• Fleet management in the IT hierarchy – is vehicle tracking a solution or a plug-in? Integrating into the back-office is a single customer, single project business. Discover the pain/gain arguments for and against taking this approach with your offering

• Contracted transportation is a market with high growth potential but vast complexity. Get an update on the markets shift to increasingly specialised solutions and the types of different stakeholder requirements and pain points winning fleet management systems need to address

• Take a closer look at what information the different customer groups want to monitor (e.g. truck, trailer, cargo, driver or order completion process), what they want to do with the information and what the problems are that they need their tracking systems to solve

• Discuss what type of fleets have real need for real-time data and which don't
• How can fleet managers requirements be met without needing a real time connection? Discuss alternative solutions such as end-of-day downloads to applications and services like fuel cost management, insurance risk management, driver behaviour analysis or maintenance scheduling
• Would cutting out the wireless carriers increase your potential client base?
• Understand how to profit from the growing availability of short range wireless solutions to offer complete transportation solutions and make integration across the supply chain easier

• Pan-European delivery - initial system design and how to make the right development choices that will enable a system to deliver a seamless solution across borders
• Get an insight on current SIM capabilities - how to ensure best service availability regardless of local network frequency through intelligent multi-band switching
• Seamless roaming- how to develop an effective partnership strategy as the co-operation between European operators gets deeper and deeper
• Discover the depth of service that can be offered by centralizing your communications solutions e.g. a single point of contact for support and a single service level agreement for the whole of European deployment

• One box, many solutions - hear details on why IBM is developing a device highly adaptable to multiple applications including not just fleet management and transport tracking but usage based insurance and toll collection
• Discover how to integrate key functionalities like - remote vehicle monitoring, performance diagnostics, multiplexed wiring or truck-body integration software into one box
• Software building blocks – get an update on the Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) that groups logically related technology components, supports evolving standards and enables flexible, clean interfaces between modules
• Meeting OEM specifications get the low-down on the required benchmarks for quality and reliability of data

• Get best practices tips on how to integrate Carrier® and ThermoKing® refrigerated trailers, monitor unacceptable temperature variances, fuel shortages, low battery levels, and hundreds of refrigeration unit fault codes of varying priority and how to report serious fault codes to management via e-mail and text message alerts
• Learn from PAR's experience working with US DOT on Intermodal chassis tracking how to: reduce fleet sizes, reduce chassis repositioning efforts, reduces intermodal chassis write offs, reduce intermodal chassis mismanagement and misuse, and mitigate manual in yard counts

• Transform data formats – learn how to apply Semantic Data Recognition to transform EDI, flatfile, voice, fax, email, PDF or any other format into clean and validated data ready for any clients ERP system
• Overcome the messaging mine field – XML, UN EDIFACT, ANSI X12, Odette, Elemica and more – discover how to work with any-to-any messaging solutions that will put electronic information exchange in reach of even small and medium sized enterprises
• Learn how to implement the two key selling points that could get more corporations using fleet management systems:
• deep integration between front and back office without requiring the user to buy new software and/or hardware and
• superfast connection to new trading partners and integration with their IT systems

• Discover how user friendly software applications are tuned to translate over-the-air collected data about trips, vehicles and drivers into exception based informationDiscover how user friendly software applications are tuned to translate over-the-air collected data about trips, vehicles and drivers into exception based information
• Learn how new sources of data, such as the FMS Canbus, the digital tachograph, sensors and GPS position coordinates enable operational process control with the aim to improve quality and to reduce cost
• Find out how modern Fleet Management Systems can operate with or without a driver interface and fully monitor the operation whilst supporting integration with other software applications including dynamic scheduling
  

Wim Foederer, Director Marketing, Qualcomm

• Get the latest update on the development of the standard application interface proposed by the MSI group – aiming to facilitate data integration across multiple tracking systems
• Transportation companies do not have the time or knowledge to integrate systems – hear what can be done to enable systems that require little or no in-house expertise from the user
• Beyond benchmark information – how to encourage user organizations to innovate using the combined capabilities of mobile, stationary, and embedded asset tracking

Magnus Andersson, Telematics Group Researcher, Viktoria Institute

- How important are "interoperability", "end-to-end control" and "real-time" for you and your customers?

- What is the impact on the partners in the supply chain - and on "trucks & trailers" in particular?

- Where is complexity actually required and how to make it easier on the user ? Can lowering requirements facilitate acceptance and/or implementation?

- Who owns the data, who owns the box? And who is responsible for the implementation?

Moderator: Dr Werner Schulz, Senior Business Consultant, Logica CMG

Brian Bolam, President, OmPrompt Ltd

Mark Bedeman, Business Development Director, IBM Tailoring Fleet

Wim Foederer, Director Marketing, Qualcomm
Nick Hunn, CTO, Ezurio

John W. Sammon III, Vice President and General Manager, PAR Logistics

DAY TWO 9.00 - 18.00

• Hear results on a study of vehicle theft across 15 European countries, including statistical breakdowns on number of thefts, insurance costs and more
• Find out which European countries are the best markets for after-theft tracking solutions through a comparison of various national transport crime programmes
• The technology providers role - discover how the L.I.V (National Vehicle Crime Information Centre) enables operational information exchange between co-operating parties in the Dutch system e.g. Police, Insurance companies, technical inspection centres, Secure Operating Centres (SOC), road tax department and more
• Cross borders – Understand how the information is exchanged both nationally and internationally between security providers, SOCs, fleet owners, Europol and Interpol and how you can play a role in improving the communication

• Hear a discussion on the latest European supply chain crime trends and statistics, with an examination of the role of telematics security functions and common industry standards (e.g. TAPA)
• Safe parking of trucks - attacks on high value cargo and vehicles are on the rise, discover how the EU SETPOS project is establishing a network of secure truck parking sites and associated services such as an ICT based guidance and reservation system
• Discover the benefits and challenges of using innovative pay-as-you go inland container web services, based on PDA and Portal software, to help shipping and haulage companies to deal with the challenges of port growth traffic, terrorism and theft

Moderator: Guus Wesselink, Director, AVc Foundation for Tackling Vehicle Crime in the Netherlands

Pontus All, Transport Services, Volvo Technology
Dr. Ursula Wucher, Project Manager, Move & Park SAS
Neil Garland, Director, ContainerPort
Mark Schwarz, Commercial Director, Eurowatch

• Navteq / Nokia, what will it change for you? what will be the upside for the industry at large?
• Make the business case for integrated navigation
  - 5 tips to create a successful form of navigation for the enterprise
  - Learn how to integrated navigation with the customer IT, fleet management, scheduling or tracking systems through case studies in the utilities and logistics industry
• Truck attributes and specialist maps: filling a need or creating a competitive advantage?
  - differences between LCV, MCV, HCV users; current trends/penetration in the service, utilities and long-haul industries
• How to solve restraints to adopt integrated navigation;
• Analyse the benefits of integrated navigation per industry and dissect the main components of the ROI

Benoît Vaillé, Marketing Manager Enterprise Europe, NAVTEQ Europe BV    

• ADAS applications require higher positional accuracy and a greater level of detail than that available from current map providers. Hear how data collected by public road sector organisations can fill the gaps for information such as slope, curvature, banking, bridge heights, speed limits, vehicle type restrictions and more
• Discover how using the GDF (Geographical Data File) specification - a data model in wide use by the in-vehicle systems sector – digital map data can be integrated and used for in-vehicle ADAS applications

This session will look at the case of the Walkers fleet carrying crisps around the UK with their 600 drivers. The fleet has been using driver monitoring technology for 6 years and is a test case of how driver management can be used to save fuel.

The session look at

·       How to promote the use of driver performance monitoring as an environmental sale

·       5 tips to ensure  bio fuels  short term gains don't distract operators away from telematics?

·       Learn how to better illustrate  the environmental benefits of driver performance monitoring

·       Solve the key objections to individual drivers environmental monitoring: time constraints, system investment costs and cultural change

Andy Walker, Head of Sales and Marketing, Btrack

• Discuss how software only diagnostic can save you cash on installation, implementation and maintenance
• Discover how to use the system to first optimise fuel efficiency and when needed control and reduce environmental impact
• Demonstrate Euro IV standards compliance: how to ensure future systems provide legal proof of emissions at a glance
  

This session discusses how to make the green case for fleet management systems

• Discuss which type of carriers are under vast pressure to limit their emissions
• Highlight the drivers pushing fleet owners to monitor emission and fuel consumption and discuss the best solutions to let them do that - from biofuel to flow meters
• Define the regulations that count today and look at what is coming
• Compare and contrast the reliability of the different fuel monitoring systems available today. Can the CanBus be trusted?
• Discuss other national or regional project that will influence or push the issue forward: Low emission zones, localized air quality controlled area, local authority environmental reporting, CO2 trading schemes…

Moderator: Peter Hayes, freight consultant, Faber Maunsell (Freight Best Practice)

Andy Walker, Head of Sales and Marketing, Btrack

Simon Harris, Commercial Director, Lysanda

Danny Thomas, Squarrel

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