Peter Batty - Location-based social networking

Peter is widely seen as an industry leader in the rapidly growing field of geospatial and location technologies. He has served as CTO at two of the industry's leading companies as well as a cutting edge startup:

• CTO of Intergraph, the second largest geospatial software company with revenues of ~$600m (2005-2007)
• Co-founder and CTO of Ten Sails, now Ubisense, an industry leading startup in precision location tracking systems using ultrawideband (UWB) technology (2002-2005)
• VP of technology at Smallworld (now part of GE Energy), which grew from startup to global market leader in GIS for utilities and communications during the 1990s (1992-2002)

He has been a member of the GeoWorld magazine Editorial Advisory Board since 1996, has published many articles and spoken at many conferences around the world, and has received a record nine speaker awards from GITA(the Geospatial Information and Technology Association), for presentations at their North American and Australian conferences. He has been involved with industry standards efforts including the Open GIS Consortium and IEC TC57 Working Group 14, and is currently a member of the Board of GITA. Peter also worked in the geospatial field with IBM.

He has a Masters degree in computer science from Oxford University, finishing top of his year, and a BA in Mathematics, also from Oxford.

Kanwar Chadha - LBS and the Mobile Enterprise

Kanwar Chadha is responsible for establishing the company’s vision, corporate strategies and strategic alliances. He has over 20 years of experience in various marketing and management positions. Prior to founding SiRF, he served as General Manager of the multimedia group and Director of Strategic Marketing at S3 Inc. where he led the development of innovative audio and video processing technologies. Before joining S3, Kanwar was the Chairman and co-founder of AQuesT, Inc., a developer of multimedia and 3D graphics acceleration products. From 1983 to 1989, he was at Intel in various product-marketing positions including Product Line Manager for the i860 RISC processor and floating point coprocessors 8087/287/387.

Kanwar holds a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; an MS in CIS from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Dennis Wuthrich

Dennis Wuthrich is CEO of Farallon Geographics, a San Francisco-based geospatial systems integration company. Dennis has over 20 years of experience in designing and developing geospatial solutions for local, regional, state, and national governments. His expertise encompasses the use of traditional GIS, spatially enabled databases, and Open Source geospatial technologies to improve the responsiveness of government