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July 27, 2011

Webinar - Webinar Tackles Fleet Management Best Practices, Finding an Edge


“Fleet Management Best Practices: Strategies and Solutions to Gain a Competitive Edge through Telematics.”

Sound like your kind of webinar? You’re in luck – it will be presented on Tuesday, August 9, at 2:00 in the afternoon on the East coast and 11:00 in the morning out in sunny California. CLICK HERE TO Register now.




Here are some reasons why you might be interested in the presentation from an unusually diverse selection of industry insiders and experts than these sorts of webinars usually offer: The slow economic recovery. Rising fuel and insurance costs. Ever-increasing demands from management to “do more with less.”

It’s hard enough for fleet managers in the best of times, but these days it’s particularly tough, as many transportation-reliant businesses are struggling just to survive.

But as the webinar says, help is out there. The webinar’s designed to machine-to-machine and telematics offers that help fleet managers “not just survive, but thrive despite all of the pressures, challenges and demands.”

Presenting will be Steve Cary, vice president of Feeney Wireless, which offers end-to-end connected vehicle products designed to meet specific needs of mobile workers in a wide variety of situations, including Connected Emergency Vehicles, Connected Field Services/Utility Vehicles, and Connected Mass Transit. He’s responsible for product development initiatives across the organization and for their positioning in the marketplace.

Also presenting is Joyce Tam, director of product marketing and responsible for product strategy and roadmap for the Trimble (News - Alert) Fleet Solutions Group. She joined Trimble Navigation in 2003, and prior to Trimble, held product development and product management positions at Lucent Technologies, Netopia (News - Alert), and Praxon with extensive experience in product management positions with start-up and fast-growth companies on an international scale.

Also presenting is Alex Popov, SVP of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships with Vnomics. With more than 25 years of experience in the Transportation industry, he is known someone who drives improvement through process design, enhancement and optimization of technology.

Also presenting – see what we mean about deeper presenter rosters than your usual webinar? – is Chris Becwar, who has worked in the Location Based Services arena for over 10 years, focusing on digital mapping, mobile workforce management, and vehicle telematics. With Xora, he focuses on introducing vehicle and handset based location technologies to mobile businesses.

And presenting is Tom Wiese, strategic opportunity manager of Emerging Solutions at Sprint (News - Alert), focusing on connected transportation for Sprint’s Emerging Solutions Group. Wiese has expertise developing strategies in the constantly evolving work of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications with a focus on smart fleet, asset monitoring/management concentrations.

Want to learn more about M2M technologies? Then be sure to check out the M2M Evolution conference, collocated with TMC’s (News - Alert) ITEXPO West 2011, taking place Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. The M2M Evolution Conference is for those industry professionals interested in capitalizing on a rapidly growing segment of the telecom industry. The M2M Evolution Conference embraces the any-to-any strategy of the Internet today. Co-sponsored by TMC Partner Crossfire Media, it showcases the solutions, and examines the data strategies and technological requirements that enterprises and carriers need to capitalize on a market segment that is estimated to grow to $300 Billion in the year ahead. To register, click here.



David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Jennifer Russell