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Attendee DirectoryWhere 2.0 2011 Schedule
Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Where 2.0 2011. We'll continue to add new speakers and sessions to the line-up. Please check back often to see the latest additions to the program. (schedule subject to change).
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Ballroom E
Ballroom F
Ballroom G
Ballroom H
Ballroom D
Understanding Local Mobile Consumer Behavior Steven Wise (AT&T Interactive), Srini Mandyam (AT&T Interactive)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Opening Welcome - Day 2 Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Mapping: From Interesting, to Insightful, to Irrelevant Ben Fry (Fathom)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Location is Dead! Long Live Location! Julia Grace (IBM Research - Almaden)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Big Data + Mobile: Helping Retailers Understand Who Their Customers Are Charlie Kim (Next Jump, Inc. )
Room: Ballroom EFGH
The Real-Time Location Revolution: What's next for LBS? Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo), Mikhail Panchenko (SimpleGeo)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Location and the Rise of Group Communication Steve Martocci (GroupMe)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Game Mechanics and LBS: Crossing the LBS Chasm Diann Eisnor (waze)
Room: Ballroom EFGH
Solving the Brooklyn (or Springfield or San Jose) Problem Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Etsy)
10:15am
Morning Break
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Room: Exhibit Hall A
2:50pm
Afternoon Break
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Room: Exhibit Hall A
1:30pm
Session Break
Room: Ballroom Foyer
Room: Ballroom Foyer
2:00pm
Session Break
Room: Ballroom Foyer
Room: Ballroom Foyer
4:10pm
Session Break
Room: Ballroom Foyer
Room: Ballroom Foyer
12:00pm
Lunch
Room: Pool Area and Mezzanine
Room: Pool Area and Mezzanine
1:10pm-1:30pm (20m)
Marketing
Where You Go Is Who You Are: Using Location-based Social-networking Services to Create the Next Killer Context
Clay Smith (Flite)
You’re an average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”
– Jim Rohn
Just like people we spend the most time with, the places we go is one of the best representations of what kind of person we are. Given the recent popularity location-based social networking, having access to the places a person has visited allows developers to create smarter location-based applications.
1:40pm-2:00pm (20m)
Marketing
Will Connecting Offline to Online with QR Codes Take Off in the U.S.?
Matthias Galica (ShareSquare)
The utilization of QR codes for integrating offline promotions with engaging mobile experiences is a divisive topic. Some consider these glyphs an eyesore, others a window into the mobile web. Will Japan prove to be a predictive market and what factors are driving domestic consumer adoption of this technology in the United States?
2:10pm-2:50pm (40m)
Marketing
Where 2.0 Launch Presentations 2
Lenny Rachitsky (Localmind)
et al
These back-to-back 5-minute launch sessions showcase companies and products debuting at Where 2.0. Come hear what's new!
3:30pm-4:10pm (40m)
Marketing
Location-Aware Advertising: Holy Grail, Silver Bullet, or Red Herring?
Joe Laszlo (IAB Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence)
et al
In the early days of the wireless internet, the endgame of mobile advertising was epitomized by the cliché of a latte coupon delivered just as you walk by a Starbucks. Although mobile devices, networks, and media have improved tremendously in the past ten years, today that example rarely arises. What’s the reality of location-aware advertising today?
4:20pm-5:00pm (40m)
Development - Mobile
Single-language Development of Cross-platform Mobile Apps
Rich Kilmer (LivingSocial)
This talk will show 5 different frameworks that allow a single
language to be used to target native applications on leading mobile
platforms. "Cross-platform" does not mean the exact application
executes unchanged on multiple platforms, but that a single language
can be used to target them.
1:10pm-1:30pm (20m)
Business & Strategy
Interacting with Local Governments: Best Practices
Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix)
et al
There's more to mapping potholes and reporting broken streetlights than just creating a website. Ben and Kam, co-founders of SeeClickFix, will explain their experiences and take-aways as well as open the discussion to discuss both effective and change management at the local government level.
1:40pm-2:00pm (20m)
Business & Strategy
Geo-Location & Business Networking: helping you close the deal
Kiran Modak (Unsocial)
Unsocial is a location-based business networking app. It's called Unsocial because rather than focusing on your current network, it connects you to the people you need to meet. Unsocial uses geo-location and smart tagging to connect you with business people you wouldn't otherwise meet. It’s also a conference tool, able to deliver dynamic content like agendas, speaker bios and more.
2:10pm-2:50pm (40m)
Business & Strategy
Creating Context for Search
Diann Eisnor (waze)
et al
Context is what makes search an experience and not just a function of a website or app. Hear about how robust context creates a rich interface and happy customer.
3:30pm-4:10pm (40m)
Business & Strategy
Carriers and Startups
Kris Kolodziej (Verizon Wireless)
et al
The key to location is the mobile phone. It used to be that carriers held the key, but now that's been abstracted away to the OS level. Startups don't need the carrier to know where their users are anymore. A boat was missed. In the future how can carriers work with technology companies?
4:20pm-5:00pm (40m)
Business & Strategy
Follow the Money: Venture Capital & Location
Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
et al
Location is a hot space right now. But every sector is going to have it's winners and losers. What are VCs betting on? What do they think are some unexplored ideas?
1:10pm-1:30pm (20m)
Development - Mobile
Update on the Location Market
Ted Morgan (Skyhook Wireless)
This session is a roundup of the trends we saw in the past year and examples of apps using location in cool new ways. Skyhook will also present results of their app surveys which investigate how app developers plan to use location in the future.
1:40pm-2:00pm (20m)
Development - Mobile
A Real-Time Transportation Dashboard for Cities
Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial)
et al
Urban objects like bridges tweet, massively scaled human sensors provide road info, cities offer real-time transit data + citizens power alerts which can be integrated cheaply and @scale. This talk explores questions associated w/developing a real-time transportation dashboard for cities, shares the prototype visualization/sonification in attempt to answer "How do we navigate a data-driven city?"
2:10pm-2:50pm (40m)
Development - Mobile
Fast Map Interaction without Flash
Tom MacWright (Development Seed)
TileLive, a dynamic tile rendering toolset that runs in Amazon's cloud, provides fast, non-Flash interactive maps. It's an open source solution for something that until recently had only been achieved by Google and a few competitors. This presentation will demo TileLive and analyze its map rendering techniques, along with Google's and others, and show it in action in several use cases.
3:30pm-4:10pm (40m)
Development - Mobile
Mapping Indoor Spaces
Mok Oh (Where Inc.)
We're familiar with the mapping of outdoor spaces, but what about indoor areas like malls, conferences, and baseball stadiums? Learn how indoor space is mapped and how you can use to benefit your customers.
4:20pm-5:00pm (40m)
Development - Location
Mobile Apps and Users Experiences Created for People On-the-go
Christian O. Petersen (CloudMade)
This session will take you through how to come up with and create the next generation of location and context aware smartphone apps.
Location is not just about checking in or navigating on a map. It’s the key difference between the old desktop applications and a new era of smartphone apps and user experiences created for people on-the-go.
1:10pm-1:30pm (20m)
Business & Strategy
Disruption in the Sky: Location for the Air Traveler
Gregory Dicum (MondoWindow.com)
The rapid penetration of in-flight wifi is initiating a disruptive cycle in one of the last unconnected pockets of consumer technology. By using this developing infrastructure to bring location to the air traveler, MondoWindow turns the plane into a browser and turns the moving map into the foundation for a new kind of in-flight entertainment.
1:40pm-2:00pm (20m)
Development - Location
The Use of Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) for Collecting Map Data
Jeff Raimo (NAVTEQ)
et al
LIDAR is increasingly be used to collect street level features with amazing detail and accuracy. This session will examine the use of LIDAR, it's benefits, and the possibilities that exist with this exciting technology especially when paired with other technologies like high resolution cameras, panoramic cameras, and high precision location technologies.
2:10pm-2:50pm (40m)
Development - Location
Proximity Awareness; the Evolution of LBS
Dave Mathews
While the check-in battle of GPS occurs outside of the building,
device interactions inside the building are more relevant to human
relationships. We explain the heartbeat of radios and dive into
machine readable code creating almost sci-fi actions of automated and
relevant scripting for the real world.
3:30pm-4:10pm (40m)
Development - Location
Visualizing Data with Maps
Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso (The Washington Post)
This session will examine the best ways to map and visualize data.
4:20pm-5:00pm (40m)
Development - Location
jQuery Mobile: for Fun and Profit
Daniel Cousineau (RAPP Collins)
jQuery Mobile is a new cross-device touch UI platform for your web apps from the same people that brought you jQuery and jQuery UI. It provides a lightweight application framework that enables you to build dynamic, native quality web applications quickly. Come learn the basics, tricks, and pitfalls as we walk through a small, sample mobile application.
1:10pm-1:30pm (20m)
Products & Services
Understanding Local Mobile Consumer Behavior
Steven Wise (AT&T Interactive)
et al
How do consumers react to location-based advertising? What are the implications for advertisers, marketers, and publishers within location-based services? Join AT&T Interactive for valuable insights on mobile consumer behavior based on findings from an April 2011 study conducted by The Nielsen Company.
2:10pm-2:50pm (40m)
Products & Services
Building a Virtuous Map Community Platform
Christof Hellmis (Nokia gate5 GmbH)
et al
This session will showcase how Nokia’s map community platform is built with the ecosystem. Christof Hellmis who heads Nokia’s location unit, will show you the innovation Nokia has in this space and how the ecosystem contributes to the creation of the platform, for the benefit of consumers, developers and partners.
3:30pm-4:10pm (40m)
Development - Location
Augmented Reality 101
Alasdair Allan (University of Exeter)
Location-aware augmented reality applications, where objects are injected into a real-world view based their location relative to your own position, as well as marker-based applications, where the real-world view is interpreted in real time and objects are placed in the view based on unique real-world markers, have rapidly become one of the killer applications
9:00am-9:05am (5m)
Opening Welcome - Day 2
Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
et al
Details coming soon.
9:05am-9:20am (15m)
Mapping: From Interesting, to Insightful, to Irrelevant
Ben Fry (Fathom)
Location is more than just latitude and longitude. It's the space and the place of people, objects, and emotions. Ben Fry will talk about the spatial and spacial importance of location in data visualization.
9:20am-9:35am (15m)
Location is Dead! Long Live Location!
Julia Grace (IBM Research - Almaden)
Online or offline, the location revolution has changed where we go, what we buy and how we buy it. But has it made our lives easier?
9:35am-9:50am (15m)
Big Data + Mobile: Helping Retailers Understand Who Their Customers Are
Charlie Kim (Next Jump, Inc. )
Keynote by Charlie Kim of Next Jump, Inc.
9:50am-10:05am (15m)
Mihir Shah
Mihir Shah (Groupon)
Details coming soon.
10:05am-10:15am (10m)
The Real-Time Location Revolution: What's next for LBS?
Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo)
et al
With the check-in getting quickly commoditized, what's the next step in location-aware services? What are some ways that companies can leverage a world of real-time information and capabilities to build new and more compelling offerings?
10:45am-11:00am (15m)
The Power of Proximity
DJ Patil (Greylock Partners)
It's not just where you are, but what's around you. A new wave of apps like Color are taking advantage of this to curate social information for you.
11:00am-11:05am (5m)
Location and the Rise of Group Communication
Steve Martocci (GroupMe)
Group messaging services have grown in popularity with mobile phone users. These tools enable people to communicate with their real life network, making plans and other group decisions in real-time.
11:05am-11:15am (10m)
Game Mechanics and LBS: Crossing the LBS Chasm
Diann Eisnor (waze)
Location based services have unique scaling challenges-on the web it is relatively easy to find a million people interested in anything. Now try finding several thousand users in a specific location with a specific phone with a specific app. This talk will focus on the lessons learned in using game mechanics as a start point and explore the shift from a "fun" app to a "functional" utility.
11:15am-11:30am (15m)
Atoms, Bits and the Future of Shopping
Jack Abraham (eBay)
Details coming soon.
11:30am-11:40am (10m)
Solving the Brooklyn (or Springfield or San Jose) Problem
Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Etsy)
Keynote by Kellan Elliott-McCrea
11:40am-12:00pm (20m)
Context is Everything
Genevieve Bell (Intel Corporation)
Answering the question, “where are you,” seems perfectly straightforward. It on the surface a question about location. However, location is not a straightforward as: I am here. In this talk, Genevieve uses a series of ethnographic moments to challenge our notions of location, direction, and place to suggest some other ways of making sense of where we might be.
10:15am-10:45am (30m)
Break: Morning Break
2:50pm-3:30pm (40m)
Break: Afternoon Break
1:30pm-1:40pm (10m)
Break: Session Break
2:00pm-2:10pm (10m)
Break: Session Break
4:10pm-4:20pm (10m)
Break: Session Break
12:00pm-1:10pm (1h 10m)
Break: Lunch
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