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Vancouver, Canada
Event Website: www.autofuturetech.com
The Auto FutureTech Summit event was developed in
response to a perceived need for an international forum that would
bring together all stakeholders who stand to be affected by the
transformation taking place in the auto industry.
This inaugural event took place March 12-14, 2008 in conjunction
with GLOBE
2008, the 10th Biennial Conference and Trade Fair on Business
and the Environment in Vancouver, Canada. The profound changes
looming for the automotive industry were discussed, based on the
common acceptance at the highest level of automotive companies and
governments that oil alone would not supply all of the worlds
rapidly growing automotive energy requirements, and that climate
change would affect the technologies used in the cars of the
future. This international issue, integral to the challenges
relating to climate change and energy, and critical to the global
automotive market was addressed on a global stage among leaders
related to the auto industry from not only North America but also
Europe and Asia, where changes have been happening at a rapid
pace.
After the success of the inaugural Summit in 2008, the Auto
FutureTech Summit was held in March 2010, once more in conjunction
with the GLOBE Biennial Conference and Trade Fair. This
was an elite global gathering of representatives of the automotive
and fuel sector's major stakeholders: OEMs, suppliers, financiers,
oil and gas producers, electric utilities, labour unions,
maintenance providers, insurance/reinsurance, agribusiness, civil
society groups, and policy makers. They explored together the key
issues, challenges and opportunities that have been confronting the
global automobile industry over the past few years.
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