Keynotes

The essential annual Telematics market update 2008 exclusive European focus: formulae that really work!

The Telematics industry is gaining ground rapidly in Europe. Connected automobiles are revolutionising the industry and are offering strategic opportunities. Hear how embracing true convergence will create market leaders; ensure continuous innovation in the automotive, consumer electronics (CE) and Location-Based-Services (LBS) industries and generate fresh revenue streams for companies.

• Get a comprehensive overview on the connected vehicle opportunity for automakers and the value-chain in order to understand how to adopt technologies, utilise business opportunities and act on market demands
• How to understand and differentiate the European consumers’ connectivity and telematics services needs
• Understand the creative business models and the unique roles created by digital innovation and see how this will help you expand your latest telematics offerings
• Be the first to hear about which companies will lead and which will follow in order to strike-up key alliances & partnerships before you are left by the wayside

Thilo Koslowski, Vice President Automotive and Vehicle ICT - Manufacturing Industry Advisory Service, Gartner, Inc.

Embracing convergence and maximising the opportunities provided by the connected car

• Take the guesswork out of your business plan and learn how market leaders are building strategies to maximise opportunities from connected automobiles.
• Understand the leading OEMs’, service providers’, suppliers’ and web-based companies’ vision and motivation for developing the connected car and see how you can profit from their collective strategy
• Find out how to embrace cross-industry convergence and benefit from using crossindustry partners such as internet and/or travel companies
• Building successful partnerships and new business models: will OEMs carry on working closely with traditional suppliers or will they adopt new business models? Make sure you know what’s on the radar so you can stay ahead of the curve

Panel Chair: Thilo Koslowski, Vice President Automotive and Vehicle ICT - Manufacturing Industry Advisory Service, Gartner, Inc.
Paola Carrea, Director, Magneti Marelli
Francesco Lilli, Program Manager, Centro Ricerche Fiat
Herbert Halamek, Vice President - Business Development and Strategy, Continental

• Everything you need to know about the internal OEM business case for both commercial and consumer vehicles so that you can re-invent your game-plan to retain existing business and win-over new business
• How can OEMs and service providers offer a risk-free portfolio of services that will win consumers’ hearts and unlock their wallets
• Understand the benefits of dynamic service planning and seamless connectivity to see how this can be used to capture and keep fickle consumers

Panel Chair: Joanne Blight, Director, Automotive and Telematics Practice, Strategy Analytics
Martin Rosell, Managing Director, WirelessCar
Dr. Eckhard Steinmeier, Department Manager – ConnectedDrive, BMW
Per Adamsson, Director Strategic Planning Soft Products, Volvo Trucks
Bruno Chazalette, Director Strategic Planning Soft Offer & Fuel, Renault Trucks
Jurgen Sauer, Senior Technology Manager, Novero
Per Lindberg, Business Manager, Automotive, Telenor

Lindsey Mack, Senior Project Manager - Digital Radio, BBC

Willem Duijf, Strategic Marketing Leader, GE

Based on Floating Vehicle Data (FVD) technology, eCall+ tackles the current problems associated with eCall. Altea will lead a powerful session to examine this new concept.

• Understand how eCall+ will open-up a wide range of profitable services by transforming itself into a cost-effective way of re-launching onboard telematics services
• How to strike-up and take advantage of partnerships & alliances between a variety of stakeholders to share data and lower costs dramatically
• See how data can serve as the core of numerous applications to ensure that the value-chain can expand on and deploy cutting edge products and services

Alexander Weiss von Trostprugg, Director of Business Development & Strategic Alliances, Altea

NETWORKING LUNCH

PLENARY SESSIONS & KEYNOTES

Next-generation Telematics business model unveiled!

High fuel costs and changing emission standards are rapidly changing the telematics industry because OEMs and suppliers are driving forward with eco-telematics. Understand how this alters the telematics game-plan and see how the value-chain can exploit this trend.

• Find out which eco-telematics initiatives are already underway and how your services and solutions will need to adopt in order to be a part of this new wave: - eco-navigation - eco-routing - eco monitoring and diagnostics
• Be the first to learn how advanced eco-telematics applications will anticipate driving situations through digitized location-based content and understand why customers will eventually prefer this
• The ultimate payoff in using eco-telematics applications demystified: Services such as flash updates delivered to engines or transmission control modules help OEMs save costs and expand revenue potential. Learn how it’s done

Egil Juliussen PhD, Director and Fellow, Automotive Research Practice, TRG (now part of iSuppli) 

Join the Eco-Telematics revolution: Learn how to update solutions & services to maximise uptake and increase revenue potential

• High fuel costs and changing emission standards is coercing OEMs and suppliers of telematics to move forward with eco-telematics. Hear how it’s being done or your competitors will  beat you to the game
• Discover which eco-telematics initiatives are already underway for ex. eco-navigation and how your solutions and services need to evolve in order to meet eco-guidelines
• Get ready for the eco-revolution: Advanced eco-telematics anticipates driving situations through digitized LBS content. Be the first to learn how this can be achieved

Panel Moderator: Egil Juliussen PhD, Director and Fellow, Automotive Research Practice, TRG (now part of iSuppli)
Tsugo Nobe, General Manager, Nissan
Kevin Link, Vice President, Hughes Telematics
Richard Cornish, Product Manager Smart Insurance, Cobra

Connectivity Evolution: An in-depth look at bringing internet to the car

• In-car internet opens-up a whole new world of technical opportunities for suppliers, content providers and automakers. See how your partners and you can utilise these lucrative opportunities
• Asses the role of human machine interface (HMI) in enabling safe access for internet content inside the car and see how your solutions will need to evolve for this to succeed
• Discuss how to solve some of the biggest challenges for internet in the car, such as, connecting cars while in motion

Lars Schultheiss, Vice President Segment Europe – Interior Division, Continental AG

This super-session will be presented by the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) with a panel of experts, including representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament and emergency services

• Intelligent Car Initiative aims at safer, greener and smarter road transport but what does this mean for Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), OEMs and the valuechain and who will stand to make maximum business gains from this initiative
• Frank answers from EENA and the expert panel of political figures, emergency services representatives, associations and industry leaders about eCall related challenges the telematics industry will face and how you can position your solutions and services to win the day
• Find out how “112,” the European emergency number used when launching an eCall will work and see how this will impact the industry stake-holders

Panel Chair: Jan Malenstein , Chief Inspector, Netherlands’ National Police Agency

SAFESPOT is an integrated project with 52 partners and is partially funded by the European Commission. Hear which aspects of the project offer the biggest application and revenue potential

• Be the first to learn how vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication systems and services are providing a major breakthrough in the vehicle safety and communications industry and see how you can use these developments to your advantage
• V2V communications, precise relative positioning, local dynamic maps will change the face of safe driving. See which technologies, services and applications are in demand so that you can re-vamp your offerings to fit the bill

Roberto Brignolo, Systems & Services Department Manager - Business Line Infomobility & coordinator of the SAFESPOT integrated project, Centro Ricerche Fiat

Rudolf Mietzner, General Manager, CAR-2-CAR

A Telematics View of Europe: Key Issues for Pan-European Telematics Services

There are many views of Europe: as a continent comprised of a plurality of ethnic groups fused into countries; as a political subset of the continent, the European Union.  With an economically revitalised Russia, the political and commercial realities of Europe are changing quickly.  Russia is now the single largest car market country in Europe, having passed Germany three years earlier than had been predicted.  What is an appropriate view of Europe from a telematics perspective?  What are the issues that need to be considered when developing a pan-European telematics strategy for the next decade in this new century?

Issues

• Cross border tracking and retrieval of vehicles
• Data privacy regulations – personal records storage
• Communications functionality
• Emergency service delivery
• Insurance coverage

Moderator: Michael L. Sena , President, Michael L. Sena Consulting AB, Åsa, Sweden   Project Manager for Volvo On Call rollout in fifteen European countries
Dan Vigdor , CEO, AutoLocator
Per Adamsson , Director of Telematics Strategy, Volvo Trucks, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jacques Amselem , Head of Pay-Per-Use Unit / Allianz Group, Trieste, Italy