Location Intelligence Conference

The Location Intelligence Conference brings together business leaders to discuss how to generate revenue, cut costs, improve workflow efficiency and gain competitive advantage by implementing location-related technology solutions within their organizations.

The Location Intelligence Conference attracts decision makers from organizations whose business depends on knowing where customers, clients, prospects, employees and assets are located. They are concerned with business processes related to field service and asset management, site selection, target marketing, and market research. They have an immediate need to understand how mobile and wireless devices, Internet mapping, location-based gaming, RFID, sensor technology, geocoding, and satellite imagery may help their business succeed.

2007 Conference

The 2007 Conference will take place April 16-18, 2007 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco. The keynote speech will be delivered by Kanwar Chadha, founder of SiRF Technology Holdings. [cite web|url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/866600/sirf_technology_founder_kanwar_chadha_to_deliver_keynote_address_at/index.html |title=SiRF Technology Founder Kanwar Chadha to Deliver Keynote Address at 2007 Location Intelligence Conference |accessdate=2007-03-28] Chadha’s keynote will highlight location technology in enterprise applications, how the use of consumer applications is filtering into enterprise solutions, and how Wi-Fi and GPS will work in tandem to deliver location-based services for both enterprise and consumer applications.

The first day of the conference will feature workshops by top executives from Business Objects, CH2M Hill, ESRI, High Earth Orbit, Google, the Open Geospatial Consortium, MapQuest, Microsoft, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation and Oracle Corporation. Workshops will feature hands-on product demonstrations and use real world case studies to demonstrate how organizations can successfully implement location technology within their business.

The second and third days of the conference will be composed of more than 30 sessions – with more than 100 speakers – arranged into three tracks: enterprise, content and mobility.

Other highlights include: a panel discussion on business opportunities in local search featuring executives from InfoSpace, Local Matters, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Yahoo! Local and a market research panel moderated by Brad Stone of "The New York Times", featuring representatives from Aberdeen Group, IDC, Ventana, and Yankee Group.

2006 Conference

The 3rd annual Location Intelligence Conference took place April 3-5, 2006 in San Francisco. They keynote speakers were Mike Liebhold, senior researcher at the Institute for the Future and Chris Wilson, vice president, ITS strategy & programs of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology. [cite web|url=http://www.locationintelligence.net/archive/2006/keynotes.html |title=2006 Keynote Addresses |accessdate=2007-03-28]

2005 Conference

The 2nd annual Location Intelligence Conference took place May 2-4, 2005 in Philadelphia. The conference provided a forum for taking a closer look at established ideas, reassessing their validity and re-thinking where location technology meets the needs of business processes. The keynote speakers included Mark Snow, director of field marketing at Cox Communications and Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media. [cite web|url=http://www.locationintelligence.net/archive/2005/keynotes.html |title=2005 Keynote Addresses |accessdate=2007-03-28]

2004 Conference

The inaugural Location Intelligence Conference took place May 10-12, 2004 and was attended by more than 225 people and brought together senior executives from the top GIS and business intelligence companies. The keynote speakers were Alan Nunns, general manager of global technology & strategy of ChevronTexaco Information Technology Company and Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI. [cite web|url=http://www.locationintelligence.net/archive/2004/agenda.html |title=2004 Conference Agenda |accessdate=2007-03-28]

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