Events

Exchange Forum with Business Leaders on GGIM, co-organized by the United Nations Cartographic Section and the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Services, was held in the Qatar National Convention Center on 3 February 2013.

The Exchange Forum with Business Leaders initiated discussions between geospatial industry leaders and governmental officials and engaged the industry in policy and technology discussions to seek solutions to global socio-economic problem. The meeting facilitated the involvement of the geospatial industry in the subsequent High Level Forum on GGIM.

 

Doha, Qatar, 3 February 2013

Documentation for the meeting

Programme schedule (as of 30 January 2013)

Agenda (as of 28 January 2013)

Report of the Exchange Forum

Photo Gallery

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Opening Segment

Opening Remarks, UN

Biographies of chairs and speakers

Qatar’s GIS Cooperation with Local Community

Exchange Forum with the Geospatial Industry

Technical papers

• Session 1 - Determining place

Keynote: Mr. Stefano Ghielmetti, Trimble

Mr. Zuheir Altamimi, IAG

Mr. Khaled El Nabbout, FARO Europe GmbH&Co.KG

Mr. Javid Abdullayev, State Committee of Land and Cartography, Azerbaijan

Summary by rapporteur (chair) Gilles Bessero, IHO

• Session 2 - Monitoring place

Keynote: Mr. Steve Ramage, Ordnance Survey International

Mr. Orhan Altan, ISPRS

Mr. Yuji Mesaki, PASCO Corporation

Mr. Chris Steenmans, European Environment Agency

Summary by rapporteur (chair) William Cartwright, JBGIS

• Session 3 - Connecting place

Keynote: Mr. Steve Hagan, Oracle

Mr. Abbas Rajabifard, GSDI

Mr. Andrew Coote, Consulting Where

Mr. Juraj Riecan, ESCWA

Summary by rapporteur (chair): Mark Cygan, IMIA

• Session 4 - Delivering [geoinformation about] place

Keynote: Mr. Lawrie Jordan, esri

Mr. Georg Gartner, ICA

Mr. Mark Sorensen, GPC Global Information Solutions

Mr. James O’ Brien, Risk Frontiers

Summary by rapporteur (chair): Yoshikazu Fukushima, ISCGM