O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference May 19-21, 2009

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O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference ends up being one of my favorite conferences every year. The conference is about emerging technology in geospatial industry. Location aware technology is being rapidly integrated into mainstream hardware, software and services. Presenters include backgrounds from industry, academia, independent researchers, government and garage-based hackers.

Topics for the conference sessions include:

The Implications of Our New Location-enabled Lives

Immersive and 3D Imagery

Government 2.0

Crowdsourcing

Disease Awareness

Cartography

Geo Support in Web Application Frameworks

GeoStack and GeoBrowsers

Mapping APIs

Privacy Implications

Data Management

Local Search and Advertising

The first day of the conference includes workshops and the Ignite Where and LaunchPad that gives startups five minutes and 20 slides that automatically advance to demonstrate their product.

The conference will be held from May 19-21, 2009 at the Fairmont San Jose hotel in San Jose, CA. Registration is currently open. Early registration discounts are available until March 31st, 2009.