The Trend Towards Map Self Reliance in an Era of Monopoly

The Trend Towards Map Self Reliance in an Era of Monopoly Power

Speakers
- J. Kim Fennell, Former CEO deCarta, Uber Maps Business Leader and Angel Investor
- Gaurav Bubna, Co-founder of NextBillion.ai

Crafting maps is easy. Crafting it skillfully and successfully so that it explodes your company’s ROI is very hard. Geospatial industry expert J. Kim Fennell weighs the evidence and extols past learnings about the location tech space and the future of map-making to help companies overcome challenges and become self-reliant to get the best map solution for their particular needs.

In this webinar you will learn about:
Build vs Buy — How to weigh the trade-offs
Learnings from “build it” approach (Apple, Uber and other companies)
Google Maps price hike and its massive downstream impact on businesses
OpenStreetMap — potential and pitfalls and where it’s going
Most exciting startups to watch out for that are disrupting the mapping industry