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Conference Procedings, Tuesday 17 July

Plenary
New Technologies – disruptive or enabling?
Organised by Advisory Board member from the Pacific
Chair: Brendan Boyle, Chief Executive, Land Information New Zealand
 
 
Transform Your Business with the Connected Site
 
LaVonne Frazier, Engineering and Construction, Trimble
 
Our Geospatial Future
 
Michael Jones, Chief Technology Officer,
Google Earth
Geospatial Futurology
 
Robin Mannings, Research Foresight Manager, British Telecommunications plc
 
Plenary
Risk and disasters
Organised by Advisory Board members from Asia
Chair: Dr Abdul Kadir bin Taib, Deputy Director General, Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia
Disaster measures applying survey and mapping technologies
Mr Satoshi Fujiwara, Head of International Affairs Office, Geographical Survey Institute of Japan
Malaysian Geodetic Infrastructure’s Role in Disaster Risk Management and Awareness
David Chang Leng Hua, Principal Assistant Director of Survey, Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia
Data Preparedness for Effective Disaster Response
Suha Ulgen
Technical Coordinator
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Disaster situation mapping
 
David Spackman OBE, Chief Executive, MapAction
Questions & answers
 
Workshops
Partnering
Where are you on the ‘Partnership roadmap’? Key issues and challenges in adopting the Partnership Business Model.
Chair:John Cartledge, Partner Sales Manager, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Contributor:
Crawford McIlveen, Commercial Manager, Ordnance Survey of  Northern Ireland
 Presentations:
Mapping for disaster response
A simulation exploring partnerships between national and international mapping/GIS agencies in disaster response
(Repeated on Wednesday 18th)
Chair: David Spackman OBE, Chief Executive, MapAction
Contributor:
Nigel Woof, Operations Director, MapAction
 Presentation:
Education
How GIS can transform the teaching and learning of geography with examples from the UK and USA
Co-chairs: Steve Brace, Head of Education & Outdoor Learning, Royal Geographical Society(with The Institute of British Geographers)
Jonathan Breckon, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Royal Geographical Society(with The Institute of British Geographers)
Contributors:
Kate Amis, Geography Ambassadors Programme, Royal Geographical Society(with The Institute of British Geographers)
Steve Guptill, Senior Research Physical Scientist, United States Geological Survey
Ken Lacey, Assistant Education Manager, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
 Presentations:
Licensing
Licensing of IP rights in UK and abroad, and the debate on free access to public information
Chair: Sherree Westell, Partner, Bevan Brittan
Contributors:Alan Easton, Bevan Brittan
 Presentation:
Reference frameworks and active networks
Essential information for any organisation looking to invest and roll-out a real-time positioning network
 Chair: Neil Ackroyd, Director of Data Collection and Management, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Contributors:
Bruce Butler, NW Europe Regional Manager, Survey Division, Trimble
Prof Paul Cross, Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London
Paul Cruddace, Geodetic Adviser, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Tyrone Leong, Director of Surveys, Survey and Mapping Division, Trinidad and Tobago
Simon Mears, Key Account Manager, Surveying & Engineering, Leica Geosystems Limited
Kheng Peng Soh, Chief Surveyor of Singapore, Singapore Land Authority
George Dedes, Vice President Software, Research and Advanced Technology, Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc
 Presentations:
Rapporteur notes:
 
The Hotine Lecture
 
Small satellites for remote sensing and navigation - changing the economics of space.
Prof Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FRS, Director of the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, UK and CEO of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited

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