Nokia World 2011: Location industry experts debate "What's real, what's hype and what's coming"

Panel Discussion at Nokia World 2011: http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/ where the location industry experts:

Martin Garner from CCS Insight
Michael Shim from Groupon
Holger Luedorf from Foursquare
Erik Jorgensen from Microsoft
Doug VanDagens from FORD
Dr. Thomas M. Müller from BMW

debate "What's real, what's hype and what's coming".

Nokia World is an annual conference and exhibition devoted to all things Nokia, that took place this year on the 26th and 27th October in London. The two days were packed with captivating talks, inspiring discussions, exciting surprises, fruitful networking. The event offered visitors to experience all new mobile products, services and innovations from Nokia and partners.

Martin has been a mobile analyst since 1991, both at Ovum and CCS Insight. While at Ovum he was Director of Research and also set up the GSMA's Wireless Intelligence, the world's largest and most widely used database of industry stats.

Michael Shim is the Vice President of Mobile Partnerships and Marketing at Groupon. He is responsible for developing the company's partnerships with wireless operators, OEMs, mobile platforms and developers worldwide in addition to overseeing mobile marketing in the U.S.

Holger is VP of Mobile & International for foursquare. He has held positions in internet and mobile services since 1998. Before joining foursquare, Holger worked at Yahoo Mobile as a Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, responsible for all of Yahoo's strategic partnerships with global OEMs. Prior to Yahoo Mobile, Holger worked at T-Mobile International and Red Message. Holger holds a German Diplom in Business and Japanese from Hochschule Bremen and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Erik Jorgensen is corporate vice president for Bing Mobile, which delivers search results, maps, answers, local information and more to mobile devices.

Doug VanDagens is Ford's Global Director for Connected Services Solutions Organization (CSSO). In his current capacity, Mr. VanDagens is responsible for the creation, development and delivery of cloud and mobile device based products and services. CSSO leverages Sync and the customer's brought-in phone to deliver services through products such as AppLink, Traffic, Directions and Personalized Information services (TDI), Emergency Assist and Vehicle Health Report.