A short history of the GeoIT Wherecamp Conferences

An overview about all wherecamps worldwide is available via http://wherecamp.org/ started in 2007 in Sunnyvale.

The GeoIT WhereCamp Conference is a premier conference focusing on the latest trends and insights around digital mapping, navigation and local intelligence within the GeoIT domain since the foundation in 2012 by Philipp Kandal, Jan Nowak and Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner after a meeting at the second O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco in spring 2012 and the second Wherecamp after Stanford in 2011 in San Francisco.

10th Wherecamp 2023

Thursday, 30th November 2023, Berlin, BHT-Berlin, Beuth Halle

Call for Participation released.

9th Wherecamp Conference 2019

Event page: http://wherecamp2019.geoit.org

8th Wherecamp Conference 2018

Event page: http://wherecamp2018.geoit.org

7th Wherecamp Conference 2017

Event page: http://wherecamp2017.geoit.org

6th Wherecamp Conference 2016

Event Page: http://wherecamp2016.tumblr.com/

Blog Backup: http://wherecamp2016.geoit.org/6thWherecamp-2016-blog.html

Agenda Backup: http://wherecamp2016.geoit.org/6thWherecamp-2016-agenda.html

Cfp Backup: http://wherecamp2016.geoit.org/6thWherecamp-2016-cfp.html

The 6^th edition of the GeoIT Wherecamp 2016 was created by more than 350 participants, 65 speakers, 53 program committee members, 18 sponsors, 8 galileo hackathon team members and 7 organizers and opend by Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner, President of the Association for Geoinformatics, GeoIT and Navigation e.V.

This yearly meeting created more and more a new community which was framed by the association. After 2016 the GeoIT Wherecamp conference is the yearly meeting of the association.

“GeoIT Originals” opens the conference in a panel with a moderator, like in 2016 with Simon Poole / OpenStreetMap Foundation, Dr. Volker Sasse /Speaker Open AutoDrive Forum, Vice President of Navinfo, Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner / Association for Geoinformatics, GeoIT and Navigation, Conference Chair, Nicholas Goubert / Sen. Director Product Management HERE Open Location Platform HERE, and Gary Gale /Geotechnologist and Neogeographer (from left to right).

This impression video gives a feeling about the conference in 2016:

The GeoIT Wherecamp 2015 Opening Panel joined up “GeoIT Originals” from former Startups, Open Data / OpenStreetMap founder up to todays industrial commercial GeoIT players like Telenav, HERE and Google. Philipp Kandal / Navigon-Skobber-Telenav, Steve Coast / OpenStreetMap Founder, Roland Wagner, Christof Hellmis / Gate5-Nokia=Maps-HERE and Ed Parsons / Autodesk-Ordnance Survey-Google:

Some editions were extended by a third day, e.g. the Wherecamp 2016 with the 1st Galileo Hackathon…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pnxXY-zWOI&t=5s

…or the Wherecamp 2015 with a wearable Hackathon and winners:

5th Wherecamp 2015

Event Page: http://wherecamp2015.tumblr.com/

Blog Backup: http://wherecamp2015.geoit.org/5thWherecamp-2015-blog.html

Agenda Backup: http://wherecamp2015.geoit.org/5thWherecamp-2015-agenda.html

Hackathon Backup: http://wherecamp2015.geoit.org/5thWherecamp-2015-hack-the-wearable.html

4th Wherecamp 2014

Event Page: http://2014wherecamp.tumblr.com/

Blog Backup: http://wherecamp2014.geoit.org/4thWherecamp-2014-blog.html

Agenda1 Backup: http://wherecamp2014.geoit.org/4thWherecamp-2014-agenda1.html

Agenda2 Backup: http://wherecamp2014.geoit.org/4thWherecamp-2014-agenda2.html

Agenda3 Backup: http://wherecamp2014.geoit.org/4thWherecamp-2014-agenda3.html

Poster for the Wherecamp 2014 edition:

3rd Wherecamp 2013

Event Page: http://2013wherecamp.tumblr.com/

Blog backup: http://wherecamp2013.geoit.org/3rdWherecamp-2013-blog.html

Agenda backup: http://wherecamp2013.geoit.org/3rdWherecamp-2013-agenda.html

2nd Wherecamp 2012 Winter Edition

Event Page: http://winter2012whereberlin.tumblr.com/

Blog on Backup: http://wherecamp2012-2.geoit.org/2ndWherecamp-Winter2012-blog.html

Agenda on Backup: http://wherecamp2012-2.geoit.org/2ndWherecamp-Winter2012-agenda.html

1st Wherecamp 2012 Sommer Edition

Event Page: http://summer2012whereberlin.tumblr.com/

Blog on Backup Page: http://wherecamp2012-1.geoit.org/1stWherecamp-Summer2012-blog.html

Agenda on Backup Page: http://wherecamp2012-1.geoit.org/1stWherecamp-Summer2012-agenda.html