Troy Anderson

Troy Anderson leads online and interactive services for the Fannie Mae Foundation, including KnowledgePlex (www.knowledgeplex.org) and DataPlace (www.dataplace.org).

Formerly, Anderson was Vice-President/Co-Founder of his tribe’s economic development corporation – CEDCO (www.cedco.net); Management Consultant at Keane (www.keane.com); President of StockMaster, an online financial site, which was sold to Red Herring (www.redherring.com); and, SVP of IT & Interactive at the Industry Standard (www.thestandard.com).

A Stanford BA/MA in Linguistics and Anthropology and a Kellogg MBA, Troy wrote the Way of Go (http://www.wayofgo.com), published by Simon & Schuster, on how the game of Go can inform strategic thinking.

Keith Armonaitis

Keith Armonaitis is President and Co-Founder of Cubistix, an innovative software company providing powerful location analytics software, services and business solutions to data-intensive corporations and organizations in the public and private sectors. A visionary and seasoned public speaker, Armonaitis brings a wealth of strategic, technical and management experience to the company with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry working for companies such as Simon and Schuster, Amerifoods Inc, Pearson Technology and the ACLU.

Armonaitis holds a Masters Degree in IT Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Bachelors Degree from Rutgers University, and certification in IT Project Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also Co-Founder of SideSmile, Inc., a Web application development company. Armonaitis is a life member of American Mensa, Ltd. and currently is the LocSec (Chairman) of the Northern New Jersey Mensa group.

Kevin Babyak

Kevin Babyak is a Statistician at Marketing Systems Group in Fort Washington, PA. He has over 10 years of experience in the development of statistical applications and data analysis. Babyak has published research in the areas of time series forecasting and public policy. He is the coauthor of the award winning book, Philadelphia: A New Urban Direction. Babyak is currently involved in the development of nonparametric and discrete choice models of communications and entertainment demand.

John Baronello

John is a Manager of Strategic Modeling for Walgreens Market Strategies at the Walgreen Co. He started his career analyzing new store growth strategies in specific Walgreen markets. After a few years John incepted the Strategic Modeling function within Walgreens Market Strategies. As manager of strategic modeling, he has developed and implemented spatial solutions to assist the growth strategy at Walgreens. John has been with the company for five years and has a M.A. Economics from Eastern Illinois University.

Michel Berthiaume

Michel Berthiaume is professor in Information Systems at the Faculté d’administration of the Université de Sherbrooke, member of the GeoBusiness Research Group, and in charge of the Centre de cas of the Faculté d'administration. He holds a MBA from the Université de Sherbrooke, where he is a tenured professor. His current interests include GeoBusiness, case writing and computer security.

Claude Caron

Claude Caron is Professor of Geographic Information Systems at Faculté d’administration of the Université de Sherbrooke, Director of the GeoBusiness Research Group, and holder of the Chair in Business Geomatics. After completing a Master’s degree in Geodesic Sciences in 1991, he was a Lecturer and Scientific researcher in Geomatics at the École polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland until 1994. He completed a Ph.D. in Geomatics at Laval University in January 1997 and was until 1999 a Senior consultant in geomatics for DMR Consulting Group Inc., and a professor in geomatics at Laval University until 2002. His current research interest is the study and improvement of implementation processes of geomatics technologies in businesses.

Chris Carver

Chris Carver has been involved with GPS and Wireless communications since serving in the US Navy as the Navigator and Operations Officer of the first Trident submarine to go to sea with GPS in 1988. Over the years he has been involved in a number of innovative wireless systems used to transmit location information to commercial and consumer applications. He claims to have actually transmitted the coordinates 90North!

While at Magellan Systems in the '90s he lead the development of one the industry’s first Telematics systems (1993) which delivered GPS position reports for USAirways Express regional aircraft at takeoff, landing and enroute. He has been responsible for product development at a number of GPS and Wireless companies including CSI Wireless, Magellan Systems, Northstar, Infomove and Orbital Sciences. He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters in Engineering from Cornell. He is currently the President of FleetPoint, a company in Victoria, British Columbia, focused on the delivery of GPS and Wireless solutions to small and medium size businesses.

Gil Castle

Gil Castle has been a GIS consultant in land use and real estate since 1978. Prior to starting Castle Consulting in 1992, he was a Regional Director of the Roulac Group of Deloitte & Touche (the real estate consulting division of the Big Five accounting firm).

Castle is a Past President of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, North America’s largest and oldest professional society for GIS practitioners. Castle has more than 150 publications and conference presentations to his credit, primarily on applied computer technology in land use decisions. He is the overall editor for the 400 page book Profiting from a Geographic Information System, the seminal text on GIS applications in the private sector, and GIS in Real Estate, jointly published by the Appraisal Institute and GIS World, Inc. Castle has lectured at numerous universities on applied GIS technology, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, Cum Laude, from Harvard University, and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Daniel Chamberland-Tremblay

First trained as a biologist at McGill University, Daniel Chamberland- Tremblay’s career began as an international consultant in Chile. He joined the Gouvernement du Québec as a professional statistician and information system project manager in 2000. While working, he earned a Master’s degree in geomatics from Université Laval, Canada in 2001. He is currently studying for a Ph. D. at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. His main research interests are collaboration software, ubiquitous computing and mobile computing.

Vikas Choudhury

Vikas Choudhury founded and heads Aurovision, an enterprise intelligence company, delivering on-demand data analytics solutions and location intelligence services. He previously worked as a Senior Consultant in the Business Intelligence and e-Commerce Practice with Covansys (formerly CBSI). He also consulted with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, in ERP Solutions.

Prior to that, he founded and served as Director (Marketing) of Élan Global, an electronic security and safety solutions company, having brought leading brands Panasonic, Black & Decker and Yale to India. He successfully started this new technology business for his family business group, The Sun Group, which introduced electronic safety and security solutions to India and has sold and managed US$10million+ projects for the Reserve Bank of India (Central Bank), Indian Police, Airport Authority of India, Reliance and Tata amongst other prestigious clients. He has an MBA (Strategic Planning, Information Systems) from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA (Marketing) from NMIMS (Bombay University).

John Cirincione

John Cirincione, SRA, is the President of Property Appraisalcorp and serves as Director of Data Standards for ValX-CDC Global. Previously, he was National Chief Appraiser for Mortgage Information Services and Chief Appraiser for Western Reserve Savings Bank.

He is the Appraisal Institute representative member of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization, also known as MISMO, whose mission is to develop, promote and maintain voluntary electronic commerce standards for the mortgage industry. John’s efforts as co-chair to the Real Estate Property Information Workgroup at MISMO include the development of the standard to describe and identify a residential property within the loan process chain. John is the co-author of a Geospatial Solutions (June 2005) article titled "Mortgage Data Standards" and most recently has been working on the Appraisal Proof of Concept project with Adobe Systems and Appraisal Institute to showcase enabling technologies of intelligent PDF and GeoPDF mapping.

Ian Clemens

Ian Clemens is the Chief Technology Officer for IDV Solutions. In this role, he spearheads the technical strategy for IDV’s products and services. Bringing over 10 years experience in the technology and consulting industries, he oversees research, development, deployment and system operations.

Prior to co-founding IDV Solutions, Ian formed and led the technology solutions group at Universal Map, the second largest publisher of geographic information in the United States. In this role, he headed up their Web-based mapping initiative, which focused on bringing businesses standards-based Web mapping tools using nascent XML standards. Ian holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master’s degree in Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, BC.

David Cole

David Cole is Strategic Account Executive for MapQuest. David is a veteran of the location industry, having seen it from a variety of different viewpoints. He began by developing mapping applications for the utility industry in the 80’s, worked in GIS Sales and Marketing for a major software provider in the 90’s, and spent several years recently with a street level data vendor. His current responsibilities are sales and new business development for MapQuest in their Business Solutions group.

Kevin Coleman

Dr. Kevin G. Coleman, Ph.D., is a Kellogg School of Management Executive Scholar and a seasoned executive with nearly two decades of experience. Coleman is a sought after source of insights and information about today’s fast-paced business and technology environments and has participated in more than forty interviews and published more than a dozen white papers. He was the Chief Strategist for Netscape, and has worked for leading consulting organizations such as Deloitte & Touche and CSC Consulting.

Working with the leaders of some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies, Coleman has assisted organizations in achieving breakthrough growth and performance by leveraging new technology to change the way business is conducted. He has personally briefed executives from 15 of the 50 largest companies in the world and nearly 400 CEOs worldwide. He holds several board positions, including a board seat for the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC), the organization responsible for commercialization of all government sponsored research.

Vincent Coli

Vincent Coli has 20 years of experience in the IC and EDA tool (Electronic Design Automation) industry doing applications engineering and marketing for user-customizable ICs and related design and prototyping software tools.

Vincent has been associated with Æther Wire since 1993. Prior to Æther Wire, he has held management positions at Advanced Micro Devices, VLSI Technology, and Aptix Corporation. He has published several technical articles and holds three patents.

He received an MBA and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

David Colleen

David Colleen is an architect and computer scientist who began his practice in 1981 working on the design of large buildings. In 1995 he founded Planet 9 Studios, which produced the Internet’s first commercial 3D applications and virtual places. As the leading supplier of high-resolution 3D city data and software, Planet 9 Studios has produced more than 45 virtual cities, which are licensed by architects, engineers, researchers, film producers, game developers and others interested in using realistic city backdrops in geo-located applications. David and his Planet 9 team have provided solutions to a wide range of customers including Apple, IBM and Microsoft.....Clarion, Coleman and Sprint.....NASA, the US Navy and the Weather Channel!

Chris Couper

Chris Couper is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Wireless Broadband and Sensing Solutions business unit, leading the overall technical strategy for IBM’s pervasive, mobile and wireless businesses. Throughout 23 years with IBM in systems engineering, product development, consulting and services, he has designed and deployed solutions for a wide range of customers in Transportation, Communications, Healthcare, Public Safety, Health and Welfare, and State and Local Government. As an IBM Senior Certified IT Architect, Chris gained extensive experience in wireless and mobile communications systems and solutions.

Chris is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the IBM Americas Information Technology Architect Board. He holds a B.S. and M.A. in Physics from the University of California, Davis and has participated in many technical and executive development programs at IBM. In addition to his IBM responsibilities, Chris is an Assistant Chief of the Latrobe Fire Protection District in California and a board member of the Center for Telecom Management, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Chris is a director and represents IBM on the board of the Emergency Interoperability Consortium.

Pierre Desjardins

Since 2001, Pierre Desjardins has worked as a project manager at Natural Resources Canada (Center for Topographic Information-Sherbrooke). He manages geospatial data on-line dissemination services at the national scale. He is also involved in the GeoBase national initiative that brings free and high-quality geospatial data to users over the Web.

Pierre received a Bachelor Degree in Geography in 1988 from Université de Sherbrooke. Between 1989 and 2000, he worked for several private companies as a senior consulant in GIS and geospatial data dissemination.

Yosri Diab

Yosri Diab is Founder and Chief Technical Officer of GeoGraphs Systems, Inc. based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, a GIS and Internet mapping software development enterprise. He has over 25 years of experience designing new GIS systems, programming and leading highly qualified professionals in the field of GIS/Mapping software development. He has extensive experience in GIS, Street Routing, C.A.D.D. (Computer Assisted Drafting and Design), computer graphics, geocoding and driving directions. Most recently, Géographs Corporation partnered with Urban Explorer to create a new and highly innovative platform called “géoflash Explorer” and an innovative Mashup called “CensusTrax” that combines this platform with Google Maps, the US Census, and Yahoo’s geocoding service.

Oliver Downs

Dr. Oliver Downs is Principal Scientist at Inrix. He brings 10 years of experience in advanced Bayesian predictive modeling and machine learning algorithm design and is a pioneer in the field of quantum-inspired optimization algorithms. A graduate of Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge, UK, Oliver specializes in applying abstract analytical ideas from mathematical, physical and statistical science to problems in the real world.

Prior to Inrix, Oliver consulted for various customers, including Microsoft Research, MSN, Barnes & Noble, Seattle Times and Novantas LLC, as the Chief Scientist of Analytical Insights, Inc.; as a Researcher at Microsoft Research he developed a novel quantum inspired approach to global optimization. Prior to Microsoft Research, Oliver was a consultant in the Biological Computation group at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories.

Christian Dwyer

Christian joined MapQuest in 2004 and is responsible for the MapQuest Business Solutions division and the Operations of MapQuest, Inc., including product development and vendor management.

Christian has more than 15 years management experience in Web publishing and information services. Christian arrived from Navidec, Inc., an Internet services company where he was a founding member, most recently serving as Vice President of Operations. During his tenure at Navidec, Christian was a founding member of Driveoff.com Inc., a wholly-owned, online auto buying service that was acquired by Microsoft Carpoint in 2000. Both prior to and after the acquisition, Christian was responsible for overall business operations. Prior to Navidec, Christian co-founded ACI Components, Inc., a technology import and distribution firm, where he was responsible for sales, marketing and management of overseas manufacturers. He holds a MS degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, Denver and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Paul Evans

As VP of Business Development of SRC, Paul Evans manages SRC’s Partner and Strategic OEM program. Through his team building approach and ability to highlight the SRC advantage he has positioned SRC as a leading company to partner with in the business intelligence space.

Paul has held several executive management positions, most recently as Chief Operating Officer at Generation5. Previously, he was General Manager of MapInfo’s Canadian operation and was Director of Sales for MapInfo’s Information Business Unit, where he helped increase business by 175 percent over a two-and-a-half-year period. Prior to joining MapInfo, Evans held management positions at BLR Data, where he developed expertise in sales, marketing, and product management. He holds an MBA from Cornell University, and a BS in Economics from the University of Rochester.

Sam Falsafi

Sam Falsafi is a 10 year veteran of the IT industry and an expert in the field of RF Data collection integration into ERP systems, working mainly with large- and medium-sized companies developing RFID strategies. Before Ship2save, Sam was responsible for day-to-day IT operations at Future Electronics. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Jim Farley

Jim Farley leads Leica Geosystems initiatives in open standards, enterprise integration and mainstream applications of core geospatial technology. Prior to this he led spatial product initiatives in raster technology, hosted location based services and in the integration of location technologies with mainstream business applications at Oracle Corporation. Farley also served as Technical Director at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and as Chief Technology Officer and Research Professor in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. Farley received a Smithsonian Laureate for his work in distributed spatial data warehousing for government in 1999 and he is a founder of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Richard Fenker

Dr. Richard Fenker is a Professor of Psychology at TCU and a scientist/writer/inventor who has worked in the area of location science for almost 30 years – longer if you count his first challenge after graduating from college, which was to design a computer program for NASA to locate satellites in the sky over sunny Cleveland, Ohio. Although he has occasionally helped a client with his work, his greatest love has been the design of the forecasting systems that tie to location intelligence. His book, The Site Book, outlines the philosophical approach underlying many of his location prediction models. He is also the founder of Prediction Analytics, which just recently joined the Experian family, and is focused today on a variety of optimization and location-related problems that use agent-based technology for smarter, more dynamic predictions. You can usually find him at his new organization, The Centre for the Science of Retail Modeling and Forecasting; although, better call ahead – he may be on the golf course.

Brady Foust

Dr. Brady Foust is Executive Vice President of Proxix Solutions, Inc., a Florida-based company specializing in site location consulting and software. He is a geographer with more than 35 years of applied expertise and experience in retail site location, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and the creation and management of large spatial databases. He holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee. He is the author or co-author of more than fifty publications and papers dealing with theoretical and applied geography.

Robert Gessner

Robert Gessner has worked for Massillon Cable TV, Inc., from 1979 to the present. He has a BA from the College of William and Mary, and is a board member of National Cable Television Cooperative, Lenexa, KS; Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association, Columbus, Ohio; FirstMerit Citizens National Bank; and Community Health Foundation.

Rich Gibson

Rich Gibson is Chief Scientist for Locative Technology, a Bay Area-based startup engaged in enterprises related to geoinformatics and digital cartography, with a heavy emphasis on Open Source software, collaborative/community cartography, policy activism and public sector service. He believes in the power of maps and personal stories. He is a co-author of Mapping Hacks.

Lin Gingras

Dr Lin Gingras received his Ph.D. in management information systems from UCLA. He is currently the Principal of LG Conseil International which specializes in implementation of information systems, strategic information technology scanning and change management in organizations. Previously, he was Professor of Information Systems at Laval University and at Sherbrooke University, both located in Quebec, Canada. On many occasions he helped public and private organizations better integrate technological innovations in converging strategic domains such as location based technologies. He is also Associate researcher with the GeoBusines Group at the University of Sherbrooke.

James Grigsby

James has over 10 years experience helping international businesses thrive in Asian markets. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, James heads operations for Taipei-based Pacific GeoPRO Ltd., the leading provider of predictive analytics and location intelligence data in the Asia Pacific region. James has assisted many retail firms boost profitability through better aligning sales and distribution resources with location-driven demand patterns. His clients have included Caltex, Coca-Cola, Dominos Pizza, Standard Chartered Bank and Watsons Health & Beauty stores. James has a Masters degree in International Management from the University of California, San Diego.

Bob Hazelton

Bob is the Technical Director for GIS Integration at Information Builders, Inc. and has nearly 25 years of experience designing, developing and deploying enterprise scale applications. Three years ago Bob switched from creating unique software applications to leading the product development effort. Bob created the GIS integration department and is responsible for all the efforts to combine the power of WebFOCUS Enterprise Business Intelligence with each of the ArcGIS products from ESRI. Bob has a very strong belief that the combination of business intelligence and GIS software offers companies one of the most natural methods for understanding business performance since computer generated charts.

Jennifer Hemmerich

COGENT Grants, is a partnership grant writing and research firm located in Rochester, NY, specializing in homeland security/public safety, education and healthcare grants. Jennifer Hemmerich has been a professional public sector employee, grants researcher, writer, presenter and consultant for over 10 years. She assisted in the launch of COGENT and holds a BS in Political Science, in addition to an MA in Public Administration from the State University College of New York at Brockport. She currently advises on several industry accounts at COGENT and prioritizes research, engages in grant funding analysis, while managing services rendered by COGENT. She pioneered the institution of COGENT after consulting for government municipalities and nonprofit agencies for four years where many projects included grant writing.

Previously, she spent several years engaged in corporate logistics, along with some time spent working at the New York state level of government focusing on constituent casework. She also contributes articles to industry magazines, including most recently Mission Critical.

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes is VP, Strategic Development of The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a non-profit organization based in New York. TOPP is dedicated to enhancing the ability of all citizens to engage in meaningful dialog about their environment, and leads development on the open source GeoServer Project to help create a free, distributed and open geographic information infrastructure. Chris worked as the lead developer of GeoServer from 2002 - 2005, but gave up the role to pursue a Fulbright Scholarship in Zambia to examine the potential for Open Source GeoSpatial software to implement Spatial Data Infrastructures in developing countries.

In 2006 he returned to TOPP, taking more of a management role to further the development of GeoServer, growing it in a sustainable way. He also has served on the Project Management Committee of GeoTools, the most advanced Open Source Java toolkit, since 2002, and was recently elected as a board member to the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation. He graduated from Stanford University with a History Major and Computer Science Minor.

Scott A. Hotes

As CTO of WaveMarket, Dr. Scott Hotes brings a 15-year track record of leading software architecture, software engineering and team leadership. Experienced in a wide variety of technologies and disciplines, from systems architecture and embedded systems to algorithms, security and cryptography, he leads the technical direction and innovation that has characterized WaveMarket as a market leader in the field of mobility and location.

Prior to WaveMarket, Scott was at the United States Department of Defense, where he oversaw software development teams at Ft. Meade, MD and at the Army Research Lab at Austin, TX. The systems developed supported large military customers, employing the use of advanced data mining and machine learning algorithms in Internet security and traffic modeling applications. Before joining the Department of Defense, he spent four years in the Networking Technologies division of Silicon Graphics, Inc. At SGI, he and his team made a number of enhancements to the SGI Irix operating system, including the integration of security and data access protocols to file system and name service systems. He supported directly a number of large customers in the ISP, automotive and government sectors.

Hotes has published in a wide range of disciplines from discrete mathematics and elementary particle theory to analytical chemistry and geo-physics. He has worked at three Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the National Institute of Science and Technology and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992.

Kenneth Inman

Dr. Kenneth Inman is Vice President of Analytics and Primary Research for Integras, a division of Claritas Inc. Integras provides custom primary research, high-end analytical consulting and advanced decision support for marketing and location strategy. He is based at company headquarters in San Diego, Calif. He has extensive experience in the research and development of segmentation systems and consumer predictive models using both household and geodemographic data and information.

Before joining Claritas in 1995, he served as a Senior Financial Economist at a financial risk management firm called CATS. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College, teaching statistics, macroeconomics, econometrics and economic forecasting. He is a frequent speaker on the application and use of segmentation, and has written several papers on consumer behavior modeling.

Dr. Inman earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington and also holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from UC Santa Cruz and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Portland State University.

Michael Kesselman

Recently named by Chain Store Age Magazine as a Top Rising Star Under 40, Michael is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at geoVue. Michael joined geoVue as its second employee in 1996 and is responsible for developing, maintaining and articulating the company’s product roadmap and vision to the marketplace. Over the past 10 years at geoVue, Michael has played a variety of roles, including VP Marketing, VP Engineering and VP Professional Services.

Prior to joining geoVue, he was the founder of GEOgraphics, a map production and consulting company. Earlier in his career, Michael worked as a Project Analyst for Mintz Levin and ML Strategies, a top Boston law firm and its consulting affiliate. There, he managed several, large scale geo-demographic research projects. With over a decade of experience with geographically focused technologies, Michael has engineered custom location intelligence solutions for many of geoVue’s top clients including Dunkin’ Donuts, Radio Shack, The Limited and many others. Michael holds a BA from Brown University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Krzysztof Kolodziej

Krzysztof (Kris) Kolodziej has spent the last several years in the industry on consulting projects dealing with the design and development of Web mapping and wireless location-aware applications. Specifically to indoor location, Kolodziej has been involved in projects pertaining to homeland security, virtual/augmented reality, city WiFi initiatives, and spatial databases. Kolodziej received his graduate degrees from MIT in information technology engineering and geographic information systems, and an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in computer applications in geography and urban planning.

Doug Kolom

Doug Kolom has a career in GIS consulting spanning 10 years. Much of his career has been focused on commercial applications of spatial technologies, including leading implementation projects at Fortune 500 retail, insurance and wireless telecommunications firms. By combining the knowledge of business he gained from an MBA with the conceptual and technical knowledge of an MS degree, he hopes to help businesses reach a better understanding of the value spatial technology offers.

Doug manages GeoDecision’s Chicago office. When not on the job, you can find him trying to you can find him trying to make his vintage British motorcycle run, or fishing on Lake Michigan.

Jeremy Kreitler

Jeremy Kreitler joined Yahoo - the most popular destination for local information (Nielsen NetRatings, February 2005) - in 2002 as a product manager for Yahoo! Local & Maps. Bringing nine years of online local product development experience to Yahoo!, Kreitler is responsible for Yahoo’s product strategy in maps, local community and mobile access

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Kreitler held product management positions at MapQuest/AOL, eCollege, BellSouth Intelliventures, BellSouth.net and Turner Broadcasting where he helped drive product strategy and was responsible for managing the day-to-day business for multiple product lines. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology and psychology from Emory University.

Gary Lang

Gary Lang, the Vice President of Engineering for the Infrastructure Solutions Division of Autodesk, first joined the company as a programmer in 1989. After serving in a variety of roles including Director of Internet Technology, he left in 1996 to co-found a management consulting firm that focused on strategic consulting, product development, and business development. As a principal of the firm, Gary consulted with numerous technology companies including Intuit, Iomega, Giftcertificates.com, Thomson Financial Services and General Magic, helping to manage and fine tune their engineering and product development organizations. During this time Gary managed the start up of three companies as Vice President of Engineering.

In 2003 Gary rejoined Autodesk in his current role in which he leads the engineering, quality assurance, technical publications, and product design teams for the Infrastructure Solutions Division. Most recently, he became a driving force behind Autodesk’s first open source product offering, MapGuide Open Source, and he is a founder and board member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Gary has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Charles LaPierre

Charles LaPierre is both Senior Software Engineer at Benetech and Chief Technical Officer of Sendero Group. He holds a B.E. in Engineering and an M.S. Engineering, both from, Carleton University, Canada. He has held a variety of engineering-oriented positions, and at this point is primarily interested in projects related to assisting the visually impaired.

David Lapp

David Lapp is Farallon’s senior database engineer with over 14 years of database experience. He is the technical lead on large geospatial database planning, development and deployment projects. He helps create robust spatial data management systems that interoperate across multiple GIS platforms and business critical applications such as Business Intelligence, Asset Management and Computer Aided Dispatch. David is a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group. He is also a member of the IOUG and the Northeast Oracle Users Group. David has an M.S. in geophysics from the University of Washington.

Jennifer Lemus

Jennifer has seven years experience as a statistician for ISO Innovative Analytics/Quality Planning Corporation developing and implementing predictive models for the private passenger auto insurance industry.

Ben Lewis

Ben Lewis has participated in the evolution of Geographic Information Systems for 16 years, working in academia, government and private industry. For many years he has been interested in lowering the barrier to access of GIS data and applications, and has found Open Source software Web services to be wonderfully complementary technologies in this regard. He maintains a master index of Open Source GIS software projects at http://www.opensourcegis.org.

Ben works for Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he designs and builds systems using Open Source, Google, and ESRI technologies.

Amy Liu

Dr. Amy Liu is a Geodemographer at Marketing Systems Group in Fort Washington, PA. She has over nine years of experience working with GIS and was an Assistant Professor of Geography at West Chester University, where she taught GIS and statistics. Prior to this, she was awarded an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Research Traineeship to complete her doctoral training in Geography at the University of Cincinnati. Liu is currently interested in telecommunications demand modeling and GIS applications development.

David McIlhagga

David McIlhagga is the president of DM Solutions Group Inc., a company which in addition to leading, he also founded in 1998. David has positioned DM Solutions Group as the leading provider of smart online mapping solutions based on open source spatial technologies.

As the president of DM Solutions Group, David’s roles include strategic planning for the company, and fostering alliances and key partnerships. Prior to founding DM Solutions Group, David worked as a Senior Applications Specialist at TYDAC Research, where he focused on Web-based GIS technologies. Today his focus is on providing leadership and innovative custom mapping solutions for DM Solutions Group’s growing client base using open source technologies.

Kevin McNeely

Kevin McNeely is a registered patent attorney with a practice that emphasizes electrical and mechanical equipment, computer hardware and software, Internet applications and business methods. He also has experience handling international PCT patents under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. McNeely also has experience advising technology clients concerning intellectual property protection, trademarks, licensing, contracts and litigation matters.

He received an electrical engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his LL.M and J.D. from New York University School of Law and New England School of Law, respectively. McNeely served as adjunct faculty at Northeastern University teaching Internet and telecommunications law. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

Neil S. Mendelson

Mendelson oversees all product management activities and brings over 25 years of product management and development experience in the enterprise software industry to Business Objects. Most recently, Mendelson served as vice president, product management, business intelligence, for Oracle Corporation, where he led the company’s business intelligence product management efforts. A 17-year veteran of Oracle, Mendelson held several senior product management positions within the company and was a key driver in the 1995 launch of Oracle Warehouse, Oracle’s data warehousing platform.

Bryan Mistele

Bryan Mistele is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inrix. Prior to Inrix, Mistele was an executive at Microsoft, responsible for successfully building four businesses including Mobile Services, Automotive Telematics and Mobile Speech, HomeAdvisor Technologies, Inc. and Microsoft Investor/MSN MoneyCentral.

Prior to this, Mistele was General Manager of HomeAdvisor Technologies, Inc. – a joint venture between Microsoft, Chase Manhattan, GMAC/RFC and FreddieMac. HomeAdvisor Technologies was in the business of providing tools and technology to streamline and automate the mortgage and real estate process. Mistele was responsible for creating and managing the HomeAdvisor business within Microsoft, which grew to more than 250 people. When he left, HomeAdvisor was ranked as the #1 real estate & mortgage service on the web.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mistele worked as a project manager with the Ford Motor Company and also spent time in roles at IBM and General Motors. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Don Murray

Don co-founded Safe Software Inc. in 1993. He has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, and has taught Objects-Oriented technologies at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Don has over 12 years of experience developing software, and has spent the last 10 years as an architect and co-inventor of the industry-standard spatial data translator Feature Manipulation Engine (FME), and related technologies.

While at Safe Software, Don has also made presentations at numerous conferences and tradeshows, on many topics related to data translation and interoperability.

Terence Mylonas

As LoopNet’s Director of Product Management, Terence oversees product development, product specification, user-interface design and release management. With eight years of experience He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University.at real estate and high-technology companies, Terence has established himself as a leading authority on the intersection of real estate and Web technologies. As the Director of Product Management, he has been responsible for building LoopNet.com into the most highly-trafficked website in the commercial real estate industry.

Prior to joining LoopNet, Terence was a Research Analyst for a commercial real estate valuation company, specializing in market research and financial analysis for loan underwritings.

Ken Newberger

Ken Newberger has been working at the forefront of the Business Intelligence market for over thirty years as solutions have moved from mainframes to midrange computers to desktops and finally to the present web environment. In his current position as a Director in the Business Intelligence Division, Ken works on strategic opportunities for Information Builders forecasting and coordinating the needs of their customers with their current and future products. Previous to this he was a Sales Director, Director or Product Marketing and in 1996, a member of the team that created WebFOCUS - the first commercially available Business Intelligence tool for the Web.

Stuart Nisbet

As R&D director for the business intelligence platform division, Nisbet coordinates the R&D efforts of software development, testing and usability engineering at SAS’ Cary, N.C., headquarters. The division’s directive is to provide SAS with a suite of tools and components that support an enterprisewide spectrum of business intelligence solutions. The business intelligence platform toolset supports access to the full life cycle of enterprise data – data security and administration, data storage, data visualization, analysis, reporting, and publication – via the SAS portal. This toolset also provides pieces of the foundation of core business solutions such as enterprise data mining, marketing automation, HR reporting, data management and a balanced scorecard environment.

Joining SAS in 1987 as a developer, Nisbet moved up through the managerial ranks to director in 1994. He previously worked in automation testing at IBM. Nisbet holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.

Cheryl Parker

Cheryl Parker is principal and founder of Urban Explorer, based in San Francisco. Urban Explorer’s expertise lies in developing highly interactive, user-friendly Flash-based GIS Web interfaces.

Prior to establishing Urban Explorer in 1999, Parker worked professionally as an urban designer, economic development specialist, city planner and web developer. She was also a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Department at University of California at Berkeley for six years, teaching GIS-based 3-D simulation for Urban Designers. Parker received a Masters of Architecture and Masters of City Planning from UC/Berkeley in 1994.

Ed Parsons

Ed joined the Ordnance Survey in 2001, where he drives technology strategy and identifies strategic technology partners and market opportunities. He also leads all Information Systems activities, including IT strategy, direction and positioning. He came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the GIS Division. During his tenure, he helped Autodesk to become on of the key providers of GIS software.

Earlier in his career he was a part-time geospatial technology consultant and full-time Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, where he helped establish Europe’s first undergraduate course in GIS. He earned a MSc. in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institute of Technology, and his original degree was in Geography from Kingston Polytechnic.

Antony Pegg

Ant is the leading force behind OpenAPI, MapQuest’s free mapping API initiative. In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic direction of the program and focused on building an active community of developers around the OpenAPI platform. Since joining MapQuest in December of 2004, Ant has held a variety of senior product management roles and also currently serves as product manager for several enterprise products.

Prior to MapQuest, Ant helped drive adoption of advanced location based services both as an independent consultant and as CEO of his own company, Nexus Professional Associates. In these capacities, he has helped some of the world most innovative brands leverage location technology platforms to support their overall business objectives.

Ant holds a B.A. in Communications from Penn State University.

Edward Pickle

Eddie Pickle has over 25 years of experience in the GIS and business information industry, working with a wide range of corporate, federal and state government entities. Today, he runs the Places2protect program, a venture of IONIC Enterprise and MCH that provides up-to-date information on emergency medical facilities and other institutions in the U.S.

Prior to joining IONIC, Eddie served as General Manager of the Financial Services Group at comScore, Inc., a leading provider of research services for online marketing, and as Managing Director of IXI Corporation, where he led the Data Development and Market Segmentation groups. He was also with Claritas Inc., from 1987 to 1999, rising to Executive Vice President for Client Services and was President and General Manager of the Claritas Financial Services Group, leading it from its inception in 1995. He was instrumental in the development of many of Claritas’ innovative information systems. Prior to joining Claritas, Mr. Pickle was Manager of the Demographic Applications Group at CACI, Inc., in Los Angeles.

Eddie holds an MA in Geography (1980), specializing in Demography, from UCLA, where he attended on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. His undergraduate accomplishments include a BA in Geography (1978) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Martin Plante

Martin Plante is a research assistant for the GeoBusiness Research Group at the Faculté d’administration of the Université de Sherbrooke. He completed a master degree in Geomatics at Laval University in 2002. His research focused on spatial statistics and their potential uses in environmental resources management. He worked as a consultant in geomatics before joining the GeoBusiness Research Group in 2004. He now works on projects in Location-based Services and spatial statistics.

Timothy Pletcher

Tim is currently the Director of Business Insight Services at Central Michigan University Research Corporation (CMU-RC). CMU-RC specializes in linking academia with industry for the purpose of economic development, nano-scale sciences and business intelligence (BI). Tim’s primary role at CMU-RC is to lead the advanced analytical, data mining, GIS and predictive modeling services to help fortune 500 companies improve their corporate competitiveness.

Prior to joining CMU-RC he was formerly chief technology officer at Mercado Networks, a start up in New York City that provided customized technology for e-commerce and supply chain automation. He has a long career in health information technology with over a decade applying emerging technologies and custom developed software to solve business problems at the University of Michigan Health System, as well as working with federal agencies, the United Nations and other non-governmental organizations involved with the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network. Tim received a Smithsonian-Computer World 2000 Medal for participation in the Medical Readiness Trainer Project utilizing virtual reality and computer based modeling and simulation to reduce medical errors.

Kevin Pomfret

Pomfret is a partner in the law practice of McGuire, Wooods, and works extensively on matters associated with venture capital and private equity financing, technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, as well as associated securities law issues. He represents clients ranging from early stage technology companies to Fortune 500 companies, and also has worked closely with key leaders in the geospatial community in identifying solutions to the unique legal issues associated with this cutting-edge technology.

Prior to joining McGuireWoods, he served as a satellite imagery analyst and a Soviet analyst for the U.S. government. He was the special assistant to the U.S. government official responsible for developing the intelligence community’s satellite imagery collection and exploitation requirements. In these capacities, he wrote a number of classified reports on geospatial and arms control issues, and briefed senior U.S. government officials on his analyses. He has continued to write and speak about the legal issues associated with geospatial technology, including GIS, since entering private practice. He has a J.D. degree from the Washington & Lee School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, and a B.A. from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

Marc Prioleau

Prioleau has 20 years of technology marketing and industry-recognized expertise and experience in the location technology and Internet search sectors. Prior to Telcontar, he directed the high-growth consumer and enterprise markets for SiRF Technology, a leading provider of GPS-enabled location technology. Before SiRF, he was Vice President of Business Development for Outride, Inc. (acquired by Google); responsible for commercializing Outride’s advanced search technology with leading Internet search engines. Prioleau also held executive positions at Trimble Navigation, where he led marketing for embedded GPS products in the automotive, timing and mobile computing markets. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering/Materials Science from University of California, Davis and a Master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Daniele Prioli

Daniele Prioli has a degree in Economics from the Bocconi University of Milan, and is the founder of Geocom. Geocom is the first Italian company specialized in Geomarketing solutions. Geocom has developed a Geomarketing approach to the market that provides useful support to find new potential customers, improving sales and market coverage. Geocom operates in 35 countries in partnership with major Italian and European companies giving a full support to the sales network.

Matthew Rabinowitz

Dr. Matthew Rabinowitz is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Rosum Corporation. Under his leadership, Rosum was recognized as one of the top ten “Most Promising Wireless Startups in the US” by the Wireless Ventures Committee, and was recognized as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Technology Startup Companies in North America. In 2005, he was selected by MIT Technology Review Magazine as one of the world’s top 35 technology innovators under 35.

Rabinowitz joined the faculty of Stanford in 2003 as a consulting Associate Professor in the School of Engineering. He received a BS in Physics from Stanford University, graduating as top student in the department, and received the Levin Award for outstanding academics and research. He also received the Terman Award, the highest academic honor offered by the School of Engineering at Stanford. In 1997, he received a MS in Electrical Engineering. He was awarded a graduate fellowship to the School of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University where received a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

His Ph.D. work involved the development of a navigation system that combined Low Earth Orbit Satellites with the Global Positioning System to achieve centimeter-level positioning. During his Ph.D., Matthew consulted with IntegriNautics Corporation, to investigate the commercial applications of the technology.

Paul Rademacher

Paul Rademacher is the creator of HousingMaps.com, which combined Craigslist and Google Maps for the first web mashup. Paul holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, and worked as an R&D Engineer at Dreamworks Animation on such films as Shrek 2 and Madagascar. Since creating HousingMaps, Paul is now at Google.

Paul Rappoport

Dr. Paul Rappoport is an Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has over 25 years of experience in data analysis, modeling and statistical assessment, with a specialization in telecommunications demand analysis. Rappoport has written extensively on telecom demand models. His current research interests include: modeling consumer’s willingness to pay; the construction of internet metrics; assessing the Digital Divide; specifying and modeling business broadband; forecasting internet demand and measuring the nature of network externalities. He is a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Tele-Information. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1974.

Carl Reed

Dr. Carl Reed is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), a non-profit international standards organization with a current membership of over 300 commercial, government, and academic organizations. The OGC provides a consensus forum within which the members collaborate to solve interoperability and standards related problems for the both geospatial community as well as users of geospatial content and technology in the broader IT sector.

Carl has over 35 years experience in geospatial technology, especially in the areas of future directions, design and development, systems architecture and interoperability. In addition to the OGC, he also participates and collaborates with ISO, OASIS, the IETF, W3C, and OMA with regard to geospatial standards coordination and harmonization. He has published extensively and presented at hundreds of conferences and seminars. He received his PhD in Geography, specializing in systems design for GIS technology, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980.

Carlo Renzi

Carlo Renzi has a degree in Economics from the Bocconi University of Milan. He specializes in finance and merger and acquisition for international operations, and is a co-founder of Geocom. He has professional experience in finance consultancy and strategic market analysis in China, the USA, Germany, UK and India. He is the project leader of Geomarketing for builders and the construction sector for the European Union and the Far East Market.

Roche

Stéphane Roche is currently a Professor in the Department of Geomatic Sciences, and associate director of the Centre for Research in geomatics at Laval University (Quebec, Canada). From January 2002 to August 2003, Stephane Roche was a research fellow at the National French Research Council (CNRS). He was an Associate Professor in the Geography Department of the University of Angers (France) from September 1998 to August 2003.

He holds a degree in Engineering( 1993) from the National School of Land Surveying and Mapping (ESGT/Paris, France), a Masters of Planning degree (1994) from the University of Angers (France), and a Ph.D. (1997) from the University of Angers. Roche’s research interests include GIS design and implementation, GI and society, participation and planning (PPGIS), cognition of geographic information.

Erel Rosenberg

Erel is the founder of Correlation Systems and serves as the Chief Execution Officer of the company. For the last 14 years Erel has lead the development of several large systems, mainly in the field of behavioral analysis and location based intelligence systems. These systems have been successfully deployed in Israel, Europe and the Far East.

Erel participates and leads several international research consortia in the areas of Location Intelligence, Data fusion and GRID. He has a Master degree in Computer Science from the Bar-Ilan University in Israel

Endre Roth

Endre Roth is the Founder and President of LOGIC iN ACTION, a consulting company focused on increasing sales force efficiency - mostly in the consumer goods/retail industry. He has more than 14 years experience with sales force related technologies, including SFA (sales force automation) and Business Intelligence systems. LOGIC iN ACTION uses the geographical content of the retail information to streamline salesforce activity and minimize drive-time. Before founding LOGIC iN ACTION, Roth spent six years with CIM Ltd (FieldMatrix) as a Senior Manager, Business Intelligence to develop SFA systems for retail sales forces. In the 1990’s, he spent seven years with Procter & Gamble, the largest consumer goods company in the world. In various roles, he developed Business Intelligence systems to support sales and marketing related activities.

Greg Sadetsky

Greg Sadetsky is the co-founder of Poly9 Group Inc., an open source research and development lab located in Quebec City, Canada. In the past year, he has been working on integration projects (i.e. doing mash-ups) for diverse groups, such as media outlets, real-estate agents, forest fire fighters and UFO reporting centers - some of these noted in The Economist and The Dow Jones Venture Capital Analyst. When not wearing a tie, Sadetsky likes to experiment with the most promising applications of emerging technologies.

Tom Sanchez

As Senior Vice President of Information Systems, Tom Sanchez is responsible for the design and implementation of technology for Sperry Van Ness since 2002. With 25 years experience in business management, consulting and information technology, Sanchez previously was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of REALUSA and PropertyFirst.com, now LoopNet, a commercial real estate technology firm. From 1978 to 1995, he served as President of Interactive Systems.

Sanchez attended the University of Missouri, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Snyder College where he earned a degree in Software Engineering.

Todd Schmitt

Todd Schmitt has been with Tele Atlas since 1998. Over the last seven years, he has performed a number of roles in project, product and marketing management, including bringing several new products to market. Throughout his career at Tele Atlas, Todd has worked closely with clients in a variety of industries including tool and applications providers, risk management, banking, demographics, utilities, state governments and telcos. Todd holds a BS in Financial Management from Franklin Pierce College.

Doug Scott

Doug Scott brings nearly 20 years of sales and marketing leadership to Prediction Analytics, an Experian company. In his capacity as Vice President Sales and Marketing, Scott is responsible for executing Prediction’s strategy of building “trusted advisor” client relationships in the area of retail site selection and sales forecasting. In doing so, Scott is working with some of the largest and most aggressive growth-oriented retailers in the country to implement “next generation” retail real estate decision support tools.

Before joining Prediction Analytics, Scott leveraged his expertise and experience to coach and train business leaders on sales and marketing execution with companies such as Microsoft and Jones Lang LaSalle. Scott is a certified Solution Selling consultant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma.

Erich Seamon

Erich Seamon is currently principal of Erich Seamon and Associates – a professional services firm based in San Francisco, that specializes in geographic information systems analysis and development. Seamon has 15 years of experience with geospatial technologies, most recently as the Geographic Information Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, CA.

With a M.S. in geological sciences/remote sensing from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, his previous experiences include developing water utility mapping systems in California, building geospatial databases for military cleanup installations, as well as developing crime mapping and analysis systems for San Francisco’s police department.

Seamon is a member of several technology and geographic organizations (Geological Society of America, American Association of Geographers, the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association), has previously been on the Board of Directors for the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA), and has been an active member of both the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the State of California GIS Council. His more recent efforts have included GIS assessment work for the City of New Orleans, as well as research examining geospatial variations in psycho/social data for the Portland, Oregon area.

Robert Shanks

Rob Shanks has dedicated his career to expanding and promoting the benefits of spatial technology and associated land information. A pioneer in Internet and Intranet-based map and information sharing technology, he has extensive experience leading the development of innovative technology products and services. Prior to founding GlobeXplorer in 1999, he was Executive Vice President of HJW GeoSpatial, a leading engineering mapping company.

At GlobeXplorer, he has lead the development of state-of-the-art spatial information systems for a wide range of business services in both the public and private sectors. He holds a Master of Arts in Geography (Geographic Information Systems specialization), from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also earned undergraduate degrees in Geography and Environmental Science.

Raj Singh

Dr. Raj Singh helps run the Interoperability Program for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). He works on interoperable technology prototyping projects, helps design geospatial information architectures, and manages OGC Network (ogcnetwork.net) - OGC’s new site for developers and architects. Recently he helped design GeoRSS (georss.org) and helped develop the Geospatial Profile of the Federal Enterprise Architecture. Currently he is leading an effort to better align OGC’s standards with the general IT industry, increasing the pervasiveness of geospatial services throughout society.

Joshua Slobin

Joshua Slobin directs the strategic, outbound and vertical solution marketing for AeroScout worldwide. He is focused on expanding AeroScout’s market leadership through the creation of complete Active RFID solutions for multiple industries.

Prior to AeroScout, he worked at Intel in the Intel Inside Program. Before that, he was at Schwartz Communications, a leading technology marketing firm, where he led marketing communications efforts for Red Hat Linux and other fast-growing clients. He began his career in music, managing international concert tours. Joshua holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a spatial industry veteran with over 25 years in GIS, remote sensing and geographic data production. As COO of GlobeXplorer, Smith’s primary responsibilities are focused on the revenue and content acquisition goals of the company. He has been part of GlobeXplorer management team since inception. He built the company’s global network of earth imaging content partners, leading to the development of GlobeXplorer’s extensive online catalog of spatial content at nearly one petabyte in 2005.

Prior to GlobeXplorer, he served as a vice president at HJW & Associates, Inc., where he pioneered the distribution of pre-made and custom-created earth imagery products via CD-ROM and the Internet through partners with NASA and Space Imaging (now known as GeoEye). Smith graduated from Cook College of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Planning.

Mark Smith

Mark Smith is responsible for the overall direction of Ventana Research, and drives the global performance management research agenda, which covers both business and technology areas. An industry veteran with more than 16 years of experience, he is a frequent speaker at conferences, authors the Business Performance Management column in Intelligent Enterprise magazine, and is a faculty member and Advisory Board member of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI). He is also the community editor of IntelligentBPM.com, the industry’s first independent forum for information, news and discussion about business performance management. Before founding Ventana Research, Smith worked at companies including SAP Portals, META Group, Oracle and IRI Software.

Ronen Soffer

Ronen Soffer accepted the post of Executive Vice President after heading the Professional Services Team at Telmap since 2001. Ronen is a primary figure at Telmap and has played a key part in realizing the company’s vision. Prior to Telmap, Ronen headed up Applications at Tevel Telecom Ltd., where he characterized and managed the development of several applications for the company’s Engineering, Marketing and Sales Divisions. Before working at Tevel Telecom Ltd., Ronen was Head of Project Management for a local System Integration company. Ronen embarked on his successful career in the elite Software Unit of the Israeli Air Force where he was in charge of a large-scale project for the design, development and deployment of an innovative tactical communications system.

Dave Sonnen

Dave Sonnen founded Integrated Spatial Solutions, Inc. in 1991. The company provides market development and software design to the spatial information management industry. Among its clients are TRW, Oracle, Microsoft, Autodesk, MapInfo and Computer Associates. Sonnen has been involved in the SIM marketplace for more than 30 years and has been IDC’s senior consultant for spatial information management since 1991. His Spatial Information Management reports are widely regarded as the industry’s most accurate and influential thought leadership and economic information.

His experiences include the design, implementation, management and marketing of spatial and other large-scale information systems. Before founding ISSI, Sonnen held senior positions in both commercial and government organizations. He also has extensive experience in design of large distributed database systems.

Anthony Stefanidis

Dr. Anthony Stefanidis is Assistant Professor in Spatial Information Science & Engineering at the University of Maine. His expertise is in the analysis of imagery and video for spatiotemporal analysis, sensor networks and image-based geospatial information systems. His current research activities are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Geospatial-Information Agency (NGA). He is also a consultant for various technology firms, and is involved with several on-going SBIR efforts.

Dr. Stefanidis has co-edited two books, one on image analysis for GIS applications, and another on distributed sensors for geospatial modeling. He has also authored or co-authored numerous articles in journals and fully refereed conference proceedings. His work has been featured in various international professional publications. For his scholastic and research achievements, he has received numerous national and international awards.

Jim Steiner

Jim Steiner is the Senior Director of product management in Oracle’s Server Technologies division, New England Development Center. He is responsible for Oracle’s server products supporting the spatial, location-services and rich media technologies used in government, utilities, energy, homeland security, internet, and e-business applications. Oracle Corporation is the world’s leading supplier of software for information management and has been an innovator in spatial database technology for a decade. According to numerous IDC surveys, the Oracle database is the overwhelming choice for enterprise geospatial applications. Mr. Steiner has 20 years of experience in the database industry and has introduced to the market products ranging from early versions of SQL and ODBC to Oracle’s multimedia and geospatial database and application server products. Prior to entering the software industry, Mr. Steiner worked for Columbia Pictures International Corporation and 20th Century Fox. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Jim Stone

Jim Stone is Founder and President of geoVue, which he founded in 1993 after 11 years as a commercial real estate executive. geoVue is a leading provider of location-based decision support systems for chain facility operators such as Albertsons, The Limited, UPS, Meineke and RadioShack.

Jim is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) and is a certified Real Property Administrator (Building Owners and Managers International). His vision is to combine real estate expertise with location intelligence technologies to help companies increase ROI from real estate, inventories, and marketing programs. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and a regular contributor of articles such as “Location-based CRM,” which was published in a book by Aspatore in 2005. Stone holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting/ Finance) from Southern Methodist University and lives with his wife and three daughters in Reading, MA, 10 miles north of Boston.

Vincent Tao

Dr. Vincent Tao is Director of Microsoft Virtual Earth. He was the Founder and President of GeoTango, which was acquired by Microsoft in December, 2005. Prior to joining GeoTango, Vincent held the eminent Canada Research Chair Professorship in Geomatics and founding Director of Geospatial Information and Communication Technology Lab at York University in Toronto. Vincent is an internationally renowned innovator in multiple sensor 3D mapping, distributed geospatial visualization and location based services. Vincent holds several executive positions in organizations and adjunct professorships in universities. He has authored over 200 technical papers and a number of book chapters, and served as Editorial Board for five International journals. He has been honored with 26 awards and distinctions from organizations, including, the ASPRS Talbert Abrams Award from The Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, the Lockheed Martin Award, Alberta Young Innovator Award, and the SPIE NIKON award etc. With a wealth of geospatial information knowledge as well as hands-on entrepreneurial experience in the industry, Vincent is recognized by his peers as a leading industry expert in geospatial mapping. Vincent is married and has two daughters.

Brian Timoney

Brian Timoney is the Principal of The Timoney Group, a Denver-based company that develops Web mapping tools using a mix of proprietary and open-source ingredients, with a specific focus on providing middle- and upper-level managers spatial analysis tools to drive decision-making. In his 10 years in the GIS field, Brian has applied his skills in sectors as diverse as the energy industry, environmental remediation, and international defense contracting.

In the past year The Timoney Group plunged into the mashup/Web 2.0 world launching public demos of 1) the standardized test scores of every public school in Colorado; 2) the largest onshore natural gas discovery in the last 15 years; 3) international trade patterns in South America; and 4) a map of the New York City Marathon that included toilet locations along the running route. Timoney holds a B.A. in Philosophy-Economics from Columbia as well as a M.S. in Geography from Penn State.

Johnny Tolliver

Dr. Johnny S. Tolliver holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tennessee. He has worked in the fields of computer security, trusted operating systems and expert systems and has published several refereed journal articles in the field of fusion energy research. He has experience developing a secure distributed health information system and a large client/server atmospheric dispersion calculation using CORBA, Java RMI, and the Java Native Interface. Recent interests include the development of standards-based Web services for sensor information and Java Micro Edition GPS tracking applications for Java-enabled phones using Java location APIs and Bluetooth technologies.

Dr. Tolliver has taught classes on C and C++, computer security, Kerberos and encryption technologies and holds a U.S. patent on a software encryption scheme. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and the co-author of the recently published book JavaTech, An Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing With Java, October 2005, Cambridge University Press.

Henry Tom

Currently, Henry Tom is the Co-Chair, ISO/TC 211 Advisory Group on Outreach and a UN consultant. Formerly, he was a VP, Inform Worldwide, and Director, Oracle Corp. and was involved is establishing ISO/TC 211, served as Head of the US Delegation, ISO/TC211, managed the development of geographic information standards for the US government, and has been a professional developer of geographic information standards for the past 25 years.

Scott Tracy

Dr. Scott Tracy joined ISO Innovative Analytics (IIA) as Manager of R&D in August 2004. He has played a major role in developing IIA’s Auto Scoring products, which help companies more accurate access the risk of Personal Auto insurance policies. Scott has been particularly involved in the geospatial aspects of this project.

Prior to joining IIA, Scott worked four years for Fair, Isaac and Co. in their Strategy Science division, where he helped optimized the credit decisions for a number of major banks. He has also done risk modeling for Wells Fargo and Fireman’s Fund Insurance. Scott received his B.A. in Economics from The College of William and Mary in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University in 1996.

Alex Walker

Alex Walker is a business executive with more than 10 years of C-level experience guiding the operations for early stage as well as mature private and public software, services and manufacturing businesses. Alex joined Cube Route after serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer with Abridean, an enterprise software company specializing in user management and provisioning. Under his leadership, the company secured several rounds of venture financing and made its foray into the US market.

Prior to working in Canada, Alex previously led mergers and acquisitions activities for Divine Interventures, a public technology company consolidator based in Chicago. During his tenure at Divine, he was responsible for more than 30 public company and private company transactions. Alex has also served as CFO for two large manufacturing companies in Chicago. During his career, Alex has raised over $200 million in capital for North American companies through private placements and mergers and acquisitions. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BScE in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University.

Bob Warren

Bob Warren has more than 20 years of creative leadership in product management, sales, marketing and project management. Since 1993, he has been a key player in the content management space as General Manager of Convergent Media Systems, where he and his team launched the first computer catalog on the Web. Bob then joined FutureTense as Director of Product Management where he was instrumental in growing the business to a successful $125 million acquisition to OpenMarket. He continued on at Open Market and was key in the product reaching the #1 rating in Forrester Research’s TechRankings and an increase in revenue of 350%. After OpenMarket was acquired by Divine, Inc., Bob stayed on as the Director of the Content Management Lab where sales increased despite an economic downturn. This division was then purchased by FatWire Software where, just prior to joining MetaCarta, Bob served as Vice President of Field Operations, creating and leading the team responsible for the success and expansion of the North American installed base. Bob is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Ian White

Ian White is Founder and CEO of Urban Mapping LLC, where he maintains responsibility for product development and overall growth of the company. He has 10 years experience in marketing strategy and product development. Ian has written for I.D. Magazine and Core77 and has been co-author for several academic journal articles. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a BA from McGill University and also studied in France and Ireland. Ian counts Harvard University, General Motors, Trader Joe’s, Xerox Corporation, Parsons School of Design and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration among his past clients. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design.

David H. Williams

David Williams’ specialty is in the strategic application of Wireless Location-Based Services (LBS), involving technologies including Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Systems, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and location-related Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), to enable major business benefits across a wide range of technology-enabled industries. He has developed and implemented wireless industry-leading business and technology strategies and solutions and provides consulting services to some of the leading carriers and enterprises in the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia.

Williams is the author of three books on location-based services, including The Definitive Guide to GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi, and Other Wireless Location-Based Services, The Definitive Guide To Wireless E911, and The Definitive Guide To Mobile Positioning and Location Management. Prior to founding E911-LBS Consulting, Mr. Williams was an Associate Partner with Accenture, in their Communications & High-Technology Strategy Practice. He has also worked for Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Deloitte Consulting. He started his career as an electrical engineer for Hughes Electronics. He has an MBA in Information Systems Management from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Stanley Wing Fai Ng

Stanley is the CEO, MapKing.com and MapAsia.com, a leading GIS and planning consultant in Hong Kong with coverage in Asia. He is GIS and planning consultant qualified in Hong Kong and U.K. with 15 years experience. He served as Urban Councilor (1995-1999) and he is Executive Committee Member of Democratic Party.

Judith Woodhall

Judith Woodhall is the Managing Director of COMCARE. Through her work at COMCARE, Woodhall has worked closely with stakeholders from disparate emergency response disciplines as well as with technology vendors whose products are being used by these stakeholders. Prior to COMCARE, she served as President for a regional management consulting firm, as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer for a financial services organization, as Chief Information Officer for an executive search and Internet solutions company, and as the head of a global organization responsible for e-business initiatives. Judith earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and a master’s degree in computer systems management from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Geoff Zeiss

Dr. Geoff Zeiss has 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and more than ten years experience working with utilities, communications and public works in enterprise geospatial IT around the world. Currently he is Director of Technology at Autodesk, a position he has held since 2001. In 2004 Geoff received one of ten annual global technology awards from Oracle Corporation for his technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle.

Prior to joining Autodesk, Geoff was Director of Software Engineering at MCI VISION* Solutions, which was acquired in 1999 by Autodesk. Before that, at TYDAC Technologies, Geoff lead the development of one of the first Windows-based desktop geospatial analysis products. At the time of Geoff’s departure, TYDAC Technologies was one of the top 10 GIS companies in the world, with more than 3,000 systems installed in more than 60 countries.

Zeiss earned a doctorate from McGill University, and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Jim Zellmer

Prior to co-founding Internet real estate software provider Virtual Properties in 1995 with John Stathas, Jim Zellmer worked in the finance, venture capital, beverage and GIS industries. A 1985 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Jim lives in Madison with Nancy and their two daughters.