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NAVIGATION 2005

Programme

The Landscape: Market Demands, GPS Growth and Hardware Requirements

9.00am Introduction: Market Movements

  • Which new technologies are being introduced into the vehicle environment and what opportunities are therefore opened up to stakeholders?
  • Find out who's leading the pack and how they've fought their way to the front
  • A look at true adoption rates end-user interest in location based services
  • What is the real penetration rate of GPS technology on the handset level and which are the critical partnerships you need to develop in order to secure market dominance in navigation service provision?

Harvey Cohen, Founder and President, Strategy Analytics

9.30am Keynote Presentation

Ford Motor Company Case Study - Navigation, the Customer and Improved Product Development

  • What is Ford's understanding of how navigation improves customer satisfaction?
  • How can you provide new functionality by seizing the opportunity to build on the navigation platform?
  • Creating more flexible systems - Discover how time-to-market can be improved by providing connectivity to new customer electronic devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, etc.


Presented by Dave McNamara, Manager Advanced Infotainment, Research & Advanced Eng, Ford Motor Company


Paper co-authored with Mark Porter, Supervisor Navigation Systems, Elect./Elec. Systems Engrg., Ford Motor Company

10.15am Plenary Panel Discussion

Hardware Trends - Latest Models and Integration Challenges

  • Leading experts discuss the trends, future challenges and opportunities ahead for navigation hardware and software
  • Understand where the biggest opportunities lie for the value chain members with the discreet introduction of new technologies into the vehicle environment – from Bluetooth to GPS and UWB (Ultra Wide Band)
  • Satellite and Digital Radio – with radio becoming an increasingly more important content delivery channel for the vehicle, find out how this will shape your future opportunities and how you can ensure you stay ahead of the curve

 

Thilo Koslowski, VP and Lead Analyst

Gartner G2

Dave Marsh, Director, Navigation Products

Cobra Electronics

Roderick MacKenzie , Director, Advanced Application

XM Satellite Radio

Marc Prioleau, Director of Marketing, Consumer & Enterprise Segments SiRF Technologies

11.00 Coffee Break
Buyer-Seller Relationships: End User and Car maker

11.20 The Wall Street Perspective on the Car Navigation Market

  • Projections for car navigation systems and aftermarket navigation devices in the U.S. and Europe
  • Drivers of market growth and increased penetration rates
  • Overview of public market valuations of telematics/navigation companies
  • Discussion of where investors are ascribing the most value in the telematics/navigation supply chain

Peter C. Friedland

CFA and Managing Director - Equity Research

Fulcrum Global Partners LLC

11.50 Panel Discussion: On board Navigation Units – Trends and Partnership Opportunities

  • As carmakers move to include navigation systems as standard options across product ranges, find out the opportunities opened up to the multiple stakeholders, from wireless carriers to device makers, cellular manufacturers to map providers
  • With onboard navigation systems becoming more hybrid, what are the new services opened up to service providers? -   From dynamic route guidance to location based services
  • How real is the threat to the embedded system from handheld navigation products flooding the aftermarket?
  • Product Liability – How will product safety and ease of use be ensured when consumer devices are integrated into the vehicle?

Jeff McGannon, Vice President OEM Business Development

iBiquity Digital

Roger Dewey, VP, The Americas M2M Com
Sony Ericsson

Cliff Fox, VP & General Manager Vehicle Applications

NAVTEQ

12.30 Networking Lunch

14.00 Keynote Case Study

A case study of the 2005 AcuraRL - First US Navigation system with real time data traffic display

  • Understand the true capabilities of a sophisticated hybrid navigation system that combines powerful onboard navigation data base with the capability to link to the most updated traffic information
  • Managing the real-time data challenge - which are the cost effective ways to provide real time traffic to embedded systems?
  • How to coordinate sources for a consistent traffic data feed for the major metros
  • A look at vehicle interfaces to the navigation system
  • Defining the challenges of fee structures: monthly, per use or embedded in vehicle cost
  • How do you design the Customer Care loop? - Managing customer expectations

Dan Appa
Assistant Manager, Telematics Business Development
American Honda Motor Co., Inc

Roderick MacKenzie

Director, Advanced Application

XM Satellite Radio

Handheld Portable Device Navigation

14.45 Panel Discussion: Portable Device Integration: Offboard Navigation - Threat or stop gap solution?

 

  • Personal Telematics – How real is the threat of cutting out the car manufacturer and system supplier from the navigation value chain when portable device manufacturers partner with service operators and map providers?
  • The new TSP - With wireless carriers jostling to become the next telematics service provider find out how this will shake up the industry playing field – and where does that leave the other stakeholders?
  • GPS Challenge - After all the hype, what are the true adoption rates of GPS enabled smart mobile devices as navigation products?
  • Integration Challenge - Device integration and interface with in-vehicle networks has always been a key issue. A look at the current protocol systems used to connect these disparate systems
  • Opportunities and Challenges – what is the status with device functionality, human machine interface and multiple model harmonization with in-vehicle environments?

Craig Creason
Business Development Manager, Automotive and Telematics
Sprint

Bill Schwegler, Founder and Senior Vice President Strategic Alliances

Telcontar

Mike Masnick, Founder
Techdirt

Moderator: Dave Wood, President, David Wood Associates

Aftermarket Sales Channel Challenges and Opportunities Ahead

15.30 Panel Discussion: The Aftermarket Roll-Out

With in-vehicle phone solutions and GPS enabled navigation as bright spots for the aftermarket and OEM supplier, we look at the opportunities and challenges ahead

  • The Aftermarket Sales channels – What real impact is the sale of aftermarket navigation products having on the adoption of navigation products?
  • Assessing retailer commitment – Find out how much retailers who sell into the automotive aftermarket are stepping up their commitment to these categories?
  • Seamless connection and interface - With the adoption in-vehicle network standards – what are new opportunities opened for aftermarket products to integration with factory OEM telematics and navigation devices?

Michael Manske, Business Team Leader, Mobile Audio
Best Buy Co., Inc.

Joseph F. D'Angelo, Vice President, Advanced Services
iBiquity Digital

Peter-Frans Pauwels, Chief Technical Officer
TomTom

Paul Drysch, President of Sales
Aeris.net

Moderator
Steve Wollenberg, Founder and Vice President, Marketing
Circumnav Networks

16.15 End of Day One - Informal Drinks

DAY 2

Consumer Expectation and Location Based Services

9.00am Responding to the Voice of the Consumer - Overview of the Navigation Market


  • Types of navigation solutions and their value proposition - embedded versus portable/handheld
  • Penetration of navigation systems and market potential
    - embedded versus portable
    - OE versus aftermarket
  • Product and technology trends
    - Static versus dynamic navigation
    - Autonomous versus hybrid
    - Stand-alone versus integrated systems
    - Hard disc drive based systems

Veerender Kaul
Program Manager, Advanced Automotive Technologies
Frost & Sullivan

9.45am Panel Discussion: Mapping Collaborations between Wireless Carriers and Hand Held Device Manufacturers

 

  • Carrier Power – Where do wireless carriers feature in the vehicle navigation value chain? Mere infrastructure providers or are they shaping up to be Telematics Service Providers of the future?
  • Service Provision - Which types of services are being offered to their customer and what does the future hold?
  • Price: Billing: Costs - Pay monthly subscriptions and emerging pay-per-use plans – how is the billing infrastructure being addressed for services delivered direct from the carrier via a handheld GPS enabled product?

Jocelyn Vigreux, President, TomTom, Inc.

Stephen Petilli, CEO, Networks In Motion, Inc.

Moderator: Derek Kerton, Principal, The Kerton Group

10.15am Networking Break

10.45am Panel Discussion: Location Based Services - Roll Out and Adoption rates

  • Profiting from opportunities in LBS? –  Which are the kinds of services end-users request most frequently, how they will be delivered and what are the emerging opportunities opened up for the navigation market?
  • Status of LBS – Evaluate current applications and services and their impact on the market. What are the key challenges that must be met to achieve profitability?
  • Integration Challenges – hear from industry experts as they look at overcoming the hurdles of technological and network coverage set-backs
  • Actual Revenue generation - With the Telecom industry still finding it hard to generate extra revenue from data services which business models are likely to be adopted?

Mary Foltz, Director, Location Solutions Product Line Mgmt

Nextel Communications, Inc.

Clay Collier, Principal

Akua Control

Lee Callaway, VIAMOTO Project Lead

Motorola

Sal Dhanani, Director, Product Marketing and Strategic Alliances Televigation

Moderator: Derek Kerton, Principal, The Kerton Group

11.30 The Quest for Standardisation - How emerging standards are creating new opportunities for hardware and services

 

  • Examine emerging and evolving standards for geospatial data, map databases, software and services, and wireless communications
  • Assess the role of emerging government initiatives and assess how these serve as a catalyst for increased commercial support of LBS services, and assess the need for standards to accelerate adoption and deployment
  • Determine what roles companies should play in the standards process and how they can become actively involved
  • Discuss and compare ad hoc standards activities versus formal SDO activities; explain how each approach supports the industry, why these apparently competing approaches are actually complimentary, and where they may need to be harmonized

Plenary Roundtable Discussion hosted by:

Scott Andrews, Managing Partner
Cogenia Partners LLC

Dr. Wieland Holfelder, VP & CTO of Research Department
DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc.


Bert Jakubs, Senior Manager of Database Product Management
Tele Atlas North America

 

12.30 Lunch
Next step for Navigation – Real Time Traffic information delivery

13.30 Panel Discussion: Road /Vehicle Communication Infrastructure: Delivering Traffic Updates

Learn how government led intelligent transport system programs that ask for the integration of GSM and GPS in the vehicle opens up any new opportunities for value chain members

 

  • Meeting the demand - How can you meet the number one challenge of delivering geographically linked, personalized traffic information directly to the driver?
  • Data availability - Traffic data currently rolls out as and when available, how soon will a single source flow of scheduled and un-scheduled traffic updates to the driver appear? Which new opportunities are then opened to players?
  • Managing the data in the gateway – Which data management models offers the most accurate, timely delivery of information to the driver? From call centres to central servers
  • Synchronization challenge - how will multi channel data, such as traffic information, weather updates and renewed map data, be delivered into the vehicle efficiently and cost effectively across the multiple channels?
  • Real time data access - What are the emerging mechanisms that allow data update in real time: A look at the benefits and complications of Wi-Fi

Greg Larson, P.E.

Chief Office of Traffic Operations Research
Division of Research and Innovation
California Department of Transportation

Chris Wilson
VP, ITS Strategy & Programs
DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology

14.15 To Be Confirmed
           Traffic Management Roundtable

            Led by SmartRoute/Westwood One

  • Connecting the car to the external road system – Understand where the business opportunities lie. How big an opportunity is this for players in the Navigation market?
  • New Developments – Where are the major opportunity segments for navigation service providers and telematics vendors?
  • Partnering for Success - Which are the value chain members you should be partnering with who can offer real benefit in the endeavour to deliver traffic information?
  • Developing your strategy - How can vendors and service providers position themselves to prepare for this market explosion?
15.00 End of Conference

 

 
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