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APAC & History.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Originally titled the "International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering-IPC" the first IPC was held in November of 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Joining all existing SAE member societies in countries surrounding the Pacific. Because of the event's success, the FISITA Pacific member societies chose to organise this one-of-a-kind event every two years, increasing participation to 11 societies in the Asia Pacific region. Changing the name to reflect a broader audience, the Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference - APAC still embodies what the original IPC stood for. The 1st IPC was held from November 16 -19 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA The Conference was cosponsored by FISITA member societies of SAE of Australasia, IATO (SAE ) Indonesia, SAE of Japan (JSAE), and SAE of the United States. SAE of the United States took the responsibility for preparation as the host society. With 67 papers presented and 440participants attending from 15 nations, the conference was a great success. It was therefore agreed that this event be held every two years. SAE-China and SAE-Korea (KSAE) participated in the event as observers. Thus, all existing SAEs in countries surrounding the Pacific met together at the 1st IPC. In Honolulu, SAE of Japan was elected to host the 2nd IPC in Tokyo, Japan. In Detroit, in February 1982, SAE of China and SAE-Korea were invited to join the IPC as co-sponsor and as the result, the 2nd nd IPC had participation by six SAEs In 1990s SAE-Thailand, SAE-IAE Vietnam, and IAE-Sri Lanka joined IPC. SAE-India joined in May 2004 and SAE SAE-Iran joined in November 2005. To encourage more members from Asia to join IPC in future it was necessary to change the name to APAC, Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference. The new conference name began with APAC- 14 in 2007.
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