FortiusOne at Where2.0 & WhereCamp

Where2.0 is early this year, happening just next week in San Jose, California and FortiusOne will again be there in force to demonstrate our successes, build new partnerships and share our thoughts with the rest of the industry.

If you have not attended Where2.0 before, it is the leading edge conference demonstrating the new technologies and applications that are revolutionizing location services, mapping, cartography, and in general changing how we interact with space.

We’re sharing our knowledge by coordinating with two workshops on data and analysis, things we know a lot about. Coincidentally, the tools have now become approachable by non-traditional users and developers through easy to use tools, availability of open data, and collaboration through the web.

In the Geospatial Data Formats workshop we’ll talk about the variety of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured formats that exist, when which formats are appropriate and best used, and how to use tools to convert between them and integrate data into your applications.

For our other workshop on Spatial Analytics, we’ve worked with Peter Skomoroch from LinkedIn is showing how to do large scale spatial and relation analysis using cloud computing and other tools. It is possible to take business data, fused with demographics, realtime feeds, social media, and contextual information to gain better insights on meeting mission goals.

The rest of the Where2.0 conference is full of fascinating applications such as the rise of augmented reality, mobile integration across all aspects of life, and most interestingly the utilization of geospatial technologies to the very edge in developing nations and in citizen-government collaboration. A few of our partners and friends will be presenting throughout the conference on how we’ve worked together to open collaboration and better decision analysis.

Of course, following Where2.0 is the infamous WhereCamp, where for 2-days a large, and close-knit community of neogeographers, hackers, technologists, hobbyists, and others will all gather on Google’s campus to speculate and develop the next generation of Where.

Hope to see you there.