The GSA has been focusing on initiatives for fast-growing but fragmented markets like Automotive and IoT. These initiatives will further stimulate dialog, collaboration and innovation across technology segments and market verticals, and help realize growth opportunities for the industry, emerging markets and businesses.
GSA’s Internet-of-Things Interest Group provides opportunities for companies from all parts of the IoT ecosystem to discuss and address current technical and business challenges as “everything” gets connected to the internet. It was established to address the opportunities and challenges for the growth of the IoT market.
In 2016, GSA and several of its members partnered with McKinsey to perform in-depth research on the topic of IoT Security. The outcome was an extensive report published in April 2017 titled “Security in the IoT”. The CEO Council identified an industry wide need for IoT Security requirements and best practices that led to the GSA IoT Security Working Group being formally launched in March 2018. It has since held several briefings with potential members in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
The IoT Security Working Group is structured to address end-to-end issues in IoT Security across the value chain and is comprised of various IoT ecosystem security stakeholders including chipset vendors, ODMs, OEMs, platform companies, cloud vendors and service providers. Its goal is to promote best practices on security within the IoT industry, share information on threats and attacks, define security requirements and inform standards bodies. Members of the Working Group will seek to influence the requirements for security that will eventually be shared with the value chain and supply chain actors. The group has already identified and commenced on special projects such as pre-silicon assessment, Silicon-as-a-Service, trusted supply chain and provisioning, and distributed identity management for collaboration and will be soliciting more from the group.
GSA Automotive Interest Group was established to provide a collaboration platform for the entire automotive ecosystem. Its goal is to bridge the different players around the automotive market by providing an opportunity for members to be part of exclusive workshops conducted around topical issues. It also offers a repository of data and analysis on recent developments and trends in the automotive electronic/electric market.
The group stems from a cooperative project with McKinsey, started in May 2017 and developed in a series of workshops held since then in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Its focus is to investigate trends and related opportunities in the areas of autonomous vehicles, connected cars, electrification and shared/diverse mobility.
These trends have a profound impact on the future electronics and software architecture in vehicles and beyond. Their implications have the potential to disrupt the value chain around automotive electronics and software with a severe impact on current and prospective new players – with both potential upsides and risks through new market dynamics.
Detailed interest group deliverables are periodically agreed upon among its members and, as such, evolve over time. Currently they include:
- Developing a quantitative granular market model of the automotive electronics and software market
- Mapping out the industry landscape by identifying how the various players position themselves along the automotive value chain
- Investigating specific trends and related opportunities
The target audience includes all current and prospective players in the automotive industry, e.g. OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, semiconductor suppliers and software developers.