Summary

Nascent Flexible Hybrid Electronics-based products (FHE) offer important potential to supplement advancements in this market and also to provide technological solutions for new use-cases to enhance safety, capability, and user-experience across the commercial automobile and military ground vehicles. Flexible, conformable electronic systems that merge high performance with the efficiency of printed electronics offer breakthrough capabilities in controls, lighting, sensors, displays, wiring, structural components, and logic beyond today’s state-of-the-art electronic components. Also, the continued proliferation of sensors in automotive technology is enabling new applications that will transform the world’s transportation capabilities.

Join NextFlex and our partners as we explore future electronics challenges in automotive technology and present revolutionary solutions enabled by FHE and sensors.

Who Should Attend

Design, R&D, OEMs and Tier suppliers from across the automotive industry and flexible electronics industry.

More details, including location, hotel, fees, and registration are at flextech.org.

Agenda

Tuesday, September 12, 2017
	1:00 PM – 3:00 PM	Tour # 1 Ford Rouge Factory Tour
	3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Tour # 2 TBA
	5:30 PM – 8:00 PM	Networking Dinner
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
	Breakfast will be available at 7:30 AM
	Morning Speakers
		Melissa Grupen-Shemansky CTO SEMI I FlexTech		Welcome & Opening Remarks
		Jeffrey Hannah Director, North America SBD Automotive		Electronics in the Transportation Sector
		Hossein Dadkhah Manager, Electrified Powertrain, Electric Motors & Drive Units Fiat-Chrysler Group LLC		Evolution of Traction Motors and Electrification
		Frank Bertini UAV and Robotics Business Manager Velodyne LiDar		The State of Solid-State 3D LiDAR
		Alan Greszler CTO Lumitex		Printed Lighting Applications for the Automotive Industry
		Bahman Taheri CEO Alpha Micron		Next Generation of Electronic Tint-on-Demand for Automotive Glazing Applications
	Lunch will be provided
	Afternoon Speakers
		Scott Miller Director of Strategic Programs NextFlex		FHE and the Transportation Sector – Technology Roadmap
		Pradeep Lall, Ph.D., M.B.A., ASME Fellow, IEEE Fellow Director of the NSF-Center for Advanced Vehicle Electronics Auburn University		Automotive Electronics in Extreme Environments
		Jean-Luc Pelissier CEO Universal Instruments
		Mark Litecky VP, Sales & Marketing Interlink Electronics		Current and Future Flexible Hybrid Electronics Solutions for the Automotive Industry
		Manos M. Tentzeris Professor, Ken Byers Professor in Flexible Electronics Georgia Institute of Technology		3D-/4D-/Inkjet-Printed Flexible RF Sensors and Modules for Smart Automotive Applications
		John Crumpton Technical Specialist DuPont Photovoltaics & Advanced Materials		In-Mold Electronic Technology
		Melissa Grupen-Shemansky CTO SEMI I FlexTech		Summary & Closing Remarks
Thursday, September 14, 2017 (OPTIONAL) 9:00 AM-12:00 PM  Break-out Discussion: The Role of NextFlex in Automotive (NextFlex Members Only)
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo & Conference Novi, Michigan Free-To-Attend Exhibition

Venue

DoubleTree – Downtown Detroit – Fort Shelby
Crystal Ballroom
525 West Lafayette Blvd
Detroit, Michigan 48226

Tours

Ford Rouge Factory Tour
20900 Oakwood Blvd.
Dearborn, MI 48124

Guided tour includes a real-life truck plant to viewing the “Living Roof,” and two theater experiences, you’ll enjoy some eye-opening encounters with technology of today while learning about the world-changing past. (Tours begin with a 15-minute bus ride from The Henry Ford to the Ford Rouge Factory Tour Visitor Center. Buses depart from the circle drive in front of Henry Ford Museum and leave regularly throughout the day. Attendees will meet at 1:00 PM.)

Other

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