Location Intelligence Conference: Location Technology & Business Intelligence

Sponsorship Contact Information

For sponsorship details, contact Jane Elliott by email or by phone at 847-849-9803


Conference Market Information:


Target Market: Mid-level managers and executives from corporations and government organizations looking to integrate location-based solutions into their exiting IT infrastructure.

Vertical Markets: Insurance, Banking, Retail, Government, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Media

Horizontal Application Sectors: Site selection, target marketing, location-based advertising, social networking, market research, emergency response, risk mitigation, etc.

Business Objectives: Business process management, business intelligence, sales performance management, competitive intelligence.


Exibitors Prospectus

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Exhibitor Information


Diamond Sponsorship - $17,500 (only one sponsorship at this level)

Sponsor Benefits:

  • Recognition as the Diamond Level Location Intelligence Conference Sponsor through signage.
  • Send Senior Executive to participate as Panel Member for Conference Plenary Session
  • Sole Sponsor of Monday Evening VIP Reception for 50 people
  • Full Page ad in final program - Back cover or inside back cover
  • Nominate two User Case Studies for presentation
  • Literature distribution to be handed out with registration packets
  • Company logo & profile in printed conference program guide/agenda
  • 10x20 booth - See exhibitor floor layout for choice of booth (Page 2)
  • Workshop Sponsor (included) - sponsor one of the conference workshops - guaranteed
  • 4 full conference registration passes & 3 booth/exhibit only passes
  • Logo recognition on Conference Home page January to April 2008
  • Complete details


Platinum Sponsorship - $9,995

Sponsor Benefits:

  • Recognition as the Platinum Level Location Intelligence (LI) conference & registration/reception sponsor through signage.
  • Choose one of the following Conference events to be recognized as the sponsor: Tuesday Evening Social Event (one of two sponsors); Tuesday or Wednesday Lunch sponsor; Tuesday or Wednesday Breakfast Sponsor; Workshop Breaks
  • 1/2 page ad in final program
  • Nominate two User Case Studies for presentation
  • Literature distribution to be handed out with registration packets
  • Company logo & profile in printed conference program guide/agenda
  • Posting of company logo & link to sponsors website on official LI website
  • 10x20 booth - See exhibitor floor layout for choice of booth
  • Workshop Sponsor (included) - sponsor one of the conference workshops - only 10 available on first come, first serve basis
  • 3 full registrations plus 2 booth/exhibit only registration
  • Complete details


Gold Sponsorship - $6,295
Sponsor Benefits:

  • Sponsor of one of four coffee breaks
  • Nominate One User Case Study for presentation
  • 1/4 page ad in final program
  • Literature distribution to be handed out with registration packets
  • Company logo & profile in printed conference program guide/agenda
  • Posting of company logo & link to sponsors website on official Location Intelligence website for Corporate Sponsors
  • 10x10 booth - See exhibitor floor layout for choice of booth.
  • 3 conference attendee passes and 1 exhibitor pass
  • Workshop Sponsor (optional) - Reduced fee of $1500 to sponsor one of the conference workshops - only 10 available on first come, first serve basis
  • Complete details


Silver Sponsorship - $3,295
Sponsor Benefits:

  • Company logo & profile in printed conference program guide/agenda
  • Posting of company logo & link to sponsors website on official Location Intelligence website for Corporate Sponsors
  • 10' x 10' booth - See exhibitor floor layout for choice of booth
  • 2 full conference registrations
  • Workshop Sponsor (optional) - Reduced fee of $1,995 - sponsor one of the conference workshops - only 10 available on first come, first serve basis
  • Complete details

Workshop Sponsor - $3,250
Sponsor Benefits:

  • Company logo & profile in printed conference program guide/agenda
  • Posting of company logo & link on the Location Intelligence website
  • 3-hour workshop
  • One month Right column Banner on Directions & LI Magazines
  • 1 conference attendee pass
  • Complete details


Additional Sponsorship Opportunities

Each item (where applicable) is priced for 500 units to accommodate the potential number of attendees. Any undistributed items will be returned to the vendor.

Wireless Access for all Attendees - $12,000
Be the exclusive sponsor of the service every attendee wants - wireless access! Your logo will be displayed prominently on throughout the exhibit area and in the final program.

Portfolio with logo - $7,500
This conference draws an executive audience that will appreciate a portfolio to use throughout the conference and beyond. An embossed logo will appear on the cover of this 6.5" x 9.5" portfolio.


Seated Luncheon - $8,500
Become the sole sponsor of a seated luncheon where you can have one of your executives provide the keynote presentation to attendees. This exclusive sponsorship offered to only one company and will be held Wednesday April 30 at noon.

Private Reception - Negotiable depending on Exhibitor Input
We will help you organize a private reception at the Santa Clara’s outdoor, poolside terrace that is a great way to entertain prospects and clients.

Tote Bag Sponsor - $5,000
Each attendee will receive a durable conference bag with your logo.


RJ 45 Ethernet Cord with logo - $2,995
This extremely useful Ethernet cord will be used often on travel away from the office and make an excellent premium that will include the sponsor's logo.


Lanyards - $2,750
Everybody looks at the lanyards. Display your logo prominently.


Banner Zone-Entrance to Exhibit Hall - $2,495
Become the exclusive sponsor of the banner zone area that serves as the entrance to the Exhibit Hall. Plasma Display and literature will be prominently displayed as all attendees come to register for the event.

Registration Area - $2,495
Become the exclusive sponsor of the registration area. Plasma Display and literature will be prominently displayed as all attendees come to register for the event.

Advertise in the final conference Program
4-Color ad in printed program as well as any electronic versions
1/4 Page: $500
1/2 Page: $750
Full Page: $1,000
Inside Covers: $1,250


Exhibit Area Details

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Sponsors 2008

Since 1993, AGSI has been providing strategic technology and information solutions to our customers via our experienced team of professionals. AGSI offers extensive solutions and services by leveraging small teams of highly experienced industry/process consultants, developers, technologists, field resources and end users with extensive industry knowledge and business function processes. AGSI's value add is our team approach to solving complex problems with innovative, cost effective and efficient information and web solutions while being customer focused and driven.

deCarta

deCarta is the enabling geospatial software platform that powers today’s most successful location-based service (LBS) applications. The technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications for fleet-tracking, mobile resource management, wireless and personal navigation applications where scalability, speed and reliability are vital. As an enterprise solution, deCarta’s software platform gives you the leverage of a web service architecture to develop and deliver powerful new field service applications, or significantly augment existing GIS applications to realize increased market penetration, service and profits.

DigitalGlobe is the clear leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market. DigitalGlobe is the only geospatial content provider to take an end-to-end approach to geospatial imagery, from acquiring high-resolution imagery through its leading-edge satellite and aerial network, to integrating with web portals and handheld mobile devices. The company’s updated and growing ImageLibrary contains over 360 million square kilometers of imagery suited to countless mapping and planning needs.

DMTI Spatial

DMTI Spatial has been providing industry leading enterprise location intelligence solutions for more than a decade to Global 2000 companies and government agencies. DMTI’s world-class Location Hub™ platform uniquely identifies, validates and maintains a universe of location-based data. DMTI is the creator of the CanMap suite of geospatial data products the gold standard for GIS location-based data in Canada. For more information about Location Intelligence see: http://www.dmtispatial.com/hub/

ESRI




With annual sales of more than $660 million, ESRI is the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry. ESRI develops and supports GIS software for all types of organizations—from the one-person office to multinational corporations. www.esri.com

Europa Technologies are a leading data manufacturer specializing in global data. The company’s products are used over a quarter of the world’s Fortune 500 companies and feature on many leading mapping services, including Google Earth & Maps. Europa’s products are essential to organizations (of any size) implementing a global spatial data infrastructure (gSDI). Visit Europa on the web at www.europa-tech.com

Measurement Solutions that empower marketers and focus sales resources. Fish develops data capture, data management and attendee tracking solutions for private events, trade shows and event marketers. Their mission is to provide decision-makers with technology solutions that collect and deliver actionable data that increase return on marketing investments for event marketers.

Fugro-Roadware

Fugro-Roadware, part of the Fugro group of companies, specializes in providing high-accuracy infrastructure data used in geographic information systems by government agencies and private enterprise worldwide. Fugro-Roadware uses location intelligence technologies to place digital video images and infrastructure data within transportation networks, enabling infrastructure decision-makers to implement maintenance programs efficiently and cost effectively.

Google

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Google

Harte-Hanks Global Address specializes in international address quality solutions that capture and cleanse address data for 238 populated nations. Our solutions can be managed on-site, on-demand interactively, or through hosted services. Whether you need simple customer address data collection, address data cleansing, geocoding, or a complete global single-customer view of your records, we have a solution for you!

Today's organizations exist in a world where information is increasing exponentially. Many organizations are discovering that the best way to manage their information assets is through an open, service-oriented approach, transforming captive data from individual applications and repositories into openly available information. IBM's Information on Demand strategy, a component of IBM's Service Oriented Architecture, provides the framework for an organization to develop a standards-based, flexible IT infrastructure that will deliver information as a service. Treating information as a service helps to create a unified view across an organization, increasing information availability, quality, context and flexibility. Thus enabling organizations to deliver information, consistently and appropriately, when and where it's needed most - on demand.For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/government.

korem

Founded in 1993, KOREM develops and implements integrated, evolving and high quality geospatial solutions that meet customers strategic and management requirements on a national and international scale. KOREM's workforce capacities, expertise and creativity have contributed to put together solutions to better locate, describe, disseminate, understand and analyze the information improving decision making throughout organizations. The mastering of these fields of knowledge combined with business intelligence and geospatial allows KOREM to accommodate clients with diverse needs. ISO 9001:2000 certified, KOREM assures its clientele of high-level standards of services and top-quality satisfaction based on dynamic and reliable work parameters. For more information, visit www.korem.com.

MapDotNet is the leading .NET-based developer platform for spatial data visualization, analysis and management. The MapDotNet product suite includes MapDotNet Server, a web-services based product built on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that includes a developer SDK with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) map controls, and MapDotNet Studio, a WPF application for map, tile and data management.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo/Group 1 is the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, integrating software, data and services to provide greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for businesses and government organizations around the world. Location intelligence enables you to answer a fundamental question: Where? Associating your organizational data with location is the foundation for making critical strategic and operational decisions that improve performance, competitiveness, efficiency, responsiveness and effectiveness. Our expertise and technology enables organizations to integrate the dimension of location into applications, deploy them across their enterprise, and helps you visualize everything in a new way.

MapJack is the global leader in providing street-view imagery solutions. Our licensing model offers clients a complete end-to-end system to help their companies get started and operate a street-view imagery project under their own control, from image acquisition to post-processing to viewing in a website. Our system is specifically designed for mass city coverage of urban areas. Our proprietary camera system is widely accepted as having the highest image quality in the industry, while at the same time being the lowest cost to scale-up. For more information and examples of what MapJack can do for you visit www.mapjack.com.

MapQuest

Since 1994, MapQuest Platform Services has helped thousands of global brands build rich, engaging mapping applications to increase operational efficiencies and improve revenue. Our geospatial web services platform and comprehensive toolset allows developers to build advanced capabilities for a wide spectrum of web, wireless and desktop applications. Learn more at platform.mapquest.com

MetaCarta

MetaCarta provides geographic intelligence solutions which bridge unstructured content and geography through a map-driven system. With its accurate and powerful geographic search and georeferencing capabilities, MetaCarta technology identifies geographic references within documents and assigns latitude and longitude coordinates to the locations. Users find relevant documents using keywords and a map.

MetaCarta users spend less time searching for information, and have more time to make critical decisions. www.metacarta.com

Microsoft Virtual Earth is a next generation mapping and location service. The platform includes exciting innovations around bird's eye, satellite and aerial imagery, 3-D and hybrid map styles, navigation and enhanced local search. The Virtual Earth platform enables you to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough customer experiences. Take your websites and applications to the next level by creating immersive online mapping and visualization experiences. Locate. Integrate. Innovate.
For more information visit www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/

NAVTEQ

NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map data and enhanced datasets for innovative enterprise, mobile navigation and internet-based mapping solutions. Offering world-wide coverage and multiple formats, NAVTEQ’s offerings are designed to meet the spatial data needs of developers and solution providers across a wide variety of location intelligent applications. NAVTEQ–it’s a road you can trust.

Oracle

Oracle's business is information – how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.

Quova

Quova, Inc., is the leading provider of Internet geolocation data which gives online businesses the ability to determine where their Web visitors are geographically located – in real-time. Quova’s data touches billions of Web visitors each day and is used by online businesses to geo-target their advertising and web content, enhance their web analytics, detect card-not-present fraud, manage digital download distribution, and ensure regulatory compliance. www.quova.com

Seisan

Established in 1993, Safe Software is the maker of FME, a powerful spatial ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) platform that enables organizations to seamlessly extract, translate, transform, integrate and distribute spatial data. FME is used in over 116 countries by all levels of government, the utilities sector, and resource industries.

Seisan

Seisan, LLC. is the leader in providing customized on-line LBS solutions. We have built a rock-solid reputation in the LBS community, for providing excellent consulting and programming services to a vast array of clients. Founded in 1994, our staff is unsurpassed in assisting our clients in implementing highly scalable applications, on-time and on-budget. It’s our guarantee…. Please visit SEISAN @ Booth 29 or online at www.seisan.com Seisan - we know WHERE…

Talent

Talent provides “Cruiser” a Java-based platform for creating feature and experience rich geo-information applications for Geo-Portals, On-line communities, Location-based directory services and advertising, Tourism, Real Estate, Fleet Management & Tracking, Navigation, LBSs, Media, Education, Local administration, Safety and Risk Management, Environmental management, and more. Visit us to see how you can benefit from neat solutions and winning technology.

thinkSoft

thincSoft is the company that put Business Intelligence on the mapTM. Our unique Visual Intelligence(VI)TM product set – thincVIew and thincTrax – bring together the power of geospatial visualization technology and business intelligence into a thin-client application.
Simply put, we help our customers visualize their data in ways never before possible, helping them make better decisions. The Web 2.0 platform allows this solution to integrate with any data source and be deployed and interacted with in real time on any thin-client via browser, with any existing corporate portal or dashboard reporting system.

Tele Atlas

Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world's most essential GIS, navigation, and location-based services. The information is the foundation for critical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services as well as personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications.

Ubisense is the global market leader in precise RTLS (Real-time Location System), utilizing UWB (Ultra-wideband) technology to deliver unprecedented levels of precision, responsiveness, reliability and scalability. With accuracy of less than one foot in 3D, the solution provides unmatched visibility into mission-critical applications, delivering substantial savings for customers and partners in manufacturing, logistics, military, industrial, retail, and entertainment industries.

WeatherBug® Professional provides professional-grade weather solutions for schools, businesses and government agencies delivering the most precise live weather information; relevant weather reporting and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property and lives. WeatherBug® manages and operates the world's largest weather station network, continuously delivering live weather information to our data centers for analysis and to our customers who are responsible for protecting lives and property. WeatherBug's technology is supported by the network of over 8,000 Tracking Stations, creating a capability for live weather monitoring not available from any other source. Leading industry organizations rely daily on the live weather data to make critical decisions.


Media Partners 2008

Berg Insight

Berg Insight offers premier business intelligence to the telecom industry. We produce concise reports providing key facts and strategic insights about pivotal developments in our focus areas. Our vision is to be the most valuable source of intelligence for our customers. To date we have provided analytical services to hundreds of clients in 50 countries. Our customers range from many of the world’s largest mobile operators, IT companies and telecom vendors, to venture capitalists, technology start-ups and specialist consultants. Our present focus areas are wireless M2M, location-based services and mobile VAS. In June 2006 we launched the online media site LBS Insight that is dedicated to the global LBS industry.

GEO:connexion

GEO:connexion Ltd is a publisher of printed and on-line magazines for the Geospatial Technology industries, with a supporting comprehensive web site plus monthly e-Newsletter:
GEOconnexion International & GEOconnexionUK magazines can be viewed at: www.geoconnexion.com
Also published: ContingencyToday - protecting the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure:www.contingencytoday.com

Gis Develpment

GIS Development, a Geospatial Communications Network company, promotes and propagates the usage of geospatial technologies in various areas of development. It assists community and government in developing their capabilities, and policies and facilitate knowledge transfer to grassroots and strengthen the productivity and management capabilities. It encourages the exchange of scientific know-how through its four key platforms – Monthly publication, Resource Portal, Conferences & Exhibitions and Training programmes.www.GISdevelopment.net

MobileIn.com

MobileIN.com strives to help educate and inform industry professionals through focusing on a balance of wireless and mobile technology and applications as well as regulatory and business issues. MobileIN.com is dedicated to professionals engaged in the wireless and mobile network profession, including product and service providers, infrastructure and software developers, consultants and analysis, and the investment community. Come visit us at www.MobileIN.com

Ventana Research

Ventana Research is the leading Performance Management research and advisory services firm. By providing expert insight and detailed guidance, Ventana Research helps clients operate their companies more efficiently and effectively. These business improvements are delivered through a top-down approach that connects people, process, information and technology. What makes Ventana Research different from other analyst firms is a focus on Performance Management for finance, operations and IT. This focus, plus research as a foundation and reach into a community of over two million corporate executives through extensive media partnerships, allows Ventana Research to deliver a high-value, low-risk method for achieving optimal business performance. To learn how Ventana Research Performance Management workshops, assessments and advisory services can impact your bottom line, visit www.ventanaresearch.com.

Wireless Industry Partnership

The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) is the ‘connector’ for the wireless and mobile industry. We give emerging wireless companies an extra edge in getting products and services to market with our information portal, Go2Market programs and partnerships with wireless organizations and developer programs around the world. Visit us at: www.wipconnector.com

Wireless Workforce Online is the premier online publication for line of business decision makers sourcing information for projects needing mobile handhelds; field service software; mobile notebooks; mobile tablet PCs; or routing, dispatch, and delivery technologies.
http://www.wirelessworkforceonline.com/content/homepage/


Organizational Sponsors 2008

The OGC® is an international industry consortium of more than 335 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.


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