ENERGY-EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMSBusiness Conference & Delegation

May 13, 2014 | Chicago, IL

Contact German American Chamber of Commerce® of the Midwest, Inc. - GACC MidwestDr. Petra StieningerSenior Manager, Government Projects321 North Clark Street, Suite 1425Chicago, IL 60654Tel.: (312) 665-0977Fax: (312) 644-0738E-Mail: stieninger@gaccmidwest.orgURL: www.gaccmidwest.org

About the Energy-EfficientTransportationSystems Business Conference

CurrentdevelopmentsintheU.S.transportationsectorpredictthatAmerica’sloveaffairwiththecarisslowlycomingtoanend.Thisiscertainlytrueformetropolitanareas.Moreandmorecitiessupporttheimplementationofpublictransit systems, extensive bike lane networks, and walkable neighborhoods. At the same time, more and more cities use alternative fuel vehicles for their fleetsandpublictransitagenciestrytoimprovetheirservices.Inordertocombatcongestionproblemsandtosolvethefundinggapforinfrastructure,highwayoperatorsstartimplementingtollroadsandotherroadpricingconcepts.Furthermore,theimplementationofITcomponentsbecomesanimportantelementinthetransportationsectorforabetterservicequalityandamoreefficientoperation.MostofthesedevelopmentsthatarenewintheU.S.arealreadylong-establishedin Germany with its state of the art infrastructure system. The mode share in theGermantransportationsectorismuchmoretransit-,bike-,andpedestrian-orientedthanintheU.S.andmanysustainableandenergy-efficienttechnologieshavealreadybeensuccessfullyoperatinginGermanyformanyyears.ThisconferencewillfeatureaGermandelegationwithcompaniesthatareactiveinthisfieldaswellasGermanandU.S.transportationexpertsinordertodiscusscutting-edgetechnologiesthatcanmakeAmerica’stransportationsystemsmoreenergy-efficient.

Date & Venue

Tuesday, May 13, 20148:30am-4:00pm

University of Chicago: Gleacher CenterRoom 400 450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr. Chicago, IL 60611

Thank you to our Partners

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Conference Agenda

9:00am Words of Welcome and Introduction • Virginia Attaway Rounds, Director, Consulting Services,

GACC Midwest• MarioSoos,DeputyConsulGeneral,ConsulateGeneralof

theFederalRepublicofGermanyChicago• Katharina Strenge, Consultant, enviacon international

9:15am Moving Forward - Developments and Challenges in the German and U.S. Transportation Sectors EcoMobility in the Intelligent City - Developments and Trends Dr.SandraWappelhorst,SeniorExpert,InnovationCentrefor Mobility and Societal Change Marking Strategic Transportation Investments in Metropolitan Chicago RandyBlankenhorn,ExecutiveDirector,ChicagoMetropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) CTA Program Overview ChristopherBushell,ChiefInfrastructureOfficer/SeniorVice President, Chicago Transit Authority - CTA

10:15am Panel Discussion and Q&A

10:45am CoffeeBreakandNetworking

11:15am German Company Presentations - Session I• IVUTrafficTechnologiesAG• IS Predict GmbH• DB Systel GmbH

12:15pm LunchBreak

1:15pm German Company Presentations - Session II• Eckardt Software Management - ESM GmbH• Photon Laser Manufacturing GmbH• AdKor GmbH

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2:15pm CoffeeBreakandNetworking

2:30pm Moving at the Speed of Technological Progress ElectricPropulsionSystemsforBusses–Diesel- Electric/Hydrogen/BatteryBusses Dr.ThoralfKnote,DepartmentHead,FraunhoferInstitutefor TransportationandInfrastructureSystems Commute Options: Transportation Solutions for Today TimGrzesiakowski,ProjectManager-CommuteOptions, MetropolitanPlanningCouncil GreenCars:ChallengesandBenefitsofNextGeneration Light-Duty Vehicles Michael Duoba, Research Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

3:30pm Panel Discussion and Q&A

4:00pm End of Conference

Moderated by Dr. Petra Stieninger, Senior Manager, Government Projects, GACC Midwest

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SpeakerBiographies

Virginia Attaway Rounds, Director, Consulting Services, GACC Midwest Virginia Attaway Rounds has been with GACC Midwest since March 2007. She has over 12 years of business experience,including3inGermany.Aftergraduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and German, sheworkedforaU.S.softwarecompanyforseveral years, then as an intercultural trainer in Berlin, teaching communicationtechniquesaswellasbusinessEnglish toGermanprofessionals. Her industry focus includes machinery and automation, automotive,andenergyefficiency,includingelectricvehiclesandsmartgridtechnologies. She attends the Center for Automotive Research Management BriefingSeminarseachyear,aswellastheSAEWorldCongress.OtherconferencesincludeMEEAEnergyEfficiencySymposiumandvariouslocalseminarsonlegalandtaxissues.ShehasalsoparticipatedinDIHKtrainingforProjectManagement,AdvisingCompaniesduringEconomicDownturns,andLeadershipTraining.

Randy Blankenhorn, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Randy Blankenhorn is executive director of CMAP, the ChicagoMetropolitanAgencyforPlanning.Underhis leadership,CMAPdevelopedandisnowguiding theimplementationofGOTO2040,metropolitan Chicago’sfirstcomprehensiveregionalplaninmore than 100 years. RandyandCMAPstaffworkcloselywithsevencounties, 284municipalities,andscoresofstakeholdergroupsto implementtheplan’sstrategiesforaligningpublic policiesandinvestments.PriortojoiningCMAPin2006, Randy was Bureau Chief of Urban Program Planning for the Illinois DepartmentofTransportation(IDOT),coordinatingactivitiesofthe14metropolitanplanningorganizationsacrossIllinois.

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Christopher Bushell, Chief Infrastructure Officer/Senior Vice President, Chicago Transit Authority - CTAChristopherBushell,ChicagoTransitAuthority,ChiefInfrastructureOfficer/Senior Vice President is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he receivedhisMastersDegreeinArchitecture.Chris’careerpriortoCTAincludeddesign and construction management as a consultant to the Chicago Public SchoolsandlaterastheDirectorofCapitalRenovationsintheChicagoPublicSchool’sDepartmentofOperations.InMay2004ChriswasappointedastheFirstDeputyExecutiveDirectorfortheCityofChicago’sDepartmentofConstructionandPermits.Since2007Chrishasoverseenthemaintenance,construction,andengineeringrelatedtotheCTA’srailand facility infrastructure.

Michael Duoba, Research Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory Mr.Duobahelpedfoundandisnowtheseniorengineer atArgonneNationalLaboratory’sAdvancedPowertrain Research Facility (APRF). The APRF uses novel instrumentation and state-of-the-art dynamometer test equipmenttotestandanalyzeadvancedautomotive propulsionsystems.Mike is also an active member of the SAE Standardization Committees. He chaired thetaskforcethatdevelopedthestandardtestproceduresforplug-inhybridsandco-chairedthecommitteethatdevelopednewelectricvehicletestprocedures.Mikeiscurrentlythecommitteechairtoestablishstandardpowerratingsforhybrid vehicles.Mike received a BS from IIT and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Tim Grzesiakowski, Project Manager - Commute Options, Metropolitan Planning Council TimjoinedtheMetropolitanPlanningCouncil(MPC) in2011asProjectManageroftheCommuteOptions pilotprogram.Throughhisefforts,herecruited16 Chicagoareaemployerstoencouragealternative commutingmodes.Asaresult,effortsareunderwayto establishapermanentChicagoareaTransportation Demand Management Program (TDM). Tim has more than25yearsofexperienceinTransportationMarketing and Planning. PriortojoiningMPC,hewasHewittAssociates’(nowAonHewitt)CommuterTransportationManagerfrom2000to2011responsibleformanagingassociatetransportationprogramsatthecompany’sheadquartersinLincolnshire,Ill.,andacrossNorthAmerica.Healsowasinvolvedindevelopingthecompany’senvironmentalprogramsworldwide.HereceivedhisBachelorofScienceinCommerce from DePaul University in Chicago, and a Master of Arts in Public AdministrationfromPepperdineUniversityinMalibu,CA.

Dr. Thoralf Knote, Department Head, Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Mr.KnoteisaTrafficEngineerwithadiplomaandPhD inTrafficEngineeringandControl(publictransport andtrafficmanagement)ofDresdenUniversityof Technology.Hehasworkedfordifferentengineering offices,DresdenUniversityofTechnologyand FraunhoferIVI.Hisareasofexpertisearepublictransport,transportationinfrastructureandtrafficmanagementaswellasinnovativepropulsionsystems.HeworksasaprojectmanagerandheadofdepartmentwithinFraunhoferIVI.

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Mario Soos, Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chicago, IL Mr.MarioSoosistheDeputyConsulGeneralof Germany in Chicago. Before coming to Chicago he servedasDeputyChiefofMissionoftheGerman Embassy in Slovenia. Prior to Slovenia he served as head of the climate and energy team at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. OtherassignmentsincludetoursasheadofunitforregionalcooperationinSoutheastEuropeattheForeignOfficeinBerlin,DeputyChiefofMissionattheGermanEmbassyinCyprus,andpostingsattheGermanEmbassiesinColombiaandCroatia.Mr.Soosisacareerdiplomat,havingservedtheGermanForeignOfficesince1989.

Dr. Petra Stieninger, Senior Manager, Government Projects, GACC Midwest PetraStieningerhasaPh.D.inurbanplanningfromthe Vienna University of Technology. At GACC Midwest, sheisresponsibleforprojectmanagementforU.S. marketentryprogramsonenergyefficiency, sustainability,urbanplanning,infrastructure,and environmental technologies as well as market research and U.S. market entry consulting.PriortojoiningGACCMidwest,sheworkedasaprojectmanager,researcher,and consultant at ILF Consulting Engineers, where she coordinated international infrastructureprojectssuchasgaspipelines,powerplants,motorways,andrailroads,andworkedonenergy-efficientcityplanningprojects.ForherPh.D.dissertationonenergy-efficienturbanplanning,sheconductedextensiveresearchonurbanplanninginNorthAmericaandEurope.

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Katharina Strenge, Consultant, enviacon international Katharina Strenge works as a Consultant at enviacon international, an international consultancy headquarteredinBerlin,Germany.Atenviacon international,sheisresponsibleforU.S.-relatedprojects andsupportsGermanandEuropeancompaniesfora market entry in the U.S. Ms. Strenge has a Master in Business Administration and during her Master studies, she worked at the German American Chamber of Commerce in Houston, Texas,wheresheacquiredprofessionalexperiencesinconsultingandprojectmanagement.

Dr. Sandra Wappelhorst, Senior Expert, Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change Dr.SandraWappelhorstiscurrentlyaSeniorExpertat the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ)inMunich,Germany,whereshedevelops mobilityconceptsforcompaniesandmanagesprojects on electric carsharing. Prior to this she was a Research Assistant at the Institute forTransportationandSpatialPlanning,Universityof the Federal Armed Forces Munich, where she conducted pre-andpostdoctoralresearchonthesubjectsof mobility management and climate change. HerpreviousprofessionalexperienceincludesResearchAssistantatSocialdata,InstituteforTransportandInfrastructureResearchinBristol,UK,whereshecarriedoutmobilitystudiesandprojectspromotingenvironmentally-friendlymodesoftransport.ShecompletedherPh.D.onthetopicof“MobilityManagementinMetropolitanRegions”in2010.

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Energy-EfficientTransportationSystems Business Delegation

May 12-16, 2014 | Chicago, IL

From May 12 -16, 2014, GACC Midwest is hosting a German business delegation of industryexpertsinthefieldofenergy-efficienttransportationsystemsinChicago.ThefollowingGermancompanieswillpresenttheirinnovativeproductsatourConference:

• AdKor GmbH - Fuel cells for railway switches or highway toll stations• DBSystelGmbH-Serviceproviderforinformationandcommunication

technology for the rail industry • Eckardt Software Management - ESM GmbH - Software solutions for

demandresponsivetransport• IS Predict GmbH-Softwareforoptimizingraillogistics• IVUTrafficTechnologiesAG-ITsolutionsforallareasofpublictransit

operationstoimproveefficiency,punctuality,andreliability• Photon Laser Manufacturing GmbH - Manufacturer of laser beam

welded roofs and side walls for train cars and locomotives

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AdKor GmbH

AdKoristheleadingproviderofstationaryfuelcellsystemsinthetelecommunicationssector.AdKorhasperformedtechnicalservicesforthelargestwirelessoperatorsinGermany.TheCompanyhasworkedwithallmajoraccesstechnologies (including LTE, WiMAX, HSPA, CDMA, EDGE and GSM) and has participatedinthesuccessofsomeofthelargestandmostsophisticatedwirelesssystemsinGermany.Adkor’sgreenenergydepartmentspecializesinadvancedfuelcellsystemsandenergysolutions.Highefficiency,lowcomplexityandfastresponsearetheircorevalues.http://adkor.de/en

DB Systel GmbH

WithitsheadofficesinFrankfurtamMainand3,400employees,DBSystelisoneoftheleadingprovidersofICTservicesinGermany.AsasubsidiaryofDeutscheBahn,DBSystelcoverstheentirelifecycleofITandCTsolutionsfromspecialistanalysistostrategicplanninganddevelopment,rightthroughtooperationandoptimization.www.dbsystel.de/dbsystel-en

Eckardt Software Management - ESM GmbH

ESMGmbHisasoftwarecompanyfromHannover,Germanywhichprovidessoftwaresolutionsfordemandresponsivetransport(DRT).ESM’sdispatching-software AnSaT is used by many local transit authorities in Germany to monitor passengerreservationsandtodispatchandtransferthereservationstothetaxi-andbusoperators.www.ansat.de

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IS Predict GmbH

ISPredictofferstheinnovative,self-learningpredictiveanalyticssoftwaresolutionResourceIntelligencetoincreaseefficiencyforlogisticsresources.ISPredictwasfounded 4 years ago, and has won 7 innovation awards and have multinational companiesasreference.Duetoitsinnovativecharacter,ISPredictbelongstoScheerGroup–theinnovationnetworkofProf.August-WilhelmScheer.http://ispredict.com/en

IVU Traffic Technologies AG

IVUisaglobalITsolutionsandbusinessinformationprovider,dedicatedtohelpingimproveefficiency,punctualityandreliabilityformasstransit,focusingonmajormetropolitanareasaswellasheavyrailways.Over500publictransportcompaniesrelyontheirsystems.TheirclientsincludetransportationprovidersinBerlin,Brussels,Budapest,London,Vienna,JerusalemandAdelaideamongstothers.www.ivu.com

Photon Laser Manufacturing GmbH

PhotonLaserManufacturingGmbHhasmanyyearsofexperienceandexpertiseinthemanufacturingofcomplexsubassembliesmadeofsteel,stainlesssteel,aluminumandcompositematerials.Particularlytheirknow-howandresourcesintheareaoflaserbeamweldingmakePhotonareliablepartnerfortherailandutilityvehicleindustry,machineryandplantconstruction,andthedefensetechnology.Photonguaranteesefficiency,outstandingquality,fromlaserbeamcuttingtobending/shapingandwelding,righttoassemblyandsurfacecoating.www.photonag.com

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EnergyEfficiencyExportInitiative

Thisprogramtakesplaceundertheframeworkofthe EnergyEfficiencyExportInitiative,supportedbythe GermanFederalMinistryofEconomicAffairsand Energy. TheEnergyEfficiencyExportInitiativebringstogether energyefficiencyknow-howandexperiencetocountries allovertheworld.Theinitiativehelpstoestablish contactswithGermancompaniesandexperts.Companiescanbenefitfromawidespectrumofservicesandaninternationalnetworkofexperts.FindmoreGermancompanieswithenergyefficientproductsatwww.efficiency-from-germany.info

German American Chamber of Commerce® of the Midwest, Inc. TheGermanAmericanChamberofCommerceoftheMidwest,Inc.ispartoftheGermanAmericanChamberNetworkwithofficeslocatedinAtlanta,Chicago,Detroit,Houston,NewYork,Philadelphia,SanFrancisco,andaliaisonofficeinWashington,D.C.GACCMidwestisanintegralpartoftheGermanChambersofCommerceAbroadnetworkwith120officesin80countries.GACCMidwest,headquarteredinChicago,andwithabranchofficeinDetroit,hasbeensupportingbilateraltradebetweenGermanyandtheMidwesternregionofthe United States since 1963. GACCMidwestorganizesmanyeventsanddelegationsrelatingtoenergyefficienttechnologies throughout the Midwest.

German American Chamber of Commerce® of the Midwest, Inc.Dr. Petra StieningerSenior Manager, Government Projects321 North Clark Street, Suite 1425 Chicago, Illinois 60654-4714Tel.: (312) 665-0977 | Fax: (312) 644-0738E-Mail: stieninger@gaccmidwest.org URL: www.gaccmidwest.org

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