• Current market-place challenges and dynamics: Understand where critical systems shortcomings exist and how your offerings measure up

• 3PLs and fleet operators still have to do a lot of integration to get what they need. This creates huge opportunities but where should you focus your development efforts?

• Traditional commercial telematics is fast becoming part of the overall logistics systems. What partnerships & alliances can and are being formed and what does this mean in the market

Breakdown in IP mobility / lack of seamless handover is a big problem. Business critical data gets lost or damaged and end-users lose money. Drill-down in dataintegrity plays as well as strategies for enhanced data mobility

• How far away is a service that can hop between the cell network, Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G and WiMax to give end users the seamless service they are looking for?
• In a tech dominated industry you need to decide very carefully what to build your applications on? Find out more about WiMax roll-out, considered by some to be the first 4G technology. Will it kill 3G and how quickly?
• Will location based capabilities work well on cellular or GPS or both? Hear the arguments for and against
• New Wi-Fi modules will lower costs for fleet operators but how well do they work?
• Is the next evolution of network access for M2M an integrated satellite/terrestrial play? How well could such a network address true IP mobility?

Mark Thompson, Director - Wholesale Business Solutions, Verizon

Shane Hintze, Director, Sales Engineering, TerreStar
Sylvia Karmanoff , Senior Director of Telematics Solutions, Aeris Communications

Moderator:Rick Noens, ITS Standards Director, Motorola

Fleet operators still battle an array of expensive and conflicting components if they want a seamless system. This impacts adoption rates and hits technology investment.

• Can any system really deliver carriers location enabled services, communication capabilities, safety& security solutions, routing information and detailed management reporting?
• Discuss how to package sensor networking, local RF technologies, local mesh networks and on-board processing units together with end-user specific education to give yourself the ability to sell more userfriendly and easy to install units
• The latest embedded systems can switch between multiple cameras providing driving tools with little proprietary software investment. Understand how this is achieved and the advantage it creates over the competition

Shawn Meredith, Chief Project Manager, Volvo Group North America
Jason Snaggs, VP Business Development, International Telematics

Moderator: Egil Juliussen, Principal Analyst, Telematics Research Group, Inc.

Success stories demonstrating the benefits of telematics technologies

• Insurance companies' role as promoter for telematics technologies: The business model behind customized insurance rates (PAYD - Pay As You Drive). 
• Online Driver Assistance: proprietary solutions Vs. e-call legislation.
• Building a new generation of locator devices utilizing a Java platform, enabling custom functionality on top of a strong base product.
• European safety program: enhancing road efficiency and traffic safety on urban, intercity arterials, and rural roads involving two-way vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to center (V2C) communication.

Aviad Gefen, Director of Motorola Wireless Modules, Motorola

• How network sensitive is the fleet operator’s choice of hardware?
• Learn which network complements differing devices to gauge what type of integration and partnerships will work best for you
• OEMs insist that aftermarket devices can never deliver the services their embedded solution offers. Is this true and what are the latest service and technological innovations being offered on different devices?
• Explore which platforms to back, which to discard and ones to watch out for if you don’t want to end up with a great system for a redundant platform

Roger Dewey, President and CEO, Telit Americas
Nelson Madrid, Global Sourcing Development, Nokia (TBC)
Robert Gourdine, Director of Marketing and Business Development, NAVTEQ

Moderator: Egil Juliussen, Principal Analyst, Telematics Research Group, Inc.

• Learn how database and application server technologies provide platforms to enhance fleet and logistics solutions ranging from:
  • location-enabled call centers
  • dispatching services
  • provisioning
• Discuss the benefits of leveraging the native geospatial data management in a relational database management system (RDBMS)

Xavier R. Lopez, Ph.D., Director - Product Manager, ORACLE

WORKSHOP plus CASE-STUDY BY AutoTap

Get an authoritative commentary on how to understand and utilize the key benefits of OBDII, J1708/J1939 to seize real world ROI. Hear more about the best in class deployment practices to unlock ROI

Al Winger, Account Executive, B&B Electronics

Kevin Nelson, Project Manager B&B Electronics
Customer: Teletrac

Fleet managers need real time data but expensive roaming and administered multicarrier agreements have made cross-border communication nearly impossible to date.

• Is it possible for service providers offering both wide-area and local-area options to make connection seamless for end users to truly benefit?
• How to migrate from subnet to subnet and network to network without loss of connectivity and without applications timing out?
• Managing data with transparency is the final step to overcoming the data transportation hurdle. Discuss how it can be done?

What sort of sensors and devices do the truck, trailer and container have to have? What are the cost implications?

• A look at the latest application integration strategies, such as:
• basic component level design – no modules or subassemblies
• integration based on use of functional modules and sub-assemblies
• the risks and costs of integrating with discrete components
• Which devices must future cab, truck and trailer combinations incorporate to deliver the visibility the market wants?

Brian Tucker, VP - Product Management, Telit Wireless Solution, Inc.

Hear how trailer tracking hardware and services are being adopted by the wireless industry, and how it will merge with other enabling technologies.

• Find out whether event-driven, exception-based trailer monitoring systems incorporating geo-fencing are the killer tracking application for now or whether other functions are gaining in cash terms
• Drop/Hook monitoring: Tracking of trailers to monitor risk areas was tested by FMCSA. See what the test results suggest and how this will impact the end-user demand and hence your offerings
• Rapid expansion in this market means many new vendors… and some players are already chalking up big wins! Learn where to focus development work to match or beat the competition

An enabling infrastructure with all data and security layers within the vehicle platform ensuring business critical data is not destroyed or corrupted is the goal. How this can be achieved?

• How to receive data from an array of sensors in the most optimal fashion and how to manage this data effectively?
• Geospatial data is becoming increasing important when it comes to effectively managing vehicles in realtime conditions. Explore techniques for collecting and managing this data for driver, end-user and government customers
• Get a detailed overview on the capabilities and potential offered by short range, cellular-free wireless standards, like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee and Wibree

Rick Noens, ITS Standards Director, Motorola
Vikas Jain, Director - Automotive, Wavecom, Inc.
William Molesworth, VP Marketing, Orbcomm LLC
John Horn, National Director, VAR Channel T-Mobile

Day 2, November 13, Chicago City Centre Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• The winners and losers? Fleet and asset management companies, telematics service providers and logistics solutions providers are all revving up their offerings to gain more market control. Who will rule the roost?
• Do you want to know who the 15 largest MRM suppliers are? Learn how you can use this exclusive information to better your offerings
• Massive M&A activities and consolidation is inevitable. How to position your company for growth and dominance - not obscurity
• An in-depth analysis on the impact of Trimble’s acquisition of @Road and a look at other key events that followed this acquisition

Clement Driscoll, Founder and Managing Partner, C.J. Driscoll & Associates

Mark Licht, President, Licht & Associates

Real-time and seamless remote diagnostics is key to preventative maintenance. Data delivery and analysis must improve. Crack this and big money will result!

• What are the latest diagnostic tools and see how they will help you create a revolutionary new routing system for the end-user?
• Do customers want a ‘geo-synchronous’ satellite based remote diagnostic system to implement a predictive and preventive maintenance diagnostic program, to minimize the need for costly corrective maintenance programs
• Explore how you can provide useful data for analysis of an apparatus under test to a centralized diagnostic database and yet offer adequate and cost effective communications support

J. I. (Pete) McLallen, Manager Diagnostics & Prognostics, MTS Technologies, Inc

Roy Eder, Vice President, Qualcomm Enterprise Services

Moderator: Mike O'Donnell, Consultant

• A detailed overview of existing and likely government routing restrictions your solutions will need to cater for
• The latest developments in truck routing algorithms, digital map products and navigation systems - how they will affect route optimization, reduce fines, minimize out-of-route-miles, save fuel and increase customer satisfaction
• How to increase visibility and productivity of a supply chain through integration with on-board GPS tracking systems

David Levy, Fleet & Logistics Segment Manager, Tele Atlas
Tim Pilcher, President, ProMiles

Ryan Glancy, Senior Director Business Development, Inrix

Moderator: Egil Juliussen, Principal Analyst, Telematics Research Group, Inc.

• Hear how the SCM industry is changing and which strategies fit your business best:
• integration versus innovation
• middleware versus software
• cohesive versus coerced
• Despite telematics solutions, open platforms, pseudo real-time visibility of inventory, instantaneous order management and advanced demand forecasting, store shelves continue to be “out of stock”. Hear why WAVECOM think this is the case and how to overcome these problems

• Learn how to ensure data is not just giving customers an information overload but has cogent business benefits
• Explore how workforce mobility, telematics and smart chips can be rolled together to update legacy systems and automate dispatching
• 3PLs understand that data is almost a commodity to the shippers hence they process, analyze and deliver the data so that the shippers’ business processes are optimized. What can FMS providers and logistics solution providers learn from the 3PLs’ in house IT teams?

Bryan Cook, Senior Technical Advisor, FEDEX Freight

Monica Truelsch, Director of Product Management, TMW Systems

Rick Iverson, Director of Sales, SmartDrive

Moderator: Bob Dorn, Publisher, T3-Transport Technology Today

• The FMCSA has just announced big changes to the truckers’ hours of service (HOS) rules. Will Digital Tachograph and reader sales now boom?
• Some carriers have field testing programs for driver fatigue. If the FMCSA sanctions their programs instead of the HOS regulations the door will be open for bespoke solutions. Can you capitalize?
• The FMCSA is backing voluntary deployment of new driver, carrier, vehicle, and roadside safety technologies but which should you be gunning for?

Helen Carbone, Principal Systems Engineer, City Of Chicago Department of Transportation

Moderator: Darwin Dahlgren, CEO, Zoom Information Systems

2:45 - 3:30 Environmental compliance solutions – go green and bank gold

• What technologies can you provide to carriers to substantially increase fuel mileage and clean up truck emissions?
• Is there ‘hidden cash’ to be found in packaging environmental data with other data?
• How can green technologies and logistics solutions expand your customer-base and improve your customer loyalty as well as help your customer cut costs: for example:
• Idling time: Using Telematics to help fleets adhere to the anti-idling rules, avoid fines and save on precious fuel

• Many logistics system developers and solution providers provide tracking and tracing solutions, but should they be partnering and/or integrating with asset management companies and TSPs to strengthen their offerings?
• Fleet maintenance companies are looking at injecting a real-time wireless component to their offerings to make it more robust. How would you build constructive partnerships subject to specifications and commercial terms
• Explore the power-play between the different providers and developers to understand which group has the potential to lead the market and create the most wellintegrated offering for the 3PLs/Carriers

Charles Arsenault, CEO, Arsenault Associates
John Lankes, Global Commercial Vehicle Marketing, @Road, Inc.

Moderator: Marc Mitchell , Transportation Practice Director , Enterprise Information Solutions, inc.

• Should future development focus on (a) a set of multiple solutions or software as a ‘system’ (b) single or multiple sourcing (c) configuring or customization etc.?
• The role of data warehousing, open data services (ODS), data mining, etc is vital for achieving data integration. Hear how the data industry is changing and whether new techniques and technologies are up to the job
• So which way now? The merits of different strategies explored:
  • real-time versus near real time
  • access (pull) versus delivery (push)
  • data integrity vs. data access

Kathi C. Laughman, Vice President - Business Systems & Services, SCG The Select Carrier Group L.P.

Bryan Cook, Senior Technical Advisor, FedEX Freight

Moderator: Richard J. Sherman, President, Gold & Domas Research