Unlike outdoors, where GPS has dominated the positioning market, the challenges of the noisy indoor environment and a large number of diverse use cases have led to a shared technological space. The need for high availability and accuracy usually needs to be traded off with the need for detailed surveys, floorplans, or expensive infrastructure deployment.
Join us for a one day event focused on indoor navigation, to feature expert-led talks and a rapid-fire series of “bullet presentations” that spotlight innovative solutions and real-world applications. Whether you're developing, deploying, or simply curious about indoor positioning, this event promises to inform, inspire, and connect.
This event is kindly hosted in the beautiful Queens College, University of Cambridge.
Employees of Cambridge Wireless member organisations can attend for free
Members of the Royal Insitute of Navigation and those working for a UK University can attend this event for free, to claim your free delegate place please email Clare Kettle.
Tickets for non-members are £50 plus VAT.
Sponsorship & Display table available for this event.
We have limited sponsorship and display table opportunities available for this event so if you are interested in maximising your organisation’s profile, please contact Clare Kettle for further information.
Short speaking slots available at this event
As part of the agenda we have a series of short elevators style pitches available to discuss relevant tech related to this event topic. These talks will be 2 minutes in length and are open to all, but priority will be given to CW members. If you are interested in contributing please email Clare Kettle, as we are keen to include as many as possible from our community.
Speakers to be announced shortly
Location SIG Champions
David Bartlett
Until recently, David worked in the positioning technology (R&D) group at u-blox with a focus on hybrid positioning: bringing together GNSS with terrestrial systems such as UWB and V2X, primarily in support of future autonomous vehicle, driverless car and robotics applications but also for IoT and indoor positioning. Prior to this he was CTO and co-founder of Omnisense delivering high precision indoor IoT tracking solutions. He also worked at Cambridge Positioning systems with a focus on cellular positioning and network aided GNSS techniques.
Bob Cockshott
After 25 years in the space industry working mainly on electro-optical payloads, Bob has spent the last 13 years in the government-funded Knowledge Transfer Network, supporting business in position, navigation and timing, and more recently also quantum technology. Bob has taken a special interest in GNSS vulnerability, and has organised international conferences on vulnerability and its mitigation. Bob is a member of the Cabinet Office PNT Technical Group and chairs the Royal Institute of Navigation’s Technical Committee. Bob is a member of the International Time and Sync Forum Steering Group and is also a Cambridge Wireless Location Based Services SIG Champion.
Dr Ramsey Faragher
Dr Ramsey Faragher is the Founder, and former President and CTO of Focal Point Positioning, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Fellow of Queens' College, at the University of Cambridge. He is the inventor of the Supercorrelation digital signal processing technique, which has redefined the state of the art in GPS positioning. He is the author of dozens of patents, and has been the recipient of numerous awards within the positioning and navigation ecosystem. His company is pioneering improvements to smartphone and automotive navigation systems, and in the past during his time in the Defence sector he has developed technologies that have been to the bottom of the ocean and all the way to Mars. He also helped to improve the bluetooth tracking capabilities of various globally-deployed contact tracing technologies during the Covid pandemic. He regularly contributes to technology podcasts, writes for Forbes, and has provided science advice for two television production companies. Ramsey lives with his family in Cambridge and is currently navigating the challenging landscape of having three small and adventurous children.
Ben Tarlow
Ben has worked in positioning for 15 years, developing algorithms for satellite, cellular and other terrestrial RF technologies. At Qualcomm, Ben works in the Advanced Algorithms group, where current research areas in location are data fusion, use of sensor data for positioning and fitness applications; one day, he hopes to be given the remit to explore the area of olfactory positioning. Ben has a background in Pure Mathematics and a PhD in Combinatorics. He has over 20 different patents filed or granted, mostly on subjects relating to positioning.
