BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:All a matter of timing - starting-up a location-tracking company i
 n Cambridge - Dr. Andy Ward  CTO and Founder Ubisense
DTSTART:20131219T183000Z
DTEND:20131219T200000Z
UID:TALK49061@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Ubisense is a Cambridge-based company started in 2002 which pr
 ovides in-building location tracking systems to a range of markets\, inclu
 ding manufacturing\, military and transit. I'll talk about some of the tec
 hnical and commercial background to Ubisense\, the highs and lows of setti
 ng up and growing a high-tech company\, and how the technology is being us
 ed by customers today. I'll also look at how in-building location may beco
 me more prevalent in our daily lives in the near future.\n\nAndy is a foun
 der of Ubisense and an experienced location systems engineer\, having desi
 gned\, built and worked with in-building location systems for over 15 year
 s.  He led the ‘Location Technology’ project at AT&T Laboratories Camb
 ridge\, and over the past ten years has been granted eleven patents based 
 on his work on location systems.  Andy holds an MA in Computer Science and
  a PhD in ‘Sensor-Driven Computing’ from the University of Cambridge\,
  and is a Chartered Engineer.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engineering Departmen
 t\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR