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I see my role as striving to bring the best of Europe into the AECC. As we know, the AECC is a global organization with several industry players representing businesses from all major regions. Being based in Belgium, I look for ways to include the European outlook. It’s important for the connected car industry to address requirements that are relevant to all stakeholders in Europe. Everyone has their own interests and requirements in addition to wanting the industry to succeed globally.

Intel is a global company enabling our partners and customers with solutions for computing and communications. I work on wireless standards and new technologies at Intel. My teams represent Intel at many global standards development and industry fora including 3GPP and IEE802.

The AECC announced an expanded edition of its technical report titled Driving Data to the Edge: The Challenge of Data Traffic Distribution V 2.0, offering guidance and discussion around three new issues that pave the way forward for the connected vehicle ecosystem. AECC President and Chairperson Ken-ichi Murata-san, AECC Directors Christer Boberg and Joel Obstfeld and AECC Technical Solutions Working Group Chair Leifeng Ruan discuss how OEMs, MNOs, cloud providers and other technology stakeholders in the connected vehicle ecosystem can benefit from the report’s findings.

Early 2017, representatives from Ericsson, Toyota and a few other founding companies informally met during the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. Toyota expressed a need for a global community to develop a technical framework on handling the high-volume data spawned by connected cars in the future. From Ericsson’s perspective, our entire business is about connectivity, so we were keenly interested. In our experience, it's very important that the use cases for a new emerging business have adequate support by the networks. We see a unique opportunity for AECC members – such as Toyota being one of the largest vehicle manufacturers, and other industry stakeholders – be the ones forming the next-generation communication systems for connected vehicles. Ericsson’s collaboration with AECC will specifically support the mobile network operators and help them to understand how they should configure and deploy their networks to support use cases for connected cars and other vehicles.

I'm leading a team of people who are looking at the future of connected and automated transport systems. We’re considering all the various components needed for connected transportation systems - -- not just for the vehicle, but what they connect to, the roadways, smart cities and the broader communications and computing infrastructure.

Approximately 100 people attended AECC’s one-hour presentation and panel discussion, Driving Data to the Edge, on September 14 during the Mobile World Congress Americas meeting in Los Angeles.

On April 25, 2018, the Board of Directors and key members of the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium met in Tokyo, Japan at the Intel offices to discuss a number of key initiatives. Member organization representation included Toyota, Intel, Ericsson, KDDI, DENSO, Dell, AT&T, Toyota ITC, NTT DOCOMO, Sumitomo, and Nippon Telegraph. Discussions ranged from improving user experience, to a long-term strategic roadmap. Our next all member meeting will be in June in Tokyo, Japan.