose to 2020, new energy vehicles in the transportation
industry applications take shape, in total city buses, taxis and city logistics and other fields to reach 300,000; new energy vehicles basically complete service facilities, new energy vehicles
operational efficiency and safety has improved significantly, new energy vehicles for urban transport energy conservation contribution rate of 20%. correspondingly, a lot of local
governments like Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Xian, Suzhou etc. have launched relevant policies to popularize and promote electric vehicle. They have released their EV promotion target,
electric charging facilities construction plan, EV subsidization criteria, tax preference, plate policy and other relevant preferential policies. As one of strategic emerging industries, Electric
Vehicle market is booming now. While EV infrastructure, as the basis for EV industry development, play a key role in the process of EV industry promotion. Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the promotion and application of new energy vehicles issued to accelerating the construction of EV infrastructure and promoting the development of Electric Vehicles.

For EV infrastructure construction, the state encourages all parts from EV supply chain to take part in. According National energy-saving and new energy automotive industry development
plan, China EV charging station is on the scale of 4000 in 2011 to 2015, synchronous promote charging station construction. while State Grid targets on 10000 charging stations in 2016 to
2020, to build up a "four vertical and four horizontal" network of EV charging stations. However, CNPC, Sinopec, State Grid and China Southern Power Grid have been subjected to
obstacles during their construction of EV charging infrastructure. what lead to the slow development of EV's marketization are mainly EV's itself technology, production cost, battery life and storage capacity, lack of effective and feasible industry business operation model, while stakeholders from EV industry supply chain have begun the market games and expect the further
lucidity of policy. The "whirlwinds" brought by Tesla stimulates more and more enterprises to join in EV market.

"The Third Annual China Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Summit 2015" provides you with precious platform to keep up with the automotive and utilities innovative business strategies and
cutting edge technology information; gather 200+ decision makers form Electricity and Energy companies,Auto OEMs, Integrated system providers, Battery Manufactures, Equipment
providers ,End user enterprise and government officials, industry famous analysts togther to discuss the development of EV industry and communicate with each other to build up key
partnership acheive successes together!

For more information about the topics and speakers please click here to download the brochure.

For registration and sponsorship please contact Michelle at :
Tel:86 (0)21 2230 6791
Fax: 86 (0)21 2230 6717
Email: michelle@grccinc.com
www.evic2015.grccinc.com

The Auto Dealership Regional Meeting connects variable operations, fixed operations, compliance and digital marketing in one full day event. The meeting will focus on timely and critical topics designed to drive sales, revenue, performance, and excellence within a dealership. The meeting theme is, Driving Dealership Growth: Sales, Revenue, and Performance.

Join the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) at a day-long workshop on March 30, bringing together the automotive and communications industries to discuss and explore trends, challenges and opportunities in the connected and autonomous vehicle space.

TIA's Workshop will be held in conjunction with the unveiling of the GoMentum Station Connected Vehicle / Autonomous Vehicle Program - the largest autonomous vehicle testing site in the United States - being hosted by the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) on Tuesday, March 31.

The New York International Auto show, held annually in Manhattan, features displays newly-unveiled models from auto makers around the world and exhibits of concept models incorporating the latest in technological advancements. The Greater New York Auto Dealers Association also hosts corporate meetings and events during the convention.

The world's largest extravaganza returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway April 9-12. The Charlotte Motor Speedway AutoFair brings together thousands of automobiles, a collector car auction, 10,000 vendor spaces, a massive manufacturer midway and a kids' play zone. There is something for every member of the family to enjoy.

The European All-Wheel Drive Congress 2015 enters the 12th round and will take place on April 16 and 17, 2015.

The EAWD'15 is a forum to discuss all-wheel drive technology and the ways in which all-wheel drive systems fit in among the variants of modern driving systems. In order to most effectively cover the comprehensive spectrum of this driving technology, the main focuses of the Congress will include discussion of conventional all-wheel drive, alternative approaches to hybridization and the variety of electrification options. Furthermore, we will discuss in great detail the integration of all-wheel drive concepts into modern platform strategies.

The SAE World Congress is the annual gathering of automotive industry experts, engineers and executives to discuss engineering, technology and innovation within the automotive field.