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APAC21 a final note from keynote speaker Remi Bastien

Among the many guests, dignitaries, and attendees at the SAE-A’s APAC21 conference was a very special industry keynote speaker Remi Bastien who attended from Paris, France.

Mr Bastien recently retired from the Renault Group after 39 years serving as Vice President for Research and Innovation, Global Director Autonomous Driving Prospective (Nissan/Renault Alliance), and Vice President Automobile Prospective for Renault. He is chairman of Next Move (French cluster dedicated to mobility issues), delegate general and treasurer of FISITA and a member of the Shift Project – a think tank for sustainable economy. Mr Bastien was member of the EUCAR council, chairman of VEDECOM (French cooperative research institute) and director of the program “Power Electronics” for the French automotive Industry and French electronic industry. After returning to Paris Mr Bastien sent this note to Adrian Feeney.

“I want to send you all my warm greetings from France (not from Sydney!) where I landed yesterday morning.

On behalf of FISITA, I want to congratulate you for this very successful congress with very good papers and with a perfect organization. You have addressed most of the important challenges of our industry in a very open-minded spirit. Again, I want to thank you for your trust and your kind invitation, and I hope that my keynote was in line with your expectations. I do think that engineers have huge power to transform our society, and accordingly a huge responsibility. Such conferences are so important to share knowledge and to help to focus on the highest priorities. My message was to make sure that we do not raise technology because we can, but only because this will be useful for humanity and compliant with the life on our planet to serve our children and grandchildren’s future. I am sure that our community is motivated to give engineers their right place and endorse their responsibility and your congress was a strong promoter for these stakes. I want also to congratulate Danielle and Georgia for their full involvement to make the organization fluent and stressless. FISITA will go on to support APAC and wish a huge success for APAC22 in Korea, and FISITA will be very happy to help and contribute. Finally, I want to thank you again so much for your so kind hospitality. Everything was perfect!” Very kind regards. Rémi BASTIEN General Delegate and Treasurer FISITA

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APAC22 in Korea

Australia passed the symbolic wooden gavel to Korea at the end of APAC21 which was in Melbourne, and so the conference will go to Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea in 2024 to be hosted by the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE).

The Great Voyage to Future Mobility Evolution (Digital Transformation, Electrification, Carbon Neutrality, Mobility for Human Life) is the banner under which this next event will be held. APAC, the Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Congress exists to advance the development of automotive engineering and the automobile industry internationally. Held every two years, APAC provides excellent opportunities for automotive experts to present the latest product and development innovations and to exchange information in the field of mobility, connected cars and automotive technology as a global challenge for industry, users and society. The inaugural APAC was held in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1981 under the name of the International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering. It was initiated by four countries, the US, Indonesia, Australia and Japan. South Korea and China joined the following year then Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka in the 1990s, India in 2004, and Iran in 2005, with a total of 11 countries now represented. The name was changed to the Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference in 2007 to better reflect the Asian region. Mr Sangsoon Kwon President of KSAE was at APAC21 and accepted the gavel that represents the conference from SAE-A Senior Vice President Greg Shoemark. By March next year KSAE will issue a call for papers and the official website will be live by November then it is full steam ahead. “Thank you, thank you for your kind introduction,” Mr Kwon said. “I would like to especially thank you Adrian and your team for organising very excellent international seminar teaching. “A lot of good quality papers presented… unforgettable.” Mr Kwon went on to describe Jeju Island and explained that as a location for APAC22 it presents an easy to reach location just off the coast of South Korea and it requires no visa.

New Members

The SAE-A would like to welcome the following new members:

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Grandyarra

Professional Members

Matthew Clarke Hardik Shamjibhai Shankla Mark Roberts Jonathon Larvin

Students Members

Dawood Abbas Daniel Ace-Heaton Oskar Adderley Nicholas Allard William Bai Samuel Baker Max Barker Liam Barnes Alexander Betts Julian Blair Yasmin Blakemore Phillip Bothma Rudolph Bothma Christopher Briggs Joseph Broadhurst Floyd Bromley Ethan Buchan Duc-Tri Bui Cian Butler Aqua Cahalan Tony Cai Dylan Cassell Mukul Chadha David Chambers Vicki Cheah Dermott Chiang Jayden Clarke Ben Coleman Nick Coles Dante Condidorio Max Contessi Ben Cornish Brendan Craig Glen Crawford Gabriel Csizmadia Willem De Blanc Daniel De Maio Jacob Ditter Hamish Doherty Abraham Doss Ryan Driscoll Hugo Efendie Thomas Elia-Abbot Thomas Ellis Sonya Emmett Muhammad Fazidan Natalie Florenca Benjamin Foote Daniel Gale Jonathan Gallagher Tom Garnett Elaine Garrett Iresh Geeanee Jacob Giudici Christian Goiak Aidan Graham Lucas Gruwez Terry Gu Jess Gugliotta Julian Haddad Udayanaga Halim Cameron Hart Jeremy Hatley Lachlan Hayes Zack Hender Joel Hercus Matthew Hindson Alex Hughes Amarnath Ilangovan Jessica Irons Tristan Italiano Alfie Jacques Nayana Jayawardhana Joshua Jenkins Thomas Jessop Oliver Johnson Aryaman Kathuria Reiley King Ruard Koekemoer William Kuplis Caleb Lever Mia Liao Jan Fredrich Lim Sedtha Lim Siwei Lin Henry Liu Lawrence Lo Luke Logan Utsav Lohchab Jon Loughron Erin Lumsden Calum MacDougall Lachlan MacPhee Daniel MacRae Jacob Mahoney Erfan Mangani Briana Marino Till Markwitz Cameron Marsland Max Materia James Mattiske Dylan Maxwell Thomas McFarlane Aiyana Menezes Emilee Metcalfe Zachary Meyer Tom Miller Sharif Mohdar Aditya Murray Darcy Nelson Riley Newick Tony Nguyen Cody Nicholas Patrick Noble Corey Ogden Han Yu Ooi Joshua Perin Jonathan Perrone Callum Peterson Aleksander Pollok Zac Poxon Kim Quaghebeur Ella Reade Sonja Rehbock Nihar Ringe Luke Roberts Avon Rowse Jonas Rutherford Sanjeev Sai Christian Sanderson Alexander Saribalas Reinier Scheepers Deepa Selva Robert Seres Jeet Shah Mayuran Siwananda Sarma Ewan Sloan Connor Smith-Birch Daniel Spencer Song Vine Srengsros Tarun Srinivas Roger Sun Lachlan Taylor Theo Taylor Meng Chun Teoh Mridula Thomas Kieren Tirikawala Bastian Tovey Hamish Towers Ronald Tun Shreyas Uppuluri Ashley Ure Morgan Ure Nicolas Vidal William Voss Zane Walker Jia Qi Wang Joseph Warren Janodi Weerasinghe Gary White Prashan Wickramaratne Eric Wildschut Ezekiel Willmott Eric Wong Mackenzie Yandell Ben Yeap Ahmad Amiruddin Zulkernain Nurul Izzah Zulkernain