The members-exclusive New Model Truck Product Conference is held in conjunction with the Business and Market Planning Summit.

The SPE Automotive and Composites Divisions jointly sponsor the annual Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE). This event is designed to educate and update automotive design and production engineers, sales personnel, and management from transportation OEMs and Tier suppliers about the benefits and expanding importance of thermoset and thermoplastic composites in passenger vehicles, light trucks, and other ground transportation applications. ACCE is the world's leading automotive composites forum. The event provides excellent networking opportunities and draws speakers, exhibitors, and attendees from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Rods, customs, classics and muscle cars through 1972 vintage. Car Show, vendor exhibits, swap meet, live entertainment, autocross, track cruise, Friday Night Drags & more.

Rods, customs, classics and muscle cars through 1972 vintage. Car Show, vendor exhibits, swap meet, live entertainment, autocross, track cruise and more.

PLM Road Map is a strategic conference focused on the critical trade-offs that shape product development. At PLM Road Map 2010, find out first hand which issues are confronting end users. Presentations will cover mechatronics, transforming PLM into a dynamic infrastructure for business decisions, optimizing processes for the extended enterprise across the full product lifecycle, critical issues in simulation, requirements-driven product development, geometric modeling for simulation, transforming engineering processes, and more. Join the CPDA team at The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, MI (12 miles north of the Detroit airport) on September 28 & 29 to find out how PLM can deliver immediate results to your bottom line.

The Connected Vehicle Trade Association in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Transportation and SAE International is hosting The Second International Summit on the State of the Connected Vehicle with a Primary Focus on Policy and Strategy for Deployment. The first day will emphasize policy, funding, issues and strategies to accelerate deployments regionally and internationally, and the second day will address near term business opportunities, vehicle to grid connectivity and insurance telematics. The Summit will be held on September 29-30, 2010 in Troy, Michigan.

In response to the pressing need for international dialogue SP is organising a new conference: FIVE (Fires In Vehicles). The objective of this conference is to exchange knowledge of fires in vehicles, including both road and rail vehicles. In recognition of the fact that many of the fire problems faced by these vehicles are the same, the solutions to them can also be similar.

FIVE will bring together scientists, regulators, test engineers, industry, suppliers, insurance companies and other organisations from the diverse field of transportation to discuss important fire issues. We believe that this exchange of knowledge will significantly enhance economic and safe solutions – sustainable solutions – to problems in the fire area.

FIVE will be a biannual event.

Rods, customs, classics and muscle cars through 1972 vintage. Car Show, vendor exhibits, swap meet, live entertainment, autocross, track cruise and more.

(Press days: Sept. 30-Oct. 1)