February Think Tank: Location-Based Services

February 23, 2010

When:      Tuesday, February, 23, Networking starts at 7:00 PM.  Program starts at 7:30 PM.
Cost:        FREE
Where:     Seattle University, Wyckoff Auditorium (Bannan Engineering Bldg, Room 200. Networking in the 1st floor foyer). It is located between Lemieux Library and Pigott Auditorium.  If you are having trouble locating the venue, please feel free to ask a student, they usually will be able to point you in the correct direction.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: It is all about location, and not just with real estate. The field of location-based services is growing up. Now that we’ve hit a critical mass of users with GPS-enabled smart phones and as cell phone tracking technology improves, the demand for real-time, dynamic, hyper local information at one’s finger tips is only going to dramatically increase.

Our panelists are building businesses leveraging new ideas with location based services. Join us on February 23rd to hear what and how they are doing. As always it will be an interactive discussion with active audience participation to explore what’s new and what’s next with location based services.

Seating is limited so sign up early, and we will see you there on February 23rd!

MODERATOR:
John Cook, TechFlash
John Cook is co-founder and executive editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s TechFlash. He has been covering the technology beat for nearly a decade, writing about startups, entrepreneurs and venture capital, most recently serving as a reporter/blogger at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

PANELISTS:
Bryan Trussel, CEO and Co-founder of Glympse
Bryan Trussel is the CEO and co-founder of Glympse, a location-based service company that allows you to share your location with anyone for a specified period of time. Before co-founding Glympse, Bryan spent 16 years leading teams at Microsoft, working on a range of products from Windows to Interactive TV and embedded systems to casual games, including creating and launching several V1.O products, like MessengerGames, Windows CE and Xbox Live Arcade. He has a bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Utah and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern. He currently resides in Redmond, Wash. with his wife, four daughters and four-year-old son.

Kevin Foreman, CEO of Point Inside
Kevin Foreman is a high-energy internet, mobile and software executive with 20+ years of successful experience in general management, sales, marketing and business development. Kevin is the CEO of Point Inside, Inc, which develops Indoor Smart Map applications that provide hundreds of indoor maps with tens of thousands of stores and guest services in shopping malls across North America, so that shoppers always know what’s around them. Previously, Kevin led product and business development teams at Bevy, RealNetworks and Avid Technology. Kevin has an undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kevin Nakao, Vice-President of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, Inc.
Kevin leads the team that develops and manages mobile, and business/local search. WhitePages is a Top 40 Website, reaching over 20m unique users per month. The WhitePages for iPhone application has been a Top 10 Free Reference application for over 16 months. Prior to WhitePages, Kevin was VP of Music Services for RealNetworks where he launched Rhapsody Mobile and worked on music and video programs with Cingular, Verizon, & Sprint. He began his wireless career at AT&T Wireless where he was responsible for leading and launching mobile Picture Messaging (MMS) and Instant Messaging services. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in philosophy from Whitman College.

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Parking: Click here to download a map of the SU campus which will help indicate areas for parking. You may not park in the Broadway or Main/Visitor parking, parking passes are required for those areas.

Imagine an audience of creative and intelligent folks, sprinkle in some subject matter experts, shake or stir and watch what happens.

The Northwest Entrepreneur Network regularly hosts free Think Tanks: Evening Knowledge Exchanges that are recognized as the go to forums for new ideas. NWEN Think Tanks are designed to help entrepreneurs become more effective or provide new ideas that may be catalysts for new businesses.

These evening forums provide an opportunity to hear from entrepreneurial and industry experts in a sestting and format that allows for active audience interaction.

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