The thought leaders on the steering committee include:
Christine Lemke,
COO and Co-Founder,
Sense Networks
Christine has a broad range of startup and corporate experience in technology
and finance. Most recently, at Microsoft, she was the XBOX World Wide
Program Manager in charge of development programs encompassing four global
regions and twenty markets. She is an expert in crowd sourcing and profiling
for advertising purposes.
Johannes
Kebeck,
Virtual Earth Technology Specialist,
Microsoft EMEA
Johannes Kebeck covers Microsoft's
geospatial technologies and supports customers and partners outside the
American continents. He is currently based in Reading, UK and has over
13 years experience in the GI/GIS market.
In October 2004 Johannes joined
Microsoft in Germany working within the Enterprise Product Group and in
2005 he joined the Virtual Earth team.
Dominique Bonte,
Research Director, Telematics and Navigation,
ABI Research
Dominique’s background includes a wealth of telecommunication and
mobile device applications experience. He worked for Orange and BT in
Belgium, as well as holding a variety of positions at consumer/industrial
technology companies assuming roles in product management and market research
and intelligence. He later started his own company in software consulting
for mobile devices, where he acquired extensive experience in mobile satellite
navigation software.
Isais Sudit,
LOC-AID® Technologies,
Inc.
Isaias Sudit has built three
businesses, all within the wireless location based service industry. His
third venture came into existence with the decision to develop applications
and end-to-end location services for the mobile user. LOC-AID® Technologies,
Inc. was founded to focus solely on this developing LBS market.
Fraser Campbell,
CEO,
Wcities.com
Inc
Fraser has built Wcities into a significant force in the content licensing
arena with numerous relationships with travel and mobile providers around
the world. His main role has focused on developing relationships with
mobile and web based clients. These clients include the major portals,
travel companies, personal navigation providers, and mobile operators.
Fraser has an intimate knowledge of business development, content management,
and content integration.
John Spinney
Jon Spinney is a recognized
expert in the location-based services field. He has held senior management
positions at Sonim, Openwave, ESRI, SignalSoft, and The Strategis Group
across a diverse range of disciplines as an industry analyst, product
manager, industry solutions marketing manager, director of marketing,
vice president of business development, and vice president of sales. He
is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Workstream Wireless and an Adjunct
Lecturer at the University of London where he teaches a graduate course
in location-based services. He blogs at www.maperture.net
Daniel Appelquist,
Sr Tech Strategist,
Vodafone
Daniel K. Appelquist is a senior technology strategist at Vodafone Group Research & Development, where he leads work on social web and mobile internet projects and industry activities. He helped to create the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, where he chairs the Mobile Web Best Practices working group. He is also a founder of Mobile Monday London and the Mobile 2.0 conference series, and he is co-author of the recently published Mobile Internet for Dummies. He is a passionate believer in the power of taking the Web mobile and he recently co-organized, with Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org, a bar camp on the topic of mobile Web for social change in San Francisco (on election day). |
