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 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

Geocoding

Geocoding is the process of finding associated geographic coordinates from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes...

, and satellite imagery

Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites.- History :The first images from space were taken on sub-orbital flights. The U.S-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946 took one image every 1.5 seconds...

 may help their business succeed.

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

SiRF

SiRF Technology, Inc. was pioneer in the commercial use of GPS for consumer applications, the company was founded in 1995 and has its headquarters in San Jose, California. The company was acquired by CSR plc in 2009. SiRF manufactures a range of patented GPS chipsets and software for consumer...

 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

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 and GPS will work in tandem to deliver location-based service

Location-based service

A Location-Based Service is an information or entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device....

s for both enterprise and consumer applications.

The first day of the conference will feature workshops by top executives from Business Objects, CH2M Hill

CH2M Hill

CH2M Hill is an American-based global provider of engineering, construction, and operations services for corporations, nonprofits, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm is headquartered in Meridian, an unincorporated area of Douglas County, Colorado in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan...

, ESRI

ESRI

Esri is a software development and services company providing Geographic Information System software and geodatabase management applications. The headquarters of Esri is in Redlands, California....

, High Earth Orbit

High Earth orbit

A High Earth Orbit is a geocentric orbit whose apogee lies above that of a geosynchronous orbit .Highly Elliptical Orbits are a subset of High Earth Orbits.-Examples of satellites in High Earth Orbit:...

, Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

, the Open Geospatial Consortium

Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium , an international voluntary consensus standards organization, originated in 1994. In the OGC, more than 400 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open...

, MapQuest

MapQuest

MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service owned by AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was...

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation , is a non-profit non-governmental organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation was formed in February 2006 to provide financial, organizational and legal support to...

 and Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

. 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

InfoSpace

Infospace provides metasearch and private-label Internet search services for consumers and businesses.InfoSpace's flagship metasearch site is Dogpile; its other consumer brands are WebCrawler, Nation, DoGreatGood and MetaCrawler.-History:...

, Local Matters

Local Matters

Local Matters is a privately held Delaware corporation based in Denver, Colorado created through a merger between Aptas, Inc. and ISx, and YP Solutions announced on May 23, 2005...

, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 Local and a market research panel moderated by Brad Stone of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, featuring representatives from Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group Inc. is a provider of fact-based research helping organizations and individuals make better business decisions. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group tries to understand the implications and results of process innovation, methodology advancements, technology deployments, and business...

, IDC

IDC

-Businesses and organizations:* Industrial Development Corporation, also known as Castle Grande, an Arkansas company involved in the Whitewater political controversy* Interactive Data Corporation , a financial services company...

, Ventana, and Yankee Group

Yankee Group

Yankee Group, a Massachusetts company, sells advice and market-research information relating to information technology.-History:Founded in 1970, the Yankee Group emerged as the first independent technology research and consulting firm...

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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

Institute for the Future

The Institute for the Future is a Palo Alto, California–based think tank established in 1968, as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation, to help organizations plan for the long-term 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

Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...

 and Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...

, CEO of O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...

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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

Business intelligence

Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

 companies. The keynote speakers were Alan Nunns, general manager of global technology & strategy of ChevronTexaco Information Technology Company and Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI

ESRI

Esri is a software development and services company providing Geographic Information System software and geodatabase management applications. The headquarters of Esri is in Redlands, California....

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