GERPISA 2020: annual conference June 8-11 in Detroit

As hardly needs stating, the June 2020 Detroit conference was cancelled, and we decided June 2021 would also be unrealistic. So the 2020 conference was made virtual on short notice. June 2021 will also be virtual, but with more lead time, and everyone is now experienced. For details, click for the 2021 Conference page.

I'm in Paris right now, a mini-conference Friday at CCFA, the French auto industry association, and a planning meeting for the June 8-11, 2020 conference advertised at right. This conference will be joint with the Wharton PVMI, the successor organization to the influential MIT IMVP (International Motor Vehicle Program).

The GERPISA web site will have a link to the registration page, and we'll list keynote speakers and other details as they get confirmed. The conference will take place Mon-Wed in Ann Arbor, and Thurs at the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, with an evening reception at the Piquette Museum, which is where production of the Model T commenced in 1908, a wonderful venue. We are finalizing details of industry events on Monday 8 June and Thursday 11 June, and an add-on event for Friday 13 June, after the end of the conference.

Note that this week corresponds to the press and industry days of the "new" (June not January) Detroit Auto Show, more formally the North American Auto Industry Show. Obviously we expect to leverage that, with details still under negotiation. Your truly and the others on are small planning committee will be very busy the next several months! Watch here and the GERPISA web site for more details; I'll post a bit on the conference content once I'm back in the US.