Talk Title: Build vs Buy: The Commercial Arguments
About the speaker: Ronald is a sales & marketing professional with 25 years experience, now he is a director for the EMEA Distribution channel of Digi International, the leading-edge supplier of IoT Connectivity & Embedded PCs; most recently 2 & half years as the EMEA Distribution Manager for Broadcom, the Ethernet & Wireless Datacomm solution provider, and the previous 9 years in a pan-Euro technical marketing role for the demand creation arm of the world’s largest electronic component distributor.
About the company: Digi International is an American machine to machine (M2M) communications and technology company headquartered in Minnesota. The company initially offered intelligent ISA/PCI boards (the 'DigiBoard') with multiple asynchronous serial interfaces for PCs. Nowadays, multi-port serial boards are still part of the product line-up, but the company is focusing on embedded and external network (wired and wireless) communication solutions as well as enterprise-class USB products. The company has a full line of radio modems and embedded modules based on current CDMA and GSM communications platforms.
Video: Digi TransPort® WR11 XT Cellular Router
Video: Digi XBee3 Zigbee Mesh Kit Demonstration

Talk Title: New Technologies and Opportunities in Practice
About the speaker: Christopher is the Head of Traffic Software, responsible for the TRL Software Portfolio. Leading a team researchers, developers, engineers and mathematicians he is responsible for the overall management of the group, products, projects and strategic direction. With over 16 years experience in traffic and road safety engineering, Christopher has worked across Local Authorities and regional Government agencies in the United Kingdom, in addition to working in the Middle East.
About the company: Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) is a global centre for innovation in transport and mobility. It provides world-leading research, technology and software solutions for surface transport modes and related markets engaged in intelligent, new mobility innovations. Independent from government, industry and academia, TRL helps organisations create global transport systems that are safe, clean, affordable, liveable and efficient. Established in 1933 within the British Government as the UK's Transport Research Laboratory, TRL was subsequently privatised in 1996. Today, TRL has more than 1,000 clients across 145 countries, driving positive societal and economic benefit worldwide.
Video: TRL's portable driving simulator
Video: TRL's Driving Simulator - Urban Street

Talk Title: How mobile will change the way we drive
About the speaker: An experienced mobile technology expert, Jyoti has over 22 years’ involvement in leading initiative that help connect and transform the world for better. Knowledgeable on broad range of subjects, he has contributed to many ‘firsts’ in the mobile industry - Mobile Payments, Internet of Things, use of Mobile for fraud prevention & user authentication, among many others. More recently, Jyoti has been working on Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) which will eventually lead to Autonomous Vehicles.
About the company: Huawei provides convenient transportation and smooth logistics through digital railway, urban rail, and smart airport solutions. Using cloud computing, Big Data, the IoT, agile networking, BYOD, eLTE, and GSM-R, Huawei’s solutions increase ICT usage in the transportation industry and lead to optimal transportation services, convenient travel, efficient logistics, smooth urban traffic, and transportation safety. In this increasingly globalized and urban world, transportation has become critical. Modern society requires traffic and transportation systems that are green, safe, efficient, and smooth.
Huawei Intelligent Transportation Solution
Huawei Smart Vehicle Mounting Security Solution