Saturday mornings wouldn’t have been complete without a sugary bowl cereal watching George Jetson zoom around the clear blue skies in his flying model 2062 car. It’s almost unimaginable that we are close to experiencing something as fantastic like this today.
MoreOriginally from Boston, Asha Garro, a 24-year-old General Motors employee, had three offers upon her graduation from Howard University. She was battling between San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit.
Garro chose Michigan. And she fell in love with Detroit.
Talent transplants, just like Garro, are taking center stage at the 2019 North American International Auto Show’s Future Automotive Career Expo (FACE), presented by Talent and Economic Development Department of Michigan (Ted), to talk about why they chose to plant their roots here and their efforts to recruit others just like them.More
The North American International Auto Show announced today tickets for the 2019 show are now available for purchase on the show’s website. Tickets are on sale for The Gallery, Industry Preview, https://naias.com/automobili-d/Charity Preview and Public Show.
I have a confession to make. I haven’t been to the Auto Show in a few years. Okay, maybe over a decade. Like any child growing up in the environs of the Motor City, the Auto Show was the social event of the season. We’d drive downtown, park in a far-flung surface parking lot where men bundled in heavy coats against the Midwestern January cold waved us to the right spot with brightly colored flags, and take the crowded People Mover between the skyscrapers to our destination. Cobo Hall was vast, bigger than any place I had ever been, full of people, fried food, and of course – cars – ones where I was allowed to hop in the driver’s seat and full of that glorious new car smell. More
NAIAS is getting ready to welcome the world. And so is Detroit.
The city was named one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit in 2018 by Lonely Planet, one of the world’s largest travel guidebook publishers. Detroit was the only continental U.S. city selected for the list.More
Industry Preview will feature a powerful lineup of industry leaders and visionaries digging deep into the auto ecosystem – looking at everything from suppliers driving mobility technology to V2I connectivity to urban mobility. All this and more is on tap at AutoMobili-D during Industry Preview, Jan. 17 – 18.More
Detroit’s giving spirit will shine brightly again on Friday, Jan. 19 as thousands attend Charity Preview, the largest annual single-night fundraiser in the world. Since 1976, Charity Preview has raised more than $112 million for southeastern Michigan children’s charities, over $41 million of which was raised in the last 10 years alone.More
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) announced today that through its strategic partnership with Techstars Mobility, 57 startups from around the world will participate and showcase their mobility technologies as part of AutoMobili-D.More
The Atrium Stage at Cobo Hall gained attention at noon on Education Day at the North American International Auto Show as GreeningDetroit.com’s Transport Innovation Team revealed their 2017 Innovation Awards.
The four awards — Planet Guardians, Workforce Warriors, Best Dressed, and Leader of the Pack, were presented to corporations Inventev, Ford Motor Company, Nissan, and Wind River respectively by Jason Best and Jill Dougherty of the TIP Team, a squad of exceptional young talent found in Metro Detroit.
These one-of-a-kind awards were designed by GreeningDetroit.com Founder John Carlos and Executive Director Cathleen Francois with ReclaimDetroit, a division of Detroit Non-Profit EcoWorks, to be a representation of what the award stands for: an expression of the regions history, sustainability, and innovative thought. Reclaimed from the Firehouse across from Cobo Hall, the over 500 year old wood was used as the base of the award. The Firehouse is presently being renovated into the Foundation Hotel, (http://aparium.com/hotels/the-foundation/).More
The Atrium Stage at Cobo Hall gained attention at noon on Education Day at the North American International Auto Show as GreeningDetroit.com’s Transport Innovation Team revealed their 2017 Innovation Awards.
