Howe School conference: 'The Rebirth of Location-Based Services -- The Next Great Idea,' May 12

Expo will be presented jointly by Stevens and Kaufman Brothers

HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology and the investment bank of Kaufman Brothers will host the May 12 conference, "The Rebirth of Location-Based Services: The Next Great Idea," at Stevens' campus in Hoboken , N.J.

The conference, which will be held in the Babbio Center for Technology Management, 6th and River Streets in Hoboken, will address the resurgence of location-based technologies and focus on how current and future business applications will benefit from the wider availability of location data. Company presentations and discussion panels will include innovative location technologies, applications, advertising and business models. The conference will also feature exhibits in advanced locations services, telematics, enterprise business applications and mobile social networking.

A key note address and presentations from industry leaders coupled with panel discussions will offer insights into investment opportunities in established publicly traded firms, as well as emerging stage private companies. The conference will center on panels in the following areas:

• New and ubiquitous location technologies
  
  
• New role of advertising and changing society values
  
  
• The reshaping old business applications
  
  
• Creating new business applications
  
  

For more information or to register for the event, please visit the Stevens website http://howe.stevens.edu/index.php?id=1431. Cost to attend: By invitation; exhibitors: $250.

Conference Agenda

10:00 - 11:00 Networking, Registration, Exhibits Open

10:30 - 11:30
Panel A. Advances in Technology: New and Ubiquitous Location Technologies
Moderator: Paul Mankiewich, CTO, Alcatel-Lucent
Comscope, Ekahau, TrafficCast, TruePosition

Panel B. LBS Platforms & Enabling Technologies
Moderator: Grant Lenahan, VP Strategy, Telcordia
Broadcom, HP, TeleAtlas, Telecommunication Systems

12:00 - 1:00
Lunch Welcome: Hal Ravech, President, Stevens Institute of Technology

Keynote Presentation: Barry West, CTO, Sprint

1:15 - 2:30
Panel A. LBS in Advertising and mCommerce
Moderator: Sara Silver, Wall Street Journal
Issac Daniels, Kargo, Movius, Socialight

Panel B.
Reshaping Old Business Models
Moderator: Mark Thompson, SVP/Founder, Televent Farradyne
Autel, Ituran, Smarter Agent, Telargo, uLocate

2:40 - 3:30
Panel New Practices and Business Models
Moderator: Bill Reinisch, VP Strategy, Motorola
ISCO International, Square Loop, Stevens, useful-networks, Vindingo

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 4:35
Panel Investor Panel
Moderator: Craig Kaufman, CEO, Kaufman Brothers
Intel, SCP, Union Square Ventures

4:40 - 5:30 Presentations Next Great Ideas New Product/Concept

5:30 - 7:00 Reception/Exhibits Reopen