The (US) Institute of Navigation announced on 29 August that its Urban Navigation Panel will take place on14 September at 1345 during ION GNSS+ 16 to be held from 12-16 September in Portland, Oregon will include engineers from Google, Uber and Baidu.

Furthermore, ION announced that engineers from Broadcom, u-blox and the University of Texas will join in headlining the Urban Navigation Panel at Oregon Convention Center, Portland.

This elite collection of speakers are at the forefront of creating self-driving vehicles and the GPS systems that guide them and will present an overview of the techniques and technologies that enable vehicle navigation within cities, where buildings block the signals from GNSS satellites.