Conference Proceedings - Thursday 19 July

Plenary *From silos to webs – how do we make interoperability a reality?*	Chair: Stig Jönsson, President, EuroSDR	Rapporteurs notes
Advancing Geospatial Interoperability Through IT Architecture & Standards	Xavier Lopez, Director, Spatial and Semantic Technologies, Oracle USA Inc	Podcast Presentation
Elips- Supporting SDI by Restructuring of Core Geodata	Anders Lundquist, Head, Land and Geographic Information Division, National Land Survey of Sweden	Podcast Presentation
Publishing and using content in SDIs - how far are we?	Clemens Portele, Managing Director, interactive instruments GmbH	Podcast Presentation
Questions and answers		Podcast

Plenary Beyond mapping – geo-enabling government and the citizen Organised by Advisory Board members from the Americas	Chair: Karen Siderelis, Associate Director for Geospatial Information, United States Geological Survey
Spatially Enabled Government - A Global Land Management Perspective	Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyors	Podcast Presentation Rapporteurs notes
The National Mapping Agency of the Future: technology, science and business trends	David Maguire, Director of Products and International, ESRI	Podcast Presentation Rapporteurs notes
Panel session facilitator: Steve Guptill, Senior Research Physical Scientist, United States Geological Survey	Panel Members: Karen Siderelis David Maguire Stig Enemark Trevor Shaw, Director of Surveys and Mapping, National Land Agency, Jamaica Juan Vidal Garcia-Huidobro, Sub Director General, Military Geographic Institute of Chile	Podcast Rapporteurs notes

Update on the Ordnance Survey International Collection	Eunice Gill, Cartographic Client Manager, The National Archives, UK	Presentation Rapporteurs notes

Workshops
International Boundaries The practicalities, technical and socio-economic aspects of international boundary demarcation and the role that NMO's can play in this process.	Chair: James Kavanagh, Director, Land Group, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Contributors: Jochen Petring, International Projects Manager, Hansa Luftbild Consulting International Martin Pratt, Director of Research, International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham University, UK Haim Srebro, Director General, Survey of Israel	Presentations: Jochen Petring Martin Pratt Haim Srebro Rapporteurs notes: Jochen Petring Martin Pratt Haim Srebro
Spatial – the final frontier? What’s coming next from satellites and above? – news on low cost imagery, lidar, radar, and Galileo GNSS	Chair: Neil Ackroyd, Director of Data Collection and Management, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain Contributors: Owen Hawkins, Business Development Manager, DMC International Imaging Prof Terry Moore, Director, Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, UK Dr Sarah Smith-Voysey, Research Fellow, Newcastle University Mark Tabor, Photogrammetric Technical Advisor, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain	Presentations: Owen Hawkins Terry Moore Sarah Smith-Voysey & Mark Tabor Rapporteurs notes: Owen Hawkins Terry Moore Sarah Smith-Voysey Mark Tabor
Geospatial Enterprise Considers the impact of geospatial enterprise on organisational operation	Chair: Clemens Portele, Managing Director, interactive instruments GmbH Contributors: David Maguire, Director of Products and International, ESRI Robert Saxon, GeoRisk Consultant, Royal and SunAlliance	Presentations: David Maguire Rapporteurs notes Robert Saxon
GI Knowledge Portal Learn about what this is, what it can do for you and how to contribute	Chair: Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain Contributors: Ian Dowman, President, ISPRS Nick Land, Executive Director, EuroGeographics Harlan Onsrud, Interim Executive Director, GSDI Association Gina Weir-Smith, Chief GIS Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa	Presentations: Vanessa Lawrence Ian Dowman Gina Wier-Smith Rapporteurs notes
Introduction to neo-geography Embrace the principles of Web 2.0 and use your population to create tomorrows mapping data	Chair: David Overton, Business Development & Innovation Manager, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain Contributor: John Abbott, Technical Consultant, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain	Presentation: David Overton & John Abbott Rapporteurs notes

Plenary Future of NMOs – replaced by NSDIs or commercial interests? Panel Session	Chair:Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain Panel Members: Željko Bačič: Director, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia Lam Joon Khoi: Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Land Authority Mohammed Al Zaffin: Director, GIS Centre, Dubai Municipality, UAE Dozie Ezigbalike: Chief, Geo-Information Systems, UN Economic Commission for Africa Mark Corey: Assistant Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada Chris Pigram: Deputy Chief Executive & Chief, Geospatial & Earth Monitoring, Geoscience, Australia	Presentation Rapporteurs notes

Conference Close	Chair:Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain	Presentation Rapporteurs notes