Keynote Speaker Named for Green Truck Summit

Kary Schaefer, general manager of marketing and strategy for Daimler Trucks North America's (DTNA) Freightliner Trucks and Detroit brands, will serve as keynote speaker at the 2018 Green Truck Summit on Tuesday, March 6. Her speech will address the diversity of available new technologies, as well as ongoing developments in clean diesel, natural gas, and electrification.

Held in conjunction with The Work Truck Show 2018 and Fleet Technical Congress, Green Truck Summit gathers industry leaders to share developments and decisions about the journey toward higher productivity and efficiency. Produced by NTEA, Green Truck Summit is held March 6-8 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Green Truck Summit begins March 6 at 8:30 a.m. with opening remarks, followed by Schaefer's keynote address at 8:45 a.m. General sessions then run from 9:20 a.m.-–5 p.m. Lunch is included, and a reception from 5–6 p.m. wraps up the day. Attendees can choose from dozens of Green Truck Summit, Fleet Technical Congress, and Work Truck Show concurrent sessions March 7-8; the exhibit hall is open March 7-9.

With nearly two decades at DTNA, Schaefer has served as a design engineer, project planning engineer, engineering project manager, director of engineering services and chief engineer, before becoming general manager of marketing and strategy for Freightliner Trucks and Detroit brands in 2015. In her current role, she is responsible for market analysis, product planning, brand management and marketing operations. She leads the organization in the creation and execution of product roadmaps from the evaluation of customer needs and market trends, to early business case development, to new product launch, and ongoing product management.

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