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Conference Programme 

Saturday 11 July
All Day
Free time for shopping and sight seeing round historic Winchester
 
Sunday 12 July
10.00
Registration opens – The Winchester Hotel foyer
10.00 – 16.00
Guided tours around historic Winchester  1.00pm and 3.00pm
Free time for shopping and sight seeing
15.30
Afternoon tea at The Winchester Hotel
18.30
Welcome drinks reception at Winchester City Museum  
20.00
Welcome Dinner at the Winchester Hotel
Available from 10.00 onwards
Delegate lounge and Internet Café
 
Monday 13 July
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
09.30 – 10.00
Housekeeping - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
Sallie White, Conference Manager
Conference Welcome
Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive Ordnance Survey, Conference Chair
10.00 – 11.00
Opening Plenary - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey           
Chair: Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive Ordnance Survey
Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Stuart Haynes OBE, Director Defence Geographic Centre, Ministry of Defence
11.00 – 11.15
Conference Photograph
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
11.45 - 13.00
Plenary  - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
Challenges of economic turbulence on mapping and how mapping can help to solve it
Chair: Zeljko Bacic, Director General, State Geodetic Administration Croatia
  • Developing world –Habtemicael Weldegiorgis, Director General Cadastral Office, Eritrea
  • Transitional world – Zeljko Bacic, Director General, State Geodetic Administration Croatia
  • Developed world –Godfried Barnasconi, Board Member, Dutch Kadastre
  • Commercial World –TBA
13.00 – 14.15
Lunch and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
14.15 – 15.45
Breakout discussion groups with facilitators
-          What are the impacts of economic turbulence on mapping in your country?
-          What are the impacts of economic turbulenceon your institution/organisation?
-          What are the measures you have undertaken to cope with the challenge?
-          How do you think mapping (and your institution/organisation) can support your societies and countries in overcoming this period of economic turbulence?
 
Group Facilitators
  • TBA
  • Jarmo Ratia, Director General National Land Survey Finland
  • Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive Land Information New Zealand
15.45 – 16.15
Plenary wash up of day one - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
Chair:Zeljko Bacic, Director General, State Geodetic Administration Croatia
16.15 – 16.30
ICC 2009 – Lieutenant Colonel Jose Riquelme, Commercial Director, Instituto Geographico Militar, Chile
OCG Membership – Bob Moses, OGC
16.30
Coaches leave for The Winchester Hotel - from outside the main reception of Ordnance Survey 
 

 
 
Tuesday 14 July
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
09.30 – 10.00
Plenary  - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
Dr Martin A. Blake, Head of Sustainability, Royal Mail Group
10.00 – 11.00
Plenary  - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
An entertaining quick fire vibrant and entertaining presentation session addressing the topic mapping: our role in a turbulent world. Followed by an interactive question and answer session
Chair: Chris Parker, Propositions Portfolio Manager, Ordnance Survey
Nic Snape, Director Data Providers, 1Spatial
Steve Hagan, Vice President of Development in Server Technologies, Oracle
Nick Chapallaz, Director of Business Strategy & Marketing, ESRI UK
Dave Benson, Regional Sales Director - Enterprise Sales EMEAR, Digital Globe
Stew McTavish, GeoVation Champion
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
11.30 – 12.45
 
Workshop
Integrating Spatial Data Infrastructures
Chair: Baz Kok, President GSDI
The UK Location Strategy - Neil Ackroyd, Director of Data Collection and Management, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Korean, NSDI policy direction - KIM Kyoung Soo, President National Geographic Inforamtion Institue, South Korea – invited
Workshop
Capacity Building
 
Chair:Chukwudozie Ezigbalike, Secretariat, African Centre for Statistics, United National Economic Commission for Africa
 
"Bringing new pieces in the ‘geography jigsaw’ together: are developing countries building the appropriate capacity?" - Dr Neil Stuart from the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh
 
Workshop
Volunteer Geographic Information
 
Chair: Mark Corey, Assistant Deputy Minister, Earth Sciences, NRCan
 
Balancing Opportunities and Perspectives - User Content and National Mapping Agencies - Dr. David Coleman, Dean of Engineering, University of New Brunswick
 
 
Workshop
Maximum Mapping Minimum Investment
Chair:Greg Scott, President, UN Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia
National Topographic Information Coordination Initiative (NTICI) – Greg Scott, President, UN Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia
Maximum Mapping: Minimum Investment:  A Canadian federal perspective - Prashant Shukle
Director General, Mapping Information Branch, Natural Resources Canada
 
Geraldine Ruane, CEO, Ordnance Survey Ireland
12.45 – 13.45
Lunch and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
13.45 – 15.15
Workshop
Spatially Enabled Government/Societies
Chair:Magnus Guðmundsson, Managing Director, National Land Survey of Iceland
Commonwealth Spatial Data Integration (CSDI) – Greg Scott, President, UN Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia
SEG Services: working progress on the guidelines for Africa – Chukwudozie Ezigbalike, Secretariat, African Centre for Statistics, United National Economic Commission for Africa
EuroGeographics: role, activities and goals - Dave Lovell CEO EuroGeographics
Moving towards a spatial dimension in e-government - charging policies & user requirements in a Danish perspective - Kim Lindskov Knudsen, Head of Division
Deployment and Advisory Services, Danish Ministry Of The Environment
National Survey and Cadastre
Workshop
The use of GI in response to manmade and natural disasters
Chair:Ian Holt, MapAction
Humanitarian Disasters: Emergency Mapping, Ian Holt , Map Action Volunteer
 
The workshop will look at MapAction in action, and explore of some of the GIS challenges you are faced with during disasters
About MapAction
When disaster strikes, getting relief help to the right places quickly hinges on rapid transfer of information. MapAction delivers that vital information in the form of maps, created and distributed in the field. By conveying a 'shared operational picture', their maps make a crucial difference in delivering humanitarian aid to the right place to relieve suffering.
 
Workshop
Research and Innovation
 
Chair:
 
Chris Parker
Workshop
Land Information Convergence
 
Chair:John Wright, Chief Information Office, Land Registry
New Zealand’s Landonline – Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive Land Information New Zealand
Ing Karel Vecere, President, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
 
The Romanian approach to cadastre and land registration activities - Marcel Grigore, Deputy General Director, National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration, Romania
 
15.15 – 15.45
Coffee and Exhibition – Business Centre Ordnance Survey
15.45 – 16.45
Panel Session - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
16.45 – 17.00
Summary of Conference Actions and Resolutions - Lecture Theatre Ordnance Survey
Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive Ordnance Survey
17.00
Conference Close
17.10
Coaches leave for The Winchester Hotel - from outside the main reception of Ordnance Survey 
19.00
Coaches leave for Gala Dinner - from outside the main reception of The Winchester Hotel 
19.30
Gala Dinner Drinks Reception at Tylney Hall
20.00
Gala Dinner at Tylney Hall
Available 24 hours 
Delegate lounge and Internet Café
 

 
Wednesday 15 July
07.00 – 08.30
Breakfast – The Winchester Hotel
09.00
Coaches leave for visits - from outside the main reception of The Winchester Hotel 
  • Ordnance Survey 
  • Land Registry
  • Defence Geographic Centre
  • UKHO  
Time
Topic
Speaker
Comments
09.30 – 09.45
Registration and Coffee
09.45 – 10.30
Welcome and Introduction to Ordnance Survey
Vanessa Lawrence
Director General and Chief Executive
Ordnance Survey’s new Business Strategy where Ordnance Survey is going and why
10.30 – 11.15
The impact of a changing market
James Brayshaw
Director of Sales and Marketing
Impact of mass markets, impact of Google etc.
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee Break
 
 
11.45 – 12.30
The impact of changing technology
Peter ter Haar 
Director of Products
Tim Martin
GIS Consultant 
OpenSpace, Openspace Pro, On-line delivery
12.30 – 13.00
Question and Answer Panel
Vanessa Lawrence to Chair
James Brayshaw
Peter ter Haar
Neil Ackroyd
Question on the new strategy/business model developments etc.
13.00 – 13.45
Lunch
13.45 – 14.15
Data Capture
Malcolm Havercroft
Head of Operations
 
14.15 – 14.45
Imagery and Photogrammetry
Jim King
Service Delivery Manager
Developments
Managing sub-contractors,
Cost / quality relationship – ways of doing it cheaply (e.g. for beginners)
14.24 – 15.15
Database Management
Carsten Roensdorf
Corporate Data Manager
Where we’re going 
Phoenix
 
15.15 – 15.30
Coffee/Tea Break
15.30 – 16.00
Research
Glen Hart
Head of Research
Developments we are working on
Developments that have become mainstream
16.00 – 16.30
GeoVation
Liz Ratcliffe
Head of Product Marketing & Propositions
The innovation ladder
16.30 – 17.00
Question and Answer Panel
Vanessa Lawrence to Chair
Technical specialists
 
17.00 – 17.15
Close
Vanessa Lawrence
 
17.30
Coaches leave for The Winchester Hotel
18.30
Informal dinner and quiz evening – The Winchester Hotel
Available 24 hours 
Delegate lounge and Internet Café
 
Thursday 16 July
07.00 – 08.30
Breakfast – The Winchester Hotel
 
 1Spatial Generalisation Workshop: "From Research to Reality including ROI"

10am – 1pm, Malory Suite, Winchester Hotel

 
OGC Board Meeting – Ordnance Survey Business Centre
 

 

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