WCA LBS SIG presents: Locationpolooza! Hyperlocal, Social Apps, and Emergency Alerts

July 27th 2010 -- 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Registration & Networking starts 3:30pm, Event from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto CA

The WCA's Location Based Services Special Interest Group has reached its 3rd Anniversary! To celebrate, we are bringing back our most popular event where the "best and brightest" location applications show off why you should be so excited about downloading them. This year we will be organized around three broad categories:

• Location-Based Advertising - Specifically focusing on "hyper-local" ads
• Social Apps - How is location helping you stay in-touch with friends, family and even your favorite brands?
• Emergency Notification - What are the trends in providing targeted information about important situations?

Presenters:
-- Skout - Christian Wiklund, CEO
-- Geodelic - Brendan Kenney, New Business Development Manager
-- MotiveCast – Leo Jolicoeur, CEO
-- CiviGuard – Shawna Pandya, CMO
-- ZOS – Jonathon Delong, VP of Business Development
-- Placecast (INVITED)
-- Shopkick (INVITED)

This annual event has always been a high-energy, fast-paced affair with lots of interesting new approaches to location-based services. Don’t miss it!

Early-bird: $10 before 23-July-2010 Late-reg: $15 before 26-July-2010 At-the-door: $20 (Cash-only please)

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July 21st 2010

Geo-Loco Conference
Advertising, Social Media and Discovery
Venue: San Francisco CA

Geo-Loco is happening in 1 week! Don't miss what could be the most important Geo-Loco conference this year! Geo-Loco is happening July 21st at the beautiful Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Go to the event website for a detailed agenda.

Geo-Loco is where global brand marketers, investors, visionary agency leaders, carriers, infrastructure and application innovators and local GeoLoco geeks converge.

In a series of high-impact sessions, thought leaders will uncover what's hot, what's not, and how to leverage the intense innovation and invention that's happening around Geo-Loco today.

The WCA has negotiated discount conference passes to Geo-Loco. Register now and use code wca50 to receive a half-price pass. Use discount code wca50 and Geo-Loco will make a contribution to Cell Phones for Soliders in your name.

If you know of a company that would like to sponsor Geo-Loco or be in the Demo Pit, contact Matt Weeks at matthew.c.weeks@gmail.com right away, as there are still a few final slots available.

August 10th - 11th 2010

Smart Grid Cyber Security Summit
Venue: Wyndham Hotel, San Jose CA

Grid Security is a topic that is on the minds of all US utilities firms, as well as the solutions vendors and component manufacturers that are supporting the unprecedented deployment of smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure. Grid Security is a topic that many feel requires a deep and comprehensive discussion.

This inaugural conference, led by an influential group of security experts and industry thought leaders, is designed to confront the challenges that face developers of the electric grid infrastructure of the future, to ensure resilience in the face of attacks, existing and unknown.

Designed to offer robust dialogue, discussion, industry exchange and peer-group interaction, the Smart Grid Cyber Security Summit offers an immersive informational experience focused specifically on cyber security and the smart grid.

The WCA is sponsoring this summit and has arranged a special discount rate of $645 -- which is $200 off the lowest Individual Registration price tier! Register using this link to obtain the WCA discount rate.

October 25th - 28th 2010

Mobicase 2010 - The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services
Venue: Biltmore Hotel & Suites, Santa Clara CA

Years of research efforts in mobile computing have brought us tremendous knowledge and experience in this broad domain, as well as many hardware/software platforms, frameworks, libraries and toolkits. We believe that an ultimate goal of mobile computing is to build useful applications and services that meet people's needs. Built upon its inaugural success in 2009, MobiCASE 2010, The Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Application, and Services, continues to provide great opportunities to researchers and practitioners, from both the academia and industry, to present and discuss their work on mobile applications and service provisioning.

This inaugural conference, led by an influential group of security experts and industry thought leaders, is designed to confront the challenges that face developers of the electric grid infrastructure of the future, to ensure resilience in the face of attacks, existing and unknown.

Designed to offer robust dialogue, discussion, industry exchange and peer-group interaction, the Smart Grid Cyber Security Summit offers an immersive informational experience focused specifically on cyber security and the smart grid.

Open call for papers
Open call for demos and posters
Workshop on Mobile Security: Open call for papers
Workshop on Mobile Software Engineering: Open call for papers

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