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The Location Business Summit USA
2010-09-14 - 2010-09-15 in San Jose, USA
The Location Based Services market is booming and companies that figure out how to capitalize on this emerging trend are going to see huge profits. There is no doubt that after years of hype surrounding the LBS industry things are starting to change and the industry is gaining real traction. However one essential question remains how do you monetize your LBS solution? And what business models really work?

The influx of free services, the expectation of slick and accurate offerings and the rise of Location Based Marketing are all changing the way money can be made and business will be done.

Don’t miss out on vital strategies to navigate the tricky waters that lie ahead. Attend The Location Business Summit USA and pave a path to profits for 2010 and far beyond.

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2nd Annual Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit
2010-09-21 - 2010-09-22 in London, United Kingdom

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit! One year on and the launch event which brought you global wireless healthcare innovation first in Europe is back…

In 2009 we were delighted to host Vittorio Collao, Group Vodafone CEO, as the opening keynote of the event. In 2010 we continue the tone of global excellence and inspiration in mobile healthcare with over 60 executive speakers and driving forces in wireless healthcare enablement and sports wellness innovation. The event is collaborative between the wireless and health/fitness sectors and therefore largely panel led this year to encourage fruitful cross-sector discussion, see the feature board to the right for more details. We are also very excited that in 2010 we will be providing FREE delegate passes to healthcare providers – joining the 200 attendees at Mobile healthcare Industry Summit will be the clinicians, managers, and ICT directors within healthcare that are re-orientating service provision and satisfaction.

This September we are locating with the lead M2M and connected device event, Embedded Connectivity 2010, adding value and prospects to your networking and business development during the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit exhibition and drinks receptions. We look forward to welcoming you at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2010 in September and to this fascinating ecosystem of wireless healthcare innovation, during this unique and pressing time of social and economic need for new ideas in healthcare and wellness. And please feel free to join our online community before then now at: www.linkedin.com/mobilehealthcareindustrysummit.com

Register today at www.mobilehealthcareindustrysummit.com

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LI GeoCloud 2010
2010-09-22 - 2010-09-22 in Washington DC
Location Intelligence 2010 will focus on cloud computing. On September 22, 2010, join us for the first Location Intelligence Conference for Geospatial Cloud Computing, aka, LI GeoCloud. This one-day executive symposium will be held at the Newseum's Knight Conference Center in Washington, D.C., located just one block from the U.S. Capitol Building. We are hosting a single track event on the business models, applications, platforms and solutions that will leverage cloud computing. As the first geospatial conference solely dedicated to this topic, presentations will include information from data providers, software developers and integrators. We'll kick off the program with our Geospatial Vision Panel that will take a look at what cloud computing means for the industry. Next, our Platform Panel will offer information about platforms on which to build applications and you'll hear from those who offer them. This session will include a special presentation from Amazon Web Services Technical Evangelist Jinesh Varia. And we will have two SaaS Apps panels dedicated to applications, business models and a discussion on the realities of cost and efficiency that everyone talks about regarding cloud computing. We hope you will join us this September in Washington, D.C.

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Mobile Broadband World 2010
2010-09-27 - 2010-09-29 in London, United Kingdom
Mobile Broadband (MBB) is now the biggest growth area in telecoms. Understanding how to capitalise on this growth and develop cost-effective strategies to deliver the bandwidth required, whilst creating the right pricing models will be at the heart of this three day intensive event.

Now the biggest conference and exhibition dedicated exclusively to Mobile Broadband (MBB), this event is an absolute must for all those involved in the MBB ecosystem, including Mobile Operators, Content Developers, Financial Investors, Press and Media, Consultants, Technology Partners, Handset Developers and more.

Why you must attend Mobile Broadband World 2010:
* 5x CxO speakers from the Mobile Operator community including Edwin Candy, Group CTO, Hutchison 3G Europe, Sasa Lekovic, CTO, Telekom Srbija, Jose Cristobal Alonso Martin, CTO, Bite Lithuania, Felix Wass, COO, Azerfon and N.L. Goodman, President, FinallyTV
* 30+ Mobile Operator speakers including Vodafone Group, T-Mobile International, Telefonica O2, Telenor, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Telecom Italia and Korea Telecom
* The event for evaluating the business case for HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, EDGE, WiMAX and WiFi in cost-effectively delivering MBB
* Plenary Sessions with 3 streams in the afternoon including Business Models, Technical Strategies, Roadmaps and Devices, App Store Market Place and High Growth Regions
* Discover whether MBB is investible and determine how to develop new marketing strategies
* Learn how to overcome the capacity crisis and beat the data crunch
* Hear the results of the latest LTE trials and learn how operators are deploying 84mps speeds from HSPA+
* Gain insight into multiple spectrum auctions that have taken place across the world
* Hear how operators have created usage based and tiered pricing models for MBB to increase profitability
* Hear how Mobile Operators from high growth regions are developing their technical roadmaps to deliver super fast MBB speeds
* Hear how content and application developers are creating Apps that are really making money

To see detailed outlines for each of the topics addressed simply download the brochure at http://www.iir-telecoms.com/I2GS2BERG

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Location-Based Marketing Summit
2010-09-29 - 2010-09-30 in New York City
The Location Based Marketing Summit, September 29-30, 2010 in New York City, is the leading event for Fortune 1000 companies seeking to maximize business strategies, including marketing and commerce, using location based services. Attendees receive focused, practical and valuable industry insight that can be immediately utilized in developing a location-based strategy. We give you an inside look at the location based marketing activities of major brands. Speakers include Google, Deep Focus, ESPN, Mashable, Verizon Wireless, USATODAY.com, New Jersey Nets, Adweek, Tasti D-Lite, 360i, Advertising Age, Bridge Worldwide, VaynerMedia, Booyah, Location Labs, SimpleGeo, and many more.

Use the promo code INSIGHTVIP and save US$ 100 off the published price. Full schedule and speakers at http://www.LocationMarketingSummit.com

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Locations & Beyond Summit
2010-10-06 - 2010-10-06 in San Francisco, USA
An event that began in 2007, The Locations & Beyond Summit brings together leaders and innovators in the location industry ecosystem for half a day of thought provoking discussions. This year’s event takes place October 6, 2010 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 show.

Connecting everything, everyone, everyplace in a location-aware world is this year’s theme and as industry leaders we will discuss how adding “Location Intelligence” to the world of technology will transform lives as well as entire industries such as healthcare, transportation and energy. Speakers include executives from AT&T Emerging Devices, Cisco, Oracle, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, NTT DOCOMO USA, Research In Motion, Intel, Jasper Wireless, Ekahau and CSR among others. The event is presented by CSR, a leading provider of multifunction connectivity and location platforms.

The Summit will tee up these compelling topics for in-depth exploration beginning with lunch, Opening Keynote Address from Rob Carter, CIO of FedEx and concluding with the evening cocktails and the awards reception, with plenty of opportunities to network. The three discussion topics include:

EVERYTHING.
Accelerating the growth of location-based services and connectivity

EVERYONE.
Working together to drive new revenue opportunities in untapped markets

EVERYPLACE.
Transforming experiences and industries by making connected location solutions available everyplace

For more information about this invitation only event, please visit: www.pointthinktank.com or request at complimentary invitation at: www.regonline.com/locations_beyond_summit_2010

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Next Generation Mobile Devices
2010-10-07 - 2010-10-08 in London, United Kingdom
Next Generation Mobile Devices will focus on identifying and discussing the key issues around strategic priorities for mobile broadband devices, examining Open-OS enablers, application/content drivers, HSPA+ and LTE air-interface evolution, exploring embedded connectivity options and more.

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European Utilities Smart Grid & Metering
2010-10-20 - 2010-10-21 in Stockholm, Sweden
The newly adopted EU energy-climate legislative package with its triple goals represents infrastructural and operational challenges for the electricity grid. Connecting to renewables, distributed sources and new electricity applications like Electric Vehicles coupled with evolving metering regulatory environment mean changes to utilities’ traditional strategies in grid, metering and servicing aspects. Join other grid professionals and metering executives to hear 13 case studies & research/technology insights from the expert speaker panel including 7 DSOs & 3 TSOs about their experiences and strategies for future power systems innovations and getting consumers involved in future grid planning and home energy management. For more event information or registration, please visit www.inoventa.com .

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Smart Metering Southern Europe Summit 2010
2010-10-28 - 2010-10-29 in Rome, Italy
The Smart Metering Southern Europe Summit 2010 unites key utilities, system operators and regulators to showcase their successful Smart Meters and Grids projects and point out where the action is heading to next. Packed with market insights and in depth country-by-country case studies, the Smart Metering & Grids Southern Europe Summit is a unique event to benchmark, network and learn how to make your Smart Revolution happen. To receive the programme or arrange tickets please contact james.scott@oliverkinross.com

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ITN 2010
2010-11-11 - 2010-11-12 in Torino, Italy

Turin is once again the excellent place to discuss the present and the future of infomobility and satellite navigation. After the success of 2009, ITN is back on its second edition. It represents the most important event in Europe, bringing together smart infrastructures, ICT, telematics and infomobility.

Organized by GL Events Italia-Lingotto Fiere, Wireless with the support of the Piedmont Region, in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and with the scientific contribution of Torino Wireless, ITN creates a bridge between infrastructural operators, institutions and the suppliers of telematics technology. Moreover it provides a meeting point between researchers and sector operators.

Topics that play a growing role in the Country’s development and recovery will be discussed during the event. Some of them are: Smart Grid, intelligent infrastructures, positioning systems and geolocalization services, GIS & mapping, on-board telematics and car sensors, fleet management, green mobility, digital radio broadcasting, galileo and GNSS.

In the wake of the success recorded last year, once again the event will offer thematic debates on special areas, with ad-hoc workshops organized in collaboration with major trade associations and collective exhibiting areas dedicated to the most innovative Information & Communication Technologies in infrastructures and transportation: Transportation & Logistics Area, Auto-Id & Tracking Area, Mobile Payment & Smart Ticketing Area, 2ndsummit For Infomobility Operators, Special 2015.

Two days of conferences and informative workshops, networking programmes and seminars of high-level content – in which major experts and analysts of the primary Associations and Institutions will participate – and a wide exhibiting area dedicated to products, services and solutions of satellite navigation and intelligent infrastructure where you can meet the most important players of the sector.

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Tracking and Positioning Europe
2010-11-17 - 2010-11-18 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
End-users, location technology companies and tracking service providers will come together, for the first time, at the Tracking and Positioning Europe conference and exhibition.

The event is being held on November 17th and 18th in Amsterdam; with 30+ speakers, 150+ attendees and a razor sharp agenda.

BP, Vodafone, KPN, Allianz, Nokia, IBM, Bosch Sensortec, Ericsson, Capgemini, Sagemcom, Skyhook Wireless and a cast of more than 30 speakers tackle the big profit and technology challenges in tracking and positioning including: indoor and ubiquitous location, MEMS sensors, MRM and PERS market potential, MNO location, Wi-Fi positioning, end user requirements and much more!

Visit http://www.thewherebusiness.com/info/200 for further info

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