Once in a generation a hole opens in the center of the technology universe
Join the executives who are ‘lighting up’ the last remaining dark spot in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) universe – the community of more than a billion communications-enabled vehicles.
The vehicles and their users are all being connected to internet-enabled services through high-speed networks. Today such networks are unleashing unprecedented opportunities for user convenience, safety, entertainment, information, advertising, service delivery, communications, and research.
The Networked Vehicle Association (NVA) is a not-for-profit organization which is the premier workgroup for executives in the newly-emerging field of ICT-auto.
The NVA’s main purpose is to play an active role in orchestrating different industries to work together to fully integrate all vehicles into the global communications network.
The NVA is a highly motivated and cooperative community of skilled leaders from the ICT and the automotive industry. They are the ‘prime movers’ in generating business and technical expertise on how a networked-vehicle platform can be created and operated in a sustainable manner.
NVA members play the following roles to enhance their competitive edge and advance the rapid development of networked-vehicle connectivity:
- Promote entrepreneurial partnerships and networking between the global ICT-automotive industry, ICT industries, and academic research institutions.
- Foster the development of technology platforms and standards that will better enable the delivery of high- value services.
- Provide advanced warning of innovation awareness, earliest lead-time, and market ideas.
- Do original research into ICT-automotive issues and share pre-competitive research.
- Facilitate and promote solutions and approaches that leverage the cost and functional advantages of vehicular communications.
NVA provides:
- Workshops for joint collaboration
- New research on the value of ICT in vehicles as directed by its contributors
- Face-to-face and virtual brainstorming
- Partnership connections through social networking
- Regular ‘teleforums’ featuring live updates from leaders in ICT-Auto organizations
- An online resource for white papers and research
- Regular bulletins of new information from all partners.
ICT injects huge value into the auto sector. Most experts like IEEE and the core companies here, agree that ICT provides the lion’s share of the vehicle’s innovation value and the purchase attraction:
- 80% of the innovation in vehicles
- Unbounded new services
- $1-billion in software for each model
- 70% of a car’s development cost
- Al least $1,000 of a car’s purchase value
The Networked Vehicle Association will help you to make the most of this opportunity. If you could benefit from joining a one-stop resource for ICT-based vehicle information, partnerships, and pre-competitive innovation, then you should add your weight to the critical mass of the Networked Vehicle Association. Joining the select club of the most important minds in this new sector is the right step for you.
Membership fees are $750 per person or $3,000 for corporate access.
NVA Founders include Cisco, Intel, HP, IBM and BMW-ITRC.
To join, or for more information, please contact us at info@networkedvehicle.org