GPS World Leadership Dinner and Race to Market
Invited guests at the annual GPS World Leadership Dinner, a special event held September 11 during ION GNSS+ in Tampa, Florida, heard perspectives from sponsors Lockheed Martin, Exelis, Raytheon, and Braxton Technologies, as well as visions of GNSS progress from our four award winners.
Leadership Awards were given to Javier Benedicto Ruiz, Galileo Project Manager, European Space Agency (Satellites category); Sherman Lo, senior research engineer and associate investigator (APNT), Stanford University (Signals category); Eric Gakstatter, contributing editor for survey and GIS, GPS World (Services category); and Oliver Montenbruck, head of GNSS Technology and Navigation Group, DLR, German Space Operations Center (Products category).
Over dessert, each table rose to the challenge of creating a phenomenal GNSS product or service and then competed in car races at the track.
More coverage of the awards will appear in the December issue.
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- The Dinner and Awards Ceremony was attended by 150 VIPs from industry, government, and research: top-level GNSS networking.
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- The 2014 leadership awards, determined by a poll of 40 industry professionals, await the start of the ceremony.
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- Eric Gakstatter (right) congratulates Todd Humphreys on a successful lap as Peter Grognard (center) looks on. At left are GPS World’s Kevin Stoltman and Tony Murfin. Photo: ION GNSS+
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- One lucky/skillful team with the highest combined product launch and race score took home trophies. Photo: ION GNSS+
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- Teams competed at the races, with a driver and pit crews to get cars quickly back on the track after spinouts. Photo: ION GNSS+
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- Victory at the finish line after a wild 20 seconds, as 14 teams competed in a double-elimination tourney — 23 races in all! Photo: ION GNSS+
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- The track pits two cars driven by two teams against each other in a double-elimination tourney. Photo: ION GNSS+
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