Top Technology and Business Leaders to Share Techniques to Make and Save Money Using Location Technology

GLENCOE, Ill.-- The 2007 Location Intelligence Conference, the premiere industry event focused on the use of location technology, announced the agenda for this year’s conference. The conference will feature more than 30 sessions and 10 workshops discussing techniques for attendees to generate revenue, cut costs, improve workflow efficiency and gain competitive advantage by implementing location-related products and services. The event will be held April 16-18, 2007 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://www.locationintelligence.net/agenda/.

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. 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 comprised of more than 30 sessions – with more than 100 speakers – arranged into three tracks: enterprise, content and mobility. Featured session speakers include:

Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology, Autodesk
Brian Cullis, Vice President, CH2M HILL
Ed Riegelman, Vice President, CH2M HILL
Sarfraz Khokhar, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Jill Smith, CEO, DigitalGlobe
S. J. Camarata, Vice President/Director, ESRI
Michael Jones, Chief Technologist, Google Earth
Robert Uleman, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM
Joe Herzog, Senior Director of Emerging Products, InfoSpace
Perry Evans, CEO, Local Matters
Christian Dwyer, Director of Operations, MapQuest
Vincent Tao, Director, Microsoft Virtual Earth
Oliver Mainka, GIS Program Manager, SAP Labs
Martyn Mallick, Director of RFID Technologies, Sybase iAnywhere
Chris Rothey, COO, Traffic.com
Joseph Sheehan, President, TruePosition
Scott A. Hotes, CTO, WaveMarket
Tim Jemison, CEO, Zoove
SiRF Technologies Founder, Kanwar Chadha, will present the keynote presentation. 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.

“The strength of our program is our diversity, a sign being reinforced by the market which is seeking answers about how to profit from location-based technology,” said Joe Francica, chairman of the event. “The conference will showcase 2007’s technology innovators and leaders in location technology.”

This year’s conference sponsors include Autodesk, Business Objects, CH2M HILL, ESRI, Google, MapQuest, Oracle, deCarta, DigitalGlobe, First American Flood Data Services, MetaCarta, Microsoft, Tele Atlas, Awhere Inc., DMTI Spatial, Environics Analytics, Harte-Hanks Global Address, Geodecisions, GeoLabour, geoVue, gfk Geomarketing, Immersive Media, InfoUSA, NAVTEQ, Placebase, RedSky Technologies, Safe Software, sss-research, Telogis, TerraGo Technologies, Zoominfosystems, MapInfo, Synergos Technologies, Synthegis and Thetus Corporation.