The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, June 29-30, 2005
Written by O'Reilly Where 2.0
Tuesday, 07 June 2005
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** Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! have joined Telcontar as conference
sponsors, another indication of increased activity and interest in the
location and mapping space.
** Microsoft MapPoint general manager Stephen Lawler has just been added
to the Where 2.0 speaker roster. He'll discuss Microsoft's mapping and
location strategies, including their new initiative, Virtual Earth.
** Other new and notable speakers include:
- Mary Foltz, director of Location Solutions Product Line Management for Nextel, identifies obstacles to the mobile development platform
- Stephen Randall, co-founder of Symbian and CEO of LocaModa, discusses mobile marketing
- Paul Rademacher, creator of the Google Maps-craigslist mash-up
- Entrepreneur and researcher Ramesh Jain demos his current project,
launching soon, that serves as an internet portal to events and the media they generate
- Greg Sadetsky, who mashed-up Google Maps-Yahoo! Traffic
- Panelists from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! face off over local search, moderated by John Battelle
- New Zealander Philip Lindsay, who wrote the Google Maps Standalone Mode and myGmaps, is leading the charge for developers to build their own mash-ups
- NavTeq's Bob Denaro describes how NavTeq drivers travel every street in America to gather the road and route data that every online web portal uses
- JC Herz presents the system she built for intelligence analysts to order satellite photos and tag and annotate them for other analysts
- MIT's Nathan Eagle, whose soon-to-be-released research project collected 500,000 hours of data on cellphone use, calls, locations, applications, etc., will tell us what they learned, and what it reveals about us
- Balaji Prasad from EDS explicates in-car location based services like
OnStar and NeverLost
- Open source geo tools hacker Tyler Mitchell tell us what apps and
services are available right now--free of charge
Who else is going to be there? Conference attendees include your peers from companies like MapInfo, Actsoft, Whitepages.com, Mayfield, Lizard Tech, Microsoft, RH Donnelley, ESRI, AOL, Technorati, UCSD, Mapquest, Benetech, Samsung, Cartifact, Adobe, UNC, NAVTEQ, Stanford, General Motors, and Orange.
It's a brave new location-based world out there, and Where 2.0 brings
together the people, projects, and issues pushing the boundaries of this technological frontier. Join us at Where 2.0 and take your technology in a whole new direction. Use code: where4GIS when registering.
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