Annual Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Congress
August 18-20, 2015 – Detroit
This is the largest and most trusted automotive lightweight materials conference, and this years instalment of GALM is scheduled to be the biggest and best ever. The series has been attended by 2000+ attendees across the globe and is returning to Detroit with a 3-day agenda – to share unprecedented detail across composites, joining, forming, and multi-material design.
Building on the successes of GALM events in London, Detroit, and Shanghai this year, this event is fully expected to sell-out, with over 80 attendees and 24 exhibitors already confirmed.
The expert panel of speakers includes:
- David Wagner, Technical Leader Lightweight Vehicle Design, Ford Motor Co.
- Surender Maddela, Sr. Research & Development Engineer, Materials Engineering, Nissan Motor Corp.
- Stephen Logan, Senior Engineering Specialist, Chrysler Group LLC
- Bhavesh Shah, Senior Advanced Technology Design Release Engineer, General Motors
- Nir Khan, Director Of Design, Plasan
- Mark Voss, Engineering Group Manager, Body Advanced Technical Works, General Motors
- Venkat Aitharaju, Senior Researcher, Polymer Composites, General Motors Global Research and Development
- Gregg Peterson, Senior Technical Specialist, Lotus Engineering
- Raymond Boeman, Program Director, Energy Partnerships, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Laurent Chappuis, Technical Expert – Lightweight Stampings, Vehicle Program Engineering – SBU, Ford Motor Co.
- Glenn Daehn, Mars G. Fontana Professor Of Metallurgical Engineering, Executive Director, Honda Partnership Program
With an agenda re-written from scratch and providing a globally respected platform for leading OEMs, material suppliers, joining and forming partners, the 2015 agenda provides new, exclusive content including:
NINE UNIQUE CASE STUDIES ON JOINING: Mitigating corrosion with strong joining for every material combination that can be applied with low cycle times
FORMING METALS: Benchmarking forming methods for magnesium and aluminum to enable adoption into multi-material architectures
EIGHT DEDICATED SESSIONS ON COMPOSITES: From reducing the costs and cycle times of production to design modeling and application success stories
DESIGN AND MATERIAL SELECTION: Selecting the optimal materials across the body, interior and closures to maximize total weight loss across the vehicle
RECYCLING: Analyzing the lifecycle implications for aluminum and carbon-fiber, tackling segmentation and re-use challenges
