Nestoria sponsors Best Elevator Pitch State of the Map 2010
We are sponsoring the annual State of the Map (SOTM) conference this weekend. In fact, we have been a State of the Map sponsor for 4 years already. The location chosen for the conference this year is Girona, Spain.
The Open Street Map community is growing stronger every year so congrats to the Arjan, Henk and all the organizers. Especially impressive has been the large number of sponsors they have organized, many of whom are the leading names in internet and technology. We are particularly proud to have supported it from the beginning.
OSM is definitely in the radar of a myriad of small companies and large corporations now. The new ecosystem is burgeoning with new approaches to the challenges of making money for anything free and geo. Nestoria advocates for the commercial use of OSM data (see video of Ed Freyfogle's presentation at the SOTM08). We aim to keep supporting it by sponsoring also the Elevator Pitch, a session at the end of the Business day. Chaired by Steve Feldman of KnowWhere Consulting, the panel session has the evocative name 'Cocktails in the Titanic'. It will be followed by 60 second elevator pitch of a few companies. Each pitch will be voted and during the drinks networking party Nestoria will present a commemorative gift to the winner.
