Infotainment Track

13.30 -14.00 Identify Consumer Must-Haves to Unlock Wallets and Secure Loyalty

Infotainment offerings on premium luxury cars and SUVs to migrate down vehicle line to appear on mid-to-low range fuel efficient cars.

• How to realign business strategies and technical goals to offer cost effective solutions for smaller, fuel efficient cars?
  
  
• Shifting consumer paradigm: findings from consumer surveys to highlight current price points and user demands
  
  
• How to ensure your offerings provide daily relevance to consumers?

Partha Goswami, Technology Manager - R&D and Planning, General Motors

Jay Adams, Global Marketing Manager, Delphi (ret'd)

Vadim Brenner, Director, Product Management, Client Software Solutions, Gracenote

Luisa Cordano, Sales Manager Embedded Technologies, Loquendo

Dr. Dirk Reimer, Director Business Development and Marketing Telematics , NXP Semiconductors

Panel Moderator: Susan Kevorkian, Programme Director - Consumer Markets, IDC

14.30 - 15.00 How Will the Aftermarket and Embedded Segments Coexist?

• Discuss how to split up in-car applications when using a combination of embedded and aftermarket devices
  
  
• How the hybrid solution space is evolving and which players are building hybrid solutions successfully?
  
  
• Aftermarket players now designing for OEMs. How will this impact the industry
  
  
• Which docking and integration technologies are safe? Learn how offerings can be made compliant with safety standards

T.C. Wingrove, Senior Manager - North American Innovation, Visteon

Mike Marshall, Director, J.D. Power and Associates

Joe Berry, Connected Services Solutions Organization, Director of Product and Business Development , Ford Motor Company

Mark Zeinstra, Director , Infotainment and Connectivity, Johnson Controls

Paul Kirsch, Vice President of Sales, Hughes Telematics

Panel Moderator: Dave McNamara, President, MTS LLC

13.15 - 13.45 The Most Compelling Infotainment Trends Revealed!

This session will cover the considerations and challenges for creating infotainment solutions for 2016 and beyond. The trends for customer use cases of the upcoming generations will also be explored. Lastly, the development cycles for infotainment microprocessors across automotive and consumer devices will begin to be unraveled.

• Infotainment trends beyond tomorrow
• Unraveling the complexity of developing infotainment processors across automotive and consumer devices

Don Finney, Marketing Manager - Global Automotive Driver Information Systems, Freescale Semiconductor

13.45 - 14.15 How to Achieve In-Car Systems Integration

• Discuss whether new service opportunities built on existing infrastructure and connectivity will increase technology uptake
  
  
• How best to overcome interoperability challenges when connecting consumer devices into the car
  
  
• Strategies for integrating non standardized devices i.e. cell phones with cars when there is a lack of protocols or certification
  
  
• See how to transfer user interfaces and design robust HMI platforms to offer users a friendly and intuitive interface

Rajiv Saxena, Engineering Team Leader, Chrysler

Louis Brugman, General Manager, Pioneer

Ilya Lifshits, CTO - Connectivity Software Division , Jungo

Wolfgang Reelitz, Vice President - Automotive Sales, TomTom

Hakan Kostepen, Director of Planning & Innovation, Panasonic

Mark Fitzgerald, Senior Automotive Analyst, Strategy Analytics

Kai Hackbarth, Product Manager & Requirements Chair, OSGi-Alliance

Panel Moderator: Dave McNamara, President, MTS LLC

14.15 - 14.45 Redefining Radio in the Connected World!

How services are being launched over radio – both digital and internet. See which is becoming increasingly popular.

• Assess the cost and technical implications of using internet or HD radio in-car
  
  
• How OEMs and suppliers are integrating internet-radio application controls into car HMI to provide ease of use?
  
  
• What barriers to adoption need to be overcome before internet radio becomes truly ubiquitous

Joe Kennedy, CEO, Pandora