DETROIT – SAE International, MIT Alliance of Michigan and NextEnergy have developed the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge to create increased flow of great innovations for automotive OEMs and Suppliers. Twenty Semi-Finalists teams, including a dozen from Michigan, with potentially high value innovations for the automotive market have been screened from a larger pool of global applicants. They will be presenting in Detroit at NextEnergy on April 2.
The finals will be held on April 21 at SAE World Congress in Detroit.
This is the 7th year of working with Ford, Chrysler, GM, Nissan, Bosch, ESG Automotive, OESA members, and other leading marketing innovators. Winners from past years have already been sourced on vehicles.
Cost: Advance Registration: $40 by March 29 / $60 by March 31
On-site: $90 (check or credit card payment only)
Event Overview
Network and learn about connected and autonomous vehicles while you watch the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge participants compete for a chance to move on to the finals.
Participants will compete for the top prize in each of the following four categories:
Category one: Vehicle electrification, V2X and advanced mobility
Category two: Advanced materials, sensors, and manufacturing processes
Category three: Infotainment, auto consumer and value chain/business model
Category four: New high value and disruptive technology innovations
For more information on the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge visit nextenergy.org/gaic
More than $200,000 worth of business commercialization acceleration services and cash will be awarded to four winners. Several of past finalists have been fast tracked to key decision maker meetings to accelerate their automotive commercialization journey.
Category 1:
1st place award: $50k value of business commercialization acceleration services
Vehicle Electrification: Technologies related to the greening and electrification of the vehicle; e.g., electric vehicle fuel cell technology, advanced power electronics, motors, smart grid vehicle energy efficiency technology
V2X and Advanced Mobility: Technologies that enable communications and transactions for V2X applications; e.g., vehicle to grid, vehicle to building, vehicle to home, vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, technologies that enable autonomous and connected vehicles
Category 2:
1st place award: $50k value of business commercialization acceleration services
Advanced Materials/Sensors/Manufacturing Processes: Material technologies that can provide efficiency, performance, cost, mass, and/or environmental benefits to the vehicle; e.g., light-weight materials, eco-friendly materials, materials with phase changing characteristics, advanced sensors, advanced automation techniques, additive manufacturing and joining of dissimilar materials
Category 3:
1st place award: $50k value of business commercialization acceleration services
Infotainment: Technologies including vehicle HMI, voice recognition, in-vehicle advertising, cloud services and integration of personal devices
Auto Consumer/Value Add: Innovations that address unmet consumer needs e.g., improving driver preference, convenience and safety
Value Chain/Business Model: Alternatives to the traditional automotive business model, opportunities to leverage technology, and assets to capture up or down stream profit improvement opportunities
Category 4:
1st place award: $50k value of business commercialization acceleration services
New High Value, Disruptive Technology Innovations: Big new research, new inventions, or innovations from other industries that have potential big impact on automotive OEM?s, suppliers, and/or consumers
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