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American Automotive Summit 2022 Program Agenda (1.1 MiB)
November 1, 2022
* JOIN US FOR THE PRE-EVENT HAPPY HOUR on October 31, 2022 FROM 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
7:00 am – 7:55 am EST
Delegate Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:10 am EST
Chair's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Manufacturing & Operations
Johan De Nysschen
Former Chief Operating Officer
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc
Quality
Marina Chin
Director, Global Supplier Quality and Sustainability
Volvo Buses
Design & Engineering
John Nunneley
SVP, Engineering and IT
Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc.
8:10 am – 8:45 am EST
Opening Keynote
Amy Sgrignoli
VP, Connected Business
Subaru of America
CABIN CONNECTEDNESS: EXPLORING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO UNIFY CABIN FEATURES AND INFOTAINMENT
- Assessing emergent technologies used for sharing information between multiple platforms in a vehicle cabin
- Developing a holistic approach towards innovating the vehicle experience and maintaining the value of the Subaru's brand and spirit
- Creating more personalized and tailored experiences for drivers through utilizing data analytics
- Exploring market trends to adapt to growing diverse consumers and needs agree with this topic
- How to adjust to a constantly changing regulatory environment
available: Slides | Video
8:45 am – 9:20 am EST
Plenary
Earl Newsome
Chief Information Officer
Cummins
Cultivating culture to support cybersecurity strategy
- Creating a roadmap for a well-connected plant infrastructure built on the foundation of a strong cybersecurity program
- Analyzing cybersecurity technologies to protect data in automotive automation and software
- Why digital transformation leads to a need for greater cybersecurity: addressing phishing, IP theft, ransomware, IOT attacks and supply chain attacks
- Why a strong cybersecurity program can lead to seamless operations, improved efficiencies and better manufacturing outcomes
available: Slides | Video
9:20 am – 9:55 am EST
Plenary
Kamel Alzarka
CEO and Founder
Falcon Group
Jim Monkmeyer
President, Transportation, North America
DHL Supply Chain
Sabrina Groshek
Executive Director, Global Systems Engineering and Product Investigations
General Motors
Mitigating Risk Using Improved Supply Chain Security And Resiliency
- Achieving effective collaboration: third party inventory ownership and Asset-as-a-Service solutions
- Leveraging existing commercial terms with suppliers while improving balance sheet efficiency
- Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic supply chain disruptions
- Innovative methods for mitigating future challenges
- Identifying vulnerabilities along the supply chain lifecycle
available: Slides | Video
10:00 am – 11:40 am EST
Refreshments, Networking, and Pre-Arranged 1-2-1 Meetings
11:45 am – 12:20 pm EST
Stream Sessions
Manufacturing & Operations
Dr. Zouhair Lazreq
VP, Global Engineering
Bridgestone
THE FUTURE OF ENGINEERING OPERATIONS THROUGH IMPROVED DATA ANALYTICS AND DESIGN PROCESSES
- How to apply global automotive influences and innovations to improve design, engineering and production scale
- Understanding the synergies between processes and hardware/software capabilities for improved time to market
- Analyzing current operational processes and how improved data analytics and innovations improve overall engineering and manufacturing
- Driving competitive material costs and engineering expenses throughout the development cycle
available: Slides | Video
Quality
Judy Brunson
VP, Global Quality
Cummins
Quality as an Enabler for Cummins Today and Tomorrow
- Streamlining production, inventory and increasing speed-to-market without compromising on quality
- Uncovering the latest technologies that improve speed-to-commercialization while exceeding regulatory standards
- Using urgency and agility to fuel product execution
- Looking back at the role that the coronavirus pandemic played in reshaping industry operations and regulatory challenges such as proving the safety and effectiveness of autonomous technology
available: Slides | Video
Design & Engineering
Sabrina Groshek
Executive Director, Global Systems Engineering and Product Investigations
General Motors
TRANSFORMING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT THRU SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
- Establishing open bilateral communication to improve development
- Discussing the future of systems engineering and how agile engineering strategies are coming into place
- Ensuring process transparency and connectivity for design, manufacturing, and engineering
- Assessing how well your organization adapts to changes in customer demands, advances in applicable technology and new standards/regulations
available: Slides | Video
12:25 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Workshops
Manufacturing & Operations
Zachary Gibbons
Program Manager
Endeavor 3D, LLC
Challenges in Additive Manufacturing Process Qualification
- AM beyond the parts: Exploring the benefits of customized tooling
- Approaches in the economic case for mass customization of auto interiors utilizing polymer AM
- Strategies towards reducing part cost, lead-time, and weight through DFAM
available: Slides | Video
Quality
Ross Snyder
Application Engineer
Sigmetrix
Using Model Based Definition and Mechanical Variation Modeling to Make Decisions and Enable Innovation in the Automotive Industry
- The rapidly increasing need for better decision-making and cross-departmental innovation in the Automotive Industry
- Understanding the connection between Model Based Definition, GD&T, and Mechanical Variation
- Examples of decision-making that can be augmented
- Steps that can be taken to move an organization towards an optimal environment
- Understanding the connection between Innovation and Mechanical Variation
- Examples of using mechanical variation to enhance innovation
- Steps that can be taken to move an organization towards an optimal environment
available: Slides | Video
Design & Engineering
Mike Bachman
Chief Technologist, Global Architect, at the Office of the CTO
Boomi
ERP Modernization: How Dinosaurs Become Oil and Other Cautionary Tales. Pragmatic Musings for Modernizing Business Processes
- Your business is in danger. Be innovative or become irrelevant. This talk will be a fun look at common problems with modern businesses, how to avoid them, and how to thrive.
- Metaphors to live by
- Overcoming layer 8 and layer 9 problems (people alignment)
- Pulling the sled in the same direction (goal alignment)
- Taking inventory (as-is & to-be of processes, and the gaps between them)
- Meteor detection, deflection, and mining (conventional and not so conventional (yet sensible) ideas about retooling)
- New habitats (re-imagining worlds and the enterprises that will thrive there)
available: Slides | Video
1:05 pm – 2:05 pm EST
Lunch & Learn Roundtable Discussions and Open Seating Lunch
Benefit from additional learning by joining a moderated roundtable discussion on pressing issues in the industry. Registration is required, and attendance for moderated roundtables on Day 1 is limited to attendees and speakers. Choose from:
Ed Walsh
VP, Sales
Sigmetrix
HOW VARIATION IMPACTS DESIGNS IN AUTOMOTIVE
Jeewat Bijlani
SVP, Managing Director, Americas
Quaker Houghton
Innovating With the World’s Automotive Manufacturers to Stay Ahead
Mandy Galaxia
Manager, Customer Success
Covalent Networks
ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Robert Warren Bean
Director, Business Development
Kubotek Kosmos
Supply Chain Synchronization of Critical Product Definition Data
Dave Kunselman
Chief Executive Officer
The Productivity Team
FURTHERING QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTROL PROCEDURES IN AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
Rusty Coleman
VP, Digital Transformation
Surgere
Colliding Lean Supply Chains With Growing Needs For Sustainability and Shifting Supplier Relationships
Maziar Adl
Co-Founder and CTO
Gocious
The impact of software driving your product strategy
2:10 pm – 2:45 pm EST
Workshops
Manufacturing & Operations
Adrian Lumpp
Senior Director, Solutions
e2open
TAKE ON THE SUPPLY CONSTRAINT CHALLENGE WITH SUPPLIER COLLABORATION AND A CONNECTED SUPPLY CHAIN
- Learn how you can predict constrained supplies with higher confidence and avoid shortages through collaboration
- See how connecting thousands of suppliers in your supply network is not only possible, but also critical to minimizing supply risk
- Once connected, understand your ability to see, plan and act together in a collaborative way to bring countless opportunities to realize supply assurance
- Collaboration and orchestration across every tier of supply and manufacturing with e2open ensures that you have the right tools to boost supply availability, manage product costs, and reduce supply risk
available: Slides | Video
Quality
Glynn Huntington
Director, Sales, North America
Planisware
Kevin McEachern
Director, Innovation & Product Development
PwC
STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND HOW IT IMPROVES OVERALL QUALITY
- How Digital Transformation trends are enabling improvements in quality
- Critical people, process, technology, and data considerations to maximize investments in digital transformation and quality improvements
- Evaluating strategic portfolio management as a key lever to drive improved quality outcomes
- Improved execution visibility and linkages to strategic goals
- Options and tradeoff analysis through scenario modeling and data analytics
- Elevated decision-making processes with adaptive management tools
available: Slides | Video
Design & Engineering
Rodney Grover
VP, Corporate Partnerships
InStride
Gordon Fournier
Chief Executive Officer
Piston Group
Workforce strategies to address talent challenges
- Why workforce education is the key to winning the war for talent and retaining top-performers today and in the future
- How to deploy strategic workforce education in a way that unlocks the potential of employees, creates the workforce of the future, and accelerates innovation and growth
- New strategies to confront long-term skill shortages facing the industry
available: Slides | Video
2:50 pm – 3:25 pm EST
Stream Sessions
Manufacturing & Operations
George Kurian
VP, Supply Chain and Logistics, Michelin North America
Michelin
EVOLVING GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS TO OPERATE WITH GREATER AGILITY AND RESILIENCY
- Exploring pandemic-related shutdowns, geopolitics, and labor shortages among other disruptions and how they have had a significant impact on the global supply chain and leading organizations
- Implementing new strategies to operate with greater agility and resiliency.
- What is the role of data and digitalization in the supply chain of the future?
- How has COVID and the related fall-out from the pandemic changed companies' views on sustainable supply chains?
- What is the key to evolving your organization's supply chain to be more agile and resilient?
available: Slides | Video
Design & Engineering
Michael Maddelein
VP, Engineering Americas
Adient
Adapting your Engineering and Design Processes for a Digital-First World
- Launching development techniques to improve speed-to-market
- Adapting your engineering and design processes to adhere to digital priorities
- Sustainability and shifting trends of alternative materials and their impact on the plant floor
- Analyzing how product flexibility will continue to be a challenge as electrification and EV capabilities increase
available: Slides | Video
3:30 pm – 4:05 pm EST
Plenary
Brian Miller
Senior Director and Consultant Business Owner
The Productivity Team
Differentiating your business through supply chain materials modeling and automation
- Material flow change strategies and modeling for future programs
- Material flow automation impacts
- Drones
- ERP middleware
- Auto-guide AGV
- SAAS robotics
- Return on Investments
available: Slides | Video
4:10 pm – 5:30 pm EST
Happy Hour, Networking and Pre-Arranged 1-2-1 Meetings
5:35 pm – 6:10 pm EST
Plenary
Ganesh Iyer
Chief Technology Officer
Martinrea International
Breaking Through: Accelerating the Journey in Advanced Product Development and Technology
- Addressing the industry shift to electrification
- How suppliers are adopting and implementing new technologies in engineering and R&D
- An overview of emergent innovations to support the current and future mobility industry
- The current and future trends in digital transformation
- How digital transformation and the emerging workforce are leading towards a greater need for enhanced IT infrastructures, Software capabilities, and seamless cybersecurity proficiencies
available: Slides | Video
6:10 pm – 6:45 pm EST
Closing Keynote
Dr. Wilm Uhlenbecker
President, NA
Brose Group
ACCELERATING IMPROVEMENTS IN EFFECTIVENESS AND ENSURING PRODUCTIVITY ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN
- What are the best investments in tools and technology for improving supply chain performance?
- Understanding normal supply variability, demand patterns and drivers of variability
- Connecting data across multiple systems to improve root cause analysis
- Planning, scheduling, and prioritizing processes based on the new understanding of supply and demand variability
- Transitioning to demand-driven production with simplified status visibility across the supply chain
available: Slides | Video
6:45 pm – 6:55 pm EST
Chair's closing remarks
Manufacturing & Operations
Johan De Nysschen
Former Chief Operating Officer
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc
Quality
Marina Chin
Director, Global Supplier Quality and Sustainability
Volvo Buses
Design & Engineering
John Nunneley
SVP, Engineering and IT
Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc.
6:55 pm – 7:55 pm EST
Networking drinks reception
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