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The Featured Speakers for Q1 Outlook 2020
Join us at 8:00 AM
March 5, 2020 | The Townsend Hotel | Birmingham, MI
LMC Global Forecast
Presented by Jeff Schuster, President, Americas Operation, LMC Automotive
Jeff Schuster is President of Americas Operations and Global Vehicle Forecasts at LMC Automotive and a member of the LMC Automotive board of directors. He oversees the global light-vehicle analytics team and activity for both sales and production forecasting, as well as operations responsibility for the Americas region. Included in his role is the leadership and direction of detailed trend analysis at the OEM group, segment, platform, model and plant level. In addition, he is one of the firm’s primary global automotive experts.
 
CES 2020 Trends & Takeaways
Presented by James Amend, Senior Analyst, Wards Intelligence
James Amend is a Senior Analyst at Wards Intelligence. An expert on artificial intelligence and autonomous technology, James keeps clients up-to-date on how AI is reshaping the auto industry. He recently authored the Wards Intelligence report “AI in Automotive: How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape the Auto Industry.”
China’s Autonomous Vehicle Outlook
Presented by Alysha Webb, Contributing Analyst, Wards Intelligence
Alysha Webb, a Los Angeles-based consultant and automotive journalist, has been writing about electric vehicles and the Chinese market for Wards since 2015. She lived in China for 14 years, where she covered China’s emerging auto industry for Automotive News. Ms. Webb speaks fluent Chinese. She travels to China frequently to maintain and expand her wide network of contacts and contributes to a regular blog about China and electric vehicles at www.china-ev.org.
 
 
Wards Intelligence Barometer: First Quarter of 2020
Presented by Haig Stoddard, Senior Industry Analyst, Markets, Wards Intelligence
Wards Intelligence Senior Industry Analyst, Haig Stoddard, will show Wards Intelligence and LMC North American sales and production data and forecasts for the first quarter of 2020 and beyond.