Vlado Galevski

Regional Manager CEE/CIS, Telekom Austria Group M2M

Vlado Galevski (31) is a business and technology enthusiast who has been working in all aspects of the Telco industry in the CEE region and has developed into a regional expert for Telco in CEE. He gathered precious experience in four countries of the region in the fields of fixed telecommunication services, mobile voice, data IPVPN, MPLS and finally – M2M. Being at the helm of the business sales department in Telekom Austria’s subsidiary in Macedonia for 4 years, he achieved a staggering business penetration and climb to a double digit market share in less than 2 years of operations. Being an aeronautical engineer by calling helped him to achieve the precision and innovation mindset that gave him the competitive advantage in his career. He is also a part time lecturer at Triple S business school.

PRESENTATION TITLE:

SIMplify your Business – How to get the maximum value per bit

Telematics is all about turning data into business advantages. Learn about the most successful telematics projects and how your specialist connectivity provider can help you improve your business processes with customized solutions to get the maximum value per bit of data transferred.

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Dr Philipp v. Witzendorff

Director Vehicle Management and Sales Europe, Daimler FleetBoard

Philipp von Witzendorff holds PhD in Economics and runs the Vehicle Management department and Sales Europe (EU29) of Daimler FleetBoard, Daimler’s wholly-owned commercial vehicle fleet management subsidiary. With more than 200 employees FleetBoard is a European market leader in telematics services for commercial vehicles. Philipp worked in his previous assignments as Head of Service and After Sales in several Mercedes-Benz dealerships and as Senior Manager of Fleetmanagement in the German Federal Forces.

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Smart telematics in Europe – Essential contribution to intelligent and sustainable handling of goods and passenger transportations

- Potentials of telematics as standard and subsequent developments

- Partnerships, global scale of business model

- Integration: Telematics connected into end to end IT-Systems, global crosslinking

- Markets requirements for LCVs and HCVs; hub and spoke type logistics and the meaning of smart transport management systems

- Hardware and services for truck, bus and van fleets of all brands and sectors

- Outlook: Quality of service, branch-individual & market-depandant solutions, open platforms, innovations, comfort features for drivers, fuel saving potentials, intelligent dispatching etc.

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Antoine Mathiaud

Staff Manager, Business Development, Qualcomm Enterprise Services

Antoine Mathiaud graduated from Ecole de Management de Lyon, Antoine Mathiaud started his careers as Business Manager at THOMSON Multimedia. Then he moved to Strategy Analytics to conduct business consulting project for large Telecommunication, Automotive and IT players. Antoine Mathiaud joined Qualcomm Enterprise Services in 2007 as Senior Manager Product Marketing, responsible for telematics and fleet management solutions, and managing market and competitive intelligence. Antoine Mathiaud now leads the business development effort in Europe for new product and channel initiatives. He is a regular speaker in telematics and telecoms conference and is regularly quoted in the press.

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How an “open” telematics service platform makes transport and logistics fleet reliable, sustainable and cost-effective?

Transport can be made more sustainable. Vehicles should travel fully loaded, on optimized routes. Drivers should drive efficiently with controlled acceleration and braking to improve safety. Improving safety and sustainability translates directly in cost effectiveness. All this is essential as fuel and insurance prices spiral and emissions legislation grows. Qualcomm’s open service platform gives easy access for fleet managers to improve vehicle specific or fleet wide performance. That helps improve customer service and so encourages long term relationships. Making a real difference needs valuable and ‘intelligent’ information rather than just raw data. Qualcomm helps to use the information to make a real difference to costumers’ operations. 

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Dean Herenda

Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia

Dean Herenda is a Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia. With a formal backgrounds in building constructions and informatics he has more then 20 years experience in IT and ITS.

Mr. Herenda is currently a chair of CONNECT EASYWAY. In 2012 he was appointed as a vice president of ERTICO ITS Europe.

PRESENTATION TITLE:

Some guidelines for the Effective Deployment of EU wide eCall Service

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Ante Sladojević

Field Manager, NOKIA Location & Commerce

Ante Sladojevic is Field Manager in NOKIA Location and Commerce responsible for expansion and maintenance of map data in several countries in Southeast Europe. NOKIA Location & Commerce business is formed by integrating the NAVTEQ business with Nokia's social location services operations. The Location & Commerce business develops a new class of integrated social location products and services for consumers, as well as platform services and local commerce services for device manufacturers, application developers, internet services providers, merchants, and advertisers. Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world.

PRESENTATION TITLE:

How to build the map / Southeast Europe map Coverage

-          High level description of NOKIA map building strategy

-          Advantage of Automotive grade map and rigorous focus on quality

-          Explanation of coverage levels and detail description of map expansion and maintenance in Southeast Europe

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Jan Cools

CEO, Be-Mobile

Jan Cools is CEO of Be-Mobile company founded in 2006. Recently Be-Mobile and and their stakeholder B-Holding decided to set a joint venture Go-Mobile, for the development and commercialization of multi-modal mobility solutions. Based on the content of Be-Mobile for traffic and parking, enriched with real-time content on public transport, Go-Mobile developed a multi-channel service platform that offers personalized routing advice to travelers over mobile phones, website and variable message signs.

Cools graduated as a civil engineer in Computer Science at the University of Leuven and the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. After obtaining an MBA at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, he joined the telematics company Acunia (Belgium) in 1998 as business development and sales manager. In 2003 he founded ITS Belgium, the Belgian platform for the intelligent transport systems, grouping more than 60 member companies. 

PRESENTATION TITLE:

Improving the quality of traffic detection using telematics

Mr. Cools investigates the possibilities of how we can bridge the gap between traffic systems and cars, with the aim of utilizing cars as centers for intelligent traffic information. Current trends emphasises the importance of converging technologies and if properly harnessed this technology can be used to leverage the car more effectively, to minimize traffic congestion and increase road safety.

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Nenad Hercigonja

Telematics Sales Director, BlueTraker

Nenad Hercigonja works in EMA Group for the last 8 years and is the Managing Director of Croatian EMA group affiliate, the company Primark. At the group level he is the Telematics Sales Director. His specialty in telematics area is VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) as he initially suggested the development of BlueTraker in that direction 5 years ago. Nenad's main objective as Telematics Sales Director of EMA Group is to further enhance global sales of telematics devices from EMA's portfolio as well as to find and implement new innovative applications based on BlueTraker telematics platform.

Nenad is a Master of Electronic Engineering and has studied and attended several managerial courses including MBA course at Henley Management School in UK. 

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Comming soon ...

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Dragomir Bojkov

Chief Operating Officer, ICOM

Dragomir Bojkov is Icom’s Chief Operating Officer since 2003. He managed the company’s New York office in the period 1997-2002. Prior to joining ICOM Ltd., he served as Compaq product manager at Express Consult Holding in Sofia. Mr. Bojkov holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia.

Mr. Bojkov is an IT specialist with domain expertise in location technologies, in-vehicle telematics for ITS, design and development of software systems for the telematics industry. 

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The new growth drivers for the in-car telematics ecosystem - a South East European perspective

eCall, B-call and PAYD insurance will be the main growth driving factors in the European in-car telematics ecosystem for the next several years. The SEE regional specifics create both major hurdles and big opportunities. The presentation focuses on the major regional implications of eCall implementation, Breakdown Assistance and PAYD systems implementations, major ITS projects, and the opportunities these new developments create for the telematics sector. Further, several local examples from Bulgaria are briefly described, showing different business models for using these major new growth drivers in our region.

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Claudiu Suma

CEO, SafeFleet

Claudiu’s career in mobile technology and web based services has spanned over 24 years of entrepreneurial leadership and success. His vision is the drive behind several companies he led, initiated or managed. Claudiu's idea is to do things considered impossible, be disruptive and to adopt emergent technologies and business models.

In his early days he has been a teaching assistant, later on he moved to state administration in the field of spectrum management and during the past 12 years he founded or entered in companies offering web based services, telematics, mobile apps and mobile payments: ETA Automatizari, SafeFleet Italy, Piconet. As a young electrical engineer he wanted to emigrate but he never had the time, being busy on "temporary" projects. A couple of years ago he visited Boston and was happy to find out that you can do regional or even global projects also from your home city. He now frequently commutes between Timisoara, Bucharest and other cities in Europe.

Plummeting margins in the classic telematics services pushed him to automate the whole provisioning process, explore new uses of the big data available and to find synergies with the insurance industry.  

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New challenges for a mature industry: M2M Service Delivery Cloud

Since the ARPU in the industry is declining but the numbers are taking off, it is important to have a system in place which will promote the easy collaboration between the actors in the field: GSM operators, clients, installers, insurance companies, platform developers, service providers, hardware manufacturers, automatic billing systems. Speaker will give a perspective about this also shared by big names in the industry like Axeda, Sensor Logic and others. SafeFleet has also developed a solution for this very narrow, specialized niche.

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Klemen Jamšek

Project Manager, CVS Mobile

Klemen Jamšek is a Project Manager at CVS Mobile, where he is responsible for developing new functionalities and implementing telematics solutions to their costumers. Company is among the leading providers of telematics solutions in the SEE region. Prior joining CVS Mobile, Jamšek worked in the international transport company for 5 years. With his experience, Jamšek is now able to understand customer needs and therefore brings user experience to development of new products and tailor made solutions.

PRESENTATION TITLE:

Fleet Effectiveness Through Telematics

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Alenka Bezjak

Conference Director, Telematics Conference SEEurope

Alenka Bezjak has been active in the telematics sector for several years. She is the director of the Ergo Institute, co-author of the market research Commercial Vehicles in Southeast Europe: Telematics Solutions and Perspectives, and the head of the Telematics Conference SEEurope, the first business conference in Southeast Europe focusing on telematics and fleet management solutions.

PRESENTATION TITLE:

Commercial vehicles in Southeast Europe: Telematics solutions and perspectives

Overview of telematics market and solution providers in the Southeast Europe region. Presentation will be based on updated market research in SEE telematics sector, focusing on fleet management and commercial vehicles. 

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