Location! Location! Location! The Growing Market for Location-Based Services (LBS)
SESSION THEMES
The explosion of always–on always-connected mobile applications is expanding at a rate that promises to redefine the way we work and live. Since the late '90s, we’ve seen a host of intriguing, yet somehow not-quite-ready-for prime time, mobile applications such as local search, advertising, gaming, dating, child safety, vehicle navigation and security.
As more and more mobile devices know exactly where their owners are at any given time, various market players now see billion dollar market opportunities for LBS that were unimaginable only a few years ago. The race is on to provide valuable “location intelligence” to both business and consumers as we ''browse'' the physical space around us, connecting us to people, places and unexpected bits of information.
As the new technologies and business models for LBS emerge, where are the opportunities for players such as hardware manufacturers, software developers, carriers and information services providers? Join us for this session as we profile some of the trends, technologies and companies who are driving the growth of this exciting market.
DATE | TIME | LOCATION
May 28, 20072:00PM - 5:30PM
MaRS Collaboration Centre, Ground Floor, CR-3
101 College St., Toronto
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Lawrence Surtees
VP & Principal Analyst, Communications Research
IDC Canada
Lawrence Surtees manages IDC Canada's communications research agenda and is IDC's lead analyst covering the telecom services sector, including wireline, wireless and Internet. Widely regarded as one of Canada's foremost telecommunications experts and the global authority on Nortel Networks, he has covered the sector for 25 years.
Prior to joining IDC Canada in Sept. 2000, Lawrence spent the previous 17 years as a business reporter at the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto where he covered both telecom services and related high-technology companies. Lawrence began his journalism career in Ottawa in 1981 where he was editor of a weekly newsletter on communications policy and regulatory issues.
He has won numerous awards for his writing, including a National Newspaper Award in 1993. He is also the author of two books on the Canadian telecommunications industry: Pa Bell, his history of BCE, was published in 1992; and Wire Wars, the inside story of the long-distance competition battle, was published in 1994. He is a biographee in the Canadian Who's Who and in frequent demand as an industry speaker, media commentator and university lecturer. Lawrence holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Western Ontario.
Tyler Lessard
Director, ISV Alliances
Research In Motion Ltd. Blackberry
Tyler Lessard is the Director of the ISV Alliances partner program within Research In Motion's (RIM) Global Alliances team. Since joining RIM in 2001, he has helped to build a community of over 500 wireless solution providers delivering custom applications for BlackBerry smartphones to large enterprises, government agencies, industry professionals and mobile consumers. Prior to his role at RIM, Tyler specialized in database technology and enterprise information systems at Sybase Inc. and Deloitte
Consulting.
Niall Wallace
CEO, Infonaut Inc.
As the founder and CEO of Infonaut Inc, Niall Wallace has brought his expertise in data warehousing and management reporting to help governments and health-related organizations make sense of previously overwhelming amounts of information. He has previously worked in the Financial Sector as a Business Systems Analyst and IT Project Manager at Scotiabank and Manulife Financial. Following that, he spent five years building a successful consulting practice in the health care sector that focused on information strategy, data warehousing and management-level reporting.
Kamal Hassan
CEO, Skymeter
Kamal Hassan joined Skymeter in 2006 to lead the company’s expansion from early market trials to its planned commercial product introduction in Fall 2007. He has spent the past eight years as an entrepreneur, first as CEO of In Your Pocket, a European-headquartered city information publisher with subsidiaries in 11 countries. The company underwent a five-fold expansion from 1998 to 2002. Since then, Kamal has made ten angel investments, and played interim management roles in two startups. A former Bain consultant and Insead MBA, Kamal started his career as a professional engineer, working in R&D at Imax Corporation following a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's.
Rob Moffat
President and Co-Founder, Wallace Wireless
Rob Moffat co-founded Wallace Wireless with a vision to bring practical wireless applications to market. He is a 17 year veteran of software development in the high-tech, financial services and telecommunication sector where he was instrumental in growing Metex Systems into a leading supplier of large grained software components for Telco provisioning and billing.
Rob is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has been an active entrepreneur for over 25 years. Rob is a popular speaker who frequently presents about wireless technologies and applications at industry conferences.
MORE INFORMATION
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Call: 416.673.8114
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