Join developers from around the world in this year’s AutoMobility LA Hackathon. More details to come.

We’re excited to announce Women in Automotive will be hosting a winter conference at AutoMobility LA held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on November 26, 2018. The focus of the 2018 winter conference will be on educating and empowering women and men in the automotive community on thought leadership and trends that impact employment and sales growth. Your admission includes access to the into all the AutoMobility LA Events on Monday evening including a reception, Kick Off Party, Vehicle Debuts and more.

The Securing Mobility Summit at AutoMobility LA will tackle some of the hardest security challenges in the global transportation sector. We have invited world-class experts in security engineering, offensive network attack, industrial espionage, counterterrorism, robotics, virtualization, and resilient systems.

More information coming soon.

NOTE: This event requires additional registration.

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Enjoy live music, hosted food and drinks, and live performers at the 2018 AutoMobility LA Kickoff Party.

Please note, exhibits inside LA Convention Center will not be open at this time.

Emcee: Tim Stevens (Editor-at-large, CNET Roadshow)

Speaker: Laura Schwab (President, Aston Martin Lagonda – The Americas)

You might expect something out of the ordinary from a British icon and globally recognizable automaker with 114 years of heritage. And that’s exactly what Laura Schwab, President of Aston Martin Lagonda – The Americas, intends to deliver. We hear how Aston Martin’s Second Century business plan is positioning them for the next century of the company. How a bespoke, personalized customer experience is being preserved as popularity increases. And how empowering women is attracting both new buyers and employees. If you’ve ever been concerned that technology will slowly drain the joy out of cars, you’ll enjoy hearing about how this OEM is improving an iconic car-lover’s brand through the intersection of mobility and technology.

Moderator: Tim Higgins (Tech & Auto Reporter, Wall Street Journal)

Panelists:
Ian Simmons (Vice President – Business Development, Corporate Engineering and R&D, Magna International)
Micah Kotch (Managing Director, BMW Urban X)
Scott Burnell (Global Lead – Business Development & Partner Management, Ford)

Producing a car has never been easy but thanks to the rapid pace of software and technology needed for self-driving cars, it’s exponentially more complex. In order for the industry to advance, all signs point to the need for the automotive ecosystem to collaborate more than ever. But what does that involve – working with startups, incorporating VC funding, OEM co-opetition, collaboration among automakers and tech giants? Join Tim Higgins from the Wall Street Journal as he talks to a cross-industry panel of experts on the current state of the car and how we’ll need an entire automotive village to build cars in the future.

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.

Speaker: Giovanni Palazzo

Mobility will experience a major jolt by 2025 when hundreds of new electric vehicle models will have entered the U. S. transportation grid. Publicly available, fast charging services will be in high demand. Are we focused on this race to create an open, electric vehicle charging network? Will it meet consumer demands and expectations for convenience, reliability and speed? Giovanni Palazzo, President and CEO of Electrify America, shares his perspective on the role that EV charging companies can play.

Speaker: Jeffrey Hannah (Director, North America, SBD Automotive)

New cars are currently sold to adults averaging 50 years old while teens are increasingly taking a backseat when it comes to getting their driver’s license. That’s because today’s youth are coming of age in a car-optional society, with an entirely different experience when it comes to driving, owning a vehicle, and personal mobility. This change in attitude and approach can spell doom for the traditional business of selling cars. Jeffrey Hannah from SBD Automotive provides a fresh and futuristic perspective on mobility by talking to the next generation of transportation customers: elementary school kids. Expect the unexpected as Jeff welcomes a few brave students and their teachers to the stage for a look at the challenges of developing mobility options for a skeptical future generation.

Marketing:Automotive gathers Brand Marketers from top automakers and their buying/planning agencies for a deep-dive into the state of the business. This gathering engages these partners for a collaborative conversation on how to solve their biggest challenges.

Moderator: Roger C. Lanctot (
Director, Automotive Connected Mobility, 
Strategy Analytics)

Panelists:
Naghmana Majed (Automotive and A&D Industry Solutions Leader, IBM)
Rahul Sonnad (CEO, Tesloop)
Rick Gruenhagen (CTO, Spireon)

Connectivity services are on the rise – car sharing, white-glove service, and subscription-based car ownership to name a few – but before they can gain widespread adoption, we need a reliable trust model among stakeholders. Blockchain holds tremendous promise with its secure distributed ledger, decentralized way of clearly defining accountability and liability, and ability to confirm digital identities of various stakeholders. But how will blockchain technology impact the car – will it allow for new car sharing models, advanced car production and telematics, as well as trusted insurance and registration systems, among other innovations? This panel, moderated by Roger Lanctot from Strategy Analytics, talks to leaders using blockchain today, and solicits their views on how and why blockchain will play a major role in the auto industry’s transformation.

Speaker: Ted Klaus (Vice President and Executive Engineer, Honda R&D Americas)

While much of the autonomous narrative to date has focused on the race to achieve near-term, individual milestones, the reality is that many challenges remain to ensure the safety of all road users. Creating a system of effective communication and coordination among non-automated, automated, and autonomous vehicles is perhaps our greatest challenge. Ted Klaus, VP of Honda R&D America, discusses the details of the Smart Mobility Corridor Project, a private-public partnership with the state of Ohio to develop a prototype connected highway. Based on Honda’s “Safe Swarm” concept, which uses biomimicry to understand the complex and simultaneous movement of multiple vehicles, the project seeks to enable coordination among all vehicles in order to reduce traffic congestion, mitigate potential collisions and provide a more comfortable driving experience. Ted also shares results from the project’s first year of operation.

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.

Speaker: Dr. Carsten Breitfeld (CEO & Co-founder, BYTON)

To make a predictive, intuitive, and delightful customer journey, companies are turning to AI for help with building stronger customer relationships. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of customer/business interactions will be managed without a human. Yet many automakers have customer experiences that haven’t dramatically changed in decades. Unless they want to be left behind, automakers need to embrace AI for much more than driverless cars and manufacturing robots – things like customized recommendations during the sales cycle, charging and trip planning based on user habits, even predictive service and smart diagnostics. We hear from Byton’s CEO and Cofounder, Carsten Breitfeld, about how they plan on successfully employing AI to enhance every aspect of customer engagement.

Moderator: Doreen Lorenzo (Co-Founder, Vidlet)

Panelists:
Kimberly Marte (Co-Owner/CMF Principal, Design Spectrum)
Therese Swanepoel (Senior Design Research & Strategy, REI)
Jenny Ha (Senior Exterior Designer, Lucid Motors)

Over the years, car designs have evolved to embrace emerging trends and technological advances, moving the car from a leisure vehicle at the turn of the last century to a mass-produced necessity for modern life. That change occurred gradually over decades yet we are now experiencing many simultaneous seismic shifts that are making the car design process more demanding than ever. Join our panel of industrial designers from a variety of disciplines as they look at how car design is dramatically changing to accommodate new use cases, autonomous infrastructure, and the changing urban landscape. These leaders in automotive 
and environmental design also discuss designing cars for a dynamic environment, examining what’s at stake for automakers that don’t adapt.

Moderator: TBA

Panelists:
Andre Haddad (CEO, Turo)
Luke Schneider (CEO, Silvercar)
Megan Stooke (CMO, Maven)
Simon Broesamle (CCO, BMW ReachNow)

As the cost of car ownership steadily increases and Americans are slowly but surely choosing new transportation options, a fundamental shift in our deeply ingrained notion of car ownership is upon us. How will attitudes about sharing and a more fluid mobility change the car – the way it’s designed, built, and sold? More importantly perhaps, how will these factors integrate with two other unassailable trends – that of self-driving and electrification? Hear from our panel of car-sharing experts about how the intersection of sharing, autonomy, and electrification will converge to create more than a buzz but an outright breakthrough in personal mobility.

Speaker: Ned Curic (Vice President, Amazon Alexa Automotive)

In vehicles, built-in voice recognition consistently is ranked as one of the top 3 customer complaints over the last several years. Amazon’s Alexa Auto team has the mission to extend the delightful experience of Alexa that customers currently have at home, into the vehicle. As a cloud-based service that can rollout new features all the time, Alexa can help automakers build their brand loyalty, creating repeat customers, by solving their speech challenges as well as extending the value of their vehicles past the time of purchase. We hear from Ned Curic, VP of Amazon Alexa Auto, about the next steps in Alexa’s mobility strategy and how Amazon is helping to make vehicles smarter every day.

Emcee: Tim Stevens (Editor-at-large, CNET Roadshow)

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.

Please note, exhibits inside the Technology Pavilion will not be open at this time.

Revealing the Green Car and Green Luxury Car of the year.

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.

Open to Conference + Vehicle Debuts Passholders and accredited Media registrants. Please see your registration to reserve your space.