Sebastopol, CA, January 13, 2011—We'd be lost without location technology. It encompasses our lives, and it's become bedrock for business success. The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference explores the business of location April 19-21, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Santa Clara, California. Program chairs Laurel Ruma and Brady Forrest have announced the program, and registration has opened.
The program continues to grow, with current featured speakers including:
- Marissa Mayer, Google
- Jack Dangermond, Esri
- Tara Hunt, The Whuffie Factor
- Seth Priebatsch, SCVNGR
- Susan Crawford, Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy
- Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Microsoft
- Krissy Clark, KQED Public Radio
- Raffi Krikorian, Twitter
- Julia Grace, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Bill Jensen, Village Voice
- Patrick Meier, Ushahidi
- Di-Ann Eisnor, Platial
- Chris Hutchins, SimpleGeo
- Jeff Raimo, Navteq
- Andrew Turner, FortiusOne
- Alasdair Allan, University of Exeter
Where 2.0 offers three full days of workshops, keynotes, panel discussions, the new Location Marketing Boot Camp, a bustling Exhibit Hall, and breakout sessions in the four simultaneous tracks of Business & Strategy, Marketing, Development-Location, and Development-Mobile. Where 2.0 also fills your evenings with events such as Ignite, Startup Showcase, Birds of a Feather Sessions, and receptions.
Current Where 2.0 sponsors include Esri, DigitalGlobe, Facebook, and Ignite sponsor NAVTEQ Network for Developers.
Best price registration discounts apply until February 3, 2011 at where2conf.com
Media coverage, keynote videos, speaker presentation files, and photos from O'Reilly Where 2.0 2010 at: where2conf.com/where2010
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