Exploring Where Geodata Might Take Us O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference Opens Call for Participation
Written by O'Reilly MEdia
Friday, 10 October 2008
Sebastopol, CA, October 9, 2008--The earth isn't flat, and maps don't live
in the glove compartment anymore. The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will
pinpoint how far location technology has reached, explore the boundaries
of geospace, and point the way into the location frontier at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Jose, CA, May 19-21, 2009. O'Reilly Media and program chair
Brady Forrest invite proposals for conference sessions, workshops, demos,
and panels for Where 2.0 2009.
Now in its fifth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots
and leading-edge developers building location-aware technology intersect
with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps,
platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. In the O'Reilly
conference tradition, Where 2.0 presents leading trends rather than
chasing them.
Where 2009 will explore where location technology is today, and where
geodata may take us. Some of the topics already on the program radar
include:
--Local Search and Advertising
--Location-Aware
--Reality Mining
--Augmented Reality
--Immersive and 3D Imagery
--Mapping Tables
--Government 2.0
--Crowdsourcing
--Disease Awareness
--Cartography
--Emergency/Disaster Mapping
Proposals for workshops might consider, but aren't limited to, topics such
as:
--Geo Support in Web Application Frameworks
--GeoStack
--Mapping APIs
--GeoTargeting
--Privacy Implications
--GeoBrowsers
--Data Management
--Protocols and Formats
While such topics represent starting points, the program welcomes
proposals on topics ranging all over the map of location data.
Where 2.0 2009 will bring together CIOs, product managers, and
technologists curious about how to incorporate location technology into
existing products; city and government planners; officials from USGSD and
DOD; open source mapping and location tool developers; grassroots
developers building important mash-ups and systems; researchers and
academics studying the field and building prototypes; artists creating
collaborative experiences with a spatial focus; activists and community
organizers building tools for managing nonprofit location groups;
neographers and traditional geographers working deep in the trenches of
geospace; and venture capitalists looking for the next investment
opportunity.
Where 2.0 offers attendees:
--High level plenary sessions that address current opportunities and
future possibilities in the location space
--A full day of workshops led by experts and innovators, charting the
depths of cutting-edge location technologies
--Product demos and launches revealing exciting new tools pushing the
geospace boundaries
--An Exhibit Hall filled with some of the most important people, products,
and services in the industry
--The fifth annual Where Fair, a science fair style event that brings
forward the location aware tools, apps, and hardware being created in
garages, university labs, and other unexpected places
--Ignite, an evening of rapid-fire presentations showcasing the unusual (a
separate call for Ignite submissions will be issued in early 2009)
--Informal events and Birds of a Feather sessions, allowing all
participants-speakers, attendees, media, and sponsors-to exchange ideas
and debate face to face
--WhereCamp, an un-conference for geo issues taking place the weekend
following Where 2.0-visit the WhereCamp wiki to volunteer
Past Where 2.0 sponsors and exhibitors included Autodesk, Google, ESRI,
Nokia, DigitalGlobe, earthscape, EveryScape, LightPole, MapJack, MapQuest,
MetaCarta, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Poly9, SkyHook Wireless, TeleAtlas,
Yahoo! Developer Network, uLocate, and Zvents.
In the past, Where 2.0 has brought together representatives from such
diverse companies, organizations, and projects as: AAA, AOL, Apple,
Autodesk, Cisco Systems, Citysearch, deCarta, eBay, City of Phoenix,
Defense Intelligence Agency, ESRI, Digital Globe, FedEx Services, Flagr,
France Telecom, GeoWankers, GlobeXplorer, Google, Intel, MapQuest,
MetaCarta, Microsoft, NAVTEQ, National Geographic Society, OnomyLabs,
Metaweb Technologies, Nokia, Norwegian Armed Forces, Open Geospatial
Consortium, OpenStreetMap, Openwave, Overstock.com, PennySaverUSA.com,
Placebase, PlaceSite, Platial, Poly9, Qualcomm, Siemens, Skyhook Wireless,
Stanford Business School, TDC Group, Tele Atlas North America, The Open
Planning Project, Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, UC Berkeley School of
Information, UCSB Geography, uLocate Communications, University of
California Los Angeles, Urban Scan, Valtus Imagery Services, Walt Disney
Parks and Resorts Online, Wikitravel, Yahoo!, and many more.
Proposals will be accepted through December 2, 2008, and early
registration for attendees and media will open in January 2009.
Proposals may be submitted to:
http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/public/cfp/45
For more information on Where 2.0 2009, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/where
If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the
conference, share them with us at:
http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/public/wiki/WhereIdeas
If you'd like to stay up to date on information relating to Where 2.0
2009, sign up for the conference newsletter (login required) at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home#conferences
For an overview of this space, read Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial
Web, an O'Reilly Radar Report, co-written by program chair Brady Forrest at:
http://radar.oreilly.com/research/where2-report.html
To volunteer for Where Camp, visit the WhereCamp wiki at:
http://wherecamp.pbwiki.com/WhereCamp2009
For articles, blogs, photos, and other coverage of last year's event, go
to:
http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/content/news-coverage
View selected presentations from Where 2.0 2008 at:
http://where.blip.tv/
Download speaker presentation slides from Where 2.0 2008 at:
http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/schedule/proceedings/
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