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Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

Special edition of The Future of Cars with Game-Changers at the 2016 Best Practices for Automotive event, Detroit, MI.

The buzz: “The cars we drive say a lot about us” -Alexandra Paul. One hundred-plus years of automotive industry investment have seen many miles of evolution and revolution. And the Future of Cars with Game-Changers Season 1 in 2016 has covered a lot of this territory. Our panel will review and reflect back on previous episodes to further refine our perspective on the future of connected vehicles, autonomous driving and shared mobility. The experts speak. Larry Stolle, SAP: “It’s not about moving from an old business to a new business. It is about moving to a bigger business” -Mark Fields. Heather Ashton, IDC: “Cities are about juxtaposition ... Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality”-Richard George Rogers. Otto Schell, GM: “Our products stimulate children of all ages” -Brio.com. Join us for What’s Driving the Automotive Industry: Rear View and Looking Ahead.

The buzz: 'I had to stop driving my car for a while…the tires got dizzy' -Stephen Wright. What can attendees expect at the 2nd Annual Best Practices for Automotive Conference -Oct. 17-19, 2016, Detroit-? Experts will explore trends and capabilities creating end-to-end transformational opportunities from an automotive customer’s point of view. Topics include digitalization, cyber computing, omni-channels, and new players interacting in and disrupting markets to create exciting new possibilities. The experts speak. Larry Stolle, SAP: 'There is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance' -Buddha Shakyamuni. Otto Schell, GM: 'Action is the foundational key to all success' -Picasso. Bill Powell, ARI: “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” -Winston Churchill. Chet Harter, SAP: 'If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong' -Charles Kettering. Join us for Best Practices for Automotive: Accelerating Business in the Digital Age.

The buzz: 'Open Sesame!' -Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves- The Networked Economy is a complex organism with dependencies and connections among virtually all 'Things', especially the connected - autonomous vehicle realm. Each connection between cars, manufacturers, production assets, transportation infrastructure, service providers, data aggregators, and drivers’-passengers’ personal devices can become an entry point for malicious activity putting participants in the entire network at risk. What role do we play in security? The experts speak. C. Sean Pike, IDC: 'That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?' -Ayn Rand-. Otto Schell, GM: 'Neither fraud, nor deceit nor malice has yet interfered with truth and plain dealing' -Don Quixote-. Larry Stolle, SAP: 'There are risks and costs to a program of action...they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction' -John F. Kennedy-. Join us for Connected Vehicles: One Security Point on A Vast Data Network.

The buzz: “Friends share all things” (Pythagoras). Can data collected from connected and autonomous vehicles be monetized? You bet! According to McKinsey, that value could reach USD 1.5+ Trillion by 2030 and become a key focus area for the current automotive industry as well as new entrants, including high-tech giants, start-ups, and service providers. The challenges are the same for all players: understanding the business impact of data ownership issues and of customer willingness {or lack thereof) to share their info for data-enabled services and features. The experts speak. Heather Ashton, IDC: “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision” (Helen Keller). Otto Schell, GM: “Take it easy driving – the life you save might be mine” (James Dean). Larry Stolle, SAP: “The alchemists, in their search for gold discovered many other things or greater value” (Arthur Schopenhauer). Join us for Show Me the Value: Connected / Autonomous Vehicle Data.

The buzz: “Let’s get together, yeah, yeah, yeah” (The Parent Trap, 1961 film). The digital world is impacting how automotive suppliers and manufacturers work together to design products and systems and operate in harmony. This collaboration must also extend across the entire automotive value chain – including end customers and industries, like high-tech, that don’t consider themselves “automotive”. If they do not play well together, the OEM brand, supplier brand and customer loyalty are all at stake. The experts speak. Rick Varner, Gartner: “The best way to predict the future is to create it” (Abraham Lincoln). Otto Schell, GM: “The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out” (Anonymous). William Newman, SAP: “Take a risk … Because what works today won’t work tomorrow, but what worked yesterday may work again” (Amrita Sahasrabudhe). Join us for The Automotive Customer: Digitally Delivered Value.

The buzz: “I love my car, but oh you kid.” Edward Humes in The Atlantic [04/12/16] slammed the “primacy” of the automobile in American life as absurd and worse. “Considering the constant fatalities, rampant pollution, and exorbitant costs of ownership, there is no better word to characterize the car’s dominance than insane.” While he acknowledges “the car is the star” with its “unrivaled staying power for an industrial-age, pistons-and-brute-force machine in an era so dominated by silicon and software”, Humes roundly condemns the “allure of convenience” as a subterfuge for many evils. Will our panel agree or not? The experts speak. Larry Stolle, SAP: “Automobiles are not ferocious…it is man who is to be feared” (Robbins B. Stoeckel). Joe Barkai, Industry Analyst: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” (Melvin Kranzberg). Otto Schell, GM: “First jumper--Tris! Welcome to Dauntless” (Divergent, 2014 film). Join us for The Automobile in American Life: Insane or Rational?

The buzz: Patience is a virtue…They’ve been arriving since the 1930s. But when will one (or more) autonomous vehicles be in your garage? It depends on the roadblocks ahead. Relatively easy issues: technology and standards tweaks, societal adoption, safety-proofing, benefits clarification. The complex, costly challenge: existing infrastructures must be developed, modified and well-financed to support the technology of driverless vehicles. Are you patient? The experts speak. Heather Ashton, IDC: “The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.). Otto Schell, GM: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward” (Soren Kierkegaard). Larry Stolle, SAP: “The reality about transportation is that it is infrastructure oriented. If we are planning for what we have, we are behind the curve!” (Anthony Foxx, U.S. Sec'y of Transportation). Join us for Autonomous Vehicles Now: Impact on Smart Cities.

The buzz: We’re all connected. Collaboration is not new for automotive sector suppliers. But with digital, real-time computing radically changing how auto suppliers operate their companies and make products, top suppliers need to create connected content for the connected vehicle, in real-time collaboration with their value chain – customers, tier-suppliers, and tech partners. And as the automotive industry converges with tech – as Delphi, Bosch and other suppliers showed at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – will car experts drive the digitization or is a new crop of technocrats needed to take the wheel and drive the industry forward? The experts speak. Rick Varner, Varco Solutions: “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional” (John Calvin Maxwell). Jeff Hojlo, IDC: “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often” (Winston Churchill). Bill Newman, SAP: “Be quick, but don’t hurry” (Coach John Wooden). Join us for Future of Cars: Birth of the Connected Supplier.

The buzz: Car DNA? As we hurtle toward the new DNA of Transportation – digital, connected and coordinated, shared, tailored, driverless – many challenges could impede or reroute the path to progress. Given regulatory confusion, infrastructure questions, insurance and liability issues, driverless vehicles coexisting with human drivers, good and bad press perceptions, and autonomous vehicle “behaviors” – when will we arrive at our destination? The experts speak. Larry Stolle, SAP: “Change is the law of life; those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (John F. Kennedy). Heather Ashton, IDC: “Innovation—any new idea—by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals … courageous patience (Warren Bennis). Otto Schell, GM: “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” (Albert Einstein). Join us for The Future of Cars: Shared and Driverless Transportation – Part 2.