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Felix Petersen
Co-Founder, Plazes.com

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Felix Petersen is co-founder of plazes.com, one of the pioneering start-ups in the context and location based services area. Founded in 2006 it has recently been sold to Nokia. Petersen is now Head of Product Management in the newly formed “Social Activities” team at Nokia.

Plazes has been written and talked about up and down the media landscape and its investors and developer community included some of the brightest minds in the space. Petersen has had numerous appearances in publications like Wired, the New York Times and many others as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences.

Born and raised in Berlin, Petersen has been busy with remote data transmissions since the late eighties and has been building things on the Internet since 1996. He currently lives with his lovely wife and daughter in Berlin and enjoys things like food, cooking, media hacking and robotics. If for some reason you feel like finding out more, go to: http://plazes.com/whereis/felixpetersen.

Sessions

13:30 Thursday, 23-10-2008
Felix Petersen (Plazes.com)
Location based Services have entered the mainstream. Personal Navigation Devices in cars are ubiquitous and personal navigation on the phone is already a big business. Nokia alone is going to have over a hundred million GPS enabled devices across the whole product range in the market by 2010, challenges like battery live and slow positioning technology have been solved to a satisfying extent. Read more.