Local Motors John B. Rogers, Jr. to Present at UpcomingWorkshop on Innovation & Collaborat

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Sept. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that the Co-founder and CEO of Local Motors, John B. “Jay” Rogers, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s workshop on the New Age of Collaboration, Innovation, and Product Development. The workshop will take place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 7-8. In addition to Mr. Roger’s presentation, attendees will hear from well known PLM blogger, Oleg Shilovitsky; FirstBuild’s Product Evangelist, Taylor Dawson; and BASF Corporation’s Senior Manager for Innovation Excellence, Dr. Svetlana Dimovski.

Local Motors is a next-generation tech company that designs, builds, and sells cars with the help of an ever increasing number of community members. Collaboration and innovation are at the core of what Local Motors does. As the traditional car makers struggle with the creation of innovative products that people want Local Motors has seized the opportunity to move ahead with an approach that is set to revolutionize not only the automotive industry. For companies to be successful, both product and process innovation will be essential.

“The Local Motors story of innovation and co-creation fits well into the theme of this event and we are delighted to have Jay Rogers share his story,” said workshop organizer Dr. Suna Polat. “Our vision for this event is for a select group of passionate attendees to actively join in an intimate conversation with key innovation and collaboration players, with this in mind attendance is limited.” After his presentation, Jay will join a panel discussion on how best to collaborate internally and externally while balancing openness and speed with IP protection during innovation.

The workshop will start during the afternoon of October 7 and will end on October 8. A personal tour of First Build’s Microfactory followed by a networking dinner will be part of the first afternoon’s highlights. Throughout the workshop real-world examples of how mature companies are inventing and adopting new collaborative partnership models for innovation and joint value creation will be shared.

For more information on the workshop visit http://www.cimdata.com/en/education/knowledge-council-wor....

About John B. Rogers, Jr.

John “Jay” Rogers is President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Local Motors, a next-generation US-based car company that is changing the way cars are designed, built, and owned.

A car guy through-and-through, Jay grew up a student of the industry. His grandfather owned the legendary Indian Motorcycle Company and was the first Cummins Engine Distributor in the United States. It was Jay’s family and personal passions that inspired the most ambitious plan behind Local Motors: To create an open source community that works together to design and develop exciting, efficient vehicles and builds them locally in a sustainable manner with customer participation.

Rogers is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar). He was elected as a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum in 2014. His career has taken him from a startup in China to Ewing & Partners where he became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), to McKinsey & Co, and the US Marine Corps where he served for six years as an Infantry Company Commander.

Local Motors is home to more than 60,000 car design concepts, 25,000 community members, over 80 full time employees across three locations in the United States, four production vehicle models, and 100’s of smaller vehicle innovations sold in its shop.

Jay’s story, and the Local Motors story of American innovation and co-creation, has been shared on numerous national and international television and radio programs, on the pages of the world’s most well respected technology and automotive publications, and via dozens of speaking engagements around the world.

About Local Motors: Local Motors is a technology company that designs, builds, and sells vehicles. From bytes-to-bits, the Local Motors platform combines global co-creation with local micro-manufacturing to bring hardware innovations, like the world’s first 3D-printed car, to market at unprecedented speed. To learn more about and join the Local Motors community, please connect on facebook.com/localmotors or follow on Twitter @localmotors. Discover more at localmotors.com.

About CIMdata: CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies.

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