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Wed Mar 7 2012, 3:15pm

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Geoloqi at SXSW 2012 – Dinosaur USB Drives, Keynote Speech, Partnership Announcements and More!

Hang out with us at SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, TX!Will you be at SXSW this year? We’re looking forward to seeing you there! There’s a lot to talk about. Look for a big announcement from us from the main stage of the conference on the 11th of March!

First thing’s first: Dinosaur USB Drives!

We’ll be handing out 400 Dinosaur USB drives with the Geoloqi SDKs for iPhone and Android on them. If you see any of us at a party or at the conference, ask us for one!

Meet the Geoloqi Team at SXSW!

Half the Geoloqi team will be with us at SXSW! If you see any of us, ask for a Loqisaur USB drive, or talk to us about location. We’re all quite friendly!

Amber Case, Co-Founder and CEO

@caseorganic - Co-founder, Geoloqi.comI’ll be giving a keynote speech at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas! I’ll be doing an extended version of a talk on cyborg anthropology and the future of the interface, and will then go into what we’ve been doing at Geoloqi, and well as some major partnership announcements.

If you’re interested in the future of humans and technology, and the future of location, it should be an interesting speech! Lots of new things to talk about. Hope to see you there!

When and Where?
Keynote on Location and the Future of Humans and Technology
March 11th, 2012 from 2:00pm–3:00pm CST
Exhibit Hall 5, Austin Convention Center
You can learn more about the speech here.

Interested in meeting up during SXSW? I’ll be on Twitter @caseorganic. Feel free to @ or DM me anytime, or if you’re press, see the press contact below!

Aaron Parecki, Co-Founder and Platform Engineer

@aaronpk, Co-founder, GeoloqiAaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor. For the past 2½ years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location every 6 seconds, making him a frequent presenter at the Portland data visualization group. His fascination with location sharing and GPS began at the age of 6, when he traced the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter.

He combined these interests and created Geoloqi.com, a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location sharing with Amber Case in an effort to help people connect in the real world. He has 11 years experience in web app development, database design, graphic design and printing, and server administration.

Aaron will be speaking on a panel on Engineering Serendipity to Instigate and Delight!

When and Where?
Engineering Serendipity to Instigate and Delight
Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 5:00PM – 6:00PM
Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon J
You can learn more about Aaron’s panel here!.

Bernie Albers, VP of Sales

@berniealbers - VP Sales at Geoloqi!As Vice President of Sales, Bernie brings more than a decade of experience working with enterprise marketers to leverage the power of technology and digital media to create and maintain meaningful relationships with customers. He excels at translating the needs of enterprise marketers into successful revenue strategies for early and mid-stage technology and media organizations.

Before joining Geoloqi, Bernie served as Regional VP Sales for thismoment where he brought to market DEC 3.0, an innovative Social Content Management System enabling brand marketers to effectively manage audience engagement across mutliple social channels. Prior to thismoment, Bernie served as Vice President of Sales for Six Apart where he was responsible for optimizing the sales organization toward a media-centric growth strategy. He was responsible for building the sales team and managing the go-to-market strategy and rollout of a new suite of media solutions. Six Apart was acquired by ad network VideoEgg resulting in the formation of SAY Media.

You can find Bernie Albers on Twitter @berniealbers! He’s your best bet for anything sales related.

Kyle Drake, Platform Engineer

@kyledrake - Platform Engineer, GeoloqiKyle Drake is a many-hats web developer and entrepreneur that speaks multiple languages, and has worked with numerous startups to build their infrastructure. As a software engineer for Geoloqi, he is helping to build their geolocation platform and real-time location-streaming API. He previously developed some of the top Facebook applications as a senior Facebook app developer for Dachis Group.

In his free time, Kyle likes writing more code, working on web site ideas, riding his bicycle around Portland, hiking in the mountains, skiing, reading anthropology and tech books, and he’s fairly good at playing the Star Trek pinball machine at Ground Kontrol.

You can find Kyle Drake on Twitter @kyledrake and on Github.

Sound Good?

We’re really excited for this year’s conference and are looking forward to all of the breakfast tacos, events and great people. See you soon!

If you are press attending SXSW Interactive and would like to schedule an interview, contact
Jennifer Lankford
theMIX agency for Geoloqi
415-412-2856
[email protected].