BYD to Moderate Transit Panel at VICA Conference

LOS ANGELES - Oct. 21, 2019 - PRLog -- BYD (Build Your Dreams) will be sponsoring the Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA) Business Forecast Conference on Oct. 25 and moderating a panel on transportation.

Thomas Stone, BYD's Strategic Advisor, SkyRail Technology, will moderate the panel "Transportation: See It Through." The panel will focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with delivering LA Metro's Measure M projects, especially those in the San Fernando Valley.

The conference, titled "Business Forecast Conference 2020 Vision Required (Time for Corrective Lenses)," will bring business leaders together for the presentation of economic forecasts and panels on various issues affecting business.

The panelists scheduled to join Stone are Richard Clarke, Chief Program Management Officer for LA Metro; Stephen Polechronis, Senior Vice President of AECOM; Brian Freund, Vice President for Transit Construction for Flatiron; and Steve Greene, Group Director for HNTB's West Division transit practice.

The conference will be held from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at the Hilton Universal Hotel, 555 Universal Drive, Universal City, and this session will be from 9:30 to 11:45 am.

The Official Sponsor of Mother Nature™, BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, is the world's leading electric vehicle company with proven innovative technology for cars, buses, trucks, forklifts, and rapid transit systems – like SkyRail. BYD is dedicated to creating a truly zero-emission ecosystem offering technology for solar electricity generation, energy storage to save that electricity, and battery electric vehicles powered by that clean energy. BYD has 220,000 employees across the globe, including nearly 1,000 in North America. For more information, please visit www.BYD.com.

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