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This audience-interactive discussion with 3 global automakers will reveal how important 3rd party innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups are to the success of the auto industry and car makers individually. We'll talk about some of the challenges to integrating young technology into cars like - development cycles, safety and reliability concerns, time-horizon of cars. And we will brainstorm with the audience some of the things they can bring to the OEMs and what the OEMs are looking to entrepreneurs to build - like self-driving car tools, in-car apps, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and as always - safety enhancements. We will end the discussion with some concrete ways that startups and entrepreneurs can engage car makers directly, how they make venture capital investments, how they pick in-car apps and developers, and where they look for new startup partners.