The Canalys Navigation Forum comes to Taipei for the first time to both explore opportunity within the local market, and help ODMs understand the global markets accessible to them.

Since 2006 the Canalys Navigation Forum has provided the premier annual meeting place for C-level executives within the mobile land navigation sector. To date the event has taken place within the EMEA region but as the market has developed globally so has the Forum, and this year separate events will take place in Europe, the US, India and Taiwan.

The Taipei event concentrates on bringing together the international players with local producers. Some will have an interest in understanding and accessing the local market and others will be there to inform decisions on product development and branding decisions for foreign markets.

Either way, all parties will have interests that converge and the contacts made will be as valuable as the insight gained.

Confirmed attendees include: TomTom, Inventec, Asustek Computer Inc, Morgan Stanley, NAVTEQ Co, Merrill Lynch Global (Taiwan) Limited, Garmin, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs, Tele Atlas, Jentro Technologies, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Mio, Nuance, MStar Semiconductor, Elitegroup, Wistron, SiGe Semiconductor,  HOLUX Technology, Inc., Microsoft, Sun Great Communication and many more.