A reminder, I'm speaking at the Location Intelligence conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 18.  I'm going to be talking about our GeoBoost product (whitepaper), and our new GeoTemporal analysis views.  If you're in SanFran, stop by and say hi!

NAPERVILLE, IL – SSS Research today announced that Andrew Eick will present at the 2007 Location Intelligence Conference, the premiere industry event focused on the business use of location technology.  The 2007 Location Intelligence Conference will take place April 16-18, 2007, at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco.  Eick will participate in the session “New Approaches to Spatial Data Modeling and Presentation” and discuss AJAX, SOA and other Web programming techniques such as GeoRSS to provide a rich, dynamic user experience in a Web browser.

Event chairman quote:
“This year’s program will focus on ways for businesses to make and save money using location technology,” said Joe Francica, chairman of the event.  “We will feature speakers from a variety of sectors within location technology including enterprise IT solutions, geographic information systems, and mobile location-based services.”

Additional information about the conference:
The conference will bring together business leaders for its annual gather to discuss how to generate revenue, cut costs, improve workflow efficiency and gain competitive advantage by implementing location related products and services within their organizations.
 
The Location Intelligence Conference attracts decision makers from organizations involved in mobile and wireless devices, Internet mapping, location-based gaming, RFID, sensor web, geocoding, remote sensing, fleet management and field management services.  Conference registration includes access to workshops, keynotes, plenary sessions, luncheons and the conference social event.

Now in its fourth year, the Location Intelligence Conference serves as a forum for discussing the integration of location related products and services with enterprise computing and consumer products.  The conference is hosted by Directions Media, the global leader in collectively covering all aspects of location technology: geographic information systems (GIS), location intelligence, mapping portals and location-based services (LBS).  Directions Media encompasses four media properties: Directions Magazine, LBS360.NET, and All Points Blog and the Location Intelligence annual conference.  For more information, visit http://www.locationintelligence.net/

Conference PR contact:
Derek Brookmeyer
LI Conference/Racepoint Group
415-694-6702
dbrookmeyer@racepointgroup.com

Just returned from the 2007 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky Montana.  I was presenting my paper on AJAX, SVG and geospatial situational awareness.  My talk was well received and there was good feedback.

The conference was good, I learned a bunch of new things and tried to network.  Networking was pretty hard, in that everyone else was really a rocket scientist.

The conference was at Big Sky ski resort in Bozeman Montana, a really long ways away and a day long trip in airports in rental car lines to get there.  I went skiing a few of the days and even went up to the top to ski down.  The top was so high up, you could see this little itty bitty tiny shack on the tip top of the mountain.  The only way down is on the side.

I had to take 3 chairlifts, and a tiny gondola to get to the top.  The whole way up I kept looking up (it was a straight up) "I can do this, I can do this, I can do this."  Once I got to the top, stepped off the tram and looked around, I wasn't so sure!  The edge just disappeared under your feet (they told me later it's a 45 degree angle at the top, and I don't ski that often).  It was actually breathtaking, the view was fantastic, and the snow just fell away.  I made it down slowly, only falling once.  The hill was so steep I just kept skidding down, and had to crawl up to retrieve my skis on my hands and knees.

I'll post the photographs after I get them downloaded from my camera....