From Carmen:
Hello everyone:
Following is a quick status of the progress we made from our planning meeting on Thursday. We'll meet again this Tuesday evening at 6:00 to review progress on invites, discuss theme and flesh out topic, and assign action items. BTW, if knows of any contacts at Sony/Ericsson or Nokia, please post them on the weblog or shoot me an email. Thanks and see you all on Tuesday at 6:00. Carmen
Theme: "Driving the future convergence of Telematics and Mobile Communication Devices"
Moderator: industry pundit/journalist Rafe Needleman, "Catch-of-the-Day"
Presenter: (Automaker category) Decision: Ford (invitation in-progress by Al Nevarez) Alternate companies considered include: (GM, Mercedes, BMW Technology Group) Note: Visteon originally selected as presenting company but cannot participate.
Panelist: (Software category) Decision: Java Telematics Group, Sun Microsystems (invitation in-progress by Ken Berger) Alternate companies include: BeVocal, InfoMove
Panelist: (Solution provider category) Decision: MobileAria (invitation in-progress by Aiko Fushida) Alternate companies include: Sensoria, ATX Technologies, WiPro(develops Bluetooth ASICS)
Panelist: (Mobile device category) Decision: Nokia or Sony-Ericsson (need contacts with either company!) Alternate companies: Motorola, Cellport Panelist: (Hardware category) Decision: Atheros (Aiko contacted Stanford professor & CTO/founder but unable to participate due to conflicting schedule) Alternate companies: Windriver systems, Hitachi, Minetree Consulting
Action item: need to select another hardware company
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