Driven by policies such as "carbon peak, carbon neutrality", air quality improvement plan, energy security, environmental performance score, comprehensive electrification, carbon peak pilot demonstration, vehicle-grid integration development, and intelligence, new energy heavy trucks with green, environmental protection, low-carbon, zero-emission, and intelligent technology as the core are developing rapidly, and their sales are rising, the penetration rate is steadily increasing, and the business model is constantly innovating, which is accelerating the pace of replacing traditional fuel heavy trucks, and the new energy of heavy trucks has become an irreversible inevitable trend.
Driven by both policy and market, the sales of new energy heavy trucks are growing rapidly, and the prospects of the industry are very bright. With the improvement of technology, full electrification and the implementation of the "Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality", more and more enterprises in high-energy-consuming industries and logistics parks have begun to apply new energy heavy trucks in batches and on a large scale, and green transportation and zero-carbon transportation have become the consensus of the industry.
Charging technology continues to improve, overcharging to open large-scale application, improve charging efficiency, charging heavy truck standards are unified, business model is more mature, by all walks of life "favor", sales continue to rise; With the support of national policies, hydrogen fuel cell heavy trucks have shown a trend of multi-point flowering and development, with more models on the market, enriching the market, improving technology and reducing costs, so that fuel cell heavy trucks have commercial properties and opened large-scale operation pilots; hybrid heavy truck models have been further enriched, applications have been expanded, and the market is in a period of acceptance.
With the increase in the number of new energy heavy trucks, its economy has been verified in short-haul transportation scenarios such as mines, ports, steel mills, coal power plants, cement, coking, etc., and its environmental protection advantages have been fully exerted, winning the "trust" of the market. New energy heavy trucks are trying to "run the trunk line", and the high-speed trunk line of the battery-swapping heavy truck runs through the operation, enriching the application scenarios of new energy heavy trucks, and the new development direction of large power, long battery life and efficient power has become a new development direction, but there is still a long distance from building a complete industrial ecology, which is an opportunity and a challenge.
On April 13, 2024, the "2024 China New Energy Heavy Truck Industry Decision Makers Conference" hosted by Tram Resources, co-organized by the Metro New Energy Vehicle Service Network and Chengdu New Energy Vehicle Industry Promotion and Application Promotion Association was held in Chengdu. At the same time, the "8th China New Energy Commercial Vehicle "Golden Panda Award" &"Green Card Award" Award Ceremony was held.
The conference invited more than 300 experts and elites in the new energy heavy truck industry, including many industry leaders, industry elites, OEMs, charging and swapping equipment enterprises, charging and swapping operation enterprises, parts enterprises and operators, to attend the conference to discuss the trend of technology research and development, the status quo of product application, discuss the development trend of the industry, explore the direction of the new energy heavy truck industry, and discuss new opportunities, new trends and new patterns of industry development.
The "2024 China New Energy Heavy Truck Industry Decision Makers Conference" was hosted by Zhan Huayan, general manager of Bright Digital Energy (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Fang Haifeng, chief expert of China Automotive Center and deputy director of China Automotive Policy Research, delivered a keynote speech on "Pain Points and Development Trends of New Energy Heavy Truck Users from a Policy Perspective". He said that the policy will continue to support the development of new energy heavy trucks, and the new quality productivity will accelerate the development of new energy heavy trucks. He expects that the total sales of new energy heavy trucks will reach 60,000 this year. From the perspective of users, he shared the pain points, blockages and difficulties of the current promotion of heavy truck electrification from five aspects: procurement, use, energy supplement, maintenance and circulation. He analyzed that the high purchase cost, insufficient technical applicability of products, imperfect charging facilities, difficult after-sales maintenance, immature second-hand car market, and inconvenient disposal of user assets are the five major pain points faced by users of new energy heavy trucks. He pointed out that the new energy heavy truck value chain is gradually shifting to both ends, and the multi-technology route will coexist and develop for a long time.
The guests of FAW Jiefang delivered a keynote speech on "Practicing the Responsibility of Central Enterprises and Helping the National "Double Carbon" Goal - Promoting the High-quality Development of New Energy Commercial Vehicles". He shared FAW Jiefang's thoughts on the future development of new energy commercial vehicles as a central enterprise and the achievements and development plans of FAW Jiefang in promoting new energy commercial vehicles from five aspects: policy trends, product technology, market ecology, intelligent manufacturing, and digitalization.
He said that FAW Jiefang will use digital means to accelerate the implementation of the "dual carbon" strategy, take the lead in establishing a carbon account platform system for China's commercial vehicles, play a benchmarking role, and help the whole industry chain complete the certification, trading and redemption of carbon assets. At the same time, it will drive the commercial vehicle industry chain to actively participate in the construction of the national carbon market, realize the full on-chain and interconnection of commercial vehicle carbon assets, and help achieve the national "double carbon" goal.
Zhang Wenfeng, Chief Product Planning Officer of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Technology Center, delivered a keynote speech on "Prospect of Future Technology Roadmap of New Energy Heavy Trucks". He said that the national policy continues to support the development of new energy heavy trucks, and analyzes the future development trend of new energy heavy trucks from the aspects of regulatory standards, charging standards, battery technology development, and hydrogen fuel cell technology development.
He pointed out that due to the limited energy replenishment measures and the impact of high battery costs, the current domestic mainstream car companies are developing in parallel with the charging / battery swapping technology, and with the rapid development of batteries and charging technology, heavy-duty commercial vehicles will develop in the direction of high-power charging and large-capacity batteries in the future.
He analyzed that electric vehicles have positive economic value in short-distance scenarios, which can reduce the cost of cargo owners and improve the competitiveness of operating fleets through the application of electric vehicles. In the future, it will be a subdivision scenario for the key development of new energy electric routes.
In scenarios with high endurance requirements and inconvenient energy replenishment facilities, such as urban distribution, muck engineering, and some sanitation scenarios, the technical route of gas and methanol range extender with low fuel cost has economic and promotion value
Ke Hua, general manager of Sany Heavy Truck Electrification Marketing Company, delivered a keynote speech on "Discussion on the Development of New Energy Commercial Vehicle Marketing Innovation Model". Guided by the market, he conducted a detailed analysis of the development trend of electric heavy trucks, revealed the development trend of the new energy commercial vehicle market, and also deeply discussed the application and prospects of marketing innovation models in this field.
He pointed out that short-distance transportation accounts for only 35% of the heavy truck operation scenario, and medium and long-distance transportation scenarios account for 65%. The new energy of medium and long-distance transportation will play a decisive role in achieving carbon neutrality in the transportation industry.
He said that compared with the traditional heavy truck market, the ecology of the new energy heavy truck industry has changed, the target customers of the market have changed, competitors have changed, and the business model has changed, and it is necessary to innovate the marketing model and adopt a new model of "technology + capital" to make everything possible.
Lv Liping, member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of China North Industries Group Beiben Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Beiben Heavy Duty Truck Focuses on the Leading Research of New Energy Products and Gives Full Play to the Leading Technology Advantages of New Quality Productivity". She said that the new energy heavy truck industry is very "volume", she firmly believes that the product is the king, only the product intensive cultivation, adhere to the customer-centric market demand, is the most sustainable.
She analyzed that in the field of commercial vehicles, the new quality of productivity requires the "new four modernizations" trend of new energy, lightweight, intelligence and networking to promote the profound transformation of the industry.
She said that at present, new energy heavy trucks have begun to take shape relying on policy guidance and market drive, and the penetration rate of new energy heavy trucks will reach 5.59% in 2023, and it is predicted that the penetration rate will reach about 7% in 2024.
Beiben heavy truck has the high quality of Beiben + military technology, strong chassis bearing capacity, and its products can unconditionally meet all the personalized needs of iron and steel enterprises.
She introduced that Beiben new energy products have developed in an all-round way, and three technical routes have been developed at the same time: pure electric, plug-in hybrid (diesel plug-in hybrid, methanol plug-in hybrid), and hydrogen fuel cell. In 2023, the product will be iterated to the sixth generation, which is in the leading position in the industry.
Wang Dongran, chairman of Chongqing Zhongji New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Sustainable Development Model of New Energy Heavy Trucks - Dual Drive of Closed-loop Construction and Point Expansion". He shared in detail the necessity of closed-loop construction, the importance of point-to-surface expansion, and the correlation and promotion of dual drives.
He introduced that Zhongji New Energy has given full play to the advantages of "steering wheel drive" and created the country's first closed-loop project of the whole industrial chain of new energy electric heavy trucks, including comprehensive investment in vehicles, charging and swapping stations and batteries, automotive aftermarket services, and zero-carbon logistics intelligent network platform.
Wang Dongran pointed out that the whole chain from drivers, parts, to battery swap stations, to after-sales maintenance, operation and data is operated by the company. The company's project verifies that the construction of a closed loop of the whole industry chain is of great significance to the operational efficiency, cost, safety and reliability of electric heavy trucks, and will drive the optimization and upgrading of the industrial chain.
Chang Wei, chairman of Shaanxi Zhonglan Yuanhong Electric Transportation Service Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "The Future Development Trend of Electric Heavy Trucks from the Perspective of Product Operation". He pointed out that at present, the short-term penetration rate of electric heavy trucks is basically within 200 kilometers, accounting for 40%~60%. At 200-500 kilometers and 500-1000 kilometers with a penetration rate of less than 10%, it is of great significance that electric heavy trucks can replace traditional heavy trucks in the field of trunk transportation, and only then can the advantages of new energy be brought into play.
Regarding the heavy-duty truck battery swap station, he said that the energy storage operation scheme of the power station to avoid the peak/peak can be designed according to the load, and the most suitable investment amount and the most economical investment ratio can be calculated. In order to achieve the best asset investment, bring higher economy.
He analyzed that the simple technical parameter kwh/km (energy consumption per kilometer) can not fully and truly reflect the user's operational benefits, and the operating parameter Kwh/T (energy consumption per ton kilometer) can better reflect the user's operational benefits.
He said that supercharging will promote the development of new energy heavy trucks, and charging and battery swapping are complementary and can be integrated and developed.
Pei Liang, General Manager of the General Management Department of Chongqing Three Gorges Green Energy Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "New Power System Strongly Promotes the Integrated Development of Transportation and Energy". He analyzed that the policy promotes the rapid development of new energy heavy trucks, the current charging version of heavy trucks accounts for 45%, the battery replacement version of heavy trucks accounts for 46%, the market share is basically flat, and the electric heavy truck charging and battery swapping technology path is developing in parallel.
CTG has built "five platforms" in the field of green transportation: green transportation capacity platform, battery asset platform, charging and swapping platform, battery cascade utilization platform, and digital energy management platform to empower users and promote the development of electric heavy trucks.
He believes that the electrification of commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks is accelerating, the proportion of new energy installed capacity is increasing, and the integrated development of transportation and energy is an inevitable choice for the future development of the two industries.
He briefly introduced the Three Gorges Green Movement, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Three Gorges Water Conservancy, a service provider of integrated business solutions for the charging, swapping and storage of electric heavy trucks, and the main body of the Three Gorges Group in the promotion of the integrated business of electric heavy truck charging, swapping, storage and use.
Xu Ruizhang, general manager of the southwest region of Shanghai Qiyuan Core Power Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Financing and Win-win to Drive the New Quality Development of Green Electric Transportation". He said that Qiyuan Core Power is the lead implementation unit of the pilot task of becoming a transportation power, and will build a nationwide battery swap trunk network.
Qiyuan Core Power provides users with rechargeable, replaceable and mobile energy replenishment services, and has a customized energy unit, the vehicle storage and shared battery system, which has higher safety of standardized batteries.
Qiyuan Core Power has achieved technology and model upgrades, and continues to promote cross-border innovation in the integration of energy and energy.
Xu Yan, deputy general manager of Hengyun subsidiary of Haitong Hengxin International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Green Heavy Truck Operation Partner - Exploring 'New Quality Productivity of Transportation and Logistics'". She analyzes the ecological operation of new energy heavy trucks from the "new" exploration of labor force - platform operation transformation, builds a smart transportation capacity holding platform around the TCO of the whole vehicle, and provides operating lease for the driver's fleet.
Through energy innovation, scientific and technological innovation, green innovation, model innovation, etc., we will explore and realize a comprehensive energy island (source-load interaction).
Through the city partnership model, Haitong Hengxin expands the city horizontally and vertically expands the supply of goods, and quickly builds the network with the "multiplier effect", and the transportation capacity holding platform has become the chain master of the "smart green transportation capacity solution".
Huang Zhi, general manager of the main engine subsidiary of Sany Industrial Vehicle Composite Dump Truck Company, delivered a keynote speech on "Development Trend and Opportunity Insight of New Energy Dump Truck". He said that affected by real estate regulation and slowing demand, the dump truck industry has undergone significant adjustments in recent years, but the penetration of new energy dump trucks has accelerated, and the transformation of clean energy has become the general trend.
The competition in the new energy dump truck industry is fierce: the terminal price of new energy dump trucks in 2023 will decrease by 30% compared with 2020, and the current battery price has stabilized, but the price reduction trend of the whole vehicle has increased instead of decreasing, affecting the non-powered body.
He analyzed that the pure electric dump truck is the main force, the hybrid dump truck is the local precision outbreak, and the hydrogen energy dump truck is subject to technology, high purchase and operating costs, and is mainly a demonstration project in the short term, and it is one of the ultimate solutions for green energy in the long run.
He said that the new energy dump truck is developing in the direction of integration, efficiency and intelligence, focusing on key technologies such as intelligent cockpit, integrated electric drive, high specific energy battery, and domain integration electronic and electrical architecture.
He believes that the forward chassis has the advantages of high integration, high efficiency, intelligence, and wide applicability, which will promote the acceleration of new energy vehicles to replace fuel vehicles.
Huang Hongliang, general manager of EVE Lithium Energy Marketing Center, delivered a keynote speech on "Comprehensive Solutions for All Commercial Vehicles". He said that EVE has always been based on the diversified demand for new energy commercial vehicles, combined with market characteristics, and continues to provide the market with "lighter weight, more power, and better cost" product output.
In the field of new energy logistics vehicles, EVE will continue to provide customers with ultra-fast charging, more capable installation, large power and long battery life products from the operational needs of vehicles that can be installed, run and saved, so as to improve the endurance and operational efficiency of products and improve the competitiveness of vehicles; Fast energy replenishment products to improve product fast charging and operation and maintenance capabilities.
Yang Guohua, deputy general manager of the heavy truck marketing company of Long-distance New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group, delivered a keynote speech on "Working Together with Long-distance to Accelerate the High-quality Development of New Energy Heavy Trucks". He pointed out that with the maturity of the industry and technological progress, the new energy heavy truck three-electric system will further reduce prices, continue to optimize energy consumption, and greatly improve user recognition, which has economic advantages in trunk logistics, commercial concrete transportation, muck transportation, resource heavy-duty transportation and other scenarios. It is also predicted that under the dual role of policy and value, the sales volume of new energy medium and heavy trucks will reach 70,000 units in 2024, and the penetration rate will exceed 8%. However, he also pointed out that there are still many problems in the new energy heavy truck market and innovative solutions are needed.
Guo Wenbo, general manager of the Southern Business Department of Shanghai Jiuxing Energy Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Electric Heavy Truck Charging and Swapping Solution". He said that the "dual carbon" policy promotes the development of electric heavy trucks, and the operation of electric heavy trucks is an important means of carbon reduction in the transportation sector.
He introduced that Jiuxing provides users with overall solutions for battery swapping for heavy trucks, including power battery box assembly, battery swap station and digital energy management platform for electric heavy trucks.
He said that under the core anxiety of energy replenishment and economy, the battery swap mode will be the best choice to promote the electrification of heavy trucks.
Tang Hongbin, founder and CEO of Shanghai Platypus Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Promising Prospects for Truck Electrification". He said that Platypus focuses on port container transportation, with 3,600 professional vehicles and 15,000 temporary external vehicles.
He revealed that platypus has started the energy transition, continued to optimize the energy structure of vehicles, and purchased and operated new energy vehicles. In the next three years, 1,500 new vehicles will be added to the platypus transport capacity pool, and the proportion of electric container trucks will reach 30%.
Bruce Li, general manager of Yunnan Zhongmin Logistics Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "How to Quickly Counterattack into a Big Coffee in New Energy Operation". Starting from the actual operation of electric heavy trucks, he analyzed the various difficulties and obstacles encountered in the operation of electric heavy trucks.
He said that before the operation of electric heavy trucks, there has always been a stable supply of goods (more than one year of transportation contracts), accurate calculation of operating costs, and forward-looking analysis of changes in current transportation routes and operation scenarios, with a certain cost elasticity.
He stressed that it is necessary to avoid blind car purchase and transportation, especially large-scale mass car purchase, and must calculate the transportation distance, freight rate, vehicle capacity, charging and replacement station construction options, as well as assess the risk of route changes, etc., after evaluation, it can be operated on a small scale, and then gradually expand the scale of application when there are certain benefits.
Hu Chunfan, general manager of Jiangsu Power Investment Yichong New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Charging or Battery Replacement, Operator's Configuration Choice". He said that electric heavy trucks have entered the stage of market popularization, and the domestic commercial vehicle industry has gradually shifted from product chain and supply chain competition to service chain competition, and industry competition has intensified.
In the TCO (total cost of ownership) of heavy truck operation, in addition to paying for manpower and road and bridge costs, the most important cost item is fuel.
He believes that charging and swapping operators with flexible products, cost parity, service efficiency and high-quality quality will gain the initiative in the future electric heavy truck operation market.
Li Hongzhi, executive vice president of the Central Research Institute of Suzhou Green Control Transmission Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "Current Situation and Trend of Commercial Vehicle Electric Drive Axle". He pointed out that the electric drive axle saves space, weight and cost, facilitates battery layout, and has high transmission efficiency, but also has shortcomings such as large motor vibration when the road surface conditions are poor, the bridge can not be locked when multi-axis drive, the driving ability of complex road surface is reduced, and the development is difficult.
He introduced the development status of electric drive axle in detail, and he analyzed that the current application of electric drive axle for heavy trucks is still very small, and the application will be more common in 2030. Single-motor vs. dual-motor bridges, the two may coexist for a long time, and single motors may be more mainstream.
Shang Jianbo, Chairman of Good Luck Kaitai (Beijing) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech on "'Logistics Innovation, Energy Equality' - Historical Opportunities and Challenges of the New Energy Logistics Industry". He focuses on bulk logistics and transportation, and is a comprehensive large-scale logistics and transportation platform.
He said that under the promotion of policies, new energy has developed rapidly, and the development of new energy industry has become an important engine to promote economic growth.
He stressed that in order to reduce the cost of logistics and transportation, it is necessary to achieve diversified energy supply.
He believes that the construction of a new energy supply system will promote industrial upgrading and development, will promote logistics cost reduction, and achieve transformation and upgrading.
He believes that in the context of new energy logistics, energy equality is not only a concept, but also through practical actions and policy support, to promote the popularization and application of new energy technology in the world, to achieve fair access and use of energy, and to promote the sustainable development of global energy, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people.
After the guest speech session, Huang He, Chairman of Green Future Energy Co., Ltd., Long Sihai, General Manager of the New Business Department of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., Ke Hua, General Manager of Sany Heavy Truck Electrification Marketing Company, Chang Wei, Chairman of Shaanxi Zhonglan Yuanhong Electric Transportation Service Co., Ltd., Zhang Wu, Deputy General Manager of the Smart Urban Distribution Business Department of Haitong Hengyun Financial Leasing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tang Hongbin, Founder and CEO of Shanghai Platypus Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., Hu Chunfan, General Manager of Jiangsu Power Investment Yichong New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., and other seven new energy heavy truck ecological chain experts participated in the event as the moderatorThe 2024 China New Energy Heavy Truck Industry Decision-Makers Conference and Roundtable Dialogue with the theme of "Boosting the Operation and Application of New Energy Heavy Trucks with New Quality Productivity".
The seven experts are involved in the main engine factory, electric heavy truck operators, battery swap operators, financial institutions and other new energy heavy truck ecological chain enterprises, focusing on the operation of electric heavy truck trunk lines, medium and long-distance transportation, cost reduction operation, charging and swapping energy supplement, battery swap standards are not uniform, capital investment risk control, etc. How to solve the pain points of inconsistent sales, operation, energy replenishment methods, and energy replenishment standards? How to realize the coordinated development of operators, energy enterprises, and OEMs? In terms of OEMs, it is necessary to improve the technical level, jointly develop new products with scientific research institutions, innovate R&D models, and safeguard the interests of users. Energy companies, OEMs, and operators have launched intense and wonderful exchanges and sharing on how to improve the operation scale of new energy heavy trucks and how to realize the medium and long-distance transportation of electric heavy trucks. The capital side is optimistic about the prospects of new energy heavy trucks. And for the new forces of the new energy heavy truck ecology, we have launched an all-round and in-depth wonderful exchange.
The guests were unanimously optimistic about the prospects of new energy heavy trucks, full of confidence in new energy heavy trucks, and hoped that the whole industry would develop in a coordinated manner, take into account the reasonable interests of ecological enterprises, and ensure the healthy development of ecological enterprises.
On the evening of the 13th, the "8th China New Energy Commercial Vehicle "Golden Panda Award" &"Green Card Award" Award Ceremony and Welcome Dinner was held to encourage and commend the benchmark enterprises and ingenuity products in the new energy heavy truck industry, and enhance the brand value of the enterprise.
Brief summary:
The comprehensive electrification and the integration and intelligent development of the Internet of vehicles and electricity have improved the new quality productivity of new energy heavy trucks and promoted the rapid development of new energy heavy trucks.
Since the outbreak of new energy heavy trucks in 2021, in just three years, the application of new energy heavy truck transportation and the replacement of fuel heavy trucks with new energy heavy trucks have become an irreversible trend in the heavy truck industry. This year, new energy heavy trucks have once again opened a surge mode, and sales are rising, and it is expected that the total sales volume will exceed 50,000 this year, or even reach 60,000.
In the context of "double carbon", the new energy of heavy trucks has become the general trend. Practice has proved that new energy heavy trucks have performed well in the transportation field of high-energy-consuming enterprises such as steel plants, thermal coal plants, mines, ports, and engineering construction, and their operating economy has been recognized and verified by the market, and the environmental protection advantages have been fully reflected, reducing the operating costs of operators, and getting the "favor" of users.
Battery replacement heavy trucks have the advantages of high efficiency, speed and safety, but there are many pain points, and the battery replacement standards are not uniform, which has become one of the biggest pain points. Many enterprises are promoting the unification of battery swap standards for heavy trucks, and realizing the pilot operation of battery swapping heavy trucks on inter-provincial high-speed trunk lines, which has promoted the development of battery swap heavy trucks. The pilot electric heavy truck runs medium and long-distance transportation, becoming a new development track for electric heavy trucks.
With the support of policies, with the improvement of technology, the cost of hydrogen energy heavy trucks has dropped significantly, and has shown a multi-point flowering, comprehensive development trend, more heavy truck car companies have joined the development track of hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and hydrogen energy heavy truck models are becoming more and more abundant. High operating costs are the biggest pain points in the promotion and application of hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and hydrogen energy heavy trucks will enter a rapid development channel with continuous cost reduction.
This conference has attracted great attention from the industry and has been strongly supported by relevant enterprises. The Organizing Committee of the 2024 China New Energy Heavy Truck Industry Decision-Makers Conference has cooperated with a number of enterprises to jointly help the opening of the industry event. Cooperative enterprises are ranked in no particular order:
The "2024 7th China New Energy Commercial Vehicle Industry Conference" hosted by Tram Resources, co-organized by the Metro New Energy Vehicle Service Network and Chengdu New Energy Vehicle Industry Promotion and Application Promotion Association, will be held on April 13-14, 2024, and the "China New Energy Logistics Vehicle Leaders Summit" and "China New Energy Logistics Vehicle Conference" will be held tomorrow.