Dr Chris Borroni-Bird, Vice President of Strategic Development at Qualcomm, has been confirmed as a panellist in the discussion on Vehicle Lightweighting Technology and Trends at Automotive Megatrends USA 2015, which takes place on 17 March 2015.
Dr Borroni-Bird joined Qualcomm Inc as Vice President of Strategic Development in 2012 and is responsible for developing and implementing a transportation vision around wireless (both wireless power for electric vehicles and wireless communications between vehicles).
Prior to this, he was GM’s Director of Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts and Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V) Program. The EN-V concepts are small battery powered urban mobility vehicles that can be driven autonomously and were demonstrated extensively at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. He also led GM’s Autonomy, Hy-wire and Sequel ‘skateboard’ vehicle concepts.
Before joining GM, he led Chrysler’s gasoline fuel cell vehicle development and was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame as a Young Leader in 2000.
Borroni-Bird is co-author of ‘Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century,’ with Larry Burns and the late Bill Mitchell.
Organised by Automotive World, Automotive Megatrends USA 2015 is a two-day, three stream conference. To register for this event, please go to http://automotivemegatrendsusa.com/#tile_registration
For further details on this event, please contact the event manager, Emma Georgiades: emma.georgiades@automotiveworld.com / +44(0) 2921 286 515
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