The NDS Association has started organizing an annual public conference in 2019. The event is open to everyone, with the goal to achieve more visibility and awareness for NDS by communicating the NDS strategy and the benefits of using NDS to the industry. And we love the opportunity to have discussions and get feedback from the automotive eco-system players.
But this year we were facing the challenges of organizing an event given the current COVID situation. So we invited NDS Association member companies in person to an event location in Frankfurt, Germany, and opened the event online for everyone. We had 15 representatives of NDS member companies in the room, more than 200 participants joined the event online.
To all attendees: Thank you!!
After the welcome by NDS Association Chairman Martin Schleicher, updates on the activities of the NDS Association on the business and technical level were shared.
Dr. Markus Kerper of the Volkswagen Group’s Car.Software organization spoke in his keynote about the benefits of using NDS. He also showed a video of the lane precise positioning and guidance feature that is available in the latest navigation systems across Volkswagen’s standard engine and electric vehicles as well as Seat and Skoda cars.
The Car.Software Org is committed to NDS and will plan future generations of the infotainment based on NDS
Dr. Markus Kerper, Volkswagen Group’s Car.Software Org at the 2nd NDS Public Conference
The four latest NDS Association members FCA, Huawei, INAVI, and TRI-AD presented themselves and their reasons for joining the NDS Association.
This was followed by Telenav, HERE Technologies, and TomTom, who presented NDS.Classic applications, map products, and success stories.
Definitely a highlight was the demonstration of the first NDS.Live implementation that was developed jointly by the NDS Association, HERE Technologies, Elektrobit, Joynext, Navinfo, and NNG.
Last but not least, NDS Association Product Manager Georg Horn shared an update on the future of NDS before the conference was summarized and closed by NDS Association Chairman Martin Schleicher.
With this news post, we are happy to be able to share nearly all videos and presentations from the event with you. Please find the links below.
Do you want to watch all available videos in the order of order of appearance? Great! We have prepared a playlist on the NDS YouTube channel for you.
| Welcome and Introduction to the 2nd NDS Public Conference by Martin Schleicher, NDS Chairman |  |   |
| NDS Technical Achievements 2019/2020 by Fabian Klebert, NDS Technical Coordinator | | |
| How Volkswagen profits from Navigation Data Standard: Past, Present and Future by Dr. Markus Kerper, Car.Software Org |  | |
| New member introductions | ||
| Fiat Chrysler Automobiles by Dinesh Balakrishnan (PhD), FCA AD | |  |
| Huawei by Wu Yong, Huawei | | |
| INAVI by Kwangpyo Choi, INAVI | | |
| Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development (TRI-AD) by Naoya Kuwata, TRI-AD | | |
| NDS.Classic Applications | ||
| NDS.Classic Streaming by Mihai Cozma, Telenav | | |
| HERE Navigation Map in NDS by Robert Krumpolt, HERE Technologies | | |
| Leading the way: How Standardization helped scaling TomTom’s NDS Business by Volker Hiestermann, TomTom | | |
| NDS.Live Release Demonstration | ||
| NDS.Live Introduction and Overview by Fabian Klebert, NDS Association Technical Coordinator | | |
| HERE NDS.Live Services by Boris Gumhold, HERE Technologies | | |
| Joynext NDS.Live Visualization Client by Frank Aurich and Dirk Legler, Joynext | | |
| Improving the eHorizon experience with NDS.Live by Emanuel Elhardt, Elektrobit | | |
| Navinfo NDS.Live Services by Nico Glorius, Navinfo | | |
| NNG NDS.Live Intelligent Co-Driver Client by Ottó Nyírő, NNG | | |
| Future of NDS | ||
| Future of NDS: Where we are, where to go, and how to get there! by Georg Horn, NDS Association Product Manager | | |
| Summary and Closing Remarks by Martin Schleicher, NDS Association Chairman | |