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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
09:10 � 09:30 a.m.
PLENARY SESSION
AUTOMATIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
- Professor Dr Josef Nassauer, Executive Director of Bayern Innovativ
09:30 � 11:00 am
A - QUEBEC’S AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
- Animator: Gilles Gravel, Engineer, President and General Manager, AMETVS.
PORTRAIT OF THE QUEBEC AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY - MINISTRY OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- By Isabelle Gattaz, Industrial Development Advisor
- Michelle Nollet, Industrial Development Advisor
- Denis Audibert, Project Administrator, PAQ (Partenariat Automobile Québec)
- Ysabelle Poulin, Industrial Development Advisor, PAQ (Partenariat Automobile Québec)
- Gilles Dub�, Interim Director, support for Research and Development
- Jean-Charles Vincent, Director for business development and service quality, Investissement Québec
CANADA'S AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY - PROSPECTS AND PERFORMANCES
- By Ron Watkins, Director General of the Aerospace and Automotive Branch of Industry Canada
EQUIPEMENT FINANCING PROGRAM AND ASSISTANCE EXPORTING PRODUCTS
- By Raymond Gagn�, Business Development Advisor, Export Development Canada (EDC)
WHAT THE LARGE MANUFACTURERS NEED FROM THEIR SUPPLIERS
- By Sandra Perron, Worldwide Purchasing Quebec, General Motors Canada, Inc.
3:00 � 5:00 pm
B - NEW MATERIALS
B1 - ALUMINUM
- Animator: Yves Lasnier, President of INDEV INC.
IMPORTANT RESEARCH ON ADVANCED MATERIALS
- By Dr. Blaise Champagne, Director General, NRC Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI)
THE STATE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATIONS OF NEW ALLUMINUM ALLOYS
- By Nigel Steward, Director of Research, Alcan Primary Metal Group
THE REAR SUSPENSION ARM OF GM'S EPSILON PLATFORMS
- By Svein Terje Strandlie, President Raufoss North America
- and François Carrière, controller, Raufoss Automotive Components Canada
HOT FORMING OF ALUMINUM AND MAGNESIUM ALLOYS
- By Pierre Martin, Research Scientist, Materials Technology Laboratory, CANMET
B2 - PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES
- Animator - Chantal Perreault, Director of Research and Development, Composites Development Center of Quebec (CDCQ).
THE ACCELERATION OF POLYMERISATION WITH UV RADIATION
- By Chantal Perreault, Director of Research and Development, Composites Development Center of Quebec (CDCQ).
THE NORTH AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY'S USE OF PLASTIC: TENDENCIES AND POSSIBILITIES
- By Henry (Jim) Moore, Director of Research and Development, Decoma International
NEW MATERIALS CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN POLYMERS
- By Dr. Wolfgang Faul, Managing Director of the Center of Excellence New Materials North Bavaria Ltd.
INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF COMPOSITES IN THE AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING SECTOR
- By Germain Bélanger, Engineer, President of Bélanger.com
THE MANAGEMENT OF PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP AND PRODUCE COMPONANTS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR
- By Norbert Grenier, Executive Vice-President of Business Development, Ren� Matériaux Composites
Jeudi le 17 juin
08:30 � 10:30 am
C- NEW PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES
- Animator: Pierre Lavallée, General Manager of the Centre for Electric Vehicle Experimentation in Quebec (CEVEQ)
AN OVERVIEW OF NEW PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY
- By François Badin, senior researcher, in charge of electric and hybrid vehicles activities at the Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leurs sécurités (INRETS) of France
AN OVERVIEW OF HYBRID SYSTEMS
- By Piotr Drozdz, Vice President and Founder of Azure Dynamics, creator of "smart energy management" technology
THE POTENTIAL OF COMBUSTIBLE HYDROGEN BATTERIES FOR THE AUTOMOBILE MARKET
- By Jacques Goyette, Director of the department of physics, UQTR, Hydrogen Research Institute
AN ELECTRIC CAR POWERED BY HYDRO-QUEBEC
- By Serge Roy, Director of Energy Systems for Electric Vehicles, Hydro-Quebec IndusTech Inc.
2:30 � 5:00 am
D- INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND SENSORS
- Animator: Denis Gingras, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Materials, University of Sherbrooke and Coordinator of Auto21
ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS AND ON-BOARD SYSTEMS ON SMART VEHICLES: DEALING WITH INFORMATION IN "REAL TIME"
- By Paul Goossens, Marketing Vice-President of Opal-RT-Technologies Inc.
AUTOMOTIVE SEMICONDUCTORS : ISSUES & CHALLENGES
- By Peter Di Paolo, Technology Manager and Semiconductor Analyst, Semiconductor Insights
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND SENSORS: CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES
- By Denis Gingras, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Materials, University of Sherbrooke and Coordinator of Auto21
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA
- By Erech Morrison, Senior Sector Development Officer, Industry Canada
SMART VEHICLES IN THE ATLANTIC NETWORK
- By William F. Johnson, Director of ITS Canada and Consult on the ATLANTIC project
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