Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence 2011

Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence 2011 is North America's first location intelligence conference to address the needs of and challenges faced by companies selling to enterprise. More than 80% of business data now has an associated address or region that means that location is big business. Location Intelligence is a concept that is rocketing, and becoming a key component in how companies make more informed and profitable business decisions.

However, one essential issue remains: what is the most effective strategy for companies to monetize location intelligence. This event will try to give answers to this crucial question.

Key themes of the Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence 2011 include:

• Monetize location intelligence for enterprise and explore new business models: Analyze how working business models are seeing an ROI, and take away best practices to apply to your company
• Overcome marketing barriers: Hear about the latest ways to overcome the problems of marketing location intelligence to enterprise
• Innovative ways to maximize the value created by mobile and sensor based data information: How to integrate the mashup of data and business intelligence using the latest network technologies that can recognize, filter, analyze and route geospatial information to users
• Migration of GIS platforms from desktop to online: Analyze the implications of the shift from desktop software to web platforms and understand how the industry will be impacted by power shifts between the major players
• Security, privacy, data ownership and control: Hear the legal, infrastructure and business perspectives on how to reduce risk whilst delivering the maximum possible value to users in the enterprise space
• Aggregating, integrating and analyzing data: Get insider insight into data harmonization and maximize your communications to enable cost effective data analysis

Data Standards, Aggregation and Sharing: Achieving Efficiency Gains & Trimming Analysis Costs

Jean-Sébastien Turcotte, Executive Vice President and CTO at Korem, will be a speaker in the panel : Data Standards, Aggregation and Sharing: Achieving Efficiency Gains & Trimming Analysis Costs.

This panel will present expert insights into data harmonization that will help you maximize your communications to achieve cost-effective data analysis and sharing.

• Examine best practices in data maintenance, storage and cleansing to exploit the latest techniques
• Discuss how standardization and harmonization will benefit the enterprise realm communicating geospatial data.
• Effectively manage the transition of spatial and non-spatial data into multi-platform enablers
• Hear how to synergize and efficiently deal with the data produced by crowd-sourcing and volunteer networks
• With so much VGI, UGC and crowd sourced data now widely available, does it matter if we all have access to the same information. How much longer will there be a dependence on operators to provide this information

Jean-Sébastien Turcotte has more than twelve years of experience in the Information Technologies (IT) industry, seven of which in project management. He joined Korem in February 2001 as technological development director after working for Ville de Laval, Bombardier Aéronautique and Hyperchip. He currently holds the position of EVP and CTO at Korem. His main responsibilities are the management of geomatics and Web development teams and of all major development projects. He graduated from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.