O'Reilly has published a list of speakers for its second annual conference on global information service (GIS) and location-aware technology. The “Where 2.0” conference is set for June 13-14, 2006, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., and will include several presentations on location-aware devices.

Featured Where 2.0 speakers include:

• Steve Coast, a London-based freelance hacker, will discuss the development of OpenStreetMap, an editable wiki map that lets users submit GPS trace data and use landsat satellite imagery to collaboratively create maps under a Creative Commons license
• Di-Ann Eisnor, co-founder and CEO of Platial, will discuss building a collaborative geography that bridges people, neighborhoods, and nations, enabling people to move beyond static geopolitical boundaries by adding and sharing their favorite places and making maps of what really matters to them.
• Mike Liebhold, senior researcher from Institute of the Future, will present his vision of a geospatial web inhabited by spatially tagged hypermedia as well as digital map geodata layered on every centimeter of a place and attached to every physical thing, visible and useful, in context, on low-cost, easy-to-use mobile devices.
• Jed Rice, Skyhook Wireless evangelist and VP, examines Loki a location-based internet search and navigation application that uses Skyhook's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) to automatically incorporate a user's current physical location into their internet session.
• Raj Singh from the Open Geospatial Consortium describes OGC's vision of how government and commercial databases, dynamically sensed information (environmental monitoring devices, security cameras, etc.), and personal repositories (travel journals, GPS logs, etc.) will weave together in the future to create the Geospatial Web.
• Chris Spurgeon, lifelong history of science junkie and public broadcasting's “Invention Guy,” posits that innovation in the location-related fields is nothing new and explores some of the cleverest, most brilliant geo hacks ever created in the last 3,000 years.

The Where 2.0 conference will be co-chared by Nathan Torkington and Brady Forrest. A complete speaker list can be found here. More details about the event can be found on the Where website, here.

 
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