Europe's biggest LBS conference is unveiled: Google, Dell, BBC, Vodafone, Yahoo! and Nokia
Written by The Where Business
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Europe's biggest LBS conference is unveiled: Google, Dell, BBC,
Vodafone, Yahoo! and Nokia breakdown strategies - The largest location
conference in Europe features an unrivalled speaker line-up with
executives never seen at a LBS event before.
This epic list of 50+ speakers includes the advertising agencies, brand names and mobile operators the industry demands
The conference is your opportunity to join 200+ attendees to
learn, network and do business with the driving forces of the LBS
industry
A few of the expert speakers include:
Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google
Paul Lyonette, Head of Emerging Media, Microsoft Advertising
Felix Petersen, Head of Product Strategy Social Location, Nokia
Gary Gale, Head of U.K Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Juha Lahtela, Senior Manager LBS Content & Advertising, Vodafone
Alan Sicher, Wireless Product Planning Manager, Dell Computers
James Thornett, Executive Manger Location Services, BBC Future Media & Technology
David Gordon, Director, Strategic Planning, Intel
Scott Seaborn, Head of Mobile Technologies, Ogilvy
Steve Coast, Founder, Open Street Map
Frank De Caluwe, Technology Strategy & Innovation Manager, T-Mobile
John Kavulich, Head of Location Products and Services, Qualcomm,
Mile Richter, Founding Partner, Icon Mobile
Joost Fleuren, Strategy & Business Development, KPN
Sylvain Grande, Service & Business Development, Nokia Location
Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO and Founder, Wavemarket
Laurent Beneveniste, Director of Local Advertising Solutions, Orange FT
John Duhigg, Deputy CEO Dorling Kindersley, Penguin Books
Sebastian Kraufvelin, Senior Specialist, Nokia Siemens Networks
Sanjeet Matharu, Principal Manager, Developer Marketing, Vodafone
Mariam Warren, Marketing Director, Yelp.com
And many more... Click here for the full speaker line up
After months of research we've complied a razor sharp agenda
that identifies and solves the problems that all LBS companies are
battling with.
Agenda Topics include:
Ecosystem evolution in 2010: Examine Google and Nokia's free
services, recent advertising platform acquisitions and get profit
forecasts for the coming year
Mining data for profits: Extract intelligence from historical location
data and transform it into truly valuable business and behavioural
information
LBS innovation in the new decade: How Augmented Reality, the `Geoweb', open geo data, indoor location, GPS enabled notebooks and more will move the market forward
Create lucrative propositions advertisers just can't resist: Analyse
the risks and opportunities in profiling users to a degree of accuracy
that advertisers will drool over
Make social networks local and LBS social: Get an insight into the vast
opportunities created by adding location and context data to social
networks based applications
Access to location data through Mobile Network Operators: Learn how
mobile operators plan to claim their stake of the LBS industry through
data, services and partnerships
Pinpoint profits in location: Hear exclusive market data on the LBS
applications already making money, including social location, travel,
dating, enterprise tracking and child location
View the complete agenda here
Register before this Friday February 5th to claim the ?600 discount
Until this Friday February 5th you can register for this must-attend conference with a huge ?600 discount
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