NAVTEQ Gold Sponsor and speaking at Navigation & Location Europe 2009

Europe's navigation & location pioneers will gather for the 5th year at the Marriott Hotel, Amsterdam in The Netherlands on June 10-11, 2009. The Navigation & Location Europe conference strives to keep one step ahead of the market by providing the most up to date business information.

The conference is targeting navigation platform and software providers, location content providers and aggregators, mobile operators, map and imagery providers, mobile application developers, automotive OEMs, GPS chip and component providers, mobile handset manufacturers and venture capitalists.

After uniting over 180 senior executives last year, this year’s conference will be revamped to tackle the vital issues for the industry right now. NAVTEQ is a Gold Sponsor and has two speakers on the agenda:

• Daan Scheer, Marketing Manager EMEA in the Portable Devices Consumer Division at NAVTEQ, will participate in a panel discussion on day 1 entitled "Managing and harnessing the mobile phone opportunity" examining the mobile opportunity for LBS and navigation in light of the recent surge of GPS-enabled smartphones. The panel will debate the opportunities for mobile with pedestrian, last mile, search, context and bike services. Get a round-up of the issues surrounding mobile billing, payments, subscriptions, operator partnerships, form factor and mobile integration. Find out how the major players are planning to exploit the iPhone OS 3.0 update. Who will launch turn by turn navigation applications on the Apple marketplace?


• Ulrich Fastenrath, Head of Product Development, NAVTEQ (formerly T-Systems Traffic) will participate in a panel in the Navigation track - "Next Generation Traffic – 2009’s must have feature", discussing how to make the most of dynamic and intelligent rerouting, how to harness and work with real time data, how to work with Cell Flow data including use cases, effectiveness and 2-way network connectivity options, the cheapest ways to calculate traffic and more.

Other speakers at the conference include top executives from Yahoo!, T-Mobile, Garmin, 02, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Open Street Map, HTC, Vodafone, Navigon, GFK, The European Commission and many more who will discuss and explore the next generation of navigation and LBS services for two whole days.

The Amsterdam Marriott Hotel is conveniently located within a 5-minute walk from many of Amsterdam’s tourist attractions, so you can mix business with pleasure.

For more information and to register for the conference, visit http://www.telematicsupdate.com/naveurope/index.shtml

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