Fleet Ahead Convention Pronounces 2022 Agenda – Gas Smarts

The fleet neighborhood will as soon as once more descend on Silicon Valley Nov. September 11 for the 2022 Fleet Ahead Convention. What does the longer term maintain for fleets? Take a look at the full agenda, seminars, and audio system on the web site.  

Delivered to you by the publishers of Automotive Fleet, Authorities Fleet, Heavy Obligation Trucking, and Work Truck, Fleet Ahead Convention (FFC) is designed to offer fleets a path ahead on electrification, linked autos, autonomous know-how, last-mile and shared mobility, next-generation telematics, and extra.  

FFC is not going to solely ship the big-picture methods and market insights which can be shaping the way forward for fleet, the convention may even present cutting-edge instruments and techniques that fleet operators can implement tomorrow to make their fleets extra environment friendly. 

And after a two-year hiatus, Fleet Security Convention (FSC) returns to an in-person format together with FFC.  

Now in its eleventh 12 months, FSC is designed particularly for fleet, threat, and security professionals with the objective to cut back driver distraction, restrict fleet legal responsibility, and improve security tradition general. Attendees pays one registration price to entry each occasions. 

Huge Image Keynotes 

As a part of a mixed agenda, FFC and FSC will every convene a gap keynote on Wednesday, Nov. 9.  

Ed Peper, U.S. vp of Basic Motors Fleet, will ship the FFC keynote deal with and can be joined onstage by Michelle Calloway, director of OnStar Enterprise Options, and Steve Hornyak, chief income officer for BrightDrop. The trio will focus on the evolving mannequin for fleet electrification. 

Bruce Landsberg, vice chairman of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB), will ship the FSC opening keynote. 

In “NTSB Evaluation: Crash Causes, Options, and the Future,” Landsberg will draw on NTSB’s investigations of crashes and the board’s transportation security analysis to discover the hot-button points in roadway security at present.  

Within the Thursday morning plenary session, Invoice Cawein, international know-how & integration supervisor for FedEx Specific, will sit down with convention chair Chris Brown to debate FedEx’s efforts to impress its fleet at scale, together with deploying the primary 150 all-electric supply autos from BrightDrop throughout Southern California. 

Closing the convention on Friday morning are three separate “TEK Discuss” keynotes to be delivered by OnStar’s Michelle Calloway, Geotab’s vp of knowledge & analytics Mike Department, and Dakota Semler, cofounder and CEO of electrical truck maker Xos.  

FFC Seminar Highlights 

FFC seminars will emphasize electrification and infrastructure, although linked autos, carbon discount methods, ESG, and autonomous automobile security, and different subjects may even come into focus.  

• Fleet managers from Genentech and GSK will discover classes realized on constructing out charging infrastructure, in-fleeting new EV fashions, and educating drivers in “Giant-Scale Fleet Electrification: Trailblazers’ Discussion board.” 
• In ‘Calculating TCO for EV Fleets,” audio system from Black E book and Electrification Coalition will current knowledge and evaluation on EV wholesale values, masking traits in remarketing, quantity, lease penetration, and regional concerns.  
• In “Fleets & ESG: Greater than Electrification,” audio system from Wheels Donlen, Utilimarc, and Booster will focus on fleets’ roles within the larger company mandate of social accountability and integrity.  
• Audio system from Navistar, Volta Vans, EAVX, Work Truck Options, and Collectively for Safer Roads will dive into how aerodynamics, ergonomics, security, cab imaginative and prescient, and know-how functions will combine into “The Truck of the Future.”  
• In “Is Autonomy Actually Secure? How Will We Know?” audio system from Plus, Kodiak AI, Udelv, and Nuro will focus on the regulatory and coverage panorama within the U.S. for the secure deployment of automated industrial autos. 

FSC Seminar Highlights 

FSC seminars will provide knowledgeable insights from leaders in fleet security who will share cutting-edge schooling to create safer fleets. 

• In “How NYC Leverages Information for a Safer Fleet,” audio system from New York Metropolis’s municipal fleet — the most important within the U.S. — and Geotab will produced measurable security beneficial properties by harvesting and decoding collision and different telematics knowledge.   
• In “Is Your Security Coverage Modernized?” a fleet supervisor from Roche will be part of a consultant from RTA to debate new points affecting your fleet security coverage and ways in which mitigate legal responsibility and preserve your drivers as secure as doable. 
• “Driving in a World of Distractions, Impairment, and Rage” will collect audio system from Roche, Driving Dynamics, and Wheels Donlen to research the drastic rise in collisions and fatalities after which introduce cutting-edge strategies round driver engagement and behavioral enchancment. 
• “Driver Distraction: What Does the Information Say?” will dig right into a examine by Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute to uncover distracted driving incidences by kind, time, and frequency of behaviors earlier than these harmful occasions, together with cellular phone use, drowsiness, different in-cab distractions, and exterior occasions.  

Expo & Car Interplay 

The 2022 FSC and FFC agenda additionally consists of an expanded alternatives for attendees to drive and expertise new autos, mingle with product consultants, and perceive security applied sciences behind the wheel in a big, interactive out of doors area. 

On Wednesday afternoon, attendees can work together with passenger automobiles, vans, and vans and consultants from these automakers. On Thursday afternoon, attendees will be capable of drive and journey alongside in a lot of these autos.  

As well as, be part of us two lunches, two breakfasts, and a number of networking breaks through which attendees can work together with vendor representatives at tabletop shows.  

A tailgating celebration will convene on Thursday afternoon, through which attendees are inspired to put on their favourite sports activities attire.  

Security Awards Return 

FSC additionally brings again two awards shows to in-person codecs. 

Along with Automotive Fleet, the American Automotive Leasing Affiliation (AALA) will current the Fleet Security Award to a fleet or threat supervisor whose management and innovation have enhanced the security of fleet drivers and most of the people.  

As properly, Heavy Obligation Trucking may even bestow its Security & Compliance award, which acknowledges trucking executives who’ve demonstrated excellence in fleet security. Each awards can be introduced on Friday morning earlier than the closing keynotes. 

Convention Registration Open 

Registration for the mixed Fleet Ahead and Fleet Security Conferences, going down on the Santa Clara Marriott Nov. September 11, is open now. 

“Spanning three days and 30 instructional seminars in addition to quite a few networking alternatives to work together with cutting-edge leaders in fleet, this 12 months’s mixed Fleet Ahead and Fleet Security Conferences will ship to attendees essentially the most worth but,” stated Chris Brown, convention chair. “Be a part of us in November and register at present.” 

Initially posted on Automotive Fleet