EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 11, 2015

PLACE: Michigan League Ballroom, 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor

EVENT: The 8th annual “Inside China: Understanding China’s Current and Future Automotive Industry” conference will feature insights by manufacturers, suppliers, consultants and University of Michigan experts on the current and future prospects for the automotive industry in China.

The Chinese market continues to be the largest automotive market in the world despite a recent slowdown. As the Chinese government tries to balance the explosive growth of its economy with the need to create a sustainable environment, it continues to experiment with policies that it hopes will meet both of these needs.

Speakers and topics include:

• Moderator Bruce Belzowski, managing director of Automotive Futures at the U-M Transportation Research Institute.
• Yingzi Su, General Motors China economist.
• Loren Brandt, professor at the University of Toronto (differences between state-owned enterprises and non-SOEs and effects of government policy on capability development in the auto industry).
• Jacob George, vice president and general manager of Global Consulting Services for J.D. Power (comparison of vehicle quality perceptions between Chinese and U.S. car buyers).
• Yan Zhou, transportation system analyst at Argonne National Labs (collaborative clean vehicle projects that are part of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center).
• Michael Dunne, CEO of Dunne Automotive (electric vehicles in China with a particular focus on government policy and electric vehicle investments from Chinese and U.S. tech companies).
• Michael Thomas, CEO of Automotive Insights (engineering services that Chinese auto manufacturers and suppliers need to be successful).

SPONSORS: U-M Transportation Research Institute, U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Argonne National Labs, BorgWarner Inc., Bosch Corp., Denso Corp., GlobalAutoIndustry.com, ITS America, Oracle Corp., Valeo Corp.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: myumi.ch/6xDP8