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Telematics Update and Telematics Valley return for the 2006 Commercial Vehicle Telematics Conference
Telematics Update and Telematics Valley return for the 2006 Commercial Vehicle Telematics Conference
DAY ONE - 8 November 2006
9AM Welcome address: Jan Unander, Executive Director , Telematics Valley
9.15 Is CVT just a technology solution in search of demand? - An analysis of European fleet requirements and business models
 
LogicaCMG has just finished a survey of Europe's fleet management requirements in Europe. This session will give you a general overview of the results and provide you with a methodology to define your service strategy.
  • Investigate the internal and external stakeholders in the fragmented transport value chain

  • Discuss the discrepancy between potential, claims and market growth

  • Find out how to ensure you get your offer right depending on the fleet type

  • Identify the value for the OEM
Werner Schulz, Senior Business Consultant, IDT & Automotive, LogicaCMG
10.00 Trendspotting - examining the future and business models for commercial telematics
 

  • Compare and contrast the business of telematics today with what we're likely to see in 5 years

  • Understand the changes taking place in how & who makes money in telematics
  • Discover how the industry as a whole can work together to breach the low penetration barrier in Europe

Per Adamsson,  Director, Soft Product Strategy & Planning, Volvo Trucks Corporation

10.45 Coffee break
11.30 End user case study: Do you really know your customer? How to tighten the relationship between the telematics and transport sectors
 
This session will give you insights into the thinking, priorities and worries of the transport industry, improving your chances of understanding and creating solutions to solve the problems end users really need help with.
  • Understand the priorities of fleet managers, including changes in legislation and the effects of industry-wide problems

  • Identify the reasons for today's generally poor user perception of the telematics industry:

  • How the telematics industry can better engage the fleet world
Damian James, Head of Transport Provision, Bracknell Forest Borough Council
12.15 UKTI sponsored session Fleet case study: What are Telematics systems really like to live with and do they deliver on their promises?
 

  • Motivating the fleet: why early movers are getting equipped with fleet management systems

  • Top of the charts: The application fleets use most 

  • Calculating ROI: Does it match with advertised values?

  • The user perspective: The process of finding, choosing, implementing, using, and paying for telematics

  • After the installation: How the user looks at next steps

Adrian Pinder, Regional manager, Sweden, UK Trade and Investment
Richard Conneely,
Head of Transport Solutions, Wincanton plc

1.00 - 2.30 Lunch
DAY ONE TRACKS - 8 November 2006
2.30
Can telematics-enabled fleet insurance (TEFI) trigger mass market penetration of the commercial motor sector?
 
Ian Walmsley, Director of Partnerships at Cybit Holdings PLC , will discuss the results of his four year TEFI development work with the UK's leading insurers, insurance brokers and fleet operators.

- Examine the TEFI value proposition to insurers, brokers, fleet operators and TSP's using unpublished pilot data and case studies
- Understand how TEFI might impact current TSP business models and the challenges and opportunities that result
 

Ian Walmsley, Director of Partnerships, Cybit Holdings PLC

3.15
Case Study: Static assets management: the AMR opportunities in Europe
 
This session will give you an insight in the business case of remote meter reading in Europe. With the help of all parties involved, the case study will highlight the perspectives of the user, the integrator and the Wireless operator regarding:
  • How to build a successful remote meter reading service:
    - Partnership necessary
    - Testing and implementation issues
    - Infrastructure choices in building the AMR   network
  • How to leverage your knowledge of assets monitoring services to cross over the divide between mobile and static assets
  • Find out what it takes to digest the enormous amount of data collected into reports that are useful and easy to use
  • Investigate the networking solutions needed to make this happen and understand how your wireless partner can give the competing advantage to your your solution

Ian Curran, Head of M2M-telematics products, O2

4.00
Fostering the future of "smart vehicles"
 

An in-depth look at the goals and research activities of the European Commission's
DG TREN. You will learn:

 


  • How built-in, onboard systems such as the tachograph and similar equipment can be made to interface

  • What it will take to build a "platform" that can handle other systems, including e-call, next-generation digital tachograph, etc.

  • Ways to define "nomadic" solutions that could interface with the vehicle via electronic vehicle identification (EVI)
John Berry, Principal Administrator, European Commission DG Tren
4.30
Coffee break
5.00
Digitac 2.0: How to make digital tachograph remote downloads work
 

This session will give you detailed technical insight into how the information from the tachograph can be remotely accessed using your telematics system. The presentation will go through the system architecture, what is needed onboard and in the office, as well as looking at partnership options. It will help you:


  • Understand today's system shortcomings

  • Learn how remote downloading will be structured and what components are involved

  • Discover what data type and format will be transferred

  • Explore the details of how the OBU will communicate with the Digital Tachograph, including interfaces used and protocol level on the interface

Mikael Jansson, Technical Expert/Digital Tachographs, Stoneridge Electronics

5.30
Concluding Panel: The future of driver management
 

 

This session will let you discuss the trends in driver management across Europe. Learn how to adapt to changing regulation over time and regions, how to improve your system to ensure you are using the latest tools available, and how to stay on the leading edge of the market offering.

This pan-European panel of experts reveal their perspectives on driver management, how revenues can be found, building relationships and where the market will go in the future. Take the opportunity to ask the questions that matter to your business most!

Moderator: John Berry, Principal Administrator, European Commission DG Tren

Mikael Jansson, Technical Expert/Digital Tachographs, Stoneridge Electronics

Richard Conneely, Head of Transport Solutions, Wincanton plc

Pär Mattisson., Senior Product Manager, Ericsson AB

Damian James, Head of Transport Provision, Bracknell Forest Borough Council
Fredric Liljestrom, Business Development manager, Telenor Nordic

6.30 PM Networking Drinks reception Sponsored by Wavecom - End of Day two
  DAY TWO - 9 November 2006
9.00 AM

Overview of the CVT market in europe


Frank will present an overview of the report on the CVT market recently published by Frost & Sullivan.

Franck Leveque, Programme Manager, Transportation Practice, Frost & Sullivan

9.20
Implication of new EU - periodical inspections regulations.
 
New monitoring application: The future of vehicle inspection
Find out before everybody else the latest on the evolution of the European directive on commercial vehicle inspection and how this could affect your service.
Jorge represent the work done by all the inspection companies in the world (CITA) who just finished the conclusion report as to how harmonisation in Europe regarding vehicle inspection can be done.
The new regulations demand for a tie between cold/ passive and active safety together with diagnostics information on different elements of each vehicle.

 

Jorge Soria Galvarro,Team leader Research, Bilprovningen

10.00 ADAS for Large Vehicles: Increasing safety and efficiency with improved navigable map data
 

  • Find out about how Truck Attributes in a digital map add value to your system

  • Compare strategies for collecting truck attributes, including them in the map and linking the attributes
    to the truck engine

  • Get the details on what each type of attribute will bring to your application
  • Example: dynamic speed limits, traffic info or road state

  • Vertical control, safe braking, geographical information

  • Automatic Driver Assistance Systems - Follow the progress being made in linking attributes to engine behavior

  • Get the facts on how you can produce better fuel management using the data
Michael Sena, President, Mobility and Location Strategies
10.45 coffee break
11.15 Panel Discussion: Defining the business case for onboard navigation in commercial vehicles
 

  • Navigation is becoming a key application for the fleet management industry, and more users are demanding it as part of the routing/scheduling application. This session will discuss the options and issues related to providing onboard navigation as part of your offering. Among other the session will discuss:

  • Learn the different truck attributes and how they add value to your system

  • Discover the difficulties in collecting attributes

Moderated by: Michael Sena, President, Mobility and Location Strategies
Klaus Schoenke, Product Manager, Siemens VDO
Boris Puddu,
Product Marketing Manager EMEA, NAVTEQ Europe

12.00 How to optimise your interface and improve your system's application architecture
  This session will look at the Web 2.0 technologies and tools that will enable you to go to market faster, reduce cost and improve the usability of your software.
  • Find out what it takes to make your systems interface ready for complex applications like ad hoc scheduling

  • Learn about the rapid development tools available to ease this process

  • Service Oriented Architecture: find out how to reduce time to market by reusing software among various applications

  • How to capitalise on mapping web services in order to offer advanced mapping features like:
    - AJAX-style map interfaces
    - Multipoint and optimized routing,
    - Hybrid maps with satellite imagery
    - Predictive traffic
    - Sophisticated search capability

Marc Prioleau, VP Marketing, DeCarta (formely Telcontar)

12.45 Lunch
2.00 Galileo: Space High-Tech made in Europe
 
  • Galileo overview and schedule
  • GJU Activities
  • EGNOS
  • Research and development
  • Concession
  • Applications and Business Opportunities
  • Galileo outside Europe

Mr Rainer Grohe , Executive Director of the Galileo Joint Undertaking

2.45 Case study: Understanding public sector fleet management OEM products expert session: Discussing new product strategy solutions and services like remote diagnostics
 


The session will show how to use critical communication solutions outside the pure transport logistic arena. Pilotfish will present cases on bus/tramway/train monitoring and communication, highlighting the diversity of opportunities available to Telematics service creators.

Tomas Gabinus, Founder, Pilotfish

Mats Lilienberg, head of IT at Västtrafik

3.15 Panel Discussion: Building the proactive diagnostics business case for Truck Manufacturers
 
Remote diagnostics and pro-active maintenance are services and procedure aiming at identifying in real time a problem in the truck before it happens. The objectives are 3-fold: improving the quality before the product is launched, reducing service and warranty cost and improving profitability in services offerings like leasing

  • Get a real life analysis of where the main players are at in their implementation - Find out what opportunities are there for you

  • Discover the industry differences of opinion about the importance and utilization of remote monitoring - Can these be ironed out?

  • What affect do the European Block exemption rules have on proactive maintenance?

  • The maintenance game: What is the opportunity for third-party and fleet management providers versus the OEM?

  • Dissect the visible commercial results that will be seen from proactive maintenance?

Moderator: Jan Unander, Strategic Director, Business Development, Teleca

Nils Gunnar Vågstedt, Senior Manager Fleet Management, SCANIA CV AB
Per Adamsson, Director, Soft Product Strategy & Planning, Volvo Trucks
Jorge Galvarro, Team leader Research, Bilprovningen

  Conference ends 4 PM

 

   
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