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Following is an exclusive podcast with Brady Forest, Chair for O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference, which is taking place March 31 through April 1 in San Jose, CA. For those of you not familiar with Where 2.0 it is the premier event for grassroots and leading edge developers building location-aware technology to gather with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. Don’t miss out on this event!

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The Where 2.0 conference program is almost complete. The focus is on the tech industry’s advances in Mapping, Mobile and Local. Each of these areas are being treated equally and each will have its own afternoon track. Coming back this year we have great speakers such as John Hanke (Google), Jack Dangermond (ESRI), Ryan Sarver (Twitter), Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land) and Dennis Crowley (Foursquare). Maps have moved from flat and static creations to rich representations of the world. And now maps are moving to realtime. The idea of constantly-updated community maps are now the norm and the modifications are constant. The base data of the map you are looking at could have been updated in the past couple of days in time those updates will be instantaneous. Read the full O’Reilly Radar post from Brady Forrest here.

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Location is everything in this day and age. So, much so that USGIF has partnered with O’Reilly Media to cross promote both GEOINT 2010 and the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. We are also excited to announce that early registration has opened for the Where 2.0 Conference. And, you don’t want to miss out! Where 2.0 is one of the world’s foremost events dedicated to exploring the emerging technologies in the geospatial industry. At Where 2.0, you will be expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and examine new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them. Click here to register! And, if you register now and use the code whr10usg you will receive a 15 percent discount. Don’t miss out!

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