Bringing the GeoWeb to the Enterprise - Sean Gorman, FortiusOne
Thursday, July 30, 2009,11:10AM - 11:50AM
The vast capabilities made available by the emerging GeoWeb (crowdsourcing, geo-annotations, analytics, virtual globes, and location aware services) offer a new world of opportunity for the Enterprise. However, while this opportunity does exists, numerous barriers to entry persist. This presentation will discuss how specific enabling technologies are successfully bringing the GeoWeb to the enterprise, and provide a case study of how FortiusOne’s GeoCommons platform has adapted GeoWeb principles for both government and commercial enterprise deployments.
GeoWeb Standards: How far they’ve come, How far they need to go - Andrew Turner, FortiusOne
Thursday, July 30, 2009, 4:05PM - 4:45PM
The GeoWeb is growing up rapidly. There are now tens of thousands of KML files, and popular sites like Blogger outputting GeoRSS. But we’re still in the infancy of being able to truly share and track geo data on the web. In this talk, we’ll examine the current standards and discuss how they could work better with each other and with the rest of the web - covering topics like syndication, collaboration, searchability, and unification.
Finding Gold in Location! or The Changing Geo Business Landscape (Sponsored by LBx Journal)
Thursday, July 30 - 2:00pm
This panel brings together a panel of experts in executive business issues, technology, and standards to discuss the impact new applications, the availability and accessibility of data, and the GeoWeb infrastructure on the ability to solve such pressing business problems as finding new customers, increasing productivity, better financial management, developing better products, becoming more competitive, developing more efficient and safer operations, increasing speed to market, and improving internal and external communications. Find out how the GeoWeb infrastructure creates new business opportunities and new business models. Find out the business questions and answers you need to implement location solutions into your business—what data? Where’s the data? When is interoperability an issue? What’s the ROI?
Moderator: Natasha Léger, LBx JournalPanelists: Craig Bachmann, ITF Advisors; Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments; Sean Gorman, FortiusOne; Sam Solt, Clear Path Labs
