MOST Forum 2008 Opens Call for Speakers

International MOST Conference and Exhibition Invites Professionals from the Automotive Electronics Industry and Academia to Stuttgart on 30th September 2008

Starnberg (Germany) 17th April 2008 – The MOST Forum invites interested parties to attend its first international conference and exhibition on MOST® Technology, on September 30th, 2008. This one-day industry event on infotainment technology will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, presenting the latest and future technologies and applications based on MOST. "The MOST Cooperation is participating in this forum to help our member companies further disseminate the knowledge learned in over 10 years of intensive work", states Henry Muyshondt, Technical Liaison of the MOST Cooperation. "Our target is to provide a very high quality conference to the attendees by encouraging our members to share their experiences with MOST Technology. In addition we will be exhibiting a demonstration of the latest developments of the MOST Cooperation." Alexander Leonhardi, of Daimler AG, will be the keynote speaker. The Call for Speakers is now open and anyone interested is invited to submit a proposal for a paper. The goal is to cover a broad field of topics with a wide range of information. The MOST forum provides an ideal venue to share ideas and experiences, and to discuss the latest news on this de-facto automotive infotainment standard.
The objective of the MOST Forum is to bring together top professionals from the automotive electronics industry and academia to exchange information and results of recent work on systems, circuits, technologies, processes and applications. The conference will provide a forum for a broad audience reaching from researchers, designers, engineers, system developers, to purchasers and journalists, and to the managers of the industries involved. Different media partners, as well as industry partner ZVEI (Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association), are contributing their expertise and technology know-how to set up a premier conference program.

Technical Paper Submission
Suggested MOST topics for submission include, but are not limited to:

1. MOST Networking and System architecture
1.1 Application Framework
1.2 Network Management
1.3 Interface Controllers
1.4 Migration to MOST150

2. MOST Physical Layer
2.1 FOT technology
2.2 Connectors

3. MOST Compliance and Quality Aspects
3.1 Testing and Compliance
3.2 Tools

4. MOST Series Projects Experience
4.1 HMI
4.2 Gateway Solutions

5. MOST and other standards
5.1 FIBEX
5.2 AUTOSAR

6. MOST in Research & Development

The abstract should contain:
1. Title of the paper
2. Author(s): name(s), title(s), company, address, telephone, e-mail
3. Photo of the author(s)
4. Subject/topic
5. Short summary of the paper: 200 to 300 words
6. Details of any previous publications on the same subject

All abstracts are due on May 15th, 2008, and should be sent via e-mail to abstract@MOSTforum.com. Acceptable file formats are Word, Text and PDF files. All presenters have free admission to the conference and exhibition.

Deadlines
Abstract submission: May 15th, 2008
Notification of authors: early June 2008
Final Paper: August 15th, 2008

Program Consortium
Stephan Esch, Audi AG
Prof. Dr. Andreas Grzemba, University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf
Stephan Janouch, Elektronik automotive
Jochen Klaus-Wagenbrenner, Harman/Becker
Klaus Oertel, Hanser automotive
Robert Reiter, BMW Group
Harald Schöpp, SMSC
Dieter Seidl, Daimler AG
Christoph Stoppok, ZVEI
Johann Wiesböck, ElektronikPraxis

The program committee will decide on the acceptance of a paper on the basis of the abstract. It is important to clearly emphasize the principal technical, economical and practical aspects of the intended paper. In particular, presenters should indicate those aspects of the work that are innovative and unique. The length of the lectures will be 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes of discussion. All papers must be written and presented in English.

MOST Forum
Mandy Ahlendorf
Maximilianstrasse 8
82319 Starnberg
Germany
T +49 8151 55 50 09 11
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About MOST Forum
The MOST Forum is an international conference and exhibition on infotainment technology using MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport). MOST 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. The MOST Cooperation is the knowledge partner of the MOST Forum. It 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 75 key component suppliers. They have joined together to work with the MOST Technology and to contribute to its innovation. For more information please see http://www.MOSTforum.com.

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