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> Breakfast Seminar: Business and Research Opportunities for Urban Transportation
65 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604
The Lyon Urban Truck & Bus is a dynamic R&D cluster helping to improve urban transportation around the world. Join us for a special presentation, in partnership with the Illinois Technology Association, that will discuss the unique opportunities France is offering international companies through innovative projects shaping the transport systems of the future.
Speakers include Lyon-based specialists in urban transportation and bus & truck technologies:
Keynote speaker: Bernard Favre - Director of Research at Renault Trucks (Volvo Group), and Director of Lyon Urban Truck & Bus research program on Transport systems
Frederic Miribel - Cleantech Specialist for the Lyon Economic Development Agency (Aderly)
Jean-Pierre Novak - Vice President of Midwest and Texas Operations at Invest in France Agency
Lyon Urban Truck & Bus Cluster unites research and business spheres:
- A global resource for transportation projects, from research to implementation of urban mass transport systems for passangers and goods.
- Balanced, field-tested, innovative solutions, addressing social economic and industrial challenges of urban transport.
Lyon Urban Truck & Bus cluster is developing collaborative R&D programs in the following areas:
- Transport Systems: Create intelligent transport solutions between vehicles and urban infrastructures
- Architecture and Comfort: Design tomorrow’s urban vehicles
- Integrated Safety / Security: Design solutions to improve safety and security of industrial vehicles
- Motorization and Powertrain: Develop a high-performance, environmentally friendly powertrain
For more information about Lyon Urban Truck & Bus Cluster, please visit: www.lutb.fr
Bernard Favre
Mr. Favre started in 1972 as a researcher in acoustics (noise control) at the French Research Transportation Institute. He joined Renault in 1985 to lead a research team on human factors in vehicles. In 1991 he joined Renault Trucks to manage truck and bus R&D activities. He is currently Director of Research at Renault Trucks (Volvo Group) in charge of Advanced Engineering for trucks and Director of the Lyon Urban Truck & Bus Cluster Research program on Transport systems. Bernard holds a PhD and he graduated with a Masters Degree in Science and Engineering from the Ecole des Mines (Paris) and Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs (Lyon).
Frederic Miribel
Frederic Miribel holds a Ph.D. in Economics, with publications on the field of agglomeration economics related to cluster effects. He has worked for 5 years as a commercial adviser at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Lyon. He now works as cleantech specialist for the Lyon Economic Development Agency (Aderly—Invest in Lyon), in close connection with two main clusters in Lyon: AXELERA, on chemistry and environment, and Lyon Urban Trucks and Bus Cluster on automotive. He has followed the evolution of the french "pôles de competitivités" and works for their international development.
Jean-Pierre Novak
Jean-Pierre Novak is currently managing the Chicago office of Invest in France. This office is responsible for attracting investment and promoting France as a business friendly environment in the central region of the US (17 states including Midwest and Texas). Jean-Pierre previously held the position of economic attaché at the French Embassy in Berlin (Germany) and commercial attaché at the French Trade Commission in Chicago and Cologne (Germany). Jean-Pierre has an engineering degree in the agro-food industry and also a Master’s degree from the ESSEC business school in Paris.
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