Speakers
Geocapacity
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Prof. Dr.Josef Strobl Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS University of Salzburg Austria |
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Karl Donert Director of the European Centre of Excellence digital - earth.eu Austria |
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Prof. Dr. Martin Raubal Department Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich Switzerland |
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Dr.Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz Special Advisor to the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs Switzerland |
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Franois Golay Professor cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland* |
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Giorgio Saio GISIG - Geographical Information Systems International Group Italy |
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Dr Suchith Anand Nottingham Geospatial Institute Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham UK |
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Adrijana Car Associate Professor - GIS German University of Technology, Oman |
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Nicola Spafford Furey Vice President Earth Focus Foundation Switzerland |
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Dr. HaeKyong Kang Associate Research Fellow, Geospatial Information Research Division Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements South Korea |
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Hendrik Westerbeek Director, Geo Employment Market Foundation (SAGEO) The Netherlands |
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Dell Oro Luca Specialist UNITAR-UNOSAT Switzerland |
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Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny Head of Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography Masaryk University Czech Republic |
GEO3D
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Prof em Dr Armin Gruen Chair for Information Science ETH Zuerich Switzerland |
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Alain Samaha Business Area Director of GIS and Geospatial Software Trimble USA |
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Jean-Marc Gauthier Associate Art Professor of Animation and Digital Arts Tisch School of the Arts NYU Singapore |
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Dr. Gertrud Riegler Product Line Manager DEM Airbus Defence and Space Germany |
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Roberto Putzu Professor Fluid mechanics laboratory CMEFE, Hepia University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Switzerland |
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Claude Hannecart Manager Services - UrbIS Data CIRB - Centre d'Informatique pour la R�gion Bruxelloise Belgium |
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Yacine Benmansour Senior Researcher and Lead of ''Digital Cities'' Research Center, HEPIA, Switzerland |
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Vincent Lusser Deputy Secretary General for the Promotion of Urban Projects at State of Genve Switzerland |
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Gert Van Maren Product Management Lead for 3D Esri Switzerland |
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Vincent Streignard Project Manager Projects - IS CIRB - Centre dInformatique pour la Rgion Bruxelloise Belgium |
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Rollo Home Senior Product Manager Ordnance Survey UK |
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Emmanuel Belo M Head of the Geospatial Solutions Division Camptocamp Switzerland |
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Jacynthe Pouliot Professor Department of Geomatics Sciences Universit� Laval Canada |
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Nicolas Gouneaud Area Manager at State of Geneva Noise, air and nonionizing radiation division Switzerland |
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Kilian Ulm Chief Market Manager COWI A/S Switzerland |
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JungRae Hwang Principal Researcher - R&D Team Spatial Information Industry Promotion Institute South Korea |
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Steven True Product Development Manager ComputaMaps South Africa |
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Martin Christen Senior Scientist FHNW - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland |
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Horesh BenShitrit CVlab Computer Vision Laboratory Switzerland |
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Claudio Carneiro LASIG Geographic information System Laboratory Swiss institute of Technology EPFL Switzerland |
Geo Developers
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Dr. Thomas Bahr Senior Consultant Exelis Visual Information Solutions Germany |
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Mano Marks Lead Developer Advocate for the Google Maps APIs, Google |
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Cedric Moullet Head of FSDI Web Infrastructure, Federal Office of Topography swisstopo |
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Dino Ravnic CEO GIS Cloud Ltd. |
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Ian Holt Head of Developer Outreach Ordnance Survey |
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Faheem Khan Vice President Business Development HDS, Leica Geosystems |
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Matthias Schenker Director Implementation Services, Esri |
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Tim Williams Business Development what3words United Kingdom |
Geo Energy
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Chairperson Geoff Zeiss Editor - Building and Energy Geospatial Media and Communications Canada |
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Georgios Sarantakos Expert on Sustainability and Energy GEO Secretariat Switzerland |
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Carsten Hoyer-Klick Head of Department Systems Analysis & Technology Assessment DLR Germany |
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Manfred Mittlboeck Key Researcher iSPACE Austria |
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Stephane Chevrel Project Coordinator BRGM France |
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Thomas Wanderer Research Associate German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Systems Analysis & Technology Assessment Germany |
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Holger Ruf Research Coordinator Ulm Germany |
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Melanie Davis Research Project Coordinator IC3 Spain |
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Albert Susino Director, - OCEN Department of Securities State of Geneva Switzerland |
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A.L.M. (Ad) van Houtum Advisor Product and Process Innovations Kadaster The Netherlands |
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Theo Laughner Tennessee Valley Authority, USA |
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Artur Brei Head of Graphic Data Processing UZ (Unterfrnkische berlandzentrale eG) Germany |
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Anit Ghose Principal Advisor (Dept of Geospatial Services) Supreme & Co. Pvt. Ltd. India |
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Anit Ghose Principal Advisor (Dept of Geospatial Services) Supreme & Co. Pvt. Ltd India |
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Piergiorgio Cipriano GI/SDI Project Manager Sinergis Italy |
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Wei Zhang Senior Technical Manager Jiantong China |
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Rajiv Gupta Senior Professor Birla Institute of Technology and Science India |
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Dr. Recai Ogur Assoc.Professor - Department of Public Health Center for Education and Research on Environment � Gene Interaction Turkey |
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Arul.I Tenkasi AEE Tamil Nadu Electricity Board India |
Geo Disaster
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Chairperson Aida Opoku-Mensah Special Advisor: Post 2015 Development Agenda UN Economic Commission for Africa Ethopia |
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Kaushik Chakraborty Vice President Hexagon Geosystems India |
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Iain MacInnes Sr. Regional Manager EMEAR DigitalGlobe UK |
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Francesco GAETANI Scientific Officer GEO Group on Earth Observations Switzerland |
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Dr.Fernando Nardi UNESCO Chair �Water Resources Management and Culture� University for Foreigners of Perugia Italy |
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W.A. Frederic Zanetta Disaster Information Senior Officer Disaster Services Department International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Switzerland |
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Prof Sue Grimmond Department of Meteorology University of Reading UK |
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Daniel Tobler Deputy Head of Engineering and Natural Hazard Department Geotest AG Switzerland |
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Dr. Taehoon Kim Senior Researcher Korea Institute of Construction Technology/ICT Convergence and Integration Research Division South Korea |
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Enrico C. Paringit Program Leader, DREAM University of the Philippines Philippines |
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Philippe Arnold Specialist Natural Hazards Federal Department of Environment Transport Energy and Communications Switzerland |
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Myung-Hee Jo Professor Kyungpook National University South Korea |
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Dr.Tomas Fernandez Professor - Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing University of Jaen Spain |
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Rahul Dev Garg Associate Professor Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee India |
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W.A. Anusha Priyahti Wijesundara Hydrographic Surveyor National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency Sri Lanka |
Geo Agri
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Mark Noort Editor - Agriculture Geospatial Media and Communications The Netherlands |
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Emmanuel de Maistre Co-Founder & CEO RedBird France |
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Dr. Joachim Herbold Senior Underwriter - Agro Munich Re Germany |
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Foster K. Mensah Executive Director Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) University of Ghana |
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Daniel Kull Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist World Bank Geneva Switzerland |
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Xiaoyuan Geng Head Scientist Agri-Food Canada |
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Tim East Manager Enterprise Accounts Trimble Navigation USA |
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Raymond De Lai Centre Manager Herbert Resource Information Centre Australia |
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Gary Holmes Business Development Manager DMC International Imaging Ltd. U.K. |
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Antonio Tabasco Remote Sensing Applications and Services Division Manager GMV |
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Michel Deshayes Scientific and Technical Officer - GEOGLAM Programme GEO Secretariat, Geneve Switzerland |
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Tamme van der Wal Partner AeroVision B.V. The Netherlands |
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Dr. Ephrem Gebremariam Assistant Professor School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University Ethiopia |
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Damien Powell Delivery Director ABACO SPA Italy |
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Dr.Matthias Trapp Head of Department for Environmental Systems RLP AgroScience GmbH, Institute for AgroEcology Germany |
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Lorenzo Martelletti Sales and Business Development Manager Pix4D Switzerland |
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Dr. Jens Knodel Smart Farming Project Manager Fraunhofer IESE Germany |
Geo Build
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Chairperson Geoff Zeiss Editor Building and Energy Geospatial Media and Communications Canada |
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Dr. AC Kemp Director BIM Strategy and Development ATKINS UK |
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Leif Granhom Senior Vice President Tekla Finland |
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Faheem Khan Vice President Business Development HDS Leica Geosystems |
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Andrew Evans Applications Development Manager Topcon The Netherlands |
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Christoph Kaeser Section Leader MISTRA Bundesamt fuer Strassen ASTRA Switzerland |
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Andy Rhoades Head of Service Protection Knowledge & Information Management Technical Standards and Assurance Heathrow Airports Holdings Limited,UK |
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Warren Cartwright Product Manager MDA Canada |
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Soren Aage Normolle Partner/Head of Office LE34 |
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Christoph Strecha CEO Pix4D SA Switzerland |
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Dr. Rade Hajdin President and Founding Partner Infrastructure Management Consultants Ltd Switzerland |
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Bertier Luyt President and CEO Le FabShop France |
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Hakan Engman CEO Agency9 AB Sweden |
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Dr. Julien Vallet CEO Helimap System SA Switzerland |
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Ing. Jerome HENRY Directeur HKD G�omatique SA, ONEX Switzerland |
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Norbazlan Mohd Yusof Manager, Database Management Department Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad Malaysia |
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Ing. Junhee Youn Senior Researcher Korea Institute of Construction Korea |
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Laura Pinfold Lecturer Cape Peninsula University of Technology South Africa |
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Peter Hansford FREng Government Chief Construction Adviser Department for Business,Innovation & Skills HM Government UK |
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Hakan Engman CEO Agency9 AB Sweden |
Geospatial Industry Forging Ties with GEOSS: A Value Proposition Dialogue
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Chairperson Barbara Ryan Secretariat Director GEO Switzerland |
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Chairperson Mark Noort Editor - Agriculture Geospatial Media and Communications The Netherlands |
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Dr. Stephen Briggs Head, Department of EO Science Applications & Future Technologies ESA/ESRIN Italy |
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Raghava Murthy Director EOS ISRO India |
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Ivan B. DeLoatch Executive Director Federal Geographic Data Committee U.S. Geological Survey |
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Alessandro Annoni Head of the Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit Joint Research Centre Italy |
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Taner Kodanaz Director of Global Alliances DigitalGlobe USA |
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Dr. Vark Helfritz Director Strategy & Marketing Airbus Defence and Space France |
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Herbert F. Satterlee III CEO MDA Information Systems USA |
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John Ahlrichs VP - Marketing and Sales BlackBridge Germany |
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Xiaoyang Cheng CEO Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology China |
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Chairperson Geoff Sawyer Secretary General EARSC Belgium |
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Dr. Thomas Heege Managing Director EO Map Germany |
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Chetan Pradhan Earth Observation Account Manager CGI UK |
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Stefan Jensen Head of SEIS and SDI Group European Environment Agency Denmark |
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Dr. Derek Clarke Chief Director: Surveys & Mapping and NGI Department of Rural Development and Land Reform South Africa |
Land Information system for Smart cities
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Dave Carter Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency City of Manchester UK |
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Kees de Zeeuw Director Kadaster International The Netherlands |
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Abhilash Panda Senior Programme Officer UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Switzerland |
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Elena Szolgayov Chair, UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development, Slovakia |
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Chairperson Arup Dasgupta Managing Editor Geospatial Media and Communications India |
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Didier Vancutsem Chairman The International Society of City and Regional Planners Belgium |
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Virginia Cram-Martos Director, Economic Cooperation, Trade and Land Management Division UNECE Switzerland |
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Iain Langlands GIS Manager - Land and Environmental Services Glasgow City Council Scotland |
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Komilov Abduvali Hakimovich Director Committee for Construction and Architecture Tajikistan |
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Siegfried Nagl Mayor City of Graz Austria |
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Natalya Oliynik Director Department for Strategic Reform and Development of Housing Sector Ministry of Regional Development and Construction Ukraine |
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Christopher Barlow Director,Strategic Relations and Communications Thomson Reuters USA |
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Doug Hurdlebrink Deputy Commissioner City of Chicago USA |
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Elshad Khanalibayli Chair, UNECE Working Party on Land Administration; and Head Investment and Cooperation Department State Committee on Property Issues, Azerbaijan |
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Nikolay Bobylev Marie Curie Research Fellow University of Birmingham UK |
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David Gigineishvili Head of Spatial Planning and Construction Policy Department, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Georgia |
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Peter Creuzer Director State Survey and Geospatial Basic Information Agency for Geoinformation and Land Development of Lower Saxony (LGLN), Germany |
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Gulnara Roll Head - Housing and Land Management Unit, Trade and Sustainable Land Management Division UN Economic Commission for Europe Switzerland |
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Alena Rakava Deputy Head of Regional Planning and Urban Planning Department , Ministry of Architecture and Construction Belarus |
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Mahmoud ElBurai Managing Director Dubai Real Estate Institute UAE |
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Svetlana Ristic Head of Housing Department Ministry of Construction and Urbanism Serbia |
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Stefano Scalera Director Agenzia del Demanio Italy |
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Manuel Garcia Alvarez ITC Netherlands |
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Andreas Littkopf Director International affairs Austrian Environment Agency Austria |
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Nick Russill Director TerraDat UK |
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Karam Hasanov Chairperson State Committee on Property Issues Azerbaijan |
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Tony Bonnici Economic Affairs Officers United Nations Economic Commission For Europe Switzerland |
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Prabhat Kumar Sarangi IAS Joint Secretary Department of Land Resources, India |
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Andrew Trigg Chief Geographic Information Officer HM Land Registry of England and Wales UK |
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Kari Aina Eik Secretary General Organization for International Economic Cooperation Austria |
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Martinus Vranken Project Manager-Energy and Climate Kadaster The Netherlands |
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Andrew Hudson Smith Director UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis UK |
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Vincent Hoong Chief Executive Officer Singapore Land Authority |
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Somkid Sari Advisor on Performance Efficiency Land Titling Project Office Thailand |
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Jill Urban Karr Executive Director - Consulting Services/landfolio� Solutions Trimble Navigation, Ltd. USA |
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Rodrigo Alejandro Nieto Enr�quez Vice Minister of Urban Development and Housing Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development Mexixo |
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Evgeniy Mavrin Deputy-Prime Minister of Republic of Bashkortostan of Minister of Economy Russian Federation |
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Konstantinos Alexopoulos Secretary, Transport Trends and Economics Secretariat UNECE Switzerland |
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Brinda Wachs Coordinator, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) UNECE-WHO joint programme Switzerland |
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Ulo Sare CEO, Tartu Smart City Lab Estonia |
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Iemke Idsingh Public Sector Solutions Director Oracle The Netherlands |
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Nick Land Business Development Manager Esri Europe UK |
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John Peaden Director of Operations HM Land Registry of England and Wales UK |
Space Technologies Empowering Geosmart Applications in Switzerland
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Chairperson Jose Achache Managing Director AP-Swiss Switzerland |
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Urs Wegmuller CEO GAMMA Remote Sensing Switzerland |
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Philipp Schaer R&D Director GEOSAT Switzerland |
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Valeria Fabbroni Director Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) Switzerland |
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Thomas Staub Chief Scientist DFRC Switzerland |
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Stefan Reidy CEO Arviem Switzerland |
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Alan Brunstrom Head of the Applications Business Office ESA. |
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Einar BJORGO Manager UNOSAT United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Switzerland |
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Paolo Pasquali Technical Director and President SARMAP Switzerland |
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Richard Bru CEO NOVELTIS Switzerland |
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Ferdinando Tiezzi Director Business Development VIASAT Switzerland |
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Yves Buehler Scientific Staff Member WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF Switzerland |
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Jose Demetrio CEO GEOSATIS Switzerland |
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Marcin Poturalski R&D Engineer GEOSATIS Switzerland |
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Anton B. Ivanov CubETH Project Manager Space Engineering Center EPFL, Swiss Space Center Switzerland |
SWISS Day
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Chairperson Christian Dettwiler Cantonal Survey Supervision Services (KKVA) Switzerland |
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Dr. Xavier Comtesse Director Avenir Suisse Switzerland |
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Dr. Daniel Steudler Scientific Associate Federal Office of Topography Swisstopo Switzerland |
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Nicolas Schmidt Project Manager PLR-cadastre GIS Center Construction Directorate Canton of Zurich,Switzerland |
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Geoffrey Cornette Canton of Geneva Switzerland |
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Maurice Barbieri Chair IGS and CLGE IG - PARLS Ingenieur- Geometer Schweiz (IGS), CLGE IG - PARLS Switzerland |
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Dr. Andre Streilein Head of Topography Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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Dominik Kauferle Project Manager New National Map Series Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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Dr. Roland Stengele CEO BSF Swissphoto AG Switzerland |
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Dirk Mergelkuhl Engineer Experiment Metrology of Large Scale Metrology Section CERN Switzerland |
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Jean-Philippe Amstein Director Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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Wilfried Haeberli Em. Professor University of Zurich Switzerland |
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Frederic Kaplan Professor Digital Humanities Lab (DHLAB), EPF Lausanne Switzerland |
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Urs Gerber Head of Base Data for Environmental Monitoring Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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David Beni CEO arx iT Switzerland |
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Alain Buogo Head of Coordination Geo- Information and Services (COGIS) Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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Dr. David Oesch Project Lead Swiss Federal Geoportal Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Switzerland |
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Pascal Oehrli Director Geomatic Competence Centre Canton of Geneva Switzerland |
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Martin Utiger Member of the Project Management of SwitzerlandMobility Foundation SwitzerlandMobility, Velobro Olten, Switzerland |
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Tamara Estermann Head of Competence Centre Geoinformation Swiss Parcs Switzerland |
Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Shaping the Future
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Massimo Craglia Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit DG Joint Research Centre European Commission |
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Chi-Chao Chang President of Products & Technology XAD.com USA |
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Wim Broer Commissioner of Police Programme Director - Professional Gaming,Virtual Police Corps Programme The Netherlands |
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Ed Fennema CEO Sightes, The Transreality Company The Netherlands |
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Didier Schmitt Scientific Adviser and Foresight Coordinator ECs Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) Belgium |
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Bob Bishop CEO International Centre for Earth Simulation Switzerland |
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Prof. Thomas Ludwig Director German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) Germany |
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Felix Schuermann General Project Manager Human Brian project Switzerland |
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George Tyc PhD Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer Urthecast Canada |
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
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Chris Dermody CIO Denver Water USA |
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Dennis Devriendt Technical Director 4CGrid Belgium |
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Prof. Yaron Felus Chief Scientist Survey of Israel Israel |
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Ali El Battay Assistant Professor Arabian Gulf University Bahrain |
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Jan Van de Steen Service Line Manager Geographic Information Systems Capgemini Belgium |
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Nicola Sandoli Business Development Manager ICONSULTING Italy |
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Marco Vignoli Consultant Expert ICONSULTING S.p.A. Italy |
CLIMATE CHANGE
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Chairperson and Keynote Speaker Carl Reed CTO and Executive Director of Standards Program Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) USA |
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Robert Shibatani CEO & Principal Hydrologist The Shibatani Group USA |
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Xavier Irias Director of Engineering and Construction East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) USA |
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Espen Volden Expert on Climate GEO Secretariat Switzerland |
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Ornprapa P. Robert Assistant Professor Silpakorn University Thailand |
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Felipe Cerbella Mandarino Instituto Pereira Passos Rio de Janeiro City Hall Brazil |
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Martin Sauerbier Project Manager Photogrammetry MFB-GeoConsulting GmbH Switzerland |
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Zahrah N. Musa Researcher UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education The Netherlands |
OPEN DATA
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Chairperson Prof Robert Barr OBE CGeog(GIS) FRGS FRSA Open Data User Group Manchester Geomatics, UK |
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Marc Leobet Mission Geographic Information Commissioner Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy France |
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Yoav Tal Director National Spatial Databases Survey of Israel,Israel |
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Dr. Tina Svan Colding Head of Function - Private Sector The Danish Geodata Agency Denmark |
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Graeme Blick Chief Geodesist and Manager National Topographic Office LINZ, New Zealand |
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J. Eric Lomeli GIS Projects Coordinator eServices & Innovation Technology Division Bexar County Information Technology (Texas) USA |
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Yaniss Guigoz Geographer UNEP/GRID-Geneva Switzerland |
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Anne Marie Carstens Consultant Ministry of the Environment Denmark |
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Antoine Logean Data Scientist in Casualty R&D at SwissRe Founding Board Member of the Opendata.ch Association Switzerland |
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Ben Bruns Product Manager Topography Cadaster Land Registry and Mapping Agency The Netherlands |
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Antoine Stroh Open Data Project Manager Transports Publics Genevois Switzerland |
BIG DATA
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Chairperson and Lead Speaker Thomas Glatthard General Secretary Swiss Organisation for Geographic Information (SOGI) Switzerland |
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Giovanni Marchisio Director - Product Development and Labs DigitalGlobe |
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Hans Viehmann Product Manager EMEA ORACLE Germany |
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Chris Tagg Product Manager 1Spatial UK |
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Mathieu Becker CEO Isogeo France |
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Prof. Uma Shama GeoGraphics Laboratory Bridgewater State University Bridgewater, MA USA |
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Dr. Pouria Amirian Computer Science Department Maynooth Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies, National University of Ireland UK |
GOVERNANCE
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Chair and Lead Speaker Dr. Dae-Jong Kim Head of Center for Territorial Policy Simulation Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements South Korea |
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Omar Al Shaiba Director - Property and GIS Division Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA) Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Siow Suan Neo Unit Head NKRA Safe City Programme Federal Department of Town and Country Planning Malaysia |
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Tobias Brunner Project Manager at Geomatik + Vermessung Zurich City of Zurich Switzerland |
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Reem Al-Kharouf Department of Geography Yarmouk University Jordan |
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G. P. Singh Senior Technical Director National Informatics Centre Lucknow India |
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Marije Louwsma Senior Projectleader Kadaster The Netherlands |
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Prof. Mirna Cortopassi Lobo President Advisor Brazilian Council of Achitects Brazil |
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Alexander Aronsohn Associate Director Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors UK |
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Martin Geilhausen Zurich University of Applied Sciences Institute of Natural Resource Sciences Switzerland |
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Adriana Vial Architect Instituto Pereira Passos Rio de Janeiro City Hall Brazil |
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Marino Carhuapoma Hilario System Engineer IdeasG SAC Peru |
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Rofaida Elzubair KM and GIS unit Coordinator Epidemiological Laboratory Sudan |
SENSORS
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Chairperson Ian Dowman Emeritus Professor of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, University College London United Kingdom |
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Giovanni Marchisio Director - Product Development and Labs DigitalGlobe |
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Peter Rieger Product Manager Airborne Laser Scanning RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH Austria |
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Ruedi Wagner Vice President Leica Geosystems Switzerland |
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Dr.-Ing. Michael Cramer Institute for Photogrammetry University of Stuttgart Germany |
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Philipp Grimm Marketing & Sales IGI Germany |
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Michael Gruber Chief Scientist, Ultracam Microsoft Germany |
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Owen Hawkins Development Manager Surrey Satellite Technology UK |
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David Belton General Manager MDA Geospatial Services Canada |
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Hannu Korpela Sales and Marketing Manager Terrasolid Finland |
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Dr.-Ing. Uwe Stilla Professor Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography Technische Universitaet Muenchen Germany |
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Michael Bolsunovsky First Deputy Director General Sovzond Russia |
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Maxime Elbaz President Optech, Inc. United States |
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Inna Cruz Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining Switzerland |
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Isao Kojima Principal Research Manager, Information Technology Research Institute National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan |
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J�rome Soubirane SPOT Product Manager, Geo-Intelligence Airbus Defence and Space France |
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Ionut Iosifescu Senior Researcher Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation ETH Zurich Switzerland |
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Shenghua Chen Research Assistant Institute of Engineering Geodesy University of Stuttgart Germany |
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Ismat M. Elhassan Professor King Saud University College of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department Saudi Arabia |
Collaborative Approach Fostering Global Peace and Prosperity
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Chairperson Einar BJORGO Manager UNOSAT,United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Switzerland |
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Alex Mejia Manager Decentralized Cooperation Programme (DCP) UNITAR Switzerland |
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Predrag Milicevic Chief of Service for Geospatial Information and Telecommunication Technology UNLB/Global Service Centre (UNLB/GSC) USA |
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Ahmed Abukhater Senior Director Global Enterprise GIS, Trimble USA |
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Hussein Gadain Chief Technical Advisor SWALIM Project, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Kenya |
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Olivier Senegas UNOSAT Switzerland |
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Yann Rebois GIS Specialist International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland |
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Theresa Hitchens Director United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Switzerland |
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Craig Williams Chief, a.i. Field Information Services OCHA Switzerland |
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Dr. Angela De Santis Advisor - Information Management Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining Switzerland |
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Kimberly Roberson Chief of Field Information and Coordination UNHCR Switzerland |
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Julien Temple Manager, Humanitarian Partnership UNICEF Switzerland |
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Neil Buhne Senior Deputy Director UNDP Switzerland |
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Vincent Anoni IMPACT Switzerland |
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Luca Pupulin ACTED/REACH Switzerland |
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Andrea Amparore GIS Analyst UN World Food Programme Switzerland |
CLOUD COMPUTING
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Chair and Keynote Speaker Prof. Dr. Stephan Nebiker FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland |
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Dr. Jasper van Loon Advisor Science and Applications Netherlands Space Office The Netherlands |
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Chih Hong Sun Director Taiwan GIS Center Taiwan |
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Dr. Kyoung-Sook Kim Researcher Information Technology Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan |
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Jessi Dick Cloud Services Marketing Manager, Geo-Intelligence Airbus Defence and Space USA |
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Steven Eglinton Founder and Managing Director GeoEnable UK |
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Tom Counts President 3-GIS USA |
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Silvester Fischer Account Manager Exelis Visual Information Solutions Germany |
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Elisabeth Leu Project Manager Camptocamp Switzerland |
International GIS ROI Methodologies and Findings: Applying ROI Findings
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Prof. Dr. Jixian Zhang President Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping China |
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Dr. Inder Jit Singh IAS Joint Secretary Ministry of Science & Technology India |
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Anil Kumar Director - Environmental Information Sector Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi UAE |
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Neil Kuruppu PepperStack Pty Ltd CEO Australia |
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Akbar Hiznu Mawanda In-House Lawyer Geospatial Information Agency Indonesia |
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Dr. Rania Qutieshat Assistant Professor Balqa Applied University Jordan |
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Dr. Ko Ko Lwin Division of Spatial Information Science Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba, Japan |
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Nicholas Pinfold Lecturer Cape Peninsula University of Technology South Africa |
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Junior Tumare Technical Instructor-I Department of surveying and Land Studies The Papua New Guinea University of Technology Papua New Guinea |
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Dr. Tarig A. Ali Associate Professor of Civil Engineering College of Engineering UAE |