We are attending the 2008 Location Intelligence Conference April 28-30 in San Francisco…

A conference whose focus is on how the industry can utilize data/information derived from location based services. This could be from both a business perspective but also equally important from a NPO/NGO perspective.

This conference will add great value to our thesis writing and we promise to blog directly from the conference to everyone interested. We hope to see some of you there.. and if anyone would like to donate some finances for this trip.. well, its very much appreciated

Here is how the conference describes themselves:

“The world is sold on geospatial technologies and this conference is a welcoming place where you can hear about them in action – solving real-world problems and improving operations that energize the location intelligent enterprise. The common thread is that attendees at the LI conference are passionate about the practical challenges of implementing and integrating cutting-edge technologies along with mainstream information technology , and love to compare notes about what they do!

We see location technology being used everywhere: Managing telecommunications, mitigating terrorist threats, and locating retail stores as well as finding the most efficient routes for supply chain management, dynamic weather analysis for storm modeling and reacting to the consumer demand to locally search for goods and services. Mapping technology is ubiquitous: in cars, on your mobile phone and on the web.

What’s next? Enhancing core GIS and geospatial implementations with enabling technologies to take them further into the organization to manage business processes more effectively. The result: better revenue, better service, better business.

Location Technology 2008 will focus exclusively on enabling technologies: Those hardware, software and data technologies that support and enhance the development, application and diffusion of core geospatial implementations to significantly improve performance and productivity.”