Infotainment

The mouth-watering future of infotainment

• Hear which navigation applications, telematics services and entertainment features will give infotainment a massive boost
• Discuss how to make uninterrupted internet connectivity, communication between vehicles with associated messages to drivers and intelligent location based services a reality
• Discuss how to enable complete infotainment solutions to be 'just another node' on the global internet or intranet network

Mr Antonio Damiano, Telematics Full Multimedia Product Development Responsible, Magneti Marelli
Vincent Rerolle, SVP and GM Linux Division , Wind River
Andrew Poliak, Automotive Segment Manager , QNX

Thomas Frommann, Infotainment System Architect, BMW

Joachim Kobinger, Senior Vice President, Product Engingeering NA/FE, Harman/ Becker

Hakan Kostepen, Group Manager - Product Planning & Strategy, Panasonic

Panel Host & Moderator: Panel Host & Moderator: Ton Steenman, Vice President Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation

Next-generation interactive services to serve as the “Infotainment” channel unveiled!

• Discuss the best ways of using telematics as a channel for receiving new entertainment and information services to the car, such as, internet programming, new interactive services like music and video “tagging”
• YouTube, Internet video and downloadable movies are some of the new features customers demand in-car - discuss the emerging business models which will be used to satisfy consumer demands
• How to overcome digital rights management (DRM) interoperability issues caused by the latest technologies

Mike Bergman, VP of New Digital Technologies, Kenwood
Louis Brugman, General Manager, Product Planning, Pioneer

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

Dave McLauchlan, Business Development Manager, Microsoft

Moderator: Dave McNamara, Principal, McNamara MTS LLC

Networking Coffee Break

Exploit the future capabilities of connected in-car device integration

• Integrating consumer electronic devices (CED) in the vehicle poses challenges – how to overcome challenges such as mismatch in CED, changing CED etc.
• Discuss how to balance customer expectation of vehicle feature performance versus CED performance
• Hear why customers really want vehicle internet for WiFi portable devices and understand how best to connect multiple WiFi devices simultaneously.
• Discuss the diverging content delivery needs for the car and mobile environments and the unique requirements the storage industry will see in the coming years
• Discuss how to solve some of the biggest challenges for internet in the vehicle, such as, connecting cars while in motion.

Brian Droessler, Director, Continental Connectivity Business

Rajiv Saxena, Team Leader - Hands-Free Comm & CE Device Connectivity Products, Chrysler
Anthony Kraatz, Manager, Alpine Electronics of America
Scott Wright, Product Manager, Toshiba
Jay Adams, Marketing Manager, Delphi

Renesas (TBC)

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

With motorists spending longer time in their cars and requiring connectivity to their portable devices,  where do we visualize the future of in-car infotainment?

Walter Sullivan, Program Manager, Microsoft ABU

Elektrobit (Speaker TBA)

Continental (Speaker TBA)

Magneti Marelli (Speaker TBA)

Moderator: Dave McNamara , Principal, McNamara MTS LLC

Cocktails

Your Carrier as you Partner

1. The Foundation is there - Network infrastructure maturity
2. The Knowledge is there - A Better Understanding of Network Utilization and Device Performance
3. The Focus is there - Better Support for Both Service and Hardware

John Horn, National Director, TMobile

See how rear-seat entertainment features will drive-up your profits

• Discuss the issues arising from the intergrating consumer electronic devices in the back-seat of the car
• How will the digital mobile TV be embedded in the rear-seat of the car?
• How to influence the current consumer demand to increase the adoption of rear-seat infotainment features
• Which serivces and applications will change by bringing internet to the car to change the landscape of rear-seat entertainment and how monetize this
• What are the latest products, solutions and serivices that will set the standard in rear-seat entertainment

Robert Bucciarelli, Senior program manager of the North American innovation team, Visteon
Debashis Mukharjee, General Manager, Passenger Centric Applications, Wipro Technologies
Hakan Kostepen, Group Manager - Product Planning & Strategy, Panasonic

Tucker Snedeker, Executive Director, TV Guide Mobile Entertainment

Moderator: Veerender Kaul, Research Director, North America, Automotive & Transportation, Frost & Sullivan

Explore the convergence of the ‘4 Cs'- Cars, Computers, Communications and Consumer Electronics

This exclusive presentation by Nissan will give an up-todate insight into the future direction of car IT & telematics and an update on Nissan Carwings’ services.

• Analyze the benefits of telematics 2.0 and measure the influence it can have on your existing systems and services
• What are the common restrictions of using in-car internet and how to over-come the restrictions to have complete real-time connectivity
• Understand the diversified needs of telematics in different global markets to ensure your products meet regional requirements

Tsuguo Nobe, General Manager, Nissan

Networking Coffee Break

Round Tables Hall C