Understanding the impact of travel restrictions from COVID, SAE International remains focused on our goal of providing technical and business education on the biggest issues facing our industry to the engineering community. SAE will make a limited amount of content available as part of a WCX 2022 digital only package. Digital content is available in 2 ways: livestreamed and on-demand (pre-recorded) presentations- both available through the digital platform.
Digital Content from WCX features keynote speakers, technical presentations and panelists as well as “business of technology” roundtables on a variety of subjects including Propulsion, Emissions, Regulations/Standards, Active and Integrated Safety, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Connectivity. Subject matter experts range from technical engineers to technical executives.
PLEASE NOTE: Not all Livestreamed Content will be recorded. Recordings available based upon participants signing release.
The Leadership Summit is a series of roundtable discussions developed to address the critical “business of technology” issues for vehicle design. These roundtables feature technical executives from throughout the mobility ecosystem address consumer acceptance, technology advancement and regulatory impacts. For 2022, the Leadership Summit will be lived streamed from grand river ballroom at WCX.
If there’s a common thread that will weave the future of safe, automated and connected vehicles, it’s data. As vehicles become even more connected and everything and everyone will be generating data we will soon be drowning in data from all around. Buried in that data are incredibly valuable insights worth potentially billions of dollars, which is fueling an arms race in data collection in the industry. On the other hand, governments are increasingly demanding transparency from industry with increasing calls and mandates for data reporting. What are we to do? How can we manage and navigate these complex and conflicting forces?
The focus of this discussion is on the current state of SAE Level 2 based upon what we know now and how we are going to move forward in advancing customer utilization and acceptance for this level of automation. Discussion will include current state of ADAS technology, challenges of HMI, communication protocols, calibration/algorithm, AI, global deployment, as well as regulatory landscape.
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Smart Charging and Charging EMC/EMI needs to be concerned with issues and impacts to the Grid. The panel addresses the latest advances in EV charging infrastructure, including integration with the electric grid, focusing on upstream aspects of grid and utilities, coalition and partnership activities and ways consumers will access this infrastructure. Panelists to discuss Demand Charge Rates, Deployment Optimization for EVSE infrastructure - OEM and Utility engagement/perspective on top of site host/retail.
SAE has opened an Office of Sustainable Energy with the goal of assisting the mobility industry to getting to a zero-impact vehicle. Board members of this office will address the critical issues of manufacturing, material sourcing, end of life, infrastructure, and the idea of developing a set of standards on “levels of vehicle sustainability”.
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Transmission and driveline innovations are integral to development of more fuel efficient, lower-emitting, and customer-pleasing vehicles. This panel will address new power-transmission solutions helping to make hybrid and battery-electric propulsion mainstream across global mobility markets. Additional conversation on how Electrification has become a dominant theme in new planetary automatics and e-axles, with a variety of motor-position choices (from P1 to P4) offering engineers greater flexibility for 2wd, 4wd and AWD development. Finally, discussion will address how fully electric drive modules incorporating transmission, e-motor, and inverter, are driving new approaches to propulsion-system packaging, while development of novel dual-clutch, continuously-variable, and automated-manual types continues at a heightened pace.
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Managing your Powertrain-Propulsion Portfolio? We have multiple choices for propulsion today and tomorrow - Traditional ICE, Hybrid, Hybrid-Electric, and Electric but how do you manage that for a successful future? What are the business and technology challenges that industry is going to face in the next 10 years? What impact will regulation, consumer acceptance, executive action, and continued low fuel prices have on the goal line for when industry moves to a minimum of all hybrid vehicle platforms? Come hear executives from OEMs and technology developers discuss when we will see that mass deployment and what regulatory, business and technology impacts need to occur in order to make that happen.
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This session will include frontline leaders of advanced automobility technology, product creation, design and manufacturing processes that are using racing and performance to solve problems, demonstrate technology and inspire the next generation of STEM and STEAM leaders around world. Topics will include the Indy Autonomous Challenge, Automated Driving, Military and Aerospace Technology Transfer, Generative Design and Additive Manufacturing programs and projects driving real-world Automobility 5.0 applications.
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While most of the talk in media and watercooler regarding on an alternative powerplant to ICE has been centered around E propulsion, from a portfolio perspective, it is critical to look beyond EVs at other systems that can garner net-zero capabilities. This session brings in experts to discuss the business models, technology and customer acceptance needed to accelerate hydrogen fuel cell adoption. Topics of conversation include infrastructure, public private partnerships, energy storage, impact of hydrogen Heavy-Duty, marine and rail development and how do we get to that critical tipping point for this propulsion system for the light duty market.
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Unfortunately, not every author is able to make it to WCX and present “in person”. So that you can still gain the critical insight of their work, we invited all authors of the WCX technical sessions to provide a pre-recorded presentation. We have over 500 pre-recorded technical presentations available to be viewed on-demand via the digital platform to those registered for the “digital only“ package.
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