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Transforming how consumers use, view and benefit from in-vehicle entertainment for profit
Consumer Telematics Seminar 2007
 

CONSUMER TELEMATICS SEMINAR (CTS) 2007

 

Day ONE - 9th January '07

Registration Desk opens at 7:30 AM

 

 

8:30 - 8:45 CTS 2007 - Welcome Note to be given by Volker Politz, Vice President, Automotive Business Unit Renesas Technology America, Inc.
8:45 - 9:30 Consumer Telematics Market Trends And Outlook
 
Your essential annual update on consumer telematics market movements and trends. Hear about the convergence and competition between Consumer Electronics (CE) and telematics; the hottest market segments and the latest market drivers. Topics covered in-depth include:
  • Which portable devices and telematics service offerings are winning market share and why?
  • Understand consumer expectation: How can the car maintain and deliver slick design and functionality expected by the ‘new breed’ of consumer device users
  • Be ahead of the game: Get exclusive access to Gartner’s latest CE and telematics survey and find out what the key players use today and the capabilities they will want tomorrow
  • What are the success factors and market challenges for in-vehicle communications and technologies companies (ICT) and automotive manufacturers


Thilo Koslowski, VP & Lead Automotive Analyst, Gartner

9:30 - 10:15 How In-Vehicle Infotainment Is Shaping Up For The Next Decade
 
  • What part will the consumers’ nomadic devices play in their in-vehicle experience
  • See how dramatic rise in content provision opens up new revenue streams for OEMs
  • Real-time traffic as a real selling point: When will the technology become reliable, robust and reactive enough to satisfy user expectations and deliver a service no driver can live without
  • Get an update on the growth of digital content for portable infotainment systems and smartphones and the opportunities this is opening up
  • In which direction are the CE manufacturers and automotive manufacturers looking? Find out how this will affect your business going forward?
  • Portable devices have saturated the low and mid-level markets, can in-vehicle systems win back consumer loyalty?

Moderator - Greg Gieselhart, Marketing and Industry Relations, WirelessCar

Clement Driscoll, Founder & President, C.J. Driscoll & Associates
Alan Hutton, Principal Engineer – Advanced Telematics, Jaguar
Blake Bullock, Product Manager, Location Solutions
Motorola Mobile Device Business, Larry Cepuran, Ford Motor Company
Steve Myers, GPS consumer and navigation portfolio manager, Sprint


10:15 - 10:45 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30 Convergence Of Entertainment And Telematics Services  - And How Do They Impact Each Other
 

Entertainment is becoming a digital experience that enables both home and mobile consumers to enjoy new features and better user experiences. Such new features and experiences increase customer expectations and create a healthy demand for advanced entertainment features in the car.

  • Find out how this trend will open up new revenue channels for you?
  • Expert opinion on why duplicating home or mobile experience in the car is neither feasible nor required but adopting some new features and experiences for drivers and passengers is the key to success
  • See how advanced entertainment features that can be enabled by sharing the in-vehicle entertainment features with telematics services such as vehicle modules and back-end modules, increase customer satisfaction and guarantee repeat business


Moderator - Phil Magney, , Co-Founder and Principal Analyst, Telematics Research Group

 

Mike Bergman, VP of New Digital Technologies, Kenwood
Dr. Kal Mos, Engineering Manager, DaimlerChrysler
Thomas Noserke, Blaupunkt
Paul Drysch, VP, Aeris.Net

Willem Bulthuis, VP Automotive Sales & Marketing - BU Automotive & Identification
NXP Semiconductors

Greg Gieselhart, Marketing and Industry Relations, WirelessCar



11:30 - 12:15 Data Pipes And Data Storage - Memory Requirements, Capabilities And Trends
 
  • Discover how a growing number of digital media pipelines such as DVB, DAB, satellite, WiFi, WiMax, WiBro, and others will completely transform the mobile entertainment experience for consumers over the next few years
  • See how the automotive industry has an opportunity to add real value to the sticker price, differentiate models from each other and create a branded, unique in-car consumer entertainment experience by integrating mass storage for digital entertainment content into the vehicle
  • Will the mass adoption of next generation DVD systems push flash and Hard Disk Drives (HDD) into the rear seat?
  • Take an early look into the possible future uses and capabilities of Bluetooth in the automobile

Mike Foley, Executive Director, Bluetooth SIG
Rob Pait, Director - Global Consumer Marketing, Seagate

Scott Wright, Product Manger - Hard Disk Driver, Toshiba

Brian Tucker, Telit

12:15 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 2:15 How To Profit From Portable Device Integration
 
  • Understand how CE devices are evolving to match new consumer in-vehicle requirements, expectations and behavior patterns
  • Learn how to accommodate portable infotainment and develop in-vehicle infotainment systems that become a ‘must-have’
  • Embedded systems vs. portable systems versus smartphones: Hear a discussion on the key market trends for each and find out what addictive features each will provide
  • Assess what convergence strategies OEMs and portable device makers are likely to adopt to accelerate growth and increase profits
  • Both hand-held and embedded are playing on their strengths for consumer uptake. Is there room in the market for both or will one win out in the long-term?

Thomas Noserke, Marketing Manager Systems, Innovations Blaupunkt GmbH
Mark Fitzgerald, Principal Analyst, Strategy Analytics
Volker Politz, VP Automotive, Renesas

James Taylor, Executive Director, Panasonic Corporation of North America

2:15 - 3:00 HMI Trends - Balancing Functionality With Safety
 

Have you ever thought about trying to spin the track wheel on your iPOD while driving? Sorting through hundreds of titles or names to find your favorite track is a dangerous and unusable model. Switching from an iPOD track wheel to an in-dash radio knob doesn’t make that situation any better for users!

  • Are in-vehicle systems overloading the customer? Is there any safe way to embed or dock systems? Hear how OEMs, Tier 1s and portable device makers deflect safety concerns and maintain market share
  • Hear how you can simplify the HMI environment of the car and still provide functionality and quality to customers

 

Andrew Stess, Vice President Consumer Electronic, AMG
Phil Magney, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst, Telematics Research Group


3:00 - 3:45 How Digital Rights Management (DRM) Impacts The Automotive Community And The Consumer
 
  • Hear what the key players are doing to allow drivers to bring media in to the vehicle, anytime and anywhere
  • Balance the argument for and against protecting the rights of those creating media and the automotive consumer who expects
    “plug & play” convenience and access to all types of media
  • Discover whether DRM issues could restrict the potential of new digital media features such as bringing your video iPod to the car
  • Take a closer look at how the OEMs will stream video and new content to all passengers
  • Gain an insight into the opportunity for standardization of DRM instead of proprietary solutions

 

David A. McNamara, President, MTS LLC
Alan Hutton, Principal Engineer, Advanced Telematics, Jaguar

Rich Chutorashm, Director, Electronics, Johnson Controls Inc.

Jack Lacy, Coral Consortium

3:45 - 4:15 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK
4:15 - 4:45 Driving The Digital World Forward 
 
  • Look ahead to when fast developing technologies such as ‘home-car syncing’ will open up new revenue channels across the entire CE and automotive telematics value chain
  • ‘Home-car link’ enables high bandwidth local short range connections between home and car. Discover the opportunities it opens up in infotainment
  • Hear the latest business solutions which will ensure that ‘home-car link’ provides a seamless user experience and delivers high customer satisfaction
  • New concepts such as ‘Content to Go’ and ‘Anytime Anywhere content’ are enabling the digital-content shift. Discover the value proposition for the customer

Glen Allmendinger, President, Harbor Research, Inc.

Ty Roberts, CTO and Co-founder, Gracenote

 

 

 

4:45 ONWARDS
COCKTAIL NETWORKING PARTY
  At the end of the semonar all speakers and conference delegates are invited to kick back and relax at the Consumer Telematics Seminar 2007 networking cocktail party. This gives you a chance to meet with new people, connect with your partners and clients and discuss the information you have heard throughout the day.
  End of Day ONE - 9th January '07
   
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