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Organizer and Partners

Forum Global would like to thank all the supporting partners and sponsors involved in helping to make this inaugural event a huge success.

 

Event Organizer

Forum Global www.forum-global.com

Forum Global specializes in policy focused conferences and events, providing a platform for discussion and debate on topical issues across a variety of different sectors. These events are organized with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

 

Forum Global is the international arm of Forum Europe, which was founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune, and is widely recognized as the leading EU dedicated event provider.

 

Headed by a team of events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Global works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike. Its strategic services can maintain and develop your key policy networks, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-global.com

Platinum Sponsors

General Motors Company www.gm.com

General Motors Company is honored to participate in Connected Cars USA 2016 in Washington DC. GM and its partners produce vehicles in 30 countries, and the company has leadership positions in the world’s largest and fastest-growing automotive markets. GM’s brands include Chevrolet and Cadillac, as well as Baojun, Buick, GMC, Holden, Isuzu, Jiefang, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety, security and information services, can be found at www.gm.com.

AT&T www.att.com

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) helps millions around the globe connect with leading entertainment, mobile, high speed Internet and voice services. We’re the world’s largest provider of pay TV. We have TV customers in the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. In the U.S., our wireless network offers the nation’s strongest LTE signal and the most reliable 4G LTE network. We offer the best global wireless coverage and we help businesses worldwide serve their customers better with our mobility and secure cloud solutions.

ESOA www.esoa.net

ESOA is a non-profit organisation established with the objective of serving and promoting the common interests of satellite operators from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the CIS. The Association today represents the interests of 21 satellite operators who deliver information communication services across the globe. Together ESOA Members provide invaluable communications services to the whole world including emergency communications, live broadcasting, maritime and aero communications, secure services for governments, 24-7 monitoring of industrial processes such as energy plants and a whole range of other communications capabilities that society has come to rely on.

Gold Sponsor

Toyota www.toyota-global.com

Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way people live through our Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands. Over the past 50 years, we’ve built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 42,000 people (more than 33,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (1,500 in the U.S.) sold more than 2.67 million cars and trucks (more than 2.35 million in the U.S.) in 2014 – and about 80 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 20 years are still on the road today.  For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.

Silver Sponsor

LYA www.lya.com

LYA® is an expert consulting firm active in the telecommunications and broadcasting

industry since 1993.

 

LYA’s services and products are focused on spectrum matters as well as on strategic

advice and research related to telecommunications and broadcasting services and

technologies.

 

On the spectrum front, LYA supports mobile carriers, investors and regulators in license

applications, auctions, spectrum valuation and other spectrum matters since 1995. LYA

has developed its own Auction Platforms supporting different formats including

Simultaneous Multiple Round Ascending Auctions (SMRA), Combinatorial Clock Auctions

(CCA) as well as the new clock format developed for the US 600 MHz Incentive auction.

The LYA Auction Platforms have been used extensively to conduct mock auctions as well

as simulations leveraging robot bidder capabilities. LYA’s CCA Auction Platform has

independently validated results of CCA auctions. LYA also provides Auction

Management Tools to auction bidders.

 

LYA has been active around the world providing strategic advice, expert analysis and

leading edge research in telecommunications and broadcasting since 1993. Our focus is

on development and implementation of strategy (integrating market, technology,

network, economic, regulatory and investment analyses), due diligence reviews for

investors as well as on financial modelling, analysis and research. We provide regulatory

and policy analysis, including expert evidence. LYA is known for its in-depth expertise

coupled with rigorous quantitative analysis.

 

LYA conducts and publishes research as part of its c-Ahead research program and blog.

Our web sites are www.lyainternational.com and www.lya.com.

Knowledge Partner

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies www.c-pet.org

C-PET, the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, is a nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank focused on innovation and the long-term policy implications of emerging technologies. As part of its program of events, C-PET has hosted conferences and roundtables addressing the future of the Internet – including the Internet of Things, cloud, privacy, and the Government 2.0 and Business 2.0 impacts of social media.

Supporting Partners

Council www.theinternetofthings.eu

Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group. Council hosts the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. They go through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.  Council thinktank aims to grow into a positively critical counterpart to these negativities in focusing on the quality of interaction and potentialities of IOT for social, communicative and economic (personal fabrication, participatory finance, alternative currencies) connectivity between humans, humans and things and humans and their surroundings. Council highlights a personal history of locative media & hybrid spaces, by professionals of the i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) days, as well as the latest tools and applications, workshops on key issues, short keynotes and time for debate and discussion.

Auto Alliance www.autoalliance.org

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance) is a trade association representing 12 automakers.  Together, our mission is to promote policies that give automakers the freedom and control to build cars and light trucks that are safe, reliable, energy efficient, clean and smart – all so our customers can enjoy greater peace of mind as they go about their daily lives.  Members include BMW Group, FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo.

GSMA www.gsma.com

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai and the Mobile 360 Series conferences.

 

For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com. Follow the GSMA on Twitter: @GSMA.

Global Automakers www.globalautomakers.org

The Association of Global Automakers, Inc. represents international automobile manufacturers that design, build, and sell motor vehicles in the United States. The Association has served as the voice of automakers from around the world since 1961, and today represents the U.S. divisions of 12 motor vehicle manufacturers. The goal of the Association is to foster an open and competitive automotive marketplace that encourages investment, job growth and development of more vehicles that enhance Americans' quality of life.

The IoT Global Network www.IoTglobalnetwork.com

The IoT Global Network is a new platform for the IoT community. It is a destination where you can connect with industry experts and network across the IoT community to build the successful IoT business of the future. The site has a database of over 600 companies and products profiled on the site and this is growing daily.

 

The IoT Global Network will increase transparency across the industry, providing a comprehensive guide while informing and raising awareness of issues and industry regulation. With regular news and blogs from experts plus up-to-date information about IoT events around the world, the IoT Global Network is a dedicated resource for every IoT professional.

IoT Now www.iot-now.com

IoT Now - How to run an IoT enabled business.

 

With exclusive analyst reports and specialist journalists, IoT Now is the leading global brand covering the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications (M2M), embedded devices and connected consumer devices. Delivering webcasts, bi-monthly magazines, white-papers, daily news and expert opinion pieces, IoT Now focuses on the deployment of these technologies across the enterprise, automotive, logistics, healthcare, utilities, travel, security and smart city verticals.


To join our community, register at: www.iot-now.com 


For more information, contact: Charlie Bisnar at c.bisnar@wkm-global.com

The Providence Group www.providencegroupdc.com

The Providence Group advises companies and organizations globally on how to manage enterprise-wide cybersecurity risks and we provide insight and counsel into the complex and changing cybersecurity regulatory, reputation and threat environment.

Badge Sponsor

Allied Spectrum Associates www.alliedspectrumassociates.com

Allied Spectrum Associates are a specialist in radio spectrum regulation with focus in particular on the shared use of spectrum. We have expertise in all facets of spectrum sharing regulation, whether it is Licensed Shared Access (LSA) or TVWS