Business Panel

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 Journal

Panelists: Craig Bachmann, ITF Advisors; Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments; Sean Gorman, FortiusOne; Sam Solt, Clear Path Labs

Architecture Panel

Building the GeoWeb
Thursday, July 29 - 3:10pm

On what architecture should we build the GeoWeb? REST-ful? SOA? Event Driven? SOAP? Peer to Peer? Surely one is better than the others? Come to the architecture panel and see experts battle this out. Make your comments. Participate. Leading expert panelists include Hans Schoebach (P2P and ED), Ian Painter (SOA/SOAP) and Brian Noyle (REST-farian). Cheer for your side.

Moderator:  Ron Lake

Panelists: Ian Painter, Snowflake Software - SOA (SOAP/RPC, SOAP/Messaging); Brian Noyle, Data Transfer Solutions - ROA (RESTful Architectures); Hans Schoebach, Galdos Systems - P2P (Peer to peer, Event Driven)