09:00 Registration & coffee

09:50Chairman’s welcome and opening address

Karl Josef Kuhn
Head of Drive Train eCar, Corporate Technology
Siemens AG, Germany

10:00 The electric car – An integrated personalized device

• Increasing need of changed mobility due to tremendous urbanization
• Combination of different traffic modes and new use cases
• EVs as a fundamental chance for changing the car architecture – Best fit for new mobility scenarios?
• New vehicle architecture to allow better personalization and retrofitting to support longer usage period
• Lookout on the further transformation of the automobile industry

Karl Josef Kuhn
Head of Drive Train eCar, Corporate Technology
Siemens AG, Germany

10:40 On the road towards commercialization of EVs

• Electromobility in the context of Ford’s sustainability strategy
• Market penetration and evolution of Ford HEVs, PHEVs and BEVs
• Development potential until 2020
• Major challenges in EV research and development

Dr. Roland Krüger
Head of Electric Vehicles, Basic Design
Ford of Europe, Germany

11:20 Refreshment break and networking

11:50 A holistic approach to vehicle design

• Versatile Vehicle Architecture to create a modular platform
• Creation of a platform that is suitable for many hybrid and electric powertrain configurations
• Modular Range Extender concept for different applications
• Calibration for power or economy?
• Driver environment – Conventional or different?

Phil Barker
Chief Engineer – Hybrid & Electric Vehicles, Product Development, Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Group
Lotus Engineering, UK

12:30 Re-think EV design: More than powertrain conversion

• A holistic approach to EV design
• An optimized EV powertrain with modularized design for a wide variety of applications
• A flexible electrical system architecture

Andreas Löhrke
Head of Powertrain Development
THINK, Norway

13:10 Networking luncheon

14:40 EV energy management and saving potentials

• Optimisation of onboard energy management to increase overall vehicle efficiency and driving range
• Energy saving potential of different aggregates
• Design of technologies for major energy consumers

Thomas Roehrl
Manager Vehicle E/E Architecture
Continental Automotive GmbH, Germany

15:20 Cabin Heating For Electric Vehicles

• Cabin heating independent from the battery for EV, PHEV
• Thermal energy storage systems enabling longer electric drive ranges
• Maintaining lithium-ion batteries operational temperature window
• Exhaust emission reduction potentials for PHEV’s engines
• Exhaust emission reduction for vehicles with ICE (internal combustion engines)

Mathias Warnecke
Manager Marketing & NBD, Powertrain, Dow Automotive Systems
The Dow Chemical Company, Germany

16:00Refreshment break and networking

16:30 Real life exhibits on site!: Project i – The BMW Group’s response to sustainable mobility

• Fresh thinking in production, development and sales for the development of new, pioneering and sustainable products
• Future challenges and customer requirements in the field of urban mobility in the wider context of integrated mobility solutions
• Release in 2013: The Megacity Vehicle

Prof. Julian Weber
Head of Innovation Projects E-Mobility project I
BMW Group, Germany

17:10 A customer based view: self-service technologies as key factors for successful business models in electric charging infrastructure

• Requirements for successful self-service technology
• Learning from today - successful self-service technologies and how to use them for electric charging infrastructure
• Self-service technologies as basis for further advanced business models

Alexander Behrendt
Sales Manager Electro Mobility Germany
KEBA AG, Austria

17:50 SmartCharging – One of the key success factors for electric vehicle commercialization

• What are the expectations of early adopters and mainstream EV customers?
• Why the Schuko Socket is important but not sufficient
• How SmartCharging can improve utility, comfort and total cost of ownership
• Where is the intelligence – In the car or in the infrastructure?
• Which standards have to established

Werner Preuschoff
Senior Manager, Vehicle Diagnostics & SmartCharging
Daimler AG, Germany

19:00 - 20:30 EVENING SPECIAL
Innovative discussion panel on EV charging infrastructure and technology – Discuss with experts!

Range anxiety is one of the key limiting factors for the market acceptance of electric vehicles. The construction of an intelligent charging infrastructure is therefore an indispensable condition for a large scale success of electric vehicles. Interesting solutions exist to tackle this issue both on the technical and strategic level.

Discuss the latest innovative strategies and solutions with our panellists from the OEM and energy supplier side, focussing on

• Customer expectations and concepts for EV infrastructure
• EV requirements for a quick and easy recharging process
• General requirements of a commercially successful charging infrastructure
• Standardization issues

Panelists: