Location Technology 2009: Where Location Technology Meets the Enterprise

We see location technology being used everywhere: Managing telecommunications, mitigating terrorist threats, and locating retail stores as well as finding the most efficient routes for supply chain management, dynamic weather analysis for storm modeling and reacting to the consumer demand to locally search for goods and services. Mapping technology is ubiquitous: in cars, on your mobile phone and on the web.

What's next? Enhancing core GIS and geospatial implementations with enabling technologies to take them further into the organization to manage business processes more effectively. The result: better revenue, better service, better business.

Location Technology 2009 will focus exclusively on enabling technologies that help to companies and organizations increase sales and reduce expenses. For 2009, we are encouraging prospective speakers to submit presentations that address following topics:

• What’s new in location site intelligence?
• What’s new in demographic trend analytics?
• What’s new in target marketing for location intelligence?
• What’s new in predictive analytics?
• What’s new in spatial statistics?
• What’s new in mobile, location-based advertising?
• What’s new IP-based geotargeting?
• How do you draw customers from the web into physical retail establishments?
• How do you evaluate whether you are cannibalizing sales in a declining economic situation?
• When do you lease, relocate, or get out of the market entirely?
• How will your insurance rates vary by neighborhood or zip code if companies can determine risk and capture hyperlocal incident reporting?
• How will tech savvy consumers use mobile computing in choosing their retail preferences?
• Real-time sensors...Is this the next technology that’s integrated with retail sales?
• Tracking assets – From the shipping dock to the store shelves. Is RFID being used by more retailers than just Wal-Mart and is location a factor.
• Crowd-sourced data … do you trust it…and how could it integrate with other forms of geospatial intelligence?
• Google Earth Enterprise Solutions…we know about Google Map/Earth…what are the solutions for the enterprise?
• Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint integration with Virtual Earth…applications and solutions
• Geospatial Web services
• Geospatial data warehouse appliances
• BI and LI integration
• Neogeography and web GIS
• Geospatial Search
• LBS for mobile workforce management and logistics
• Location Intelligence and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• RFID and other sensor network technologies
• Visualization, Building Information Models (BIM) and other asset intelligence.

Interested in making a presentation? Click on the button below to access the Call for Presentation