More than 100 experts from different fields gather at AIC NEXT
Analyzing the future of the automotive sector using the TED.com model First edition February 18-19 | 16/02/2010Bilbao, 16.2.2010 The AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center will host
more than 100 experts from various fields at the 1st AIC NEXT forum, February
18-19. This project takes
inspiration from the TED.com format and provides a forum for thinkers from
various disciplines to exchange ideas and explore new concepts related to
creativity, innovation and values/ways of thinking.
With this goal in mind, speakers and attendees include
designers, architects, strategists, laboratory heads, R&D directors, economists
and marketing executives, as well as entrepreneurs, university professors and
engineering students.
This initiative is part of the AICs aim to identify new trends in the automotive
sector and analyze the future in a novel way, becoming
a place of reference for people and organizations in automotive-related fields
which are molding the future through their new ideas, concepts and businesses.
Speakers
include: philosopher Daniel Innerarity; Alfonso Albaisa (Vice President, Nissan
Design Europe); Shaun Riordan (geopolitical expert); Pedromari Olaeta (Managing
Director, Ingeinnova); José Solaz (Director-Automotive, Biomechanics Institute
of Valencia); Javier Villalba (Director, Spanish Network Business-Iberdrola);
Gonzalo Alonso (Director, Going Green); Jaime Moreno (President, Mormedi);
Alfonso Martínez Cearra (Director, Bilbao Metropoli-30); José Ignacio
Hormaeche (Director, EVE) and Alberto Ceña (Director, REVE). There is also a
section for entrepreneurs, who will present their projects with the hope of
gaining support for their initiatives.
AIC is an international benchmark center
located in Bilbao, Spain, integrating knowledge, training, technology and
industrial development in order to improve the competitiveness of the
automotive sector. The state-of-the-art public/private foundation opened in 2009.