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  • Yahoo! Inc.
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  • Waze
  • Google
  • NAVTEQ

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Michael Halbherr

Michael Halbherr
Vice President, Social Location, Services, Nokia

Michael Halbherr is Vice President, Social Location in the Services business unit in Nokia. In this role, Michael is responsible for heading the Social Location business including maps and other location based services. Before joining Nokia in 2006, Michael worked for the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the Internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments, including gate5. After that Michael headed gate5 AG, the former leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services, for five years. Since the acquisition of gate5 through Nokia, Michael has been heading the location based experiences in Nokia.

Michael holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich.

Sessions

11:00am Wednesday, 05/20/2009
Unleashing Innovation for the World with Maps
General
 Location: Regency Ballroom
Michael Halbherr (Nokia), Christof Hellmis (Nokia gate5 GmbH)
The largest manufacturer of phones owns the largest geodata provider and has been busy building geo-aware web apps on Ovi. Michael will share their latest thinking. Read more.
3:05pm Wednesday, 05/20/2009
Local Search: Funding Geo
General
 Location: Regency Ballroom
Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land), Tyler Bell (Yahoo! Inc.), Michael Halbherr (Nokia), Marc Prioleau (CloudMade), Mark Law (MapQuest)
All of our beautiful geodata has to be paid for somehow. The convential wisdom is that on main way will be through search. Search expert Danny Sullivan will share his thinking on the latest advances across all of the search engines. Read more.