Sponsor Overviews

Agero's industry leading technologies deliver what drivers want to know, when they need to know it. Quickly. Simply. Safely. A leader in Connected Innovation and Vehicle Assistance, Agero is the combined force of ATX Group and Cross Country Automotive Services. Our turnkey solutions include Safety & Security, Data and Diagnostics, Location Based Content, Navigation, and Lifestyle offerings. Leveraging our technical depth and driver analysis, Agero delivers innovative ways to extend every aspect of life in a car. So you and your customers are always ahead of the curve.

Covisint provides the leading cloud engagement platform for creating and enabling new mission-critical external business processes. Our solutions enable organizations to connect, engage, and collaborate with the critical external audiences that define their success--including customers, business partners and suppliers.

Covisint’s cloud engagement platform offers OEMs a robust, secure and proven platform for driving additional revenue and customer loyalty through connected vehicle initiatives. With Covisint, OEM CIOs, CMOs and LOB leaders can deliver a unified and global connected vehicle platform – based on their own business strategies, not their TSP’s limitations – and one, integrated experience across the ownership lifecycle. www.covisint.com.

WirelessCar’s white label positioning and open telematics platform allows our customers (BMW, Volvo Cars, Sprint, Audi, Allianz, Volvo Trucks, Mack Trucks...) to leverage the full value of connected services across the entire spectrum of always being connected:

• Safety & Security (stolen vehicle tracking, roadside assistance, automatic crash notification…)
• Convenience (Remote start, door lock/unlock, car locator...)
• CRM (fleet/asset management, remote diagnostics, preventive maintenance...)
• Online (social networks, connected navigation, infotainment...)

Airbiquity is at the forefront of change in the connected vehicle and telematics industries, integrating advances in software, communications technology, and wireless services with vehicles. Its connected vehicle solutions offer automakers a flexible platform for delivering innovative cloud-based and smartphone applications and services that help automobiles adapt to the driver’s digital lifestyle. To learn more about Airbiquity, visit www.airbiquity.com or www.twitter.com/airbiquity

From embedded and mobile solutions to enterprise applications that connect systems and people, Compuware continues to be an integral partner in advancing the evolution of Telematics and automotive connectivity. We have enabled automotive platforms that encompass the entire ecosystem – helping to change the way OEMs, owners, dealers, and suppliers interact with vehicles and with each other. Through solutions that Compuware has defined, designed and delivered, we have connected millions of vehicles while managing over a half a billion Telematics transactions. Compuware brings innovation, expertise and experience to a new era of the automotive connectivity.  

HERE, a Nokia business, is offering the first location cloud that delivers people the world's best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems unified under the HERE brand. To learn more about HERE, visit http://www.here.com

Laird Technologies is a world-leading designer and manufacturer of telematics products, with a product portfolio consisting of antennas, smart antennas, connectivity devices and integrated reception systems designed to meet the multiple communications requirements of modern vehicles. Laird also offers electromagnetic interference (EMI), public safety, thermal management and embedded wireless solutions for the connected vehicle. Our solutions cover a wide variety of applications including data transfer, infotainment systems, Wi-Fi access point, LED lighting, vehicle and diagnostic systems, collision avoidance and wireless charging. 

Sirius XM Radio broadcasts commercial-free music, sports, comedy, news, talk, and Latin programming via satellite to vehicles from every major automaker.  In addition, SiriusXM’s unparalleled audio entertainment is available to customers online at siriusxm.com and via smartphones and other connected devices.  SiriusXM also delivers a broad range of traffic, weather and entertainment information via satellite to radios and navigation units in cars, trucks, RV, boats and planes.  SiriusXM has the ability to combine existing satellite and mobile data networks to expand coverage beyond traditional cellular-based telematics services.

Concannon Business Consulting (CBC) is an organization focused on building an actionable path to reach strategic goals. Keeping business and technology realities at the forefront of our work, we help our clients drive meaningful results over time, balancing ideal outcomes with real value today. With an emphasis in the automotive telematics space, CBC team members bring practical knowledge and hands on experience related to the full lifecycle of telematics products in-market.  Learn more at www.concannonbc.com.  

iBiquity Digital Corporation is the developer of HD Radio Technology, which is fueling the digital radio revolution in the United States and around the world. The digital technology enables broadcasters to offer new HD2/HD3 FM channels through multicasting, crystal-clear sound and data service on both the AM and FM bands - all free, with no subscription fee. Leading broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, automakers and retailers are committed to HD Radio Technology. iBiquity Digital is a privately held company with operations in Columbia, MD, Auburn Hills, MI, and Piscataway, NJ. For more information, please visit www.hdradio.com and www.ibiquity.com.

RACO Wireless (www.racowireless.com) is a leading provider of wireless data solutions to the machine-to-machine (M2M) industry. The company specializes in delivering wireless data your way by making it easy for companies to build, support and enhance wireless M2M applications. RACO Wireless can assemble a flexible, end-to-end M2M wireless connectivity solution for its partners - including delivering custom rate plans, tailored billing solutions and customized wireless connectivity as well as helping them brand their M2M applications and delivering 24/7 customer service. Among its numerous awards, RACO Wireless has been recognized with a Stevie® Award from the American Business Awards as 2012's "Most Innovative Tech Company" and as the "2012 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year" by Frost and Sullivan. 

Sprint is a leader in the Machine-to-Machine market, offering a wide range of solutions to the automotive, insurance and transportation industries, to name a few. Sprint is recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative capabilities, including Sprint Velocity, the company’s groundbreaking mobile integration solution for vehicle manufacturers worldwide. Sprint supports fully customized M2M solutions with network-agnostic technologies (including CDMA, 3G, 4G, Tier 1 IP and Sprint-branded global connectivity to 180 countries); specialized engineering teams; an open, collaborative approach; and an expansive M2M partner ecosystem. Sprint M2M tools include Command Center and the Collaboration Center in Burlingame, CA. Please visit www.sprint.com/m2m

INRIX^®is the leading global traffic intelligence platform leveraging big data analytics to reduce the individual, economic and environmental toll of traffic congestion. Through cutting-edge data intelligence and predictive traffic technologies, INRIX helps leading automakers, fleets, governments and news organizations make it easier for drivers to navigate their world. Our vision is simple – to solve traffic, empower drivers, inform planning and enhance commerce.  Whether through an in-car or smartphone navigation application, a local newscast or our INRIX Traffic app, our traffic information and driver services help more than 150 million drivers save time, fuel and frustration every day. 

Bsquare: Delivering Innovative Connected Car Solutions.  Bsquare empowers OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers to quickly bring innovative, high quality connected automotive systems to market. The result is innovative IVI/HMI/Telematics systems that meet automotive quality, reliability and durability standards while delighting motorists around the world. Bsquare leverages its deep embedded systems experience, expertise and ecosystem to create new connections with customers, new business models and enable new ways of working and communicating. Bsquare serves customers by forging connections among the partners, people, tools and technology needed to create smart connected systems.

Luxoft is an award-winning developer of high-end automotive software solutions for the world’s leading automakers and suppliers. Luxoft provides custom software development services and helps its clients create advanced solutions for in-car infotainment, connected navigation, car connectivity, apps integration, telematics, ADAS, driver workload management and HMI design. Luxoft stays on the cutting edge of innovation and is an active member of GENIVI Alliance and Car Connectivity Consortium that help define tomorrow’s technology standards. Luxoft consistently goes beyond clients’ expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation and highest quality standards. Learn more by visiting us online at www.luxoft.com/automotive.

Telefónica, a telecommunications leader, provides its customers the best M2M solutions backed by its global scale and the best communications network and in partnership with market leaders such as Masternaut, Jasper Wireless and Telit. Telefónica leads an alliance of operators to better serve customers worldwide. Onstar, G4S, Generali and DELL already trust Telefónica m2m services.

With 12 years in M2M, Telit’s innovations include the “Family” and “Unified-Form-Factor” concepts and the most sensitive GPS receiver. As M2M’s One-stop shop, it offers a portfolio of cellular, short-range, and GNSS modules, and through m2mAIR, value-added services, including connectivity, leveraging its unique access into the cellular modules.  m2mAIR resources and connectivity are tailored specifically for the needs and requirements of M2M and its services  add unique business value through enhanced network performance, cost control, security, and troubleshooting. Telit’s customer support for design-in and m2mAIR are available from sales and support offices, distributor network , and the Technical Support Forum.

The Talksum Data Stream Router handles massive amounts of data to empower data management and analytics solutions for the automotive industry’s vehicle sensor data. 

Through its real-time processing and routing capabilities, which include aggregating, filtering, enriching, and reducing data, Talksum quickly and efficiently routes data to where it’s needed and in the format it’s needed. The easy-to-adopt solution aggregates, correlates, and reduces data on the fly. This shrinks storage needs and eliminates the latency of batch processing, resulting in streamlined data delivery and significant performance boosts with less infrastructure.

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iGATE is a ~$1 billion organization providing product & engineering solutions, consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services differentiated by a Business Outcomes-based business model.
iGATE’s Product & Engineering Solutions Group focused on automotive sector specializes in diverse domains such as Infotainment, Telematics, Body Electronics and Chassis, Powertrain, and Safety. It’s Automotive Infotainment & Telematics practice offers single-stop services covering the end-to-end spectrum of the product development lifecycle across four key disciplines i.e. Digital Entertainment, Device Compatibility, Human Machine Interface, and Navigation. Leading OEMs and Tier 1 companies have chosen iGATE as a co-innovation and product development partner to accelerate time-to-market, reduce the cost of product development and optimize product quality.

As one of the world’s leading telecom operators, with mobile networks in 33 countries and services in 220 countries and territories, we deliver best-in-class M2M connectivity and cloud based computing & data hosting, together with infotainment user-centric applications, advanced NFC solutions and smart payment for transportation. We handle your complex projects while at the same time complying with regulatory requirements. 

From the way we communicate with people to the way we interact with the things around us, mobile changes everything. And Qualcomm is helping shape this new, connected world… engineering ground-breaking mobile chipsets and software… developing enabling technologies such as augmented reality, ad-hoc networking and context awareness… and creating solutions to tackle the growing demand for mobile

Visteon is a leading global automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative climate, electronics and interior products for vehicle manufacturers. With corporate offices in Van Buren Township, Mich. (U.S.); Shanghai, China; and Chelmsford, UK; the company has facilities in 28 countries and employs approximately 22,000 people. Learn more at www.visteon.com.

Xtime is the leading cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and scheduling platform for automotive manufacturers and automotive service departments. It is committed to helping the industry deliver high quality service to customers who demand convenience, value and trust from their dealers.  Xtime pioneered a fully integrated, cloud-based platform for its ServiceCRM™ product, allowing it to deliver the most innovative solutions for service departments required by today’s automotive industry leaders.  The introduction of ServiceTab™ gives service advisors the power of Xtime in a mobile, tablet-based solution that allows them to meet their customers on the service drive and provide higher levels of transparency and trust.