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Review – Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013 Simplifying Complexity in Automotive Engineering November 28 – 29, 2013 | Palace Hotel | Berlin | Germany
"A unique opportunity to create & identify synergies between oem´s, parts suppliers and complexity." Cosmin Anculia, Hella Romania SRL
From November 28 – 29, 2013, we.CONECT invited an international audience of automotive professionals, team leaders and engineering managers from the following departments: Variant Management, Complexity management, Development & Growth, Engineering / Construction, Innovations Management, Product Planning and Product Management to the Smart Automotive Variant.con conference in Berlin.
More than 90 attendees gathered to discuss current challenges, new approaches and future trends in the field of Simplifying Complexity in Automotive Engineering. Participants, speakers and business partners took part in a highly interactive conference and used the opportunity to discuss experiences, to network, benchmark and exchange ideas and best practices. Review of the Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013:
More than 90 participants from over 45 companies from all over Europe, Asia and the USA discussed future challenges and latest approaches in the area of automotive engineering.
20+ high level case studies were presented by companies such as Volkswagen AG, Ford Motor Company, TRW Automotive GmbH, Volvo Technology Corporation, John Deere GmbH, Bombardier Transportation GmbH, Jaguar Land Rover, ZF Friedrichshafen AG and many, many more…
This conference was rated with an average of 4,2. Where 5 stands for the highest and 1 the lowest.
The conference offered 5 World Cafés and 4 Challenge Your Peers Roundtables, a wonderful evening reception and 2 eventful Icebreaker Sessions the evening before the conference.
More than 20 presentations and keynotes Throughout the two conference days, interesting case studies were presented and fruitful discussions took place. The exchange of ideas between participants, speakers and business partners was animated and encouraged through different kinds of sessions (e.g. World Cafés and Challenge Your Peers Roundtables). The conference aimed to engage all participants in active discussion and debate - and this goal was notably achieved. Overview of the Topics:
Combining competitiveness with a diversified product range
Mastering complexity - How to turn complexity management into competitive advantage
Moving beyond 'Reduction of Complexity' as the final goal to better understand and control the unreducible complexities
Consistent variant management as an essential element for successful complexity management
Differentiation of variant management to other methods of managing complexity
For more details regarding our exclusive speaker panel, full project descriptions and networking
opportunities, please visit our Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013 - conference website: http://auto-
variant-management.we-conect.com
"Amazing, stimulates curiosity and gives directions and suggestions." Simone Dolce, KPMG Advisory S.p.A.
Conference Documentation | Media Center der Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013
You had no time to participate in the Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013? Now you have the
possibility to order the complete documentation of the conference. This includes all presentations,
summary of the interactive sessions and all details about the Smart Automotive Variant.con 2013.
All speaker presentations of the two conference days
Summary of the „World Café“ Session and „Challenge Your Peers“ Session
Impressions (Photos of the we.CONECT event)
Order your Conference Documentation now: http://auto-variant-management.we-
conect.com/en/preview/order-docpack
we.CONECT would like to thank the team, participants, speakers, business partners and media partners for a very successful annual forum 2013.
What is coming up in 2014?
An exclusive conference-location at the MARITIM proArte Hotel in the heart of Berlin
More than 30 extraordinary sessions with cutting-edge speakers from all over Europe, Asia and the USA
An innovative format – offering: o Inspiring World Café Sessions o Challenge Your Peers Roundtables o A delightful Evening Reception and Dinner o Interactive Morning Sessions and o One surprising Icebreaker Session in the evening before the start of the conference
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the Smart Automotive Variant.con 2014 Conference from the October 13 – 14, 2014 in Berlin/Germany!
Peter Haack Marketing Development Commander we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH Phone: +49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 - 81 | Fax: +49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 - 30 Email: [email protected] www.we-conect.com
Impressions of 2013