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Event Programme

How to take on the leaders in integrated consumer telematics and win in-car entertainment market share

8AM Registration and Coffee
9AM
State of the Consumer Telematics Market: Top selling applications and recognizable trends
 
  • Get briefed on the real status of the consumer market
  • Current market situation, challenges, opportunities and future trends
  • Understand current and predicted consumer adoption rates and their telematics applications preferences
  • Consumer electronics (CE) and telematics are converging. Find out at what pace and how you need to adapt your strategy

Thilo Koslowski
VP & Lead Automotive Analyst, Gartner

9.45 Broadband to the vehicle: Which communication channels to the vehicle work best for infotainment?
 

Find out how HD radio, satellite radio, cellular, WiMAX and Wi-Fi are enabling new infotainment services
for cars

  • Learn about the technologies making on-demand media information and data exchange between vehicle and dealer possible
  • Analysis of the limitations and the potentials of each wireless channel:
    • Will satellite radio remain a one-way channel?
    • How to overcome the subscriptions price barrier
    • Analyze the real potential for the car connections to the 3 hubs - home, dealer and road
  • Connectivity to the car: Map out the new content sources and measure their profit potential
  • How to integrate the chosen wireless channels so they appear seamless to the end users

Moderator: Dr. Axel Fuchs, VP Business Development
SimpleDevices, Inc.

Tor Soevik,
Director of Product Marketing, RaySat

Allan Meiusi
President, Cabit Internet Truckstop Canada

Dave McNamara
Manager Advanced Infotainment, Research & Advanced Eng,
Ford Motor Company


Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

Founder and CTO, Tropos Networks

Joseph F. D'Angelo

Vice President, Advanced Services

iBiquity Digital

Joel Hoffman , Business Development Manager , Intel

Michael Diemer, Sr. Director, OEM PM, Sirius Satellite Radio

10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Infotainment:
Hear the most successful strategies to bring entertainment content into the vehicle environment?
 

Selling infotainment over mobile phones and the Internet is very different to the in-car market!

  • Benefit from a guide to what works, what doesn’t and take home strategies for improving your sales approach fast!
  • Content provision to portable, aftermarket and embedded platforms;
    • Identify what each platform can learn from the others
    • Which future content sources offer the greatest revenue channels; Static versus Dynamic content
  • Understand how much you can make from data services as a product
  • Define the most profit making type of content and their provisioning opportunity
    • Video, Music, Photos
    • Point of Interest on Sat Nav and evolution towards entertainment
  • The “Induce” infringement copyright act: Are you responsible? Find out exactly how to reduce your liability towards the copyright laws
  • Games: Analyze the barriers to development and long term opportunities

Moderator: Joanne Blight, Director, Automotive and Telematics Practice, Strategy Analytics

Ray Grefe,
Director of Strategic Partnerships , Telcontar

Lee Callaway, Motorola VIAMOTO

Frank-Erik Toma, Marketing Director, Blaupunkt GmbH

Christophe Sauvan, CEO, Orange Mobile and Permission

11.45 Aftermarket and Automakers partnership
 

  • What’s more profitable; Be the first on the market or satisfy customer demands? The strategy choices discussed
  • Find out how you can profit from the influence of the aftermarket and portable telematics services on the embedded market
  • Educating the end-user: Tips on explaining the different value propositions to end-users - from portable to aftermarket and embedded navigation systems
  • Streamlining the value chain operation: Find out how you can profit from closer collaboration across the supply chain - from consumer aftermarket to dealer install and OEM line fit
  • How to ensure the customer fit when partnering with a CE manufacturer

Moderator: Paul Hansen, publisher of The Hansen Report on Automotive Electronics

Masaya(Mike) Nishinaka, Product Planning Manager, Corporate Busuiness Planning Group, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company

Ty Roberts, CTO and co-Founder, Gracenote

Dan Benyamin, CTO , Phatnoise

12.30 Lunch
2.00 Cost, usability and standards: How to increase system sales by ensuring optimum usability and desirability
 

  • How to reduce manufacturing costs with Human Centred Design
  • Can you reuse the standards applying in the home electronics and PC market for wireless mobile device proliferation in established telematics niches like law enforcement and caravanning
  • Examine the gap between the OEM expectations and concept design by Tier 1’s and final practical implementation
  • Cross cultural issues: Learn how to design telematics solutions for non-local or cross-border markets.
  • Processes and strategies: Tactical HMI vs. Strategic Usability. How to get HMI out of the trenches and connect it to business and marketing issues
  • How to put a common system strategy in place for systems optimization
  • What happens after the sale? Find out how better training of your dealers will help customer take full advantage of your product and impact your bottom line
Moderator:
Frank Spillers
, Principal and Co-CEO, Experience Dynamics

Larry Smythe, President, HFSysCo

Anand Ramamoorthy, Senior Manager, CIS/Telematics, Renesas Technology America

2.45 Interface technologies for device integration
 
  • The quest for a universal interface:
    • What are the technical challenges related to docking stations for hand-held devices
    • Choosing from USB, Firewire, Bluetooth and Ultra-wideband
  • What are the environmental requirements that need to be met for standard connectors to be used?
  • A guide to the technologies competing to stream the content between the different data sources inside the car
  • What are today‘s solutions to the problems associated with on-board hard drives - reliability, heat resistance and copyright issues
  • Define what evolution in vehicle architecture is needed to support future telematics systems

Moderator:
Richard Nass, Editor in Chief, Portable Design Magazine

Jay Adams, Manager Product Planning, Delphi

Robert Heaton  Aurosync (CEA-936-A)

John Vilkinofsky, Manager, Honda

Mike Foley, Technical Director, Bluetooth SIG


Martin Rofheart,
director of the UWB Operation, Freescale

Maciek Brzeski, VP Marketing, Toshiba America Information Systems

3.30 Coffee break
4.00 How can consumer electronics functionality be kept up-to-date in cars?
 
  • Introduction to what consumers want at the application and functionality level
  • How are car entertainment electronics evolving to fit new consumer requirements, expectation and behaviour
  • Obsolescence issue: How are leading players counteracting the life cycle discrepancy between automotives and portable devices
  • How to connect portable devices to car electronics - current shortcomings and the problem with CD changer interface
  • Find out about specific requirements, interfaces and level of integration for several deployment scenarios, like mobile phones, MP3 players or portable video players
  • How the industry could work together to offer a great consumer experience

Moderator: Richard Nass, Editor in Chief, Portable Design Magazine

Willem Bulthuis
VP Business Development, Philips

Bob Fust
Strategic Marketing Manager, Molex

Noel Baisa, Marketing Director, National Semiconductor

Aaron Dagan, President, PsiNaptic Inc.

Roger Dewey, VP, The Americas M2M Com, Sony Ericsson

4.45 The critical role of Device Software Optimization in the emerging consumer telematics
 

The Consumer Electronics industry is playing a major role in how telematics  evolves .   C onnectivity, wireless, security and remote management are quickly becoming standard features in consumer devices.  These technologies are rapidly converging on telematics.  The rising complexity of device software technology and the constant need to differentiate makes   a device software optimization strategy a necessary component in the deliver y of next generation of consumer telematics devices.

Attendees will learn:

  • How the changes in the consumer electronics industry will  define telematics
  • How a device software optimization strategy can be applied throughout your organization to take advantage of  the shifting market
  • how to evaluate the right solution and -- where should you be  investing  your time and energy?

 

John Bruggeman, Chief Marketing Officer, Wind River Systems
5.30
Networking drinks

 

 
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