A very busy and productive week in Germany. Great turnout of those that care about Linux in the car. GENIVI released its GDP (demonstrator platform) and taught 71 people how to install the system on the new low cost Renesas R-Car Porter board.
Two good friends in the business, Matt Jones and Mike Nunnery
Matt Jones replacing former PSA exec Philippe Giquel as GENIVI president
GDP proves out middleware by exposing bugs and driving quality updates
Matt Jones of JLR was made president of the Alliance and now bridges the gap to aligning AGL since he is now on both boards, GENIVI and Linux Foundation. All are hoping for a smooth and faster ride around the sharp curves ahead. W3C launched its full scale Automotive Working Group and member ACCESS already build a prototype to validate the HTML5 automotive API. Running on the Renesas Lager-H2 you can communicate from an embedded browser to the steering, accelerator and brakes.Logically this was a heavy conversation during the OA’15 Automotive Security sessions held at the same venue in Stuttgart. Home of Daimler, with several from the new GENIVI member around, we should expect to see news emerging into the open soon.
I will be traveling from sunny Phoenix tomorrow to be fully prepared for a busy week circulating with about 400 members of the GENIVI Alliance along with some special guests. The event returns to Germany where major automotive development and innovation occurs on a daily basis. Home to recent member Daimler Corporation in Stuttgart, already a dozen delegates from Mercedes Benz will be participating. Of course all the typical european automakers (BMW, Jaguar Land-Rover, Volvo, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault) and their suppliers, plus many from other geographies (Ford, Nissan and Hyundai).
I’m looking forward to some private meetings with any of the members looking for marketing support and have time in my calendar on Sun 19-April, Mon 20-April, and at a few time slots through the rest of the week. Please reach out to me at JAHoffmann@mac.com and we will work out a time and date. Here’s my list of…
The agenda and schedule is set. If you can make it to New York this summer, choose a great summer week like June 22. The show will be bigger and better I hear, and C3 will continue to move the Connected Car conversation.
I will be traveling from sunny Phoenix tomorrow to be fully prepared for a busy week circulating with about 400 members of the GENIVI Alliance along with some special guests. The event returns to Germany where major automotive development and innovation occurs on a daily basis. Home to recent member Daimler Corporation in Stuttgart, already a dozen delegates from Mercedes Benz will be participating. Of course all the typical european automakers (BMW, Jaguar Land-Rover, Volvo, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault) and their suppliers, plus many from other geographies (Ford, Nissan and Hyundai).
I’m looking forward to some private meetings with any of the members looking for marketing support and have time in my calendar on Sun 19-April, Mon 20-April, and at a few time slots through the rest of the week. Please reach out to me at JAHoffmann@mac.com and we will work out a time and date. Here’s my list of sessions recommended and part of my plan:
Next week I will share updates from the GENIVI All-Member Meeting – please consider attending if you are interested in Automotive Linux and Open Source software development.
Over 300 people signed up so far to attend, many are not yet members of GENIVI. Please contact me if you are looking for a discount registration.
Presented by the GENIVI Alliance and Sponsored by Intel Corporation, OPEN Automotive ‘15 will explore, along with carmakers, leading suppliers, developers, automotive consortia and industry analysts, “Cyber Security – Protecting the Connected Vehicle.”
Discover how the relationship between cyber security and safety is having a dramatic impact on smart device integration, infotainment services, embedded solutions, privacy, interoperability, monitoring and collaboration among OEM’s, service providers, regulators and ultimately the consumers.
Moderated panels will discuss connected car vulnerability and the consequential critical need to address core cyber security issues well before the point of exponential attack growth along with the current initiatives that are being taken by automotive OEM’s and optional suppliers to keep our vehicles and passengers safe.
With more than 279 million connected vehicles projected to be on the roads by 2021, key industry stakeholders are exploring ways to better collaborate, set standards and define the future automotive architectures for keeping the connected vehicle as safe as possible . The OPEN Automotive ‘15 conference brings industry experts, key contributors and innovators together for a full day of education and knowledge transfer.
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