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| 8:00AM-8:20AM |
Continental Breakfast and Registration
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| 8:20AM-8:40AM |
Welcoming Talk by UCLA
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| 8:40AM-10:00AM |
Morning Panel Discussion: "Has Electric Vehicle Industry Moved into Phase 2 - Is it now becoming specialized, with each company serving focused and specific market needs and what does that mean to the industry overall?"
Chair:
Plenary Speaker:
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Stella Li
Senior Vice President and President
BYD Company Limited and BYD Motors Inc. |
Panel Speakers:
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Ian Televik
Director of Marketing
Chanje |
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Autonomous Vehicles at ITRI
Edwin Liu
President
Industrial Technology Research Institute |
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Effect of electrification, connected and autonomous drive on the vehicle
Leon Kaunitz
Director of Body and Structural Engineering
NIO USA, Inc. |
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| 10:00AM-10:20AM |
Coffee Break
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| 10:20AM-11:20AM |
Morning Panel Discussion: "Electric Vehicles - California needs to upgrade the electric grid's last mile to support a modernized EV charging infrastructure and reach the promised millions of EVs. What should our path be and how can we get there quickly?"
Chair:
Panel Speakers:
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Katie Sloan
Director, eMobility
SCE |
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Brittany Syz
Director of Clean Transportation
San Diego Gas & Electric |
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Dale Thompson
Manager of Emerging Technologies and Customer Programs
LADWP |
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| 11:20AM-11:40AM |
UCLA Talk By Gadh
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Introduction to CAEV at SMERC
Rajit Gadh
University of California, Los Angeles |
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| 11:40AM-12:10PM |
Lunch
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| 12:10PM-12:40PM |
Luncheon Keynote
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| 12:40PM-2:00PM |
Afternoon Panel Discussion: "Electric Vehicles - The electric vehicle and transportation road ahead - is it Smooth, Bumpy, Zig-zag , or, Tricky?"
Plenary Speaker:
Panel Speakers:
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Electrification at the BMW Group: Solving challenges with innovation.
Angela Konert
Head of Government and External Affairs California
BMW of North America LLC |
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Waqar Hashim
Vehicle Line Executive and Vice President of Global Program Management
Faraday Future |
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Owen Hayes
Race Director
Porsche Motorsport North America |
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| 2:00PM-3:00PM |
Afternoon Panel Discussion: "Technological Innovations Advancing the New Automotive Industry: AI, Machine/Deep Learning, Machine and Computer Vision, Block Chain, Controls"
Chair:
Panel Speakers:
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Advanced Safety LiDAR Solutions and Opportunities in their Testing and Validation
Mircea Gradu
Senior Vice President of Validation and Chief Quality Officer
Velodyne LiDAR, Inc. |
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Cars-as-a-Service
Clayton Schoeny
Data Scientist
Fair |
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Transportation Electrification: Technical Connections to Utility Programs
Jordan Smith
Senior Engineer for Emerging Technologies Evaluation
SCE's Grid Technology and Modernization organization |
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| 3:00PM-4:20PM |
Afternoon Panel Discussion: "Autonomous Vehicles - Role of Government and Policy Makers in Setting Standards and Technology Enablement"
Chair:
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Benjamin Preston
Senior Policy Researcher & Director
RAND Corporation & RAND's Community Health and Environmental Policy Program |
Panel Speakers:
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Bernard Soriano
Deputy Director
California Department of Motor Vehicles |
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Tsu-Chin Tsao
Professor
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace |
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The New Mobility Research Initiative: A UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Research Agenda
Brian Taylor
Professor & Director
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies |
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San Diego Region Proving Ground (SDRPG) / CALTRANS CV/EV efforts updates
Sam Amen
Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Manager
District 11 California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) |
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| 4:20PM-5:30PM |
Closing and Future Plans for CAEV based on summary
All participants at the event will get to provide feedback on the program and objectives of the overall research, educational, service and outreach objectives of CAEV.
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Mong Learning Center
Rm 180, Engineering Building 6
404 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Interactive campus map: https://map.ucla.edu/?k=true&id=86405
Forum Sponsor
Southern California Edison
Media Sponsor
Sponsorship:
If you would like to become a sponsor for this conference, please email: info@smartgrid.ucla.edu
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