Wednesday, 5 March 2008   10:30 - 11:00 Opening session Opening Malcolm Johnson, ITU Director TSB Welcome Address Dr Hamadoun Touré, ITU Secretary-General Opening remarks Alan Bryden, ISO Secretary General Opening remarks Jack Sheldon on behalf of Aharon Amit, IEC General Secretary 11:00 - 13:00 Executive session (Moderator: Hans W. Gierlich)   Max Mosley, President, FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) Michel Mayer, CEO, Freescale Semiconductor Michel Mayer was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Freescale Semiconductor in May 2004. He led the transformation of Freescale from a semiconductor division of Motorola to a successful public company following an initial public offering in July 2004. In December 2006, Michel led the company through the largest leveraged buy-out in the history of the technology industry. Michel spent 19 years at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) prior to joining Freescale. Most recently, he was general manager of IBM Microelectronics. He also served on IBM's Worldwide Management Council. From 1984 to 2001, Michel held various leadership roles at the company, including general manager of the pervasive computing division and the networking hardware division. He also held engineering and product management positions for IBM in the U.S. and France. Michel earned post-graduate degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris. In addition to his Freescale responsibilities, Michel currently serves on the Semiconductor Industry Association board of directors. BACK  Hermann Meyer, CEO, ERTICO (ITS Europe) Hermann Meyer was appointed Chief Executive Officer of ERTICO in December 2007 and took up his responsibilities at the beginning of February 2008. Prior to this appointment, he represented the interests of the Volkswagen Group towards the EU institutions in Brussels as head of the Government Relations Office. He joined Volkswagen in 1995 serving as manager in the “Sustainability Strategy” department and as head of department “Technology and Science” in the Government Relations Offices in Bonn and Berlin. He was seconded in 1996/1997 to the Principal Policy Department in the German Federal Ministry of Transport and from 2003 to 2006 to the European Car Manufacturing Association (ACEA) as Director Environmental Policies. Between 2001 and 2003, he was heading the working group “vehicle technologies” of the “Sustainable Mobility 2030” initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development presenting the conclusions to the World Economic Forum in Davos 2003. Hermann holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has lectured environmental economics and resource management at the Edinburgh University between 1993 and 1995. BACK  Oliver Bahns, Head, Global Business Development and Consulting (Automotive), T-Systems Kenji Ikeura, President, Connexis Kenji Ikeura is President of Connexis. Mr. Ikeura is responsible for the strategic development and coordination of business relations in the Asia-Pacific region. He joined Connexis in July 2007 after taking early retirement from the position of President of Nissan-ARC, a company formed to improve automotive technology through innovative research and development. Prior to this position, he served as Vice President of Best Practice and Competitive Intelligence at Nissan. Mr. Ikeura developed the world's first microcomputer control system to manage fuel injection, spark ignition, exhaust gas recirculation, and idle speed. He also led the development of a computer control system for automatic transmissions. Later, as General Manager of Nissan's Vehicle Research Laboratory, he guided the development of video-based lane keeping technology and adaptive cruise control technology. Mr. Ikeura is a graduate of Keio University in Japan where he obtained a master’s of science degree from the Faculty of Engineering. BACK  David Butler, Marketing Director, Honda Formula 1 Racing Team David Butler has been involved in high profile communication, marketing, corporate social responsibility and sponsorship for 17 years developing extensive international experience as a dynamic marketing exponent and communicator. He is a pioneering global advocate of social / cause related marketing and social responsibility and entrepreneurship. As marketing director of the Honda Formula One Racing Team he is currently developing sport’s most innovative global positive marketing programme which harnesses Honda’s global reputation as a corporate social responsibility leader and driving an empowering environmental and social message through the F1 team’s global marketing programme “powering dreams one lap at a time”. Building from the global impact of the 2007 “Earthcar” which uniquely incorporated an entirely non-commercial livery to promote an environmental message; the initiative has evolved for 2008 to become a unique, global positive marketing programme; earthdreams, which was unveiled at the team’s launch on January 29th with a substantial financial commitment to social and environmental entrepreneurial projects. Whilst engaged as Head of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and later as Marketing Director of Laureus (2002-2007), Butler was also instrumental in creating a global social responsibility programme using sport as its tool and was architect of the blue print which created the formal establishment of the global Laureus Sport for Good Foundation; an organisation supported by the greatest legends in world sport supporting over 150 000 children in over 50 social projects around the world with developing subsidiaries in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, USA, South Africa and Switzerland. Involved for five years with Laureus: endorsed by its Patron Nelson Mandela as being an embodiment of “sport has the power to change the world” (Monaco 2000), Butler also oversaw the development of the Laureus World Sports Academy, working with legends such as Michael Johnson, Edwin Moses, Gary Player, Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova and many others, harnessing the passion and power of sport as a tool for social change. Butler has created marketing and communication brands for an Olympic bid and the Laureus portfolio of activity, created and produced television shows, magazines and web programmes, run national sports news, developed social marketing brands, directed press boxes at international sports events and acted as counsel for blue chip clients and public figures through major media campaigns. He is a passionate advocate of corporate social responsibility and has travelled the world visiting and supporting social programmes from Sierra Leone, Bosnia, India, Argentina and Uruguay to Brazil, Sri Lanka, Morocco and South Africa engaging dynamic social entrepreneurs and programmes dealing with issues such as poverty, street gang violence, child combatants, tsunami flood victims and landmine casualties. He is especially engaged as a trustee in a programme in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro using sport to combat the overwhelming influence of drug cartels and violence and has a wealth of knowledge, experience and global case studies of how sport is being harnessed in critical conditions to improve social conditions. A keen boxer and martial artist, his personal interests include international culture and travel, arts and history, writing and sport. He was previously a contributing editor to GQ magazine. An Oxford graduate having previously lived in Paris, Sydney and Cape Town for extended periods, David is based in London with his wife Trudy and daughter Phe. BACK  14:00 - 15:30 Session 1: ICT and Climate change (Moderator: Tim Kelly) Green ITS - towards the environment-friendly networked car. Paul Kompfner, ERTICO (ITS Europe) Transportation and climate change Andreas Schäfer, Cambridge University, UK Andreas Schäfer holds a M.Sc. in Aero-and Astronautical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Energy Economics, both from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. After spending five years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and seven years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is currently a lecturer (associate professor) at the University of Cambridge. Andreas has been working for more than 10 years in the area of technology, human behavior, and the environment. His main areas of interest are modeling the demand for energy services, assessing characteristics of future low-greenhouse gas emission technologies, and simulating the optimum technology dynamics in a greenhouse gas constrained energy system. He has published widely on global travel demand modelling, transport system technology assessment, and the introduction of technology. BACK  Connected Car a solution for environment? Pierre Malaterre, 4iCOM Pierre Malaterre is Vehicle System Electronic Manager at PSA Peugeot Citroen. He has been an Electronics Engineer (ESME) since 1967 and received his Doctorate in Electrochemistry in 1970. He began his career in the Digital Telecommunications business as a Technical Manager. Following that, he worked in Automotive Electronics for an equipment manufacturer. Before joining PSA, he worked in a weapons company. For the last 15 years, he has worked in PSA participating in the company's electronics strategy. He is member, at steering committee level, of several groups: ISO TC22/SC3, TC204 , AMIC, OSEK, MIT LEES...." Pierre Malaterre is now senior consultant for 4ICom; involved in ITS Electronic and Tele communication BACK  Remarkable fuel savings through CARWINGS telematics Eco-advice services in Japan Takashi Sugano, Nissan Technical Centre Europe Senior Engineer at Nissan Motor Manufacturing Belgian Branch since 2005 responsible for ITS research in Europe started working at Nissan Motor Co LTD in 2001 and used to be in charge of developing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and study of drivers’ behavior. received master degree in mechanical engineering in 2001 from Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan BACK  Advanced In-Car Telemetry for Commodity Vehicles Carlos Busnadiego-Gutiérrez and Jose María Martín-Bobis, GMV Carlos Busnadiego Gutiérrez is a Project Manager specialized in GNSS and communications Systems, with advanced skills in GIS and programming computers and mobile devices in different platforms. He received his Masters Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2002. He works for GMV Sistemas since 2002, belonging to the Division of Navigation Engineering. His professional track record starts with activities as a project engineer, being involved in different projects for European Space Agency (ESA), ONCE (Spanish Association for Blind People) and Puertos del Estado (Spanish Ministry of Development). He acts as a project manager since 2005, having the responsibility of planning and technical management, especially for European projects. In this line, he has been technical responsible of the GMV team participating in the trials for Dutch National Road pricing research and transport for London GNSS-based congestion charging scheme. Currently he is managing a R&D group for GNSS-based applications in the road sector, including new ITS systems. He has also carried out some pre-sales activities and has published several technical papers in different European events. BACK  16:00 - 17:30 Session 2: Communications, spectrum and standards - Part I (Moderator: Reinhard Scholl) Spectrum and Standards Jean – Yves Monfort, ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Chair, ITU-T SG 12 Currently Deputy Director of Standards Steering in France Telecom, and Senior Expert in France Telecom. During 5 years, he was Deputy Head of DIH/EQS Laboratory (Human Interactions/ Evaluation and acceptability of Services Quality), in charge of studies on subjective and objective assessment of media (speech, video, audio,…) and of Usability testing of new equipments and services. He was before Manager of Research and Development Units specialized in voice transmission quality, telephony terminals and Electroacoustics. Doctor Engineer of Applied Acoustics, Le Mans Electronics Engineer, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse Currently Chairman of ETSI TC STQ (since October 2004), and Vice Chair of APSC-Telemov. He is the author of a lot of technical specifications for France Telecom, France, of ETSI standards and ITU-T Recommendations, and of technical papers. He gave numbers of conference on speech quality, performance and QoS in seminars, workshops and congresses, including in close relationship with his activity of SG 12 Chairmanship (for APT, West Africa, ETSI, ITU-T workshops,…) General Secretary of French Acoustical Society during 5 years Professor of Electro-acoustics at the University (Sound and mage) during more than 10 years. Chevalier des Palmes Académiques. BACK  Standards for Vehicle Gateway Soyeon Lee, ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) SoYeon Lee is a Project Manager for developing vehicle communication interface for Telematics services at ETRI (www.etri.re.kr) in KOREA. She has a 10-years experience in communication system like ATM switch and router as software developer. Her current research interests are in wireless vehicular communications, car2car communication, Telematics services associated with ITS. Since 2006, she has been attending the ISO TC22, ISO TC204 and OSGi VEG as the premium member. BACK  How ETSI connects the cars Martin Arndt, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) Mr Martin ARNDT joined ETSI in October 2006 as Technical Officer. He is with the department "ETSI Standardization Projects" and takes care, inter alia, about Intelligent Transport Systems as far as the road transport sector is concerned. Prior to joining ETSI Martin ARNDT spent 7 years with AIRDATA, a network operator based in Germany specialized in operating Wireless Local Loop networks. There he mainly dealt with activities on Research and Development and was responsible for the Compliance Management, i.e. standardization and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining AIRDATA he spent some time with a traditional Internet Service Provider. Martin ARNDT holds a degree in communications engineering from the University of Applied Sciences, Esslingen, Germany. BACK  [ TOP ]   Thursday, 6 March 2008   9:00 - 11:00 Session 3: Communications, spectrum and standards - Part II (Moderator: Pierre-André Probst) Evaluation Metrics for vehicular communication systems Anirban De, Siva Jupudi, Pramod Babu, Dominic Paulraj and Ravi Puvvala, Arada Systems The above work has been primarily focused by the Automotive Wireless Group, at Arada Systems. This group is engaged in design and development of software for next generation wireless communication devices. It also focuses on redesign of the software architecture to enable use of Atheros WiFi chipset for non-WLAN applications, along with operating system independent framework. Dr. Dominic Paulraj Ph.D., has vast exposure to the industry with expertise in wireless, 802.11, drivers, Engineering Management, Operating Systems, Compilers, System software tools and Networking. He is one of the founders of Arada Systems, and presently serves in the capacity of Vice President Engineering. He has in the past also worked in the executive/senior management roles at Linare Corporation, Atheros Communications, Sun Microsystems, and Ergo Software Systems Ltd. Email: dominic@aradasystems.com Ravi Puvvala (M.S) has worked with several multinational corporations with rich experience in engineering, management and global understanding of products in wired and wireless networks. A persistent entrepreneur, who is captivated by the power of WiFi and it's proliferation in to various markets. He has been responsible for providing overall strategic direction, technical vision, and technical operational direction for the organization. Siva Jupudi (M.S), has experience with wireless communication system software, and has interests in 802.11, Operating systems, and Networking. He presently leads the Automotive Wireless Group at Arada Systems. Pramod Babu (M. Tech) is a great Linux enthusiast and has interests in 802.11, Operating Systems, and Networking. He is presently a technical leader of the Automotive Wireless Group, Arada Systems. Anirban De (M.Sc.) is a great thinker with good analytical skills, and has been instrumental in deriving the mathematical representation of evaluation metrics. His interests are in 802.11, Operating Systems, and Networking. BACK  Audio, Video and Multimedia Standards for fully networked carss Shuji Hirakawa, IEC TC100 (International Electrotechnical Commission, Technical Committee 100) He is currently a Fellow Specialist of Corporate Standardization Group, Technology Planning Division of Toshiba Corporation. In the last 30 years, Dr. Hirakawa was involved and led the research and development of many standards related projects including MUSE HDTV satellite broadcasting system and a digital satellite broadcasting system for multimedia broadcasting services. His works result in many national and international standards. Dr. Hirakawa is also a key member in many international standard organizations. Currently, he is the Secretary of IEC TC 100 (Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment) and has several roles in ITU-T SG 9 and ITU-R SG 6. He is an IEEE Fellow, an Editorial Board Member of IEEE Proceedings, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and Chairman of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Japan Chapter in 2008 and 2009. E-mail: shuji.hirakawa@toshiba.co.jp BACK  SDR (Software-defined Radio) for motor vehicles: past, present and future John Chapin, Vanu Inc. Dr. John Chapin is the Chief Scientist of Vanu, Inc. He leads the company's research work and its interactions with industry and regulatory organizations. John serves as Chairman of the Software Defined Radio Forum. He is a director of IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 41 on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks. Prior to his work at Vanu, Inc., Dr. Chapin was an assistant professor at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has received the US government's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the SDR Forum's Industry Achievement Award. John received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from Stanford University. BACK  IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) Impact on the ITS Sectorr Thierry Ernst, INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) Thierry Ernst holds a Ph.D. in computer science. His reseach on IPv6 mobility has served as the foundation of standardization activities known as NEMO. He setup and chaired the NEMO Working Group and the MONAMI6 Working Group at the IETF. He is also involved with the ISO Technical Committee 204 Working Group 16 developing a communication architecture for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) based on IPv6. After his PhD, he joined the WIDE organization in Japan in the Jun Murai Lab at Keio University for four years where he set up and led the Nautilus6 project working on IPv6 mobility. Now back to France at INRIA in the IMARA team, his research work applied to IPv6 is mostly oriented toward the automotive industry. He is involved in several ITS projects such as CVIS and GeoNet and is a member of the Car-to-Car Communication Consortium. He also leads the IPv6 Task Force France since fall 2006. BACK  11:30 – 13:00 Session 4: Car-to-Car Communication (Moderator: Jean-Yves Monfort) C2C (car-to-car) Communication from the perspective of a global OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) Martin Wiecker and Christian Ress, Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen GmbH Mr. Wiecker (35) is working for Ford Research Centre, Aachen, Germany, as research engineer for department of "Telematics and Navigation". He is with Ford Motor Company for more than 3 years and already working on Telematics for a long time. He has managed different Ford internal and publicly co-funded research projects, like "GST-Global System for Telematics". In GST he was responsible for one of the test sites, where all developed applications have been implemented and tested i n demonstration vehicles. Since 2006 he is also working in the research project "AKTIV", co-funded by German government, where one major topic is the use of car2car communication to receive traffic data for advanced vehicle navigation. BACK  Performance Comparison of AODV (Ad hoc on-demand distance vector) and OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) in urban VANET (Vehicle ad hoc network) scenarios Víctor González, Alberto Los Santos and Gregorio Martín, Networked Vehicles Division, Telefónica I+D Mr. Víctor González born in Tarragona, Spain in 1982. He holds a Telematics Engineering Grade from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Nowadays he is studying a Robotics Msc. in the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). Since 2004 he has been working with the UPC's Wireless Network Group in wireless Ad-hoc Networks R&D national projects. In 2006 he joined to the Networked Vehicles Division of Telefónica I+D where he is working in several National and European ITS Communications R&D projects. Mr. Alberto Los Santos Aransay born in Logroño, Spain in 1981. He holds a Telecommunications Engineer Degree from the University of Zaragoza, developing his Final Project at the Image Processing department of ENSEEIHT in Toulouse (France). He started his career at Telefónica I+D in 2005, working in the New Generation Mobile Services group. Actually he is working and coordinating some IST FP6 projects in the Networked Vehicle Division, focusing his efforts on the communications aspects of the projects. Mr. Gregorio Martín Romero holds a Telecommunications Engineer Degree from UPM University and a Business Administration Degree from UNED University. After joined Telefonica I+D he was involved in Protocol Conformance Testing (CTS program and EURESCOM) and later in the Payphone Public Department where he was in charge of standardization activities related to payphones and prepaid and intelligent cards in both nationals and internationals fora (ETSI, PTS, Proelectron, AENOR ...). Nowadays he works in the Networked Vehicles Division, mainly in service definition and deployment, and coordinating some IST FP6 projects. BACK  Dynamic Vehicle Group Architecture for Efficient V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) and V2R (vehicle-with-roadside) Networking Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies & Toyota InfoTechnology Center Wai Chen received his B.S.E.E. degree from Zhejiang University; M.S.E.E., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently, he is with Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies Inc. (formerly known as Bellcore) where he is a Chief Scientist and Director of Ubiquitous Networking and Services Research. Dr. Chen has been leading a vehicular communications research program in collaboration with a major automaker, since 2000, on automotive networking technologies for vehicle safety and information applications. He has also been the Principal Investigator of several government funded projects on advanced networking technologies research. He is the Series Coordinator of the Automotive Networking – Technology, Design, and Applications Series of the IEEE Communications Magazine. Dr. Chen served as a Guest Editor for Special Issue on Inter Vehicular Communication (IVC) for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (2006), the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2006), the Co-Chair for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop (V2VCOM 2005, V2VCOM 2006, and V2VCOM 2007) co-located at ACM MobiQuitous and IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, and the Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet 2006, IEEE AutoNet 2007) co-located with IEEE Globecom. His current research interests are vehicle communications and ITS applications, and mobile wireless communications systems. BACK  14:00 - 15:00 Session 5: Car-to-X Communication (Moderator: Paul Kompfner ) Virtual Sub-Centre (VSC) - Safety Concept for the European Road Transport Dr. Chanan Gabay, Motorola Dr. Gabay received his Ph.D. in Engineering, Applied Mechanics from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. M.Sc. in Fracture Mechanics, from the Tel-Aviv University, IL and B.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University, ISRAEL. Dr. Gabay has had extensive experience in business development and top management positions as EC projects coordinator (m-ToGuide, REACT, COM2REACT). Previously he was the worldwide application centers manager of Kulicke&Soffa -Dicing System, quality assurance director and head of material & failure analysis laboratories in the Israel Aviation Industries. BACK  EDA : A cooperative application FOR AN EnhanceD Drivers’ AwarenesS Simon Coutel and Hossein Zakizadeh, INRETS (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research) & Volvo Simon Coutel is researcher at Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (Transportation Safety Research Institute), in an unit dedicated to Drivers-Infrastructure-Vehicles Interactions. He has a PhD in Mechanics of Doctoral School MEGA (Ecole Centrale of Lyon, INSA of Lyon). He is graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (Civil Engineering) and has achieved a specialization in signal processing. He is head of the Cooperative Systems research team. His RTD works are mainly focused on cooperative positioning and navigation, cooperative traffic monitoring. BACK  SatCom as part of the operational implementation of ITS applications – The SISTER Project Monica Schettino, ERTICO (ITS Europe) 15:30 - 17:30 Session 6: New telematics delivery solutions (Moderator: Kevin Borras) Activity of Honda’s Telematics "Interavi premium club" Takeshi Imai, Honda Motor Co,Ltd After joining Honda, he consistently engaged in the development of the display system. 25 years have already passed since it was involved in the navigation system　area. 1976 Joined Honda Motor , It assigns it to Honda Motor R & D. 1977 Worked on developed digital meter, electronic compass, and navigation system in the Honda Technical Research Centre 1990 It appoints it to the chief researcher. It takes charge of the navigation area. 2002 Internavi System Development & Planning Office is started in the headquarters. 2003 Appointed General Manager BACK  Automotive Middleware Support for Data Transfer from Web 2.0 to User Interfaces via Nomadic Devices Francisco J. González-Castaño, University of Vigo, Spain F. J. González Castaño is a full professor of telematics engineering at University of Vigo, Spain. He received the Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree (cum laude) from the University of Vigo in 1998. He has been a research engineer at Televés SA, Spain, and a visiting assistant professor with the Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is currently the Head of the Information Technologies Group, University of Vigo, Spain (http://www-gti.det.uvigo.es). Dr. González Castaño has written over 50 papers in international journals and books, as well as a large number of conference papers. He has three Spanish patents and a US patent in mobile communications. He has served in many international conference committees (IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ISCC...). He has also served as a technical editor in IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, IEEE Communications Magazine. He is an active collaborator with Spanish technological centers in automotive IT systems, and a member of the EU SatNex II Network of Excellence. His current research interests include wireless networks, high-performance networks, embedded systems, and multimedia. BACK  Convergence of Telematics and Infotainment in Emerging Markets: an exciting opportunity Dr. G. Venkatesh, Sasken Communication Technologies Limited Dr. Venkatesh is responsible for incubating new businesses at Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. Sasken created two new Joint Ventures last year – TACO-Sasken Automotive Electronics (focused on automotive electronics products) and ConnectM (focused on remote asset monitoring using M2M), and Venkatesh is a board member of both these companies. Venkatesh has been involved with Sasken since its formation in 1990, where he has played various managerial roles. He is currently a board member of Sasken and holds the position of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Sasken's primary technology focus is in the area of wireless and broadband communications. Prior to joining Sasken, Venkatesh was a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he spent 8 years teaching and researching several areas of computer science and VLSI design leading to over 50 papers in international conferences and journals in these areas. Venkatesh has maintained his teaching and research interests as an adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where his interests revolve around applying game theory to strategic thinking in the technology industry, specifically in IT outsourcing and in the telecom and semiconductor industries. Venkatesh is a graduate in Electronics from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, a Ph.D in Computer Science from TIFR, Bombay, and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers. Other positions held by Venkatesh are: Member, Scientific Council, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) Review committee member of Vehicle Tracking and Control Systems Project under Core Automotive Research Group of Govt of India Member, Expert Group, Focus Group on NGN, Telecom Engg Centre, Government of India. Governing council member, Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CeWiT), IIT Madras. Member of the Board of Studies, School of Computer Science, Indra Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India Governing council member of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) BACK  NGTP (Next Generation Telematics Protocol): Rethinking Telematics Services Axel Moering  BMW Education 10/1990 – 03/1998 University Siegen Academic studies of electrotechnology Graduate Engineer Occupational history 11/1998 – 08/2000 Ruetz Technologies, München work as engineering consultant at BMW's Telematics development 09/2000 – 02/2002 BMW AG, dep. EI-43 Development engineer Project leader "Telematics development for 7 series car" 03/2002 - present BMW AG, dep. VZ-32 Senior Engineering Project Manager Leading Internationalisation projects for Telematics (Australia, Middle East, Europe) Leading Project "Telematics provider development for Combox (NGTP)" BACK  Delivery of up to date content wirelessly to vehicles Amreesh Modi, Navteq and Bruno Simon, Connexis Bruno Simon, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer, Connexis LLC Mr. Simon joined Connexis in 2006 following a 17-year career with Renault, where his responsibilities included leading the Design Department’s Computer Generated Images Group and Computer Aided Design Team. For five years, Mr. Simon was Project Director for Renault’s e-Vehicle Project, in charge of multimedia, GPS navigation, and telematics road map definition and deployment throughout the Renault product range. In 2005, Mr. Simon was appointed Vice President in charge of IS Engineering and Quality, where he managed worldwide R&D CAD/CAM/PDM solutions. Mr. Simon graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Paris as a certified architect. BACK  [ TOP ]   Friday, 7 March 2008   9:00 - 11:00 Session 7: In-car platform and nomadic devices (Moderator: Michael Noblett) Making the Connection to Personalized Entertainment Jim Bridgwater, Freescale Semiconductor Jim Bridgwater - Product Marketing Manager for Automotive Infotainment, EMEA. During his 13 years at Freescale, Jim has been involved in marketing Microprocessors, DSPs and Wireless solutions for industrial and consumer as well as automotive applications. Dan Loop – Product Marketing Manager, portable devices, Freescale Semiconductor. Mr. Loop has worked in the semiconductor industry for seventeen years holding various positions in marketing and business development with a focus on portable media player and automotive multimedia hardware and software solutions. BACK  In-vehicle infotainment Paul Goosens, INTEL Paul Goossens is Director, Infotainment Strategic Business Development, of Intel’s Low-Power Embedded Products Division (LEPD). LEPD is responsible for developing and marketing platform solutions for a wide variety of embedded and communications market segments including In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), Print Imaging, Industrial Control, Residential Gateways, and Physical Security - IP Cameras. The LEPD product portfolio includes the Embedded Intel® Architecture Processors, complimentary chipsets, System-On-Chip, and other microprocessors. LEPD has worldwide operations and silicon and software design centers in locations such as Arizona, Massachusetts, Ireland, Malaysia, and India. The In-Vehicle Infotainment team utilizes Intel architecture to form innovative embedded product and platform solutions that meet the unique requirements of the IVI market segment. Further, the team is responsible for ensuring these products meet automotive industry expectations such as long life and high reliability. Prior to his current assignment, Paul Goossens was the EMEA Telecommunications Technical Sales Manager. Prior to joining Intel Paul Goossens has held a variety of strategic and management positions in Telecommunications Systems and Software Engineering in companies like Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson. BACK  ATOP : An next generation Automotive Telematics On board unit Platform Frank Daems, NXP Semiconductors Frank Daems has a master degree in electronics and telecom engineering. He has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He has held positions in innovation, and product marketing in consumer electronics, banking, and healthcare businesses. He was involved in early online networked consumer and banking products and services His current position is Director Business development for telematics solutions in the Business Unit Automotive and Identification. BACK  CP-Connect Pat Kennedy, Cellport Systems Kennedy and fellow Cellport architects have advocated "open telematics connectivity" as their mantra since the company founding in 1993. As CEO of Cellport since its founding Kennedy has worked to evolve and grow a portfolio of networking hardware and software technologies focused on bridging the Grand Canyon size gap of disparities between consumer electronics and automotive. Pat is credited with contributing to eleven Cellport patents and leads the company's licensing and technology partnering programs. Kennedy has a B.A. in International Economics from the University of Buffalo and has worked in the wireless and networking fields for the past 25 years. Additionally, Pat has served on the Dean's Advisory Committee at the University of Buffalo for the past 7 years and is a Board member of Con-X a Japanese based wireless technology firm. BACK  Design and implementation of a driver helper system for remote vehicle diagnostics and maintenance services Alberto Los Santos (on behalf of Carlos Moliner), Telefónica I+D (Networked Vehicles Division) 11:30 – 13:30 Session 8: Voice and audiovisual services (Moderator: Hans W. Gierlich ) MOST150 (Media Oriented Systems Transport 150 Mbit/s) – The Next Generation Automotive Infotainment Backbone Harald Kohler, SMSC Europe GmbH Harald Kohler studied communication engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe. After 6 years in hard- and software development of leading edge, scientific instrumentation equipment he moved to Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH in Langen, Germany. After 2 years of applications engineering for microprocessors he changed to Automotive Sales, managing key accounts in the automotive business unit for another 7 years. Since October 2006 he is leading the Strategic Marketing Team of SMSC Automotive Infotainment Systems GmbH in Karlsruhe, focussing on MOST network technology. BACK  Multi-channel Car Acoustic Echo Cancellation for car hands-free voice communication Jean-Pierre Jallet, NXP Semiconductors The author is active in signal processing since 1981 and more specific in speech processing since 1992. First at SAIT Electronics (now Zenitel) then, from 1987, at Philips and since 2006 at NXP Semiconductors, the former Philips Semiconductors. He was part of corporate applied research and advance development at Philips and is now part of corporate research at NXP Semiconductor. The technologies addressed since 1992 are acoustical performances improvement (acoustic echo cancellation, noise reduction, multiple microphone beamforming, active noise reduction…) and automatic speech recognition. These technologies were applied for car, mobile and home/office applications. They are currently used in the car radio chips, mobile phones baseband chips, DECT phone baseband chips, Nexperia media processors of NXP Semiconductors and in the software products of NXP Software (http://www.software.nxp.com/About/voice) BACK  The new ITU-T focus group FitCar (From/In/To Cars Communication) – ITU-T test specification for hands-free terminals in Cars Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich, HEAD acoustics GmbH H. W. Gierlich was born in 1957 in Bergisch Gladbach, FRG. In 1976 he graduated from high school and began his studies of electrotechnique at the university RWTH Aachen. In 1983 he received his diploma and from 1983 March to 1988 December he worked at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen. In 1988 February he received a Ph. D. in electrical engineering. Special topics of his work: Speech intelligibility aspects of telephones and hands-free telephony. In 1988 he was the leader of the acoustic research group at this institute. In 1989 he joined HEAD acoustics GmbH in Aachen where he is as vice president responsible for research and development. He is mainly involved in acoustics, specifically psychoacoustics, binaural simulation, measurement technology and speech transmission in telecommunication. His main activities are in the fields of speech intelligibility and speech quality especially in modern telecommunication systems, binaural signal processing especially binaural simulation technology and digital signal processing. He is active in the international standardization organizations ITU-T, ISO and ETSI as well as in the national standardization DIN and ZVEI. Amongst other he is currently involved in various European projects. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers in the field of binaural technology, telecommunication and signal processing published in various magazines and proceedings. H. W. Gierlich holds three patents in the field of telecommunication and two patents in binaural technology. He is member of DEGA and VDE and vice president of ETSI STQ. BACK  Recent trends for improving automotive speech enhancement systems Tim Haulick and Gerhard Schmidt, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems TIM HAULICK received his diploma degree and his doctoral degree in electrical engineering in 1992 and 1998, respectively from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Between 1993 and 1998 he worked as a research scientist for the Daimler-Benz Research Institute in Ulm. In October 1998 he joined the department of speech processing of the DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in Ulm. There he was responsible for the development of hands-free algorithms for telephony and speech dialog system applications. 1999 transition of the department of speech processing from the DaimlerChrysler Aerospace to the TEMIC Telefunken Mikroelektronik GmbH. As of 2002 he was appointed head of the acoustics team. In this function he was responsible for all issues concerning acoustics, hands-free telephony and speech enhancement. Early 2002 the separated TEMIC Speech Dialog Systems GmbH became part of Harman/Becker Automotive Systems GmbH. Since 2005 he has been responsible for the department of acoustic signal processing as senior manager. GERHARD SCHMIDT received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1996 and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 2001, both at Darmstadt, University of Technology, Germany. Presently, he is working in the research group of the acoustic signal processing department at Harman/Becker Automotive Systems in Ulm, Germany. His main research interests include adaptive methods for speech and audio processing. BACK  On Consistent Improvement of Speech Quality by Wideband Speech Technologies Prof.-Dr. Tim Fingscheidt, Braunschweig Technical University The importance of speech technology for the fully networked car Volker Jantzen, SVOX Volker Peter Jantzen, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of SVOX AG, is a highly regarded expert in the fields of speech interfaces. In addition to his work at the Swiss speech technology specialist SVOX, Mr. Jantzen is an honored member of the advisory board for the respected and industry-leading Speech Technology Magazine. His experience in human-machine interfaces makes him a frequent interviewee in leading telematics & navigation publications. Mr. Volker Jantzen holds degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science. His research field at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich comprised text-to-speech, speech recognition and computer linguistics, a field he had also pursued while working at IBM. Volker's keen eye for market potential and his ongoing fascination with languages and speech processing led him to found SVOX in April 2000. The Swiss specialist for embedded speech solutions today is a worldwide leading provider in the automotive and mobile devices industries. BACK  14:30 - 16:30 Session 9: Safety (Moderator: Jean-Michel Henchoz) Resource allocation in dangerous goods transportation environments Gregorio Martín and Alberto Los Santos, Telefónica I+D Mr. Gregorio Martín Romero holds a Telecommunications Engineer Degree from UPM University and a Bussiness Administration Degree from UNED University. After joined Telefonica I+D he was involved in Protocol Conformance Testing (CTS program and EURESCOM) and later in the Payphone Public Department where he was in charge of standardization activities related to payphones and prepaid and intelligent cards in both nationals and internationals fora (ETSI, PTS, Proelectron, AENOR ...).Nowadays he works in the Networked Vehicle Division, mainly in service definition and deployment, and coordinating some IST FP6 projects. BACK  An Interoperable eCall end-to-end Implementation Based on Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services Technologies Fulvio Sansone, Oracle EMEA Fulvio Sansone, Italian born, graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Naples (Italy). After working few years in software and firmware engineering in the telecommunications industry; he obtained a Master of Business Administration at CUOA Altavilla Vicentina (Italy). Next, he spent few months at the European Space Agency and then joined SAIT-RadioHolland a Belgian company active in the satellite communications business. During more than six years, Fulvio covered various positions from project manager to business development manager also taking for one-year responsibility of the overall Space Business Unit. In 2001 he joined ERTICO, a private-public partnership for the implementation of road telematics, where he was responsible for positioning activities. In parallel, from 2002 to 2004 he also served as Secretary General of the European Satellite Operators Association –ESOA-, a trade association representing the interests of European satellite operators. Between September 2005 and March 2006, Fulvio headed the European Projects Department of EBN. In March 2006 he joined Oracle EMEA where he is responsible for business development in international organizations and European infrastructure projects like Galileo, GMES, SESAR eSafety. In the spare time, apart from playing basketball and tennis, Fulvio is an amateur musician and certified sound engineer. Italian mother tongue, Fulvio speaks fluent English and French and gets himself understood in Spanish and Dutch. BACK  Driving towards a safer future Ranier Makowitz, Freescale Semiconductor Rainer Makowitz received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1981, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Kassel in 1990. He started his career at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Munich and later worked in processor design at Siemens AG. He joined Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector in 1990, where he held various positions in product development and Systems Engineering. Since 2004 he is leading the European Automotive Systems Engineering team of Freescale Semiconductor in Munich, Germany, and East Kilbride, Scotland. BACK  The SAFESPOT Integrated Project – Overview of the architecture, technologies and applications Roberto Brignolo, FIAT He was born in 1954 in Italy and graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1979. After an experience as researcher in CSELT (TELECOM Italia research centre ) and then as electronic designer in a small consultant company from 1989 he joined Magneti Marelli where he covered different management responsibilities in racing applications (Formula 1), high volume automotive systems development and innovation projects. He Joined Centro Ricerche FIAT in 2002 as project manager. Currently he is coordinator of the SAFESPOT integrated project. BACK  eCall – an opportunity to bring standard connectivity to all cars by implementing a smart integration of the in-vehicle system (IVS) Pierre Piver, Wavecom Pierre Piver, 47, Group Vice-President, Automotive. He has held this position since October 2006. Previously, he was Head of Americas Region, and President of Wavecom, Inc., a position which he has held since September of 2004, moving from his previous position as Group VP for the Vertical Applications Business Unit. Mr. Piver joined Wavecom in January 2003 as Group VP for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. He serves on the Executive Committee of Wavecom Group. Before joining Wavecom, Mr. Piver was the Managing Director of Infineon Technologies France, which he joined in September 1996 when it was the Semiconductor division of Siemens in France. Previously, Mr. Piver had occupied various positions in sales and in product marketing from 1985 to 1989 at Philips Semiconductors in Caen (France) and, from 1989 to 1996, at Texas Instruments in Vélizy (France) and in Freising (Germany). Mr. Piver holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from ESME Paris and a Master in Business Administration from EM Lyon. Wavecom Group directorships: Wavecom Northern Europe Ltd, (UK). BACK  Towards Trustworthy Information and Communication Technologies in Vehicular Systems Panos Papadimitratos, EPFL PANAGIOTIS (PANOS) PAPADIMITRATOS (panos.papadimitratos@epfl.ch) received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 2005. After a postdoctoral fellow position at Virginia Tech, he is currently a senior researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research is concerned with security, networking protocols, and wireless and mobile systems. He has authored more than 40 technical publications on these topics, delivered a tutorial at ACM Mobicom ’07, and has served on the program committees of numerous venues, including ACM Mobihoc, ACM WiSec, ACM ASIACCS, and ACM VANET. His Web page is http://people.epfl.ch/panos.papadimitratos. BACK  16:30 - 16:45 Wrap-up Session Highlights Reinhard Scholl (ITU-T) Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU-T Secretariat (TSB) since September 2002. Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA. BACK  [ TOP ]