Jul 23, 2019
NFC Forum Roars Into Stuttgart
Highlights include VISIONFC Automotive Summit and 15th Anniversary Celebration
The NFC Forum was founded in 2004 by Nokia, Royal Phillips Electronics (NXP) and Sony. So we found it only right that we return to celebrate our 15th anniversary at the home of one of founding members — and Sony headquarters just so happened to be in the city that created the automobile — Stuttgart, Germany.
Thus, it became the perfect marriage at our recent member meeting of celebrating our 15th anniversary at Sony paired with a special and highly successful VISIONFC Automotive Summit held in conjunction with the member meeting.
The whole event would not have been successful without the support of our sponsors. A special thank you to Sony, DNP and Infineon for their contributions towards making the event such an enormous success.
VISIONFC Automotive Summit Shifts Into High Gear
The Automotive Summit’s objective was to show how NFC can enhance the automotive consumer experience, share the latest NFC automotive developments and identify market needs and requirements from the industry stakeholders. The event also sparked the conversation with key stakeholders about the future of NFC in the automotive industry. It helped to pave a path for future hands-on workshops centered around best practices for implementing NFC in the automotive ecosystem.
Interested in viewing the slides from the event? Click here.
Speakers for the event included Johannes Wisbauer, Audi AG, who presented “Digital Vehicle Key: Opportunities and Challenges”; Gokay Saldamli, Car Connectivity Consortium, with “Digital Key: An Interoperable Smart Key Solution for the Auto Industry”; Christian Seth, Molex, with “NFC & Wireless Charging”; Dariusz Mastela, NXP, who presented “NFC and the Securely Connected Car”; Michael Dold, Marquardt, with “NFC in Automotive Door Handles”; Martin Schwab, Daimler AG, with “The CE4A NFC Position Paper”; Christian Saracin, Continental Automotive, with “NFC Automotive Applications: Specific Use Cases and Products”; Rene Wutte, STMicroelectronics, who presented “Digital Key and Beyond: The Many Benefits of NFC”; Sun Ren, Infineon, with “NFC: The Life and Car Interface”; Katsuharu Tachibana, Chairman of JasPar‘s Digital Key Workgroup, with “The Digital Key Workgroup of JasPar”.
Happy Anniversary NFC Forum
Following the VISIONFC Summit, the NFC Forum and its members celebrated its 15th Anniversary! It was a night filled with cake, networking, and celebrating all the hard work that has gone into the Forum over the last 15 years.
While the celebration of the NFC Forum took place at night the next morning the members went right to work. Members took to their respective special interest groups where discussions on future projects, white papers, and technologies took place. Each group highlighted the efforts that have been made since the previous member meeting in the spring and proposed the progress that should be made by the next member meeting in November.
Next Member Meeting
Join the NFC Forum for our next member meeting in Singapore November 5-8, 2019. The event will be hosted by Infineon. Learn more about Singapore 2019 here.