For Lisa Kaz, the LA Auto Show is a family business
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4.8 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Not long after Lisa Kaz graduated college with a computer science degree, she joined her grandfather in the auto show business. Today she’s the CEO of the LA Auto Show and the conference that happens immediately before, AutoMobility LA. She talked with us from the show floor about the challenges of running an auto show today and the technology she’s most excited to see in the cars of the (near) future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Kai. Thanks for listening to this brand new episode of the Corner Office podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | If you haven't already heard the episode I did with Ford's CEO, Jim Hackett, maybe go back and listen to that one now. |
| 0:12.8 | Because what you need to know is the Jim Hackett debuted Ford's new all-electric Mustang SUV, the mock E, it's called, in Los Angeles, right before the LA Auto Show. |
| 0:23.1 | We thought it was a good time then to talk to the CEO of that show. |
| 0:26.3 | Lisa Kaz, she met me down at the L.A. Convention Center. |
| 0:29.7 | It was a day before the show opened to the public. |
| 0:32.3 | There were some displays in the lobby area. |
| 0:34.7 | But you don't really know you're at an auto show until you walk through the doors of the |
| 0:39.0 | main exhibition hall. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:41.8 | So here she is, Lisa Kaz, the CEO of the LA Auto Show showing me around. |
| 0:46.7 | So this is the 2019 LA Auto Show. |
| 0:50.8 | We are in our fourth day of Automobility, L.A., and tomorrow we open up to the public for |
| 0:57.6 | the consumer event. What's the difference between automobility and the consumer event? |
| 1:02.6 | So Automobility L.A. is our media days and industry event. It's a four-day trade show |
| 1:11.1 | where |
| 1:12.3 | we've got |
| 1:14.9 | uh... |
| 1:15.0 | a conference with executives in all kinds of industries related to |
| 1:20.9 | uh... the automobile space |
| 1:23.3 | and uh... |
| 1:24.8 | and about sixty five this year product debuts or world or North American new car debuts. |
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