National Press Release

WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Takeo Fukui, president and chief executive officer of Honda Motor Company, will be the featured speaker at the SAE 2009 World Congress Annual Banquet, scheduled Thursday, April 23, 2009, at 7 p.m. in the Renaissance Ballroom of the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.

The event, which has grown into one of the largest gatherings of global automotive industry leaders, caps off the four-day SAE 2009 World Congress hosted this year by Honda with Bosch as the Tier One Strategic Partner.

The SAE 2009 World Congress, with its theme "Racing to Green Mobility," begins Monday, April 20, and is held at Cobo Center in Detroit. The SAE 2009 World Congress offers the global automotive industry's most comprehensive technical program, featuring technical papers, SAE seminars, exhibits, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater, the FEV Powertrain Innovation Forum and the SAE Executive Business Theater.

Members of the press can request credentials for the SAE 2009 World Congress by visiting http://pr.sae.org/media/ or emailing pr@sae.org .

SAE International is a global association of more than 121,000 engineers and related technical experts in the automotive, aerospace and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World in Motion(R) and the Collegiate Design Series.

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Contact: Nancy Lewis or Shawn Andreassi, both of SAE International, via pr@sae.org or 1-248-273-4092.

SOURCE SAE International