Geoweb Summit | Thursday evening, May 17, 2012, Dumbo Spot, Brooklyn, New York

Mark Watkins is the ceo and co-founder of Goby, an inspiration engine all about exploring things to do with your free time. Available on the web, iPhone, Android, and iPad apps, Goby covers over 350 categories and every city in the US, providing over six million things to do. Prior to Goby Mark led R&D at Endeca, a search and business intelligence platform.

Josh Rochlin is CEO at Xtify, a location based services platform for marketers, business developers and web application providers. Prior to joining Xtify, Josh served as the Chief Administrative Officer at Marc Ecko Enterprises ($2 Billion worldwide sales), where he oversaw all non-apparel businesses and ventures.

Ori Inbar is co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, a developer and publisher of mobile augmented reality experiences. As the author of Games Alfresco, the leading blog for augmented reality, and President of the Augmented Reality (AR) Consortium, Ori Inbar has established himself as a thought leader in the emerging industry.

Chris Grayson is Director of Digital at Humble and associate-organizer of the Augmented Reality New York (ARNY) meetups. Grayson is a 15 year veteran of the New York City digital advertising scene, working with many of the city's largest agencies, including Ogilvy and Euro RSCG.

Joe Meyer is the President & CEO of HopStop, the leading provider of pedestrian navigation and and door-to-door mass transit and walking directions in over 30 major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Prior to HopStop, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President & GM for AOL's Quigo Technologies. Before Quigo, Mr. Meyer was an EIR for Onset Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

Rahul Sonnad is founder and CEO of Geodelic, a mobile media platform company that enables brands to engage with consumers in location-specific activity. Sonnad founded the company in 2008 and has raised over $10 million in funding from top VC's and Strategic Investors.

John Laramie is founder and CEO of ADstruc, an online marketplace for outdoor advertising, where he oversees all of the company's business operations and sales. Previously Laramie carried out strategic licensing programs on behalf of Ford Motor Company, NBC Universal, Harley-Davidson and others at The Beanstalk Group.

Matt Galligan is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for SimpleGeo. The Denver-based company makes it easier for developers to create location-aware applications. Prior to SimpleGeo, Matt founded Socialthing, acquired by AOL in 2008, a service that made it easy to keep up with friends' activity from multiple social networks.

Nihal Mehta is co-founder and CEO of Buzzd, a real-time social city guide for mobile devices. Buzzd is currently launching the platform LocalResponse, to help brands reach consumers across aggregate location-based services. Nihal Mehta has founded four successful startups to date and is also a general partner at mobile technology seed fund ENIAC Ventures.

Ted Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Skyhook, the worldwide leader in location positioning, context and intelligence. The Boston-based company kicked off the popularization of location-based applications when Apple used its technology in the first generations of iPhones. Skyhook's intellectual property comprises 15 granted patents and 37 pending applications.

Mark Josephson is CEO of Outside.in, a pioneering hyperlocal content and advertising platform. Before joining Outside.in in 2008, Mr. Josephson worked as Executive Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at About.com. In the late '90s he was a founding member of Cone Interactive's new media practice, where he managed marketing and communications for some of the earliest internet media businesses, including About.com and iVillage.com.

Stephen Randall is founder and chief executive of LocaModa Inc., a place based social media company. LocaModa uses social media as a way to build value for the world's leading digital place-based networks and brands. Prior to LocaModa, Stephen Randall was a founder of Symbian, the leading mobile operating system provider.

Robert Rice is founder and CEO of Neogence Enterprises, author of MMO Evolution, Chairman of the AR Consortium and a recognized thought leader in the commercialization of mobile augmented reality. Neogence recently released its patent-pending Earthmark feature.

Jack Mason is the strategic programs and social media leader at IBM Global Business Services, working at the intersection of IBM's strategic communications frontiers and emerging technology trends including 3D/virtual innovations, the internet of things and augmented reality.

Matthew Szymczyk is the CEO and founder of Zugara, a Los Angeles-based Augmented Reality Software Developer. Zugara's premier product, The Webcam Social Shopper, is a piece of e-commerce software that creates an online shopping experience that is similar to the "at the rack" moment.

Jake Dobkin is the founder and publisher of Gothamist, the network of local sites. He grew up in Park Slope, currently lives in Brooklyn Heights, and works upstairs in the same building as Dumbo Loft. His favorite hyperlocal sites are Brooklyn Heights Blog and DumboNYC.

Rob Gorrie is the President and co-founder of Adcentricity, a leading Digital Out of Home ad network. Prior to founding Adcentricity he was head of Interactive Point of Purchase at Gorrie Marketing Services and President of TheCiti.com, an online advertising & marketing network.

Boris Bogatin is co-founder and CEO of Nearverse, a proximity Internet company and the maker of LoKast.

Hazem Sayed is founder and CEO of AskLocal, a new location-based communication platform.

Elena Silenok is the founder of Clothia, a pre-launch augmented reality technology platform for fashion retail. She was born in Kaliningrad, Russia, to a family of engineers and has a MS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (2006).

George Percivall is the Chief Architect at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international industry consortium of 422 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards.

Nitin Gupta is the VP of Business Development at Retailigence, a company that aggregates retail data through direct/indirect relationships and makes it available to any mobile or web application via a free and open API.

Michael Fives is co-founder of Grapphic, a white label browser-based tool for building location-based iPhone apps, and the organizer of the Location Based Apps meetup in NYC.

Nathan Gill is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Outcast, a leading place-based media company that runs the PumpTop TV and Health Club Media Network channels.

Kevin McKenzie is the founder of JiWire, the largest location-based media channel across both mobile apps and public wi-fi.

Jordan Cooper is co-founder and CEO of Hyperpublic, a local data and discovery platform launched in 2011.

Debra Galant is founder of Baristanet, one of the first of new breed of websites that use the blog platform to cover local news. Baristanet was named the #1 placeblog in America in January, 2007.

Laura Rich is co-founder of Street Fight, a media, events and research company focused exclusively on the business of hyperlocal. She has covered bubbles and busts at Conde Nast Portfolio.com, The Industry Standard and Recessionwire, which she co-founded in 2009.

Ryan Charles is the CEO and Co-founder of Consmr, a social destination to rate and share consumer packaged goods. Prior to Consmr, Ryan was the Head of Mobile at Zagat.

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

3.00 pm - Doors open

4.00 pm - Building the next big platform in NYC?

Panelists

Guest moderator

4.30 pm - JiWire Keynote

4.45 pm - Hyperlocal content

Panelists

Guest moderator

5.15 pm - Location technology platforms

Introduction

Panelists

6.00 pm - Retailigence Keynote

6.15 pm - Reception Break

6.45 pm - Place-based advertising

Panelists

7.15 pm - Augmented Reality

Introduction

Panelists

Guest moderator

7.55 pm - Closing Remarks

8.00 pm - Reception continues

10.00 pm - Doors close

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