CEO's of Onstar, WingCast, ATX Technologies and WirelessCar to Discuss Telematics Revenue Models in Detroit with Mercedes Benz LLC's General Manager, May 15-16, Detroit

    DETROIT, March 19 Leaders from all the major players in
automotive telematics will meet in Detroit this May 15-16 to discuss revenue
models and 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 and then sit on a
panel discussion with Mark Juron of Mercedes-Benz LLC, Steve Millstein of ATX
and Jan Hellaker of WirelessCar to dig into the big issue of making cash from
wireless services.
    Other keynote panel speakers include top rated Wall St analyst Gary
Lapidus from Goldman Sachs and senior level executives from Nissan, Lear,
Visteon, MobileAria, Clarion, Denso, Siemens, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, CUE
Corp, Ericsson, UBS Warburg, Deutsche Bank, CNN, 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.
    Conference sponsors include Hewlett Packard, WirelessCar, Sun
Microsystems, Webraska and IBM

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

    eyeforauto's print magazine -- Telematics Update, is a free senior level
publication on the subject -- email address details subscribe@eyeforauto.com
for a free subscription.

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