Automotive IT News and Facts
SAP will focus on car connectivity and new IT opportunities for the car industry when it hosts its 13th annual Automotive Forum June 12 and 13 in Leipzig. The German business software maker plans a two-day meeting that will feature several keynote addresses, customer reports, live demonstrations, an exhibition and a range of networking opportunities. [...]
BOCHUM — CEO Hakan Samuelsson wants to nearly double worldwide sales of Volvo Cars in the next seven years. To accomplish this, he wants to strengthen the Swedish car brand, reduce complexity in its vehicle lineup and boost sales in China and the US in particular. Samuelsson, who succeeded Stefan Jacoby at the helm of [...]
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche and his counterpart at Renault, Carlos Ghosn, will be two of the featured speakers at the 2013 CAR Symposium, which will take place in Bochum January 29 and 30, 2013. The CEOs will be joined by new Volvo Chief Hakan Samuelsson and by Elmar Degenhart, head of German automotive supplier Continental. [...]
automotiveIT will host its fifth annual IT conference March 7, 2013, in Hanover. The event, which will have as its theme “IT technologies are changing the auto industry,” is staged each year during the annual CeBIT high-tech fair. The 2012 conference, called automotiveDAY, was attended by more than 500 executives from the auto and IT [...]
Autonomous driving is likely to start with commercial vehicles rather than with passenger cars, a senior Continental executive said Tuesday. “I think it’s easier to realize with trucks, which move at a slower speed, tend to stick to the right lane and already often drive in a cue on the highway,” said Michael Ruf, who [...]
HANOVER – Providing well-integrated car connectivity, though a relatively new area for Volkswagen Group and other carmakers, is a core competency for Europe’s largest automotive group, a senior executive said Tuesday. Volkmar Tanneberger, executive director responsible for electrical and electronic development at VW, said better connectivity will bring more data into the car, which increases [...]
The Insurance Telematics USA 2012 conference will focus on one of the fastest-growing business areas involving connected cars. The conference, which will be held at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago September 5-6 will look at how usage-based insurance helps insurers develop new products and services; what kind of regulatory factors play a role in [...]
The annual Telematics Munich conference will take place Oct 29-30, with a focus on how connected services can generate additional revenue for automotive and other players. The two-day event, which will be held at the Hilton Munich Park Hotel, will feature a range of speakers from the automotive, telecommunications and IT industries. Confirmed speakers include [...]
The automotiveIT group is hosting another Mobility 3.0 carIT conference, which will focus on the new connectivity that is reshaping the global car industry. The conference, the second of its kind, will take place during the Hanover IAA Sept 25. English-language registration and speaker information is now available at www.car-it.com/registration and www.car-it.com/speakers and a PDF version of the agenda can [...]
London will host an in-vehicle infotainment summit this September that focuses on the integration of Apps and devices in the car. The two-day Global Summit, organized by London Business Conferences, takes place Sept 25-26 and features a speaker list that covers many of the world’s major carmakers. Scheduled to speak are, among others, Fiat VP [...]
