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 6th 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
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 6th 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 Galielo 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
Blog and Backup Page as PDF: https://geoit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2012-1stWherecamp-Agenda-Blogs.pdf