The Where 2012 conference started this morning in San Francisco. Even if you weren’t able to make this annual geospatial event, you can still watch the Where 2012 keynotes live on Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4 right here on this page (see below). The keynotes sessions kick off Tuesday morning. All times listed are Pacific.
In the meantime, you can watch videos of two presentations from the 2011 Where Conference. The first is a presentation by Jack Dangermond of Esri entitled, “Living Maps – Making Collective Geographic Information a Reality”. The second is by Genevieve Bell, of Intel Corporation, entitled, “Context is Everything”.
Tuesday morning (April 3) keynote sessions are:
- 9:05am Plenary: A Brave New World: Providing Context For What Is Possible And Probable Charlene Li (Altimeter Group)
- 9:25am Plenary: Designing Fast and Beautiful Maps Eric Gundersen (MapBox)
- 9:35am Plenary: GIS Without the Box Bern Szukalski (Esri), Jeff Archer (Esri, Inc.)
- 9:40am Plenary: Responsive Design–The Future of Mapping Bruce Daniel (Cartifact)
- 9:50am Plenary: Stratocam: Discovering The World’s Best Satellite Imagery Paul Rademacher (Tasty Labs)
- 10:00am Plenary: What the MAC? Toby Boudreaux (Control Group)
- 10:05am Plenary: New Lines on the Horizon Josh Williams (Facebook)
- 10:45am Plenary: When To *Not* Use Maps Noah Iliinsky (Complex Diagrams)
- 11:00am Plenary: Grassroots Mapping Flight Demo Mathew Lippincott (Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science), Stewart Long (Public Laboratory for Open Technology & Science)
- 11:05am Plenary: Location, Context, And Preferences: The Perfect Push Messaging Cocktail Scott Kveton (Urban Airship, Inc.)
- 11:15am Plenary: Dwolla: Ubiquity by Design Ben Milne (Dwolla)
- 11:30am Plenary: Location, Social, and Mobile – The Key Foundations of a Marketplace Model Leah Busque (TaskRabbit)
- 11:40am Plenary: Contagions, Conquest, & Quarantines: Mapping Disease From Venice to Houston Thomas Goetz (Wired Magazine)
Wednesday morning (April 4) Where 2012 keynotes sessions are:
- 9:05am Plenary: News Through Data Jer Thorp (The New York Times)
- 9:20am Plenary: Startup Showcase Winner Demo #1
- 9:25am Plenary: The Microwork Revolution Leila Janah (Samasource)
- 9:35am Plenary: Startup Showcase Winner Demo #2
- 9:40am Plenary: Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface Amber Case (Geoloqi)
- 9:50am Plenary: Startup Showcase Winner Demo #3
- 9:55am Plenary: Gaming Reality Will Wright (Stupid Fun Club)
- 10:45am Plenary: Ultramapping: The New Geospatial Awareness Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale)
- 10:55am Plenary: Insights Through Shared Space Mary Ann de Lares Norris (Oblong Industries, Inc.)
- 11:10am Plenary: Why Your Where Is Not Theirs Robert Munro (Ibidon)
- 11:20am Plenary: Inbound Marketing Local Businesses on the Web Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz)
- 11:30am Plenary: How LBS Is Used To Build Egypt 2.0 Adel Youssef (Wireless Stars Inc.)
- 11:40am Plenary: Ingredients of a Modern Mapping Service Brian McClendon (Google)
Live Streaming: Where 2012 Keynote Sessions
Watch below to view the live streaming of all of the keynote sessions listed above.