Dear Colleagues,

According to Goldman Sachs' prediction on the global market of HD maps, it is expected that the HD map industry will usher in a golden development period in the next fifteen years. By 2020, the HD map market will be 2.1 billion US dollars, and 2025 will reach 9.4 billion US dollars. Also based on the research of McKinsey, China is likely to become the world's largest autonomous driving vehicle market in the future. By 2030, autonomous driving related new car sales and mobility services will generate more than $500 billion in revenue, and market participants who have the most detailed and wide coverage HD maps can be worth billions of dollars.

The China HD map industry is now in its infancy, key players are competing fiercely, at the same time they are facing significant challenges including regulations constrictions, lacking of data standards, uncertainty of technical route, high requirement of HD maps quality, lacking of sustainable and profitable business models, etc. To solve those serious problems the industry requires frequent interactions to find solutions.

Under that background “ China Autonomous Driving HD Live Map Innovation Conference 2019 ” will be held on the 23-24 May 2019 in Shanghai. This event will invite 200+ senior decision makers from worldwide leading map providers, start-ups, autonomous driving chip vendors, Tier 1 suppliers, automakers and mobility service firms to gather together address the major industry critical topics including Commercial development of China HD Map, technical route, Pure vision scheme vs. laser radar; How to leverage AI and Machine Learning into mapping; Developing prospects of fully automated mapping and Dynamic map mapping; Quantitative evaluation of the requirements and impacts of HD maps on functions; Where HD maps fit into the autonomous driving ecosystem, HD maps adoption, and threats to automotive navigation players by geospatial companies; Effective strategies for simultaneous localization and map change update for the HD Map-Based Autonomous Driving Car etc.

Part of speakers lineup and topics:

Speaker: Ph.D, Professor, Dean of Department of Automotive Engineering (DAE), Tsinghua University Topic: " Current Status and Future Trends of China HD Map Industry " Speaker: Atticus Zhao, Senior Lawyer, King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai office Topic: " China Laws of HD Map Including Foreign companies Involved in Mapping, Related Data Entry and Exit "

Speaker: Dr. Hanping Feng, Co-Founder and CTO, Kuandeng Technology Topic: " How to Use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Revolutionize the Map Making Process "	Speaker: Min Jiang,  Product Director,  Map Data Division, Careland Topic: " Panel Discussion: How to define HD map for autonomous driving car and What about the map update frequency ?   "
Speaker: Dr. Li Bijun, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing Information Engineering Wuhan University Topic:  “ Map and Perception Fusion Helps Autonomous Driving “	Speaker: Dr. Zheng Liu, Chief Expert China Div. DENSO Topic: " Automatic HD Map Update by in-vehicle Camera Probe Data Abstractions "

For more speakers and topics of HDMap2019 please click here to download the brochure.