Ford’s Jennifer Brace to be Keynote Speaker at Green Truck Summit

Inexperienced Truck Summit debuted in 2009 in response to rising curiosity in hybrid and various gas programs for business automobiles. Over the past 15 years, EVs and various gas business automobiles have turn into extra broadly adopted, so Inexperienced Truck Summit has advanced to cowl not solely superior fuels, however any expertise which will affect the work truck trade’s drive towards growing car sustainability, productiveness and effectivity. The 2025 program contains periods on autonomous expertise, hydrogen functions in work vans, telematics, methods to attain zero-emission targets, artificial gas choices, and extra.

“As business automobiles turn into more and more advanced, it’s crucial for trade professionals to grasp future expertise and the way it may affect their operations,” says Jennifer Mitchell, NTEA Senior Director of Content material Growth. “Jen Brace spends day-after-day exploring ‘how will we take into consideration the stuff we don’t even know we’d like to consider?’ This makes her an incredible speaker to get everybody’s psychological wheels turning at the beginning of Inexperienced Truck Summit 2025.”

As Chief Futurist at Ford, Brace leads discussions on long-term pondering, planning and strategic improvement. By researching demographic shifts, figuring out market outliers and growing data-driven eventualities for the longer term, she challenges her colleagues to assume via a broad vary of potential narratives earlier than selecting a plan of motion.

Brace has labored throughout the spectrum of auto expertise in her greater than 20 years with Ford. She launched a number of variations of SYNC in-vehicle expertise, led user-experience analysis initiatives on autonomous automobiles, and drove mobility innovation at Ford’s Greenfield Labs analysis middle in Palo Alto, California. She holds a bachelor’s diploma in mechanical engineering and a grasp’s diploma in engineering administration from the College of Michigan.

Inexperienced Truck Summit

Inexperienced Truck Summit 2025 follows an analogous schedule and format because the 2024 occasion. John Davis, Host/Creator/Managing Director of MotorWeek, returns as emcee. After welcome remarks and Brace’s keynote deal with, there are two basic periods for all attendees. The primary is Reaching Zero-Emission Targets: Actual-World Methods and Key Takeaways for the Industrial Automobile Trade. It’s adopted by Past the Highway: Autonomous Expertise Insights from Agriculture, Development and Mining Sectors. 

Following the included GTS Lunch, work truck trade leaders share their views in an trade roundtable centered on advancing expertise adoption. Attendees can then select from an array of breakout periods overlaying a wide range of superior car and gas expertise initiatives. These are divided by matter into three tracks:

1. Utilized Expertise: Highlighting in-market expertise with real-world functions, specializing in future-forward use and evolution throughout the business car trade.
2. Rising Expertise: Showcasing up-and-coming expertise from contained in the business car trade in addition to from different industries and segments, offering potential functions and areas for development.
3. Sponsored Updates: That includes the most recent clear car product updates from trade firms.

Everybody comes again collectively for the Bringing It Residence – Inexperienced Truck Affiliation Closing Session throughout which present and previous leaders of NTEA’s Inexperienced Truck Affiliation function the “voice of motive,” highlighting key learnings of the day and discussing points affecting the trade.

GTS Convention Package deal registration contains all GTS periods on March 4, any WTW Breakout Classes March 4–6, admission to Work Truck Present displays and Work Truck Week Journey & Drive and, new this yr, a ticket to Opening Reception March 4. Registered GTS Convention Package deal attendees can also entry some Breakout Session supplies on-demand after the occasion.

Inexperienced Truck Summit is held at JW Marriott Indianapolis, which is hooked up to Indiana Conference Heart.

For extra details about Inexperienced Truck Summit, together with a whole occasion schedule, session descriptions and speaker data, go to worktruckweek.com/greentrucksummit.

Work Truck Week

Work Truck Week 2025 runs March 4–7, 2025, at Indiana Conference Heart in Indianapolis. Extra Than A Commerce Present®, it encompasses Inexperienced Truck Summit, The Work Truck Present®, NTEA Annual Assembly, Journey & Drive, academic program and extra. Inexperienced Truck Summit is March 4, academic periods run March 4–6, Work Truck Present displays are open March 5–7 and Journey & Drive runs March 5–6. Work Truck Week, North America’s largest work truck occasion, is produced by NTEA – The Work Truck Affiliation™. Register at worktruckweek.com.