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Europe's Biggest LBS Conference: Google, Dell, BBC, Vodafone, Yahoo! and Nokia breakdown strategies
Written by TheWhereBusiness
Thursday, 11 March 2010
The largest location conference in Europe features an unrivalled speaker line-up with executives never seen at a LBS event before. The Location Business Summit, being held on April 28th-29th in Amsterdam
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 - Quote 'LBSzone' and register before March 12th to claim a ?350 discount
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
Surojit Chatterjee, Product Lead, Local Mobile Advertising, Google
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
Haakon Bratsberg, Director,Products, Strategy & Regulatory Affairs, Opera
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
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
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