The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase, a media-only showcase of the latest travel tech products, apps and services takes place today in San Francisco. It is open only to international travel reporters and San Francisco and Silicon Valley's technology, feature, business and broadcast media, but everyone else will be reading, hearing and watching stories about it soon, including our own video podcast, here, on YouTube and on iTunes.

"We realized that there are plenty of technology trade shows that cater to tech media, but none bring the wealth of products and innovative technologies to travel press, said Pat Meier-Johnson, of Pat Meier Associates Public Relations, co-producer of The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase. "The travel press includes a large audience of reporters who don't go to tech trade shows but who are always in search of information that can improve their readers' travel experience," she added.

Notebooks, tablets, apps, GPS devices, cameras, mobile storage, and cloud-based solutions, are becoming an integral part of most road warriors' lives. "In addition to the necessities, there are many products that make traveling safer, more enjoyable and create smarter travelers," " said Russell Johnson, photographer, broadcaster, filmmaker and connectedtraveler.com Publisher and Editor.

Sponsors include: GE Digital Cameras, Gogobot, GoSmart, HP, INRIX Traffic, Ken Kobré Photography-The Lightscoop, Line2, Liquid Image, Mobile Monitor Technologies, Proposal Software, Schedulicity, SpotWorld, SugarSync, TeleNav, Traxxit Technologies, Verizon Wireless, Visual Travel Tours, VIA, and Western Digital.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is a tabletop demo event based on 20+ years of similar successful media events and product showcases, during Siggraph, and E3 and Lunch at Piero's during COMDEX and CES.

Watch this space for our video podcasts.