The Back Is Where It’s At: New Rear Seat Technologies & Advanced Safety Features (1.5 CEUs)

Monday, April 3, 2023

10:45am – 12:15pm PDT

Location: Room 605

Track Leader(s)

AO

Angela Osterhuber, M.Ed

Project Director
PA AAP / Traffic Injury Prevention Project
Media, PA
Joe Colella, Sr., CPST-I

Director of Child Passenger Safety
Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA)
Beaufort, SC

Moderator(s)

Bob Wall, CPST-I

Global Safety Advocate
Nuna Baby Essentials
Middletown , VA

Speaker(s)

Emily A. Thomas, PhD, CPST

Manager, Auto Safety
Consumer Reports
Colchester, CT
MG

Mike Gillett, CPST

Head of Engineering-Car Seats & Strollers
Diono
Sushant R. Jagtap, M.S. (he/him/his)

Research Engineer
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)
Ruckersville, VA
Jennifer Pelky, CPST (she/her/hers)

Sr. Engineering Manager, Interior Safety & Crashworthiness
Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America
Saline, MI

New safety advances are continually made in vehicles, including seating passenger compartment geometries, occupant restraint systems, head restraints, air bags and more. As the evolution of safety continues, children must be included in the equation to determine how the safety improvements affect child safety products and how systems must be adapted to accommodate safety advances in the back seat.