O'Reilly Media's Where 2.0 conference has opened up its call for participation. If you're innovating around location-aware technology, the conference organizers would like to hear from you! Proposals are due by January 5th. Here's the blurb on what they're looking for:
"The call for participation is now open and we’re looking for ground-breaking ideas about location aware technology. Inspirational speakers, adventurous thinkers, iconoclasts, trail blazers, and people poised to make real money. We’re looking for amazing location systems, open source hacks, untapped geodata, and companies developing new products, new services, and new technologies or mashing up old ones. If you think you know the next killer app to roll off the lab bench, tell us.
"The big question of this year’s program is: Where’s the value? We are looking for proposals that can help us find the answers. How can developers make money at this? What applications have legs? How can enterprises make money using this?"
Some sample topics on the radar this year:
- Local Search and Advertising
- Data
- Data Policy
- Open Source
- Sensorweb
- Ultralocal
- Mobile
- Visualization
- Society
- Privacy
- Environment/NGOs
- Virtual Worlds
- Location based gaming
- Where Fair Projects
Even if you don't want to speak, your ideas are welcome, either via e-mail or at the conference wiki. Where 2.0 will take place in San Jose on May 29 - 30, 2007.
