OnStar, Wingcast, XM Radio, General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler meet to Discuss Strategic Telematics in Detroit, May 15-16

    DETROIT, Feb. 19 Leaders from all the major players in
automotive telematics will meet in Detroit this May 15-16 to discuss revenue
models, collaboration, strategic planning and the industry vision of the
future of telematics at the EyeForAuto Telematics 2001 conference at Cobo
Center on May 15 -16.  http://www.eyeforauto.com/telematics
    Chet Huber, President and CEO of OnStar and Harel Kodesh, President and
CEO of WingCast will make keynote speeches at the conference.
    Other keynote panel speakers include Gary Lapidus from Goldman Sachs and
senior level executives from Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, WirelessCar, Lear,
Visteon, MobileAria, Clarion, Denso, Siemens, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, CUE
Corp, Ericsson, UBS Warburg, Deutsche Bank, CNN, ATX Technologies, Webraska,
Sun Microsystems and many more.
    The two-day strategic conference focuses on the big issues in automotive
telematics -- Revenue models, selling safety applications, Tier 1 electronics
integration, Wall St. views, platform standardisation, traffic information,
mobile services and linking up the car, the office and the home via wireless
technologies.
    A special "Telematics and Wall St. Confidence" keynote discussion panel
takes place on May 15, featuring Gary Lapidus of Goldman Sachs, Saul Rubin of
UBS Warburg, Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Jonathan Lawrence of Dain
Raucher Wessels and John Edwards of Deutsche Bank.

    The full conference program and speakers is at:
http://www.eyeforauto.com/telematics/program.html

    EyeForAuto Telematics 2001 will be co-locating with the Detroit Auto
Interiors show 2001.  The Auto Interiors Expo in 2001 will focus on telematics
technologies.  Click on http://www.autointeriorshow.com for more information.

   EyeForAuto's print magazine -- Telematics Update, launches in March --
email address details to subscribe@eyeforauto.com for a free subscription.

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    For more information contact:

    Toby Webb
    EyeForAuto
    toby@eyeforauto.com
    1 800-814-3459 /
    +44-207-275-7561
    http://www.eyeforauto.com