SAE Convergence 2016

Talk of the healthy aspects of disruption mingles with SAE's renowned technical emphasis to foster the auto industry's continuing evolution toward electrification and autonomy.

The auto industry is at the moment ravenous for discussion and guidance regarding the ongoing integration of electronics into vehicle development-but particularly regarding the almost daily deluge of news and speculation about vehicle automation. SAE's 2016 Convergence conference supplied a diverse forum for those conversations while providing a new format that grouped each of the conference's three days into a distinct subject-matter theme.

From an insightful, consumer-focus keynote address from Ford's Raj Nair, Executive Vice President, Product Development and Chief Technical Officer, to technical sessions that explored everything from trends in human-machine interface to supply-chain transformation, Convergence once again was the rallying point for technical and strategic discussion at a high level.