Thursday, May 23, 2013
3.00 pm - Doors open
4.00 - 4.40 pm - Panel 1
Internet of Things
Narayan Menon is Vice President - Innovation Labs at InterDigital, a wireless research and development company.
Hans Scharler is the co-founder of ioBridge, an Internet of Things application platform that makes it simple and cost-effective to Internet-enable devices and products.
Chad Jones is Vice President Product Strategy at Xively, a secure platform for Internet of Things devices and products.
John Canosa is the General Manager for M2M at ThingWorx, the first Application Platform for the Connected World - one that combines the key functionality of Web 2.0, social media and Connected Intelligence.
4.40 - 5.20 pm - Panel 2
Geospatial big data
John Slitz is CEO of SpaceCurve, a developer of a new Big Data spatiotemporal database platform that meets the growing demand for immersive intelligence and location-based services.
Kipp Jones is Chief Architect and Privacy Czar of Skyhook, the worldwide leader in location positioning, context and intelligence.
Lara Mehanna is General Manager of Mobile at DataXu, a company founded by MIT astronautics scientists who wrote the combinatorial language that guided NASA's Mars mission plans.
Tony Baer is Principal Analyst at Ovum, a global technology analyst firm. He leads Ovum's Big Data research area.
5.20 - 5.40 pm - Digby keynote
Localpoint: Rethinking In-Store Engagement
Dan Yacker is Vice President Business Development at Digby, the leader in mobile commerce and marketing technology innovation for retailers and brands since 2006.
5.40 - 6.10 pm - Reception break
Drinks + networking
6.10 - 6.40 pm - Maponics keynote
Darrin Clement, Maponics
Darrin Clement is the Founder and CEO of Maponics, which builds and defines polygons such as neighborhood boundaries, ZIP Codes, and school attendance zones that are meaningful at the local level.
6.40 - 7.20 pm - Panel 3
The location app ecosystem
Jeff Hardison is a vice president of Meridian, a company that reduces the time and effort it takes to develop and maintain indoor navigation apps.
Amiya Mansingh is the co-founder of GeoLoqal, a platform that focuses on simplifying geolocation, geotargeting and user analytics for application developers.
Jarred Kennedy is Senior Director Business Development at Factual, that enables mobile developers to create personalized, contextually relevant experiences using the location capabilities of mobile devices.
Colin Reilly is the Director of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT).
7.20 - 8.00 pm - Panel 4
Retail location marketing
Kris Kolodziej is VP of Location Services at Aisle411, that lets retailers, app publishers and brand advertisers leverage indoor location data and searchable indoor maps to monetize and enhance the mobile user experience.
Anne Marie Stephen is VP of Business of Path Intelligence, a fast growing, venture-capital backed company that measure billions of shopper movements in hundreds of locations.
Alexandre Winter is the founder of Placemeter, a new company that offers a network of smart sensors that capture the activity in retail store and use it to bring customer experience to the next level.
Dan Hight is VP of Strategic Partnerships at xAd, a mobile-local ad network, offering targeted search and display advertising, coupled with mobile websites.
Moderator
Asif Khan is the founder of the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA), an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media.
8.00 - 9.00 pm - Reception continues
Drinks + networking