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Canalys Navigation Forum 2007 backed by leading players
- NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas again support the premier meeting place
for the industry
Reading, UK - Thursday, 19 April 2007
For immediate release
Canalys today announced that the two leading navigation industry
mapping companies are once again firmly behind the Canalys
Navigation Forum, which is recognized as the key place for industry
participants to come together to discuss future product and service
development, investment and business opportunities. Both companies
backed the inaugural event last year, which some senior delegates
described as the best technology industry conference they had ever
attended.
“The first Canalys Navigation Forum in Geneva was a big hit! This
kind of event gives the opportunity to all participants in this
emerging industry to share opinions, voice opportunities and last
but not least to meet each other. This unique platform made it
possible for us to share the vision of Tele Atlas with all the
participants. We looking forward to this year’s edition in
Barcelona,” said Alain De Taeye, CEO of Tele Atlas.
"This conference is a testament to the fact that navigation is an
industry in its own right," said David Assouline, Marketing
Director, Consumer of NAVTEQ. “The penetration of navigation
products across a spectrum of business and personal applications is
impressive. NAVTEQ looks forward to representing its commitment to
the industry at Canalys' event in September.”
The 2007 forum will be held in Barcelona from the 10th to the
12th of September at the prestigious Grand Marina Hotel. The event
has already attracted several other early sponsors, including
Centrality, Blom, Merian, Nuance, Loquendo and CSR. Alan Cardy,
Canalys Vice President, said, “We were delighted by the response to
last year’s forum, which now holds a regular slot in the diary of
senior management across the navigation industry. Our expectation is
that the number of delegates this year will rise above 400, with
greater representation from the Americas and the APAC region, and
more involvement from the mobile operator community as they wake up
to the opportunities that navigation provides as an application
itself, and as the catalyst that will lead to the widespread
adoption of location-based services.”
Carefully designed to give the industry the opportunity to gather
and benefit from research, analysis and debate on critical market
trends and issues, this year’s conference themes reflect the
direction in which the industry is moving, taking in among other
subjects: the potential of emerging markets, mobile operators and
LBS opportunities, selling navigation solutions into businesses, and
the future of the PND. The forum provides the perfect platform for
delegates to discover all they need to know about the latest market
developments, products, solutions and services coming out of the
navigation industry. Topical issues are explored and discussed, and
delegates are encouraged to put forward their questions to speakers,
panellists and Canalys analysts, in highly interactive sessions.
The Canalys Navigation Forum combines informative and
entertaining plenary sessions with independent breakout and panel
sessions hosted by Canalys’ analysts. These will draw together
experts from many different parts of the value chain and there will
be many opportunities for formal and informal networking, including
a one-to-one meeting service. All delegates will be welcomed at a
cocktail reception to open the event and invited to a glorious
open-air gala dinner.
Chris Jones, Canalys Vice President and Principal Analyst, added
“The navigation industry is experiencing tremendous growth, but also
great change. Handset vendors have woken up to the potential of
navigation, not only in-vehicle, but also on foot. Meanwhile PND
vendors are starting to deliver connected devices, which will offer
users better and more dynamic information, but bring with them a
vast array of challenges around channels, service pricing, content
partnerships and technology integration. With any kind of connected
device, a vendor will struggle without establishing a meaningful
dialogue with the operators. This year’s forum will bring all these
industry participants together to help move those conversations
along.”
To register as a delegate or to gain more information on
sponsorship opportunities please visit
www.canalysnavigationforum.com or call +44 (0) 118 984 0539.
About Canalys
Canalys specialises in delivering high quality market data,
analysis and advice to the world’s leading technology vendors. It is
recognised as a key provider of continuous advisory services and
confidential custom projects for marketing managers and strategists
within blue-chip IT, telecoms, navigation and consumer electronics companies. It
has unrivalled expertise in European routes to market for all kinds
of high technology products and services in the consumer, SMB and
large enterprise segments, and provides worldwide market data and
trends analysis.
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