Wavefront Presents NAVTEQ Breakfast Seminar:
“How to Drive Development and Visibility of Your Innovative Location Based Apps”

 

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM (MDT)
Location: Sheraton Cavalier Calgary Hotel, Sheraton East Room, 2620 32 Ave NE, Calgary, AB [MAP]
Cost: Free. Pre-registration is required, as seating is limited.

 

SUMMARY

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Tom Tierney, Developer Alliance Manager at NAVTEQ describe how mobile developers are creating memorable and creative location based apps utilizing rich maps, slick tools, location-relevant content and an impressive library of APIs well-suited for mobile advertising, traffic, weather and pedestrian solutions. Tierney will preview these great LBS resources available with NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D), the global community for all your location app needs, at Wavefront’s free breakfast seminar on Sept 16th in Calgary. Find out why developers are joining NN4D, what product offerings will enrich your location/mapping development efforts and explore the benefits of participating in the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® – the premier competition for innovative location developers running their apps on the web, and mobile and wireless devices. James Maynard, President of Wavefront, will present how Alberta mobile LBS developers can take advantage of Wavefront’s WaveGuide™ training, advisory and remote testing services. Lastly, John Carpenter, CTO of Mob4Hire, will explain how testing and deploying LBS apps differs versus standard mobile apps and requires a whole new approach. Please also let us know if you would like to set-up a one-on-one engagement meeting with NAVTEQ when you register.

 

AGENDA

• 08:00 – 08:30 AM    Continental Breakfast and Networking
• 08:30 – 08:45 AM     Welcome and Intro to Wavefront
• 08:45 – 10:15 AM     NAVTEQ presentation
• NN4D Overview
• NAVTEQ Product Offerings
• Developer Showcase
• 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge
  
• 10:15 – 10:30 AM     Mob4Hire - LBS Testing

 

 

ABOUT NAVTEQ

NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world. NAVTEQ supplies comprehensive digital map information to power automotive navigation systems, portable and wireless devices, Internet-based mapping applications and government and business solutions. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 4,400 employees located in 192 offices and in 43 countries.

 

ABOUT WAVEFRONT

Wavefront is the community-based commercialization center accelerating the growth of wireless and new media development companies. Wavefront improves speed-to-market and delivery of mobile applications and devices by providing emerging companies with a suite of WaveGuide™ training, mobile industry advisory, incubation and testing and accreditation services that facilitate commercial engagement with mobile network operators and enterprise companies around the world.

 

ABOUT MOB4HIRE

With 14,000 handsets on 321 operators in 105 countries worldwide, Mob4Hire (http://www.mob4hire.com) is the leader in real world; crowd sourced, mobile application functional and usability testing as well as product and market research. Using Web 2.0 social networking, Mob4Hire significantly reduces mobile application testing costs and reduces time to market by connecting developers with eager, lower priced, crowd sourced testers and focus groups. Mob4Hire also provides their unique micro-payment crowd-sourced MAAP technology (Mob4Hire as a Platform) to developer networks and app stores such as O2 Litmus to allow for private labeled communities to be added to existing Carrier and Handset Manufacturer enterprise systems. Founded in 2007, Mob4Hire was recently chosen as a finalist the Red Herring 100 and were finalists in GSMA Barcelona for both the GSMA Top Innovator Award (European) and Mobile Monday Peer Awards, placing second. Other recent accolades include an Under the Radar Audience Choice Award, as well as being chosen as one of Backbone Magazine's top 20 Web 2.0 firms. Mob4Hire is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with offices in Victoria, British Columbia, and London, U.K.