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2nd Annual LBS and Local Search Forum 2009 - Sales
2nd Annual LBS and Local Search Forum 2009 - Sales
LBS
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the 13.30 Registration and Coffee
world's most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). The information is
the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile 14.00 Workshop Leader’s Opening Remarks
and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products, and
services they need, wherever they are. The company also works with business partners 14.10 Examining the LBS Market Challenges
who trust its digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, • Highlighting current global trends in LBS and identifying revenue
fleet, and infrastructure services. Through a combination of its own products and
generating services
partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and
territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and today has approximately
• Forecasting future revenue growth areas
2,400 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 countries and uses a • Addressing the challenges - location accuracy, availability and cost of
sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile mapping vans, and more than the location
50,000 data resources to deliver highly accurate and up-to-date digital maps. For more • Who are the essential drivers of location based services?
information, visit www.teleatlas.com.
14.50 Discussing Future LBS Positioning Technologies
• Reviewing technologies evolving towards state-of-the-art LBS
• Benefiting from LBS services with high precision, high usability and high
speed
Documentation Sponsors:
Cellfind (Pty) Ltd (“Cellfind”) was formed in September 2003, with the goal of
becoming the leader in GSM location based services for Africa. The company purchased
a technology license from a UK-based company, MI-International, for a product that had About your Workshop Leader
been operating on 6 cellular networks in the UK since June 2003. This product is known
as Mapamobile. Hans de Bruijn (1963) joined in 1998 Routs Laeven and Partners, an
Cellfind operates both active and passive location based services. Both MTN and international training and consulting company. He worked as a business
Vodacom, South Africa’s largest cellular networks, support Cellfind’s active services such trainer, consultant and personal coach.
as Look4help. However, Vodacom is the only network in South Africa with the requisite In 2004 a successful B2B Telecom Reseller in the Dutch market asked
Location Manager technology platform to support passive (tracking) location based Hans to setup the iKids business (track and trace with gps / gsm personal
services. Therefore, although the Cellfind services are designed to operate across all phone) in EMEA and Australasia. He managed to persuade SK Telecom to
networks as they do in the UK, the South African services are currently restricted to the invest. The first 6 month he was the interim-CEO of this company and
Vodacom switched to the position of COO.
After SF Alert Hans worked as a sales and business development
consultant on establishing a company in vehicle track and trace solutions.
His role was to develop the ideas into an international business concept.
In 2006 Hans joined Romtrac as an international business development
manager. He invented the gps device and together with the CTO he
locr is a photo sharing community with a focus on geotagging. The locr software (for created the concept. He started as a COO He lived in Holland, United
mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS data loggers and PCs) automatically tags photos Kingdom (London) and Thailand (Bangkok).
with GPS data, shows their position on digital maps and generates for each photo Currently Hans is working as a business consultant for LBS, financials,
descriptions of the locality. The locr online community enables users to upload photos, telecoms.
archive them in albums and swap them interactively with friends and acquaintances. For
more details, see www.locr.com.
Seeker Wireless, the world leader in mobile location technology, is a privately held
company founded in 2003 by pioneers of cellular location, with over 30 years of
experience in the industry. Seeker’s innovative solutions enable their customers to deliver
highly accurate location-based services, such as zone-based charging and localised
mobile advertising.
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 3002 3315
13th January, 2009 Fax: +44 (0) 20 3002 3005
08.30 Registration and Morning Coffee PARTNERSHIPS, ECOSYSTEMS AND 3RD PARTY DEVELOPERS
09.00 Chair’s Opening Address 14.10 Application Developer Case Study
Simon Glassman Discussing Real World Challenges for Applications
Director, Segment Marketing Wireless Developers and LBS Consumers
Tele Atlas • Demands of users in the real world
• The future: Location based information overload
OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT LBS MARKET • Navigating the location API jungle
• How do consumers utilise an LBS applications in the wild?
09.10 Operator Case Study Andrew Scott
Understanding Key Success Factors for LBS Take-up CEO
• Spreading LBS to consumers and ensuring privacy and security Rummble
• Understanding what the customer thinks and the importance of user
friendliness 14.50 Operator Case Study
• Establishing prerequisites for successful mass deployment LBS: Marketing Innovative Services Through Partnerships
• Does the current business ecosystem allow innovative LBS to reach with Start-Ups and Developers' Programmes
the customer? • Why communities of developers are important to the LBS market
Andrea Gualtieri evolution? From serving specific market needs to challenging
Director Marketing Consumer dominant players
H3G S.p.A. Italy • What's hot from LBS start-ups? Examples of innovative location-based
services
09.50 Operator Perspective • How to develop and market 3rd parties LBS product and services? An
Fulfilling User Needs for LBS operator's perspective: the Orange Partner programme
• Understanding user needs for LBS • What are the ecosystem and success factors to deliver innovative services
• Reviewing the importance of the mobile phone with 3rd parties? A new paradigm for LBS with the rise of APIs
• Interpreting user behavior to improve LBS service Raphael Goumot
• Leveraging customer information to create a context driven service offering Director, Start-Up Programme
John Brendan Riordan Orange
Senior Consultant Manager
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