Agenda for Location Based Services Topic:
6:00-6:30PM Networking and Refreshments
6:30-7:00PM Gerry Christensen, Co-Founder and CTO, Zoove & Co-Author of "Mobile Positioning and Location Management"*
7:00-7:30PM David Hose, Founder and Managing Partner, Ideas and Plans; Founder and CEO of Signalsoft (now Openwave)**
7:30-7:45PM Wayne Guerra, CMO, Healthagen
7:45-8:00PM Matt Galligan, CEO, SimpleGeo
*Gerry Christensen, is Co-founder and CTO of Zoove, provider of the patented abbreviated dialing mobile direct response marketing service. Prior to Zoove, Gerry led Technology R&D for VeriSigns Solution Development and was also responsible for wireless data and content business development. He also sat on the Board of Directors for the MMA. Gerry also was Director of Product Management for SignalSoft, where he built and led the team for all mobile location services software products globally. He is the author of the books 'Data on SS7', and 'Yes to Prepay' he co-authored the books 'Mobile Positioning and Location Management' and 'Wireless Intelligent Networking'.
**David Hose, a noted leader in the wireless industry, founded Ideas and Plans in 2005. David was previously founder and CEO of Signalsoft, a pioneer in the development of location based services for mobile phones — and guided Signalsoft through its venture funding, subsequent IPO and acquisition by Openwave. While at Openwave Systems he was Chief Development Officer and SVP/GM of the Client Software Business, responsible for the business strategy, product management, and engineering development of Openwave’s entire product line, including the mobile infrastructure, messaging applications and client software businesses. David currently serves as Chairman at Buzzwire, Useful Networks and PublicEarth, board member at JumpTap and advisory board member at Rave Wireless, Networks in Motion, Roundbox and Scanbuy.
Healthagen- Healthagen believes medicine is a business that suffers from both a lack of information and an inefficient process to find the appropriate resources, and that patients who have access to relevant and targeted information at their time of need, will become empowered. The business model, and mission, is to empower patients by providing relevant information, structured data, and service offerings at a critical time for patients, anywhere they happen to be at their time of need. With iTriage you have access to medical information from over 300 symptoms, 1000 diseases and 350 medical procedures all in the palm of your hands.
SimpleGeo- Ready-to-use location infrastructure for your applications. They currently have three products: a geo-spatial Context Engine, Storage Engine and a comprehensive SDK. The SimpleGeo Context Engine enables application developers to quickly and easily get relevant information about specific locales including (but not limited to) ZIP codes, real-time weather, and geo-tagged media. Additionally, the SimpleGeo Storage Engine makes it possible to store and query location data in a scalable fashion, as well as perform complicated geospatial operations effortlessly.
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