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 event therefore seeks to provide an educational forum to discuss the integration of location technology and business intelligence for enterprise computing.
Contents
- 2014 Conference
- 2013 Conference
- 2012 Conference
- 2010 Conference
- 2009 Conference
- 2008 Conference
- 2007 Conference
- 2006 Conference
- 2005 Conference
- 2004 Conference
- References
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.
The conference was started by Directions Magazine and the conference Chairman has been the publication's editor, Joe Francica, since its inception.
2014 Conference
The 2014 Location Intelligence Conference was held in Washington DC May 19–21 and was combined with the Oracle Spatial and Graph User Conference, Nokia's HERE user conference and the Eclipse Foundation's LocationTech group meeting. The conference was held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The theme of the conference was "Location Analytics and Visual Data Discovery … New Pathways to Business Intelligence. The keynote speaker was Paul Donato Exec. VP and Chief Research Officer, Nielsen. www.locationintelligence.net
2013 Conference
The 2013 Location Intelligence Conference was held in Washington DC May 21 and was combined with the Oracle Spatial and Graph User Conference held on May 22 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The keynote speaker is Jack Levis, director of process management for UPS. www.locationintelligence.net
2012 Conference
In 2012, the Location Intelligence Conference was held in Washington DC May 22 and was combined with the Oracle Spatial User Conference held on May 23 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. www.locationintelligence.net. Keynote speakers of this conference included Jeff Joyner, Emergency Strategy and Outreach Research Analyst for GM OnStar, and Peter Doolan, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Oracle Public Sector.
2010 Conference
The 2010 Conference will be held September 22, 2010 in Washington DC and focuses entirely on the applications and platforms of cloud computing for geospatial technology. More details can be found at: www.locationintelligence.net
2009 Conference
The 2009 Conference was held in Westminster, Colorado, October 5–7, at the Westin Westminster hotel. The event featured Steve Coast from OpenStreetMap and session on cloud computing. More details can be found at http://www.locationintelligence.net/archive/2009/agenda.html
2008 Conference
The 2008 Conference was held in Santa Clara, California, October 28–30. The opening session included an "immersive experience" for all attendees as they participate in a "live" demonstration of real-time indoor positioning facilitated by conference sponsors Ubisense and Fish Software. Each attendee will received an RFID tag that "location-enabled" the entire event! Details of the event can be found at: http://www.locationintelligence.net/archive/2008/agenda.html
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. 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.
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.
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.