CONFERENCES

The CAR Conference Team provides total conference management to outside organizations including:

• Coordination of meetings as small as twenty or as large as 2,000 or more
• Marketing and advertising
• Speaker selection and follow-up management
• Complete registration management, including on-line registration
• Vendor management and coordination
• Exhibitor and sponsor contact and management
• Site planning and logistics
• Complete on-site conference management
• Budget development and final accounting

For information on how our conference team can help you manage your next event, please contact  Kathleen Watson, Director, Executive Conferences, CAR, 
(734) 662-1287 or kwatson@cargroup.org.

Management Briefing Seminars

August 11-15, 2008

Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, Traverse City, Michigan

CAR maintains strong relationships with industry, government agencies, universities, research institutes, labor organizations, and other major stakeholders of the international automotive community. One way CAR enhances and strengthens those relationships is through the annual Management Briefing Seminars.

These annual seminars, directed by the Center for Automotive Research, are the largest management conference in the North American automotive industry. The 2008 event will celebrate the 43rd anniversary of this annual gathering of more than 1,200 industry, academic, and government leaders. The seminars are a forum to address critical issues and emerging trends in a setting designed to encourage relationships and enhance communication within the industry. A number of other organizations participate in this event. These include a diverse group of manufacturers and suppliers; the Original Equipment Suppliers Association; the Michigan Economic Development Corporation; The University of Michigan and Focus: HOPE.

The seminars first took place in downtown Traverse City, and eventually moved to the

Grand Traverse Resort and Spa in the early 1980s. MBS social events, combined with the Northern Michigan setting provide a relaxed atmosphere and a number of opportunities to build and enhance relationships during the week of the event.

For more information on:

• 2008 Management Briefing Seminars visit the website.
• MBS Exhibiting, contact Deborah Schilz at (734) 662-1287 or e-mail dschilz@cargroup.org.
• MBS event sponsorship, contact Wendy Barhydt at (734) 662-1287 or e-mail wbarhydt@cargroup.org.
• If you would like information to be e-mailed or mailed to you when available, please contact Angie Ely at (734) 662-1287 or e-mail CARregistration@cargroup.org.

Presentations from MBS 2004, MBS 2005, MBS 2006 and MBS 2007 are available for download .