We have hand picked top level executives key to the industry. To see full details of their sessions download the brochure here.
 | Paul Burnley
ITS and Telematics Specialist
SBD
 Speaker Bio | | | Paul graduated from the University of Surrey with a Masters degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has worked with a number of leading suppliers developing cutting-edge automotive electronics. His strong technical background makes him an expert in investigating the operation of in-car and off-board systems, particularly in telematics and connectivity. Paul’s research covers both mature and emerging markets and he is widely regarded as Europe’s foremost expert for tracking legislation in Brazil. | |
 | Paola Carrea
Director - Telematics & Consumer Electronics
Magneti Marelli
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| Stephan Cayet
Responsible for Technical Services
PSA
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| Remi Demerle
Global Business Development Executive
Telenor Connexion
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 | Robert Denaro
Vice President - ADAS
Navteq
Speaker Bio | | | Leading NAVTEQ’s initiative in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Bob is responsible for building this market and business for the company, applying digital maps to automotive driver assistance, active safety, fuel economy and usage-based charging systems to enhance their performance and acceptability to drivers. Bob joined NAVTEQ from Rand McNally & Co. where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Business Solutions, responsible for a broad range of B to B applications and consumer technology products and services. Prior to joining Rand McNally, Bob was Vice President of Motorola’s Consumer Telematics Products, a division he launched after five years heading the company’s GPS business. The unit introduced the first Telematics systems for the automotive industry. Earlier in his career, Bob built Trimble Navigation’s Fleet Management and Vehicle Tracking business and was co-founder of TAU Corporation, a software products company that produced the first commercial differential GPS systems. He started his career in the United States Air Force with his last assignment in research and development at the GPS Joint Program Office. Denaro holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the USAF Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. in Astronautics from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is currently a Management Board Member of the European ADASIS Forum, Vice Chairman of the US DOT ITS Program Advisory Committee and he is conducting mapping studies for the National Research Council Mapping Sciences Committee. | |
| Edwin Fischer
Innovation, Strategy & Architecture
Deutsche Telekom
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| Semen Fokin
Director - Business Development
Cesar Satellite
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 | Larry Haddad
Cross Careline Product Planning and Strategy
Nissan
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 | Marcus Heitmann
Leader - Project Field AutoMobile
Deutsche Telekom
Speaker Bio | | | Dr. Marcus Heitmann is the head of the automotive R&D in T-Labs, the central research and development institute of Deutsche Telekom. The main task is the development and integration of Internet and online services for drivers and vehicles with a special focus on services, platforms, usability and business aspects. Prior to joining T-Labs he was a member of the T-Systems global automotive team and acted as strategic portfolio elements manager Car ICT steering the further development of the business area Internet and online services for vehicles. Prior to that he was responsible for information technology and vehicle electronics integration projects at the Volkswagen Group. | |
| Reinhard Jurk
Head of Business Development
BMW
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| Andy Knott
ITS Senior Manager
DENSO UK LTD.
Speaker Bio | | | I have worked for DENSO since 1995 and have been involved in ITS and Navigation development from our initial work to deliver our first navigation system in Europe - the JD Power award winning Jaguar S-type navigation system. I have built a sizeable team to support our European customers and this team has taken on significant Engineering development in partnership with our Engineering teams in Japan. In 2007 I handed over responsibility for the ITS product engineering team when I was given responsibility for a new European ITS R&D team. | |
| Mark Licht
President
Licht & Associates
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 | Francesco Lili
Product Research Telematics Functions Manager Centro Ricerche
Fiat
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| Kevin Link
Vice President - Marketing
Hughes Telematics
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 | David Mcclure
Director
SBD
Speaker Bio | | | David graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Electrical Engineering and has spent his career working in the design and development of telematics, navigation and entertainment systems for the automotive industry. After gaining valuable experience and insight into the Japanese and European approaches to vehicle development with Ford and Nissan, David moved into the consulting field with SBD in 1995. Since then he has led the growth of SBD’s Telematics & ITS Department since its inception, over-seeing its expansion out of Europe to include China, Brazil, Russia and North America. David is widely regarded as one of the industry's most authoritative experts on all aspects of telematics and ITS. | |
 | Tomas Metzger
Senior Vice President - Sales & Account Management
ATX
Speaker Bio | | | Tom Metzger is senior vice president and general manager of Cross Country Automotive Services’ ATX Connected Vehicle Services business. He has oversight for all client side Sales, Account Management, Product and Program Management, Automotive Systems Integration and Customer Solutions, as well as European strategy. Metzger joined ATX in May 2009 as senior vice president of Sales & Account Management following a distinguished 24-year career at Harman Becker Automotive Systems, the automotive division of Harman International, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of high-quality, high fidelity audio/video products and systems, for the professional, consumer and automotive markets. As vice president of Harman Becker’s Asia Pacific business unit, Metzger established its foothold into Asia and created its regional business unit and supporting operations. He managed all aspects of business planning and implementation, and also developed global business and strategic brand partnerships with major Japan- and Korea-based automotive OEM customers, providing local sales, marketing and technical support. Metzger holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Oakland University (Mich.). | |
 | Markus Muhlbauer
Manager Engineering and Product (Automotive)
Google
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| Thomas Muller
Manager of Navigation and Connected Drive Technologies
BMW
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| Jens Ohler
Strategic Programs
Johnson Controls
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 | Hans Puvogel
General Manager
INRIX
Speaker Bio | | | Dr. Hans-Hendrik Puvogel is the Managing Director of INRIX Europe GmbH. Prior to joining INRIX in 2008, Hans was the CEO of Jentro Technologies (Munich). He turned Jentro from a small phone application development company into an international platform provider for Location Based Services by winning major accounts such as ADAC, Motorola, Magellan, Mitac and Carphone Warehouse. Hans-Hendrik established innovative business models in the industry, such as the first purely advertising-based navigation system (“Ö-Navi”). Under his leadership, Jentro became one of the leading location based content distribution platforms in the mobile phone space, by integrating key players in local search, traffic information, weather, parking, events, m-commerce, etc. Prior to Jentro, Hans-Hendrik was a managing partner in a boutique consulting firm, specializing on mobile telecommunications and navigation (PND and in-car). From 1999-2002, he had been the Founder-CEO of optimad.com, a London based start-up offering a media transaction platform for TV stations and Out-of-Home advertising, which has been managing e.g. more than 80% of UK TV bookings and is now part of IMDB Group. Prior to optimad, Hans-Hendrik ran Electronic Media for Handelsblatt Group, where he launched the first commercial online content syndication as well as the first mobile content services (wap) in Germany. He had joined Handelsblatt Group coming from Bertelsmann AG, where he was a senior project manager in Corporate Development, responsible for projects in online, TV and e-commerce. Hans-Hendrik holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Tübingen as well as degrees from the University of Tübingen, Universidad de Salamanca and Sciences Po Paris (IEP de Paris). He speaks five European languages and has worked in the UK, France, Italy and Germany. | |
 | Julian Requejo
Telematics & Navigation Research
Ford Motor
Speaker Bio | | | Julián Requejo received two B.Sc. degrees in computer and electrical engineering in 1999, and his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2001, from University of Maryland, College Park. His thesis and early work focused on the fields of embedded software and real-time operating systems. In 2001, he joined the Alternative Powertrains group at the Ford Research Center in Aachen, Germany, where he developed control software for microhybrids and other prototype vehicles. Since 2005, he has been working for the Telematics and Navigation team in the development of software for map-based applications. He is also part of the ADASISv2 core development group, and has been involved in the development of the standard and reference implementation. | |
| Richard Robinson
Director - Automotive Multimedia Communications Service
Strategy Analytics
Speaker Bio | | | Bio coming soon... | |
 | Martin Rosell
Managing Director
WirelessCar
Speaker Bio | | | “Martin Rosell has served the IT industry since 1983. Starting as a software engineer with DFDS, a shipping company, Martin has held a number of positions including software development, sales, sales management and general management with companies like Hewlett-Packard, Agile Software, Danaher Motion and currently as Managing Director for WirelessCar, owned by Volvo AB. During the years Martin has been involved in software addressing freight and passenger logistics, manufacturing, telecommunication & services management, product lifecycle management, automated vehicle guidance and management solutions and today within the Telematics industry. “ | |
 | Harald Trautsch
Vice President
Octo Telematics
Speaker Bio | | | Harald Trautsch is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Chief Marketing Officer for Octo Telematics, founded in Rome in 2002. With over a million customers, Octo Telematics has the largest telematic fleet in Europe and the most complete Insurance Telematics statistical database in the world. See: www.octotelematics.com Mr. Trautsch leads the company’s activities in North America and Brazil. In addition he is CEO and shareholder of Octo’s Austrian subsidiary, Dolphin Technologies. He earned a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources Management from PEF University of Management in Vienna and carries out research work on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He also leads the European eCall project for the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology as a Delegate and Project Manager and teaches “Marketing & Sales” at the Austrian University for Applied Sciences. Beside other awards he was elected “Best Innovator” for Austria at the European level in 2007 and won the Austrian State Award for Multimedia & eBusiness in 2009.
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 | Floris Van-de-Klashorst
Director Automotive Services
Nokia
Speaker Bio | | | Since July 2010, Floris van de Klashort has led automotive initiatives within Nokia’s services organisation, responsible for automotive product development and business development. Floris joined Nokia in 2000, leading sales and consulting activities across Western Europe. From early 2005 to mid 2009, he was based in New York, most recently heading the Nokia Media Network working with hundreds of publishers worldwide, before which he developed the Nokia Music Service Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining Nokia, Floris managed his own telecom and Internet consultancy firm with a focus on communication and ecommerce services for the events and telecom industry. His other experience includes roles at Ericsson working on the emergence of mobile networks and telecommunications and before that managing international consortia for the development of space systems working with Nasa and European Space Agency Programs. Floris holds a University degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delft with specializations in Man Machine Interfaces, Robotics and Business. Floris is based in the Netherlands. When not at work, he enjoys sailing and other outdoors activities | |
 | Hakan Kostepen
Director Product Planning & Strategy
Panasonic
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| Mikael Khalifa
Sales Manager
Jungo
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 | Cyrille Ravier
Automotive Sector Manager
Vodafone
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 | Herbert Halamek
Vice President Infotainment & Connectivity
Continental
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