The MOST Forum 2010 promises a very high quality conference program offering an insight into the latest and future MOST Technology solutions and studies. This second international MOST Conference and exhibition will take place on 23 March 2010 in Frankfurt (Germany). “As knowledge partner, the MOST Cooperation especially appreciates the participation of academia in the conference presentations”, states Henry Muyshondt, Technical Liaison of the MOST Cooperation. “At the MOST Forum 2010, our member companies will enjoy exclusive benefits when attending the conference and exhibiting their solutions to the MOST community.” The organization, through which the leading automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) is standardized, encourages all infotainment and networking experts to attend the international conference and exhibition. Top professionals from the automotive electronics industry and academia will exchange information and results of their recent work on this widely used infotainment networking technology.

Conference Program

After opening the conference and welcoming the attendees, Henry Muyshondt will guide the program, starting with the keynote speech on “MOST150 Infotainment Networking”. During the first section, the presenters will take a close look at the MOST Physical Layer. The presentations will be by the University of Applied Science Aalen, Harman/Becker, the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI), Ruetz System Solutions, and Toyoda Gosei. During the lunch and networking break all attendees and speakers are welcome to the exhibition area to learn about available MOST solutions. The afternoon events begin with a section on MOST Modelling and Simulation aspects presented by FZI, Jaguar, TUEV Nord, the University of Hagen, and the University of Warwick. After the afternoon networking and exhibition break the section on MOST Network and System Architecture will round up the conference program. Representatives of Audi, Continental, Daimler, K2L, Nestgroup, SMSC, and Volkswagen will report on achievements and give an outlook on the plans for the near future.

Industry partners SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineering, www.sae.org) and ZVEI (Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association, www.zvei.org) as well as the media partners Auto Electronics (www.autoelectronics.com), Elektronik Automotive (www.elektroniknet.de) and ElektronikPraxis (www.elektronikpraxis.de) joined the MOST Forum program committee to set up this premier conference program.

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MOST Forum 2010

The MOST Forum 2010 promises a very high quality conference program offering an insight into the latest and future MOST Technology solutions and studies. This second international MOST Conference and exhibition will take place on 23 March 2010 in Frankfurt (Germany).

More information is available at www.mostforum.com

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About MOST Technology

MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) is a multimedia networking technology optimized for use in cars and other applications. It enables the transport of high Quality of Service audio and video together with packet data and real-time control over a single transmission medium. MOST can use plastic optical fiber or electrical unshielded or shielded twisted pair wire physical layers, that meet automotive environmental requirements. Today MOST is used in 80 car models as the communication backbone for their information and entertainment equipment.

About MOST Cooperation

The MOST Cooperation is the organization through which MOST Technology is standardized and refined so that it continues to stay abreast of the latest industry requirements. Today it consists of 16 international carmakers and more than 65 key component suppliers. They have joined together to work with the MOST Technology and to contribute to its innovation. The MOST Cooperation is prepared to embrace efforts to further develop and standardize the technology for other industries and to establish the corresponding work structures. The MOST Cooperation was founded in 1998 to standardize MOST Technology as a global standard for multimedia networking. Audi, BMW, Daimler, Harman/Becker and SMSC are its core partners and constitute its Steering Committee. For more information see www.mostcooperation.com.