Navigation & Location

Innovative business approaches to intelligent navigation with traffic

• Discuss how to integrate traffic information on on-board, off board and hybrid systems
• Learn what consumers really want by examining innovative business models based on market-research and consumer feedback to drive adoption beyond traditional navigation systems
• Accuracy, coverage, price, flexibility? Discover the key criteria companies use in selecting their traffic navigation partners
• Get the inside scoop on what it takes to seamlessly integrate dynamic traffic into intelligent routing
• Gain insight into the pros and cons of one-way and two-way network connectivity options, such as RDS, HD Radio, Satellite, GPRS, Voice, Data-over-voice - for delivering dynamic navigation and content to the vehicle

Bryan Mistele , President & CEO, INRIX
Mark Scalf , Product and Business Development, Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Ford Motor Company
Gary Money , Navigation Architect, Delphi Automotive
Alan Beiagi, General Manager Wireless, Mapquest
Moderator: Clint Wheelock , Vice President, ABI Research

Sustainable gains from Location Based Services (LBS) - opportunities and obstacles en route

• Asses the latest partnership models between device makers, search-engines and content providers and discover which partnerships will rule the market
• Hear how to provide access to and support rich advertising content on mobile devices through open-source .Discuss the threat and the opportunities this presents to platform developers
• Hedge your bets on which content will rake-in the dollar: traffic, weather, gas prices, parking space, news alerts and local search
• Discus how serch-engines will capture the local search market

Michael Lawless, Product Manager - Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo!
Marshall Kwait, Marketing Manager, Infotainment, Multimedia & Telematics operation, Microcontroller Solutions Group, Freescale Semiconductor
Christian Solomine, Channel Development, WeatherBug
Scott Dunlap, CEO, NearbyNow

Moderator: Roger Lanctot, Senior Analyst, Telematics Research Group

Networking Coffee Break

How to build a highly effective business model for connected navigation

• Discuss the business models for subscription based navigation services
• The relationship between web companies, device manufactures and content providers will re-vamp the business model for the navigation industry. Learn how to gauge and exploit the resulting opportunities
• Discuss the impact of wireless connectivity on interactive navigation
• On, off, hybrid – debate strategies to overcome prickly relationship issues with wireless carriers when it comes to pre-installed device applications verses connected services

Patrick Kennedy, Senior Business Development Manager, MSN Direct

Clint Steiner, Senior Manager OEM Automotive Sales, Garmin
Hakan Kostepen, Chief Product Strategist, Panasonic
Christian Solomine, Channel Development, WeatherBug
John Young, Product Marketing Manager, Airbiquity
Clay Babcock, Sr Director, Advanced Technologies, Magellan

Moderator: Diana Hwang, Research Manager, IDC

Cocktails

The relentless fight for market dominance – is a winner emerging?

• Dicuss the business models for subscription based navigation services
• The relationship between web companies, device manufactures and content porivders will re-vamp the business model for the navigation industry. Learn how to guage and exploit the resulting opportunities
• Discuss the impact of wirless connectivity on interactive navigation
• On, off, hybrid- debate stratergies to overcome prickly relationship issues with wirless carriers when it comes to pre-installed device applications versus connected services

Speakers:

Andreas Hecht, President of the Americas, Navigon
Andrew Herbert, Area Vice President, Industry Solutions, Mobility Application Consulting Group, AT&T
Theodore Forbath, Chief Strategist & Practice Leader, Global Product Strategy & Architecture Practice, Wipro Technologies
Robert Acker, Senior VP of Marketing, Dash Navigation Inc.
Tom Taylor, Vice President – Engineering, Hughes Telematics

Moderator: Dominique Bonte, Principal Analyst, ABI Research

How to unlock the massive profits the value-chain can make from digital mapping services

Digital maps are changing to embrace dynamic information. As personalization, connectivity, content and communitymapping continue to take-off; the industry has to solve the challenge of delivering information-rich devices and services.

• How can you customize your solutions and introduce functionality that serves the unique tastes and lifestyles of customers.
• Web 2.0 technologies such as mash-ups, blogs, wikis etc. make it easy for consumers to share location based information. Hear how the digital map industry will deal with the challenge of verifying user-generated content
• Take a look at map updates for different devices, understand the challenges and learn how to overcome it

Tiffany Treacy, VP, Map Products- Americas, NAVTEQ

Dr Suchith Anand, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham
Jonathon Husby, Vice President of Automotive, Telematics & Transportation, Tele Atlas

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

Deliver reliable and robust traffic solutions successfully

• Learn how to increase data accuracy and delivery when the roads don’t have sensors, i.e. from public sources and commercial vehicles
• Get the inside scoop on what it takes to seamlessly integrate dynamic content overlays, including real-time, historical and predictive into intelligent routing
• Can probe data alone resolve the issue of real time traffic data?
• How to judge traffic data quality to ensure you win the battle for traffic data domination

Len Konecny, Vice President, Business Development, Clear Channel Radio
Mike Bryars, Senior Manager, Infotainment, Multimedia and Telematics division, Microcontroller Solutions Group, Freescale Semiconductor

Marc Prioleau, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, deCarta

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

Networking Coffee Break

Round Tables Hall C