MOST Forum 2008 Reports Successful Conference and Exhibition

International Automotive Electronics Audience Met in Stuttgart on September 30, 2008

Starnberg (Germany) October 2, 2008 – The first MOST® Forum took place in Stuttgart on September 30, 2008: In the Liederhalle Cultural Congress Center in Stuttgart (Germany) over 140 attendees came together to learn about the latest applications and future trends of MOST infotainment technology. "We are very pleased with the broad International audience of MOST Cooperation members and non-members coming from Asia, Europe and the United States", states Dr. Wolfgang Bott, Technical Coordinator of the MOST Cooperation. "The attending professionals from the automotive electronics industry benefit from very interesting technical presentations and motivating discussions on results of recent work and highlights concerning systems, circuits, technologies, processes and applications."

The broad audience included researchers, designers, engineers, system developers, as well as purchasers, journalists, and managers of the industries involved. The attendees actively listened to the technical presentations illuminating a wide range of MOST related topics as MOST applications, experiences and technologies concerning networking and system architecture, physical layer, compliance and quality aspects, series projects experience, MOST and other standards as well as MOST in research and development.


Interesting technical presentations and motivating discussions introduced results of recent work and technology highlights based on MOST.
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The broad audience included researchers, designers, engineers, system developers, as well as purchasers, journalists, and managers of the industries involved.
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In the exhibition area several companies presented their MOST solutions and applications.
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The exhibition area was well-attended. Innovative companies presented their MOST solutions and applications. Amongst the exhibitors were the MOST Cooperation (presenting the MOST150 multimedia demo), AUDI AG, Avago Technologies, BMW Group, Comlet, Dension Audio Systems, GADV, K2L, LeCroy, MBtech, Ruetz System Solutions, SMSC, and STEG. On the evening of September 29, 2008, many attendees joined for the MOST networking event in Stuttgart. At 19.00 Harald Schöpp, Member of the MOST Cooperation Steering Committee, inaugurated the MOST Forum. During the dinner they had the chance to meet influential people from the automotive electronics industry. The MOST Cooperation supported the MOST Forum as knowledge partner to help their member companies further disseminate the knowledge learned in over 10 years of intensive work. The media partners as well as industry partner ZVEI (Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association) were contributing their expertise and technology know-how.

The conference proceedings are available for download at www.mostforum.com/images/2008-MOST-Forum-proceedings.pdf (1.1 MB). The presentations, images, as well as video interviews will soon be presented for download at www.mostforum.com. For publishing extracts out of the proceedings please e-mail contact(at)mostforum.com or call +49 8151 555009 11.

About the MOST Forum

The MOST Forum is an International conference and exhibition on infotainment technology using MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport). It is presented by qaqadu event gmbh as host and organizer. 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. Further information on the MOST Cooperation is available at www.mostcooperation.com. For the MOST Forum please see www.mostforum.com.

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