AABTAM Symposium
Advanced Automotive Battery Technology, Application and Market
Wednesday, June 26 to Friday June 28, 2013
AABC Europe 2013 - AABTAM Symposium: Advanced Automotive Battery Technology, Application and Market - Overview
Session Chairman:
Dr. Menahem Anderman, President, Advanced Automotive Batteries
President of Advanced Automotive Batteries and founder of Total Battery Consulting, Inc., Dr. Anderman has led the development and commercialization of high-power Ni-Cd batteries, Li-Ion batteries,
and ultracapacitors and spent the last ten years conducting assessments of energy-storage technologies for advanced vehicles, publishing Advanced Automotive Battery Industry Reports and chairing
the AABC.
Session Chairman:
Eckhard Karden, Technical Expert, Ford Research Aachen
Dr. Karden is Technical Expert for Battery & Energy Storage Technology at Ford's Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering Centre in Aachen, Germany. Since he joined Ford, he was responsible
for numerous projects in the fields of powertrain electrification, battery modeling and monitoring, and storage technology assessment, with a main focus on micro-hybridization in 14V systems.
Session Chairman:
Arnold Lamm, Head, High Voltage Battery Systems, Daimler AG
Dr. Lamm studied mechanical and chemical engineering at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University (RWTH), Aachen. He obtained his PhD from the Jülich GmbH research center, and joined Daimler
AG (former Daimler-Ben) in1995. Since then he has worked in different positions as senior manager for “Fuel Cell Stack and System Technology”, “Energy Storages” (Hydrogen
tank, High-Voltage-Batteries) and “Fuel Cell Drivetrain”. In April 2009 Dr. Lamm became member of the board of German ACCUmotive at Nabern, and has been responsible for the development
of Li-Ion batteries (Hybrid, EV, Plug-in). In December 2010 Dr. Lamm took over a new department at Daimler AG: “Characterization of HV Battery Systems“. He is member of the AG2 in
the National Platform Electro Mobility in Germany.
Session Chairman:
Michael Keller, Leader Energy Storage, Volkswagen AG
Since 2010 Mr. Keller has been leading the energy-storage development group at Volkswagen AG. Between 2005 and 2010 he led the Battery Systems development department at Continental Temic, receiving
the “Ferdinand Porsche” Prize in Mary 2009 in recognition of the development of the first application of a lithium-ion battery to high-volume vehicle. Mr. Keller studied Electrical
Engineering (Automation) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He started his professional career in 1996 as a Development Engineer at a German industry supplier for power electronics and electric motor products
before moving to the hybrid system group of Continental Temic.
Session Chairman:
Masato Origuchi, EV Battery Development Group Leader, Renault
After he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989, Mr. Origuchi started his engineering carrier in the vehicle research laboratory of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., where he was in charge of developing
Nissan FEV presented in 1991. He continued to develop Altra EV and Tino HEV in Nissan taking a part of developing the world first Li-ion batteries for automotive applications until his resignation
from Nissan at the end of 2000. Since 2002 he has been working for Renault in France always in charge of advanced battery development. He is now responsible for Renault’s EV battery development
group.
