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Hi everybody,

Hi everybody, welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine, Hello.

And Alexa St. John, covering Tech and Suppliers.

Thanks so much for joining us for our third day of CES coverage.

Joining us on the podcast today is Sharif Marakby, Executive Vice President from Magna International.

We'll be talking to him about the company's new joint venture with LG, electrification, driving assist systems, and more.

But first, we've got a bit of our own news here at Shift to talk about with you.

Shift has events with you. Shift has a event with CES here the next day called the

Future Mobility Get Up to Speed. Alexa, what can you tell us about the the event taking place on Thursday?

Yeah, I'm actually really excited about the event that we have coming up and that will be, as you said, Thursday.

It's 1 to 5 p.m. Eastern time anyway. We're going to be covering a couple of

different topics related to the future of mobility. First one we'll take a look at

how industry 4.0 technologies are helping to create

disruption and opportunity for automakers, especially as it relates to finding what sorts of things consumers are looking for in services in

their vehicles.

Obviously another big topic as we've already mentioned is electrification so we'll

have a panel on that. We'll take a look at the

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