Thursday, May 17, 2012 3.00 pm - Doors open 4.00 - 4.40 pm - Panel 1 - New York startups Panelists Gauri Manglik, co-founder and CEO of Fondu, the destination for foodies. Fondu is a fast and fun way to share bite-size restaurant reviews with friends for the iPhone. Andy Hunter is the co-founder and CEO of Broadcastr, a Brooklyn-based startup creating a platform for geo-targeted multimedia...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 3.00 pm - Doors open 4.00 - 4.40 pm - Panel 1 - New York startups Panelists Gauri Manglik, co-founder and CEO of Fondu, the destination for foodies. Fondu is a fast and fun way to share bite-size restaurant reviews with friends for the iPhone. Andy Hunter is the co-founder and CEO of Broadcastr, a Brooklyn-based startup creating a platform for geo-targeted multimedia distribution and discovery on mobile devices. Steve Schultz, founder of Movable Feast, an app that immerses users in locations, with stories that connect the dots on the map. Kenny Herman is the EVP of Business Development at SinglePlatform, the world's largest online provider of restaurant menus and local business storefronts. 4.40 - 5.30 pm - Panel 2 - Local data and POI Introduction Raj Singh serves as a Director of Interoperability Programs for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international industry consortium of 442 companies, government agencies and universities. Panelists Nick Brachet, Chief Technology Officer of Skyhook, the worldwide leader in location positioning, context and intelligence. Tyler Bell, Director of Product for Factual, an LA-based startup that is, amongst other things, creating a global coverage of the world's POI and Places. Darrin Clement, founder and CEO of Maponics, which builds and defines polygons such as neighborhood boundaries, ZIP Codes, and school attendance zones that are meaningful at the local level. 5.30 - 6.00 pm - Reception break Drinks + networking 6.00 - 6.30 pm - Keynote: Sajit Thomas, Esri Sajit Thomas is a UX Architect at Esri - a software company that specializes in using the geographic approach to problem solving. Sajit is part of the Corporate Sales team and works on new ideas and solutions to implement spatial technology. 6.30 - 7.10 pm - Panel 3 - Pedestrian navigation Panelists Joe Meyer, CEO of HopStop, the second largest pedestrian navigation provider behind Google Maps. Scott Rafer, CEO of Lumatic, which is making cities easier to use via photo-driven pedestrian navigation. Puneet Mehta, co-founder of MyCityWay, a real time app designed to transform your hand held device into a mega-utility tool for navigating the urban scene. 7.10 - 7.20 pm - Keynote: Steve Milton, PlaceIQ Steve Milton is the co-founder and CTO of PlaceIQ, a company that turns location into context. 7.20 - 8.00 pm - Panel 4 - Hyperlocal marketing Panelists Eli Portnoy, CEO of ThinkNear, a hyper-local mobile ad solution funded by IA, Google, and Qualcomm. Jonathan Glanz, founder and CEO of Sonic Notify, a platform that enables media to be delivered to a smartphone or tablet based on presence. Josh Rochlin is CEO of Xtify, a mobile customer communications platform that brings the power of location and push notifications to smartphone applications. 8.00 - 9.00 pm - Reception continues Drinks + networking Supported by: