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This week’s program comes from the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s and the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars, an important automotive industry conference held for more than 50 years in beautiful Traverse City, MI.

Segment 1: Hagerty Insurance- Doug Clark, VP of Marketing, talks about Hagerty’s role at the Concours d’Elegance and other shows around the country including their kids judging program. Hagerty is the largest private employer in Traverse City and one of the largest purveyors of classic and collector car insurance in the country.

Segment 2: CAR MBS - Continental Automotive - Tejas Desai, Head of IES North America, talks about two new technologies his company is promoting - one can see around blind corners and the other can see traffic signals ahead and calculate for a driver the speed to maintain to catch it green.

Segment 3: CAR MBS - Mitsubishi Electric – Gareth Williams, Director of Advanced Development, talks about his company’s new system that can see and evaluate a car’s surroundings and evaluate relative risk. They have also partnered with AccuWeather to integrate minute-by-minute weather predictions into the car’s navigation system.

Segment 4: CAR MBS - Square One and Wayne-Westland Community Schools – JC Irvine, Game Design and Programming instructor, talks about efforts to interest kids from kindergarten through 12th grade STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education subjects.

Segment 5: CAR MBS - Michigan Technological University – Pete Cattelino, Associate Director of Industry Relations, carries on the STEM education subject talking about Michigan Tech’s programs to help out with getting kids interested in STEM subjects and filling the university’s pipeline to educate students in these fields.

Segment 6: CAR MBS - Tata Technologies – Roger Townsend, VP of Engineering, Research and Development talks about the difference between the Tata Motors business unit that presides over Jaguar, Land Rover and other brands you will know and Tata Technologies, a contract engineering firm with big projects throughout the automotive industry. Much of the design, engineering and integration of the two is done by firms like Tata that can augment the resources of OEMs.