Speakers

  

Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam 11th President of Republic of India	Melanie Schultz van Haegen Hon’ble Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment The Netherlands	Drs. Th A J Burmanje (Dorine) Chair Executive Board Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency The Netherlands
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade Executive Director European Environment Agency Denmark	Dr. Wubbo Johannes Ockels Professor of Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology Delft University, The Netherlands	Dr. F. J. Radermacher Director, Forschungsinstitut fuer, anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung/n (FAW/n) Germany
Steven W Berglund President and CEO Trimble Navigation USA	K K Singh Chairman and Managing Director Rolta India	Jack Dangermond Founder and President Esri USA
Ola Rollén CEO President and Director Hexagon AB, Sweden	Greg Bentley CEO Bentley USA	Matthew O'Connell CEO, President and Director GeoEye USA
Todd Oseth President and CEO Intermap Technologies. USA	Dr. Steven Hagan Senior Vice President of Development for Server Technologies, Oracle USA	Alain De Taeye Member of the Management Board, TomTom The Netherlands
A J Baayen Managing Director Deltares The Netherlands	David Schell Chairman Open Geospatial Consortium USA	Mitrasen Bhikajee Deputy Executive Secretary Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/UNESCO France
Jean-François Rocchi President BRGM France	Paul Cheung Director GGIM Secretariat and Statistics Division USA	Fred Hagman Managing Director Aerodata International Surveys
David Maguire Vice Chancellor Greenwich University United Kingdom	Prof. Józef Dubinski President World Mining Congress Poland	Dr. B.V.R. Mohan Reddy Chairman & Managing Director Infotech Enterprises India
Datuk Amar Haji Awang Tengah Ali Hasan Minister of Resource Planning and Environment II, Minister of Public Utilities, Minister of Industrial Development, Ministry of Public Utilities Sarawak, Malaysia	Ben Semmes Group Operating Officer Pitney Bowes Software	Kanwar Chadha CMO & Member of the Board of Directors CSR & Founder, SiRF Technologies USA

   

Ingrid Vanden Berghe Administrator-General National Geographic Institute Belgium	Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CB Director General and Chief Executive Ordnance Survey, UK	Dr. Shailesh Nayak Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences Chairman, Earth Commission Government of India
Kees de Zeeuw Director Cadastre, Land Registry & Mapping Agency The Netherlands	Alessandro Annoni Head, Spatial Data Infrastructure Unit Joint Research Centre European Commission, Italy	Prof. Ian Dowman Emeritus Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing & Editor-Europe Geopatial World, UK
Prof. Henk Scholten CEO Geodan The Netherlands	Keith J. Masback President United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation USA	Jan Willem van Eck Director of Strategy, Esri Nederland & President, Geo-Informatie Nederland The Netherlands
Prof. Karl Donert President European Association of Geographers UK	Prof. Josef Strobl Director, Centre for Geoinformatics University of Salzburg Austria	Dr. Ing. Christian Heipke Managing Director, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
M Christian Braux Head - Mineral Resources BRGM France	Mark Reichardt President and CEO Open Geospatial Consortium USA	Prof. Orhan Altan President International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Prof. Dr. Ir. A.K. (Arnold) Bregt Professor Geo-information Science Centre for Geo-Information , Wageningen University The Netherlands	Dr. Ir. Martien Molenaar Professor, Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Acquisition, Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) The Netherlands	Swarna Subba Rao Surveyor General of India Survey of India
Mag. Dr. Georg Gartner Research Group Cartography Department of Geoinformation Vienna University of Technology Austria & President International Cartography Association (ICA)	Prof. Gottfried Konecny Emeritus Professor- Photogrammetry & RS & Former Head - Institute of Photogrammetry & GeoInformation, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany	Arnulf Chirstl President OSGeo

  

    

Chairperson Prof. Arup Dasgupta Managing Editor -Geospatial World Geospatial Media & Communications India
Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom Veldkamp Rector ITC The Netherlands	Prof. Gottfried Konecny Emeritus Professor- Photogrammetry & RS& Former Head - Institute of Photogrammetry & GeoInformation Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany	Dr. Somchet Thinaphong Chairman of Executive Board, Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) Thailand
Dr. S O Mohammed Director General & Chief Executive National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Nigeria	Lt. Col. Ali Al Shehhi Ground Station Manager Space Reconnaissance Centre UAE	Geoff Sawyer Secretary General European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC)
Dr. Gunter Schreier Deputy Head DLR German Remote Sensing Data Centre, Germany	John Hornsby Senior Director - Geospatial Strategy MDA Corporation Canada	Cliff Ogleby Congress Director ISPRS USA
Dr. Ger Nieuwpoort Director Netherland Space Office The Netherlands	Todd Douglas Taylor Senior Marketing Manager Trimble Germany	Dr. Beverley J Adams* Principal Beverley Adams Consulting UK
Dr. Derek Clarke Chief Director: National Geo-spatial, Information & Surveys and Mapping, Department of Rural Development & Land Reform, South Africa	Abhay Mittal Director – Commercial Sales DigitalGlobe Singapore	Y.Bhg. Datuk Prof. Sr Dr. Abdul Kadir Taib Director General Department of Survey and Mapping (JUPEM) Malaysia
David Stevens Programme Coordinator UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER United Nations	Tony Frazier Sr. Vice President - Marketing GeoEye USA	Prof. Dr. Ing. Christian Heipke Managing Director, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany
Daniel Eriksson PhD Head of Information Management Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining Switzerland

    

Chairperson Prof. Karl Donert President European Association of Geographers, UK	Guest Speaker Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam 11th President Republic of India
Speakers
Jack Dangermond Founder and President Esri USA	Prof. Henk Scholten CEO Geodan The Netherlands	Prof. Josef Strobl Director, Centre for Geoinformatics University of Salzburg Austria
Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom Veldkamp Rector ITC The Netherlands	Dr. Ing. Christian Heipke Managing Director Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany	Prof. David Maguire Vice Chancellor Greenwich University
Prof. Hiromichi Fukui Director of International Digital Earth	Chris Gibson Vice President Trimble	Preetha Pulusani CSO ROLTA India Ltd. India
Prof. Li Deren Wuhan University	Tom Joseph Director – Worldwide Education Autodesk	Dr. P S Roy Director Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Coordinator Associate Prof. Hrishikesh Samant Senior Associate Editor (honorary) Geospatialmedia & Communication India

    

Chairperson Kees De Zeeuw Director Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency The Netherlands	Opening Address Juergen Dold President Hexagon Geosystems Switzerland
Keynote Speakers
Gulnara Roll Head, Housing and Land Management Unit Trade and Sustainable Land Management Division, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Switzerland	Dr. Rohan Bennett Assistant Professor UNU School for Land Administration Studies University of Twente, The Netherlands	Bryn A. Fosburgh Vice President and General Manager, Trimble Navigation USA
Speakers
Y.Bhg. Dato’ Haron Bin Abdul Kader Director - E-Tanah Project Team, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, Malaysia	R.P.R. Rajapaksha Land Commissioner General Land Commissioner General's Department, Sri Lanka	Eng. Didier G Sagashya Deputy Director General Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda
Alexander Gonzalez Head Cadastral Inter American Development Bank Project, Land Administration, Costa Rica	Dr. Dimitris Rokos Director of Planning & Investments KTIMATOLOGIO S.A. (Hellenic Cadastre), Greece	Vo Anh Tuan Deputy Director VLAP General Department of Land Administration Vietnam
Anna Namhindo Director of Survey and Mapping Ministry of Lands Namibia	Peter Creuzer Head of Regional Directorate, Agency for Geoinformation and Land Development Lower Saxony, Regional Directorate Hannover, Germany	Margrét Hauksdóttir Deputy Director General Registers Iceland Iceland
Sedat Bakici Director General Directorate Geographical Infosystems Turkey	Eng. Dr. Prof. Moha El-Ayachi Head - Geodesy & Surveying School of Geomatic Sciences & Surveying Engineering, Morocco	Prof. Apostolos Arvanitis President and Managing Director KTIMATOLOGIO S.A., (Hellenic Cadastre), Greece
Nathalie Marthe Bismuth General Manager IGN France, International, France	Peter Sullivan Surveyor General of Canada Lands & International Boundary Commissioner Canada	Dr. Selassie D. Mayunga Director General, Ministry of Lands, Housing & Human Settlements Development, Tanzania

     

Chairperson Alessandro Annoni Head, Spatial Data Infrastructure Unit Joint Research Centre, European Commission Italy
Dr. R Siva Kumar CEO National Spatial Data Infrastructure India	Dr. Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes PhD, President of PC-IDEA Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE, Brazil	Hugo DeGroof DG Environment-F-4 & Chief Scientist, Research & Innovation Unit, European Commission, Belgium
Dr. Derek Clarke Chief Director: National Geo-spatial, Information & Surveys and Mapping, Department of Rural Development & Land Reform, South Africa	Maarten van Gool CFO Automotive Enterprise & Government, TomTom The Netherlands	Rob van de Velde Director GeoNovum The Netherlands
Camille AJ van der Harten Director, GeoBusiness Nederland The Netherlands	Dr. Khalid Al Haidan Director Central Informatics Organisation Kingdom of Bahrain	Daniel Shannon Sr. Program Manager Telus Canada
Mladen Stojic Senior Vice President ERDAS, Intergraph USA	Steven Ramage Executive Director Marketing and Communications OGC, International Norway	Fuziah Bt Abu Hanifah Director Malaysia Centre for Geospatial Data Infrastructure (MaCGDI) Malaysia
Ed Parsons Geospatial Technologist Google UK	Jean-Philippe Grelot Deputy Director General IGN France France	Bruce Thompson Chief Information Officer Corporate and Business Services, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Australia
Antti Jakobsson Programmes Manager EuroGeographics Belgium	Olaf Magnus Ostensen Director Norwegian Mapping Authority Norway	Dr. Robert F Austin Enterprise Applications Integration Manager, Technology and Innovation, City of Tampa, USA
Dr. Hiroshi Murakami Director General Geospatial Information Department Geospatial Information Authority, Japan	Dr. Ir. Yusuf Surachman Djajadiharja M.Sc. Deputy for Spatial Data Infrastructures BAKOSURTANAL Indonesia	Anil Kumar Manager Environmental Data Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jan Cees Venema Head UNSDI-NCO The Netherlands	Sebastian Mas-Mayoral Director National Centre for Geographic Information Spain	Ricky Brundritt EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional Microsoft Corporation, UK

  

    

Adri de la Ray GIS Manager ESKOM South Africa	Joep Luijten Senior Manager, Technology Services Geographic Information Systems, Capgemini, Belgium	Jack Verouden Data Management & Geomatics Manager, Shell International Exploration & Production, The Netherlands
Richard Zambuni Global Marketing Director Geospatial and Utilities Bentley, UK	Aisha Salem Al Khail Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) UAE	Dr. Ir. Linda Carton Assistant Professor-Spatial Planning Nijmegen School of Managemnet, Radboud University, The Netherlands
James Weninegar Manager Line Routing and Survey Alabama Power Alabama	Karen Mears Policy Specialist Network Strategy Distribution National Grid Transco UK	John Shaw CIO and Head of Information Services Mainstream’s Global Ireland
Radu Negoita GIS Manager - IT GDF Romania	Marius Trinca GIS Manager - Business DistrigazSud Retele Romania

    

Chairperson Prof. Dr. Ir. M (Martien)Molenaar Professor, Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Acquisition Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) The Netherlands
Warwick McDonald’s Head, Environmental Information Services \Bureau of Meteorology Australia	Daan van Os Advisor Brabant Water The Netherlands	Dr. Dimitri Solomatine Professor of Hydroinformatics UNESCO-IHE The Netherlands
Slavco Velickov Water Industry Sales Director EMEA, Bentley The Netherlands	Richard Appiah Otoo Head GIS Ghana Water Company Limited Ghana	Dr. C N (Chris) Bremmer Business Line Manager Built Environment TNO The Netherlands
Helena Fourie Sub-Directorate Geographic Information & Archiving, Department of Water Affairs, South Africa	Eng. Atif A Karrani Head of GIS Department Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority UAE	Dr. Ir. J.M. (Hanneke) Schuurmans Adviseur Hydrologie DHV The Netherlands
Patrick Vercruyssen Pidpa Director - Customer Relations Belgium

    

Ir. René van der Plas Director Port Development & Construction Port of Rotterdam The Netherlands	Geoff Zeiss Director Utility Industry Program, Autodesk USA	Frans Van Surksum Manager Registration Landbase Volker Wessels Telecom, The Netherlands
F M (Fred) van der Weijde General Manager at Geodan Van den Berg The Netherlands	Ir. Henri VeldhuisHoofd Asset Management Software Grontmij Nederland B.V. The Netherlands	Dr. Sisi Zlatanova Associate Professor, GIS Technology, Section OTB, Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
Ton de Vries Solutions Executive Government, Bentley USA	Caroline J Groot Msc Senior Advisor Strategy & Policy, Cadastre Land Registry & Mapping Agency, The Netherlands	Kiran Solipuram Telecom Consultant Infotech Enterprises Ltd India
Gerwin Duine Team Manager Roads, Manager Infrastructure Innovation, DHV BV The Netherlands	David Rimmington Regional Sales Manager Cadcorp UK	Hans Nobbe Department of Data and ICT, Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment The Netherlands
Andrew Tewkesbury Astrium Services GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist	Yvette Ellenkamp Department of Policy on Geo-information Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment The Netherlands	Wayne Marsh GIS Manager Crossrail UK
Nigel Stroud Geometry Information Manager Knowledge & Information Management, Technical & Quality BAA Ltd, Heathrow Airport Limited	Shafik Jiwani Executive Vice President-Global GIS Business Development Orion Technology, A Division of Rolta Canada Ltd Canada	B BE. Rick Klooster Coordinator unit Visualization Department of (Spatial) Information services (Municipality of Apeldoorn) The Netherlands
James Brayshaw Director Customers and Markets Ordnance Survey UK

    

Tony Boobier EMEA Insurance Leader IBM Business Analytics IBM UK Ltd	Ing. A A M (Bart) Kusse Manager Competence Center Geo-ICT, Capgemini The Netherlands	Daniel Shannon Sr. Program Manager Telus, Canada
Dr. Robert F Austin Enterprise Applications Integration Manager Technology & Innovation City of Tampa, USA	Upendar Kasam PMP,Prince2, e-TOM & ITIL , Sr.Consulting Manager/Project Manager , Competency and Consultancy Unit (CCU), Infotech Enterprise Limited, India	Karolina van Schrojenstein Lantman - Orlinska Geospatial Advisor Grontmij Nederland B.V.
Hans Viehmann Product Manager Manager, Oracle Deutschland Germany	Karl Mullins Principal Consultant Assimil8 Limited, U.K	Joachim Figura CEO, CISS TDI GmbH Germany
Bert Klaassens Senior Advisor at Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA) the Netherlands	ir. A.A. Kwitowski Manager Geo-Informatics BGT, Land Registration and Cadastre, DHV The Netherlands	Nigel Davis Executive Director Willis Group UK
Adrian W. Zevenbergen European Space Imaging Managing Director Germany	Hisham Yousif Sater Director – Information Technology Ministry of Works Bahrain	Ahmed Abukhater PhD, GISP Global Director of Product Management Pitney Bowes Software
Eszter Pattantyus VP Map Product Unit at TomTom How the Digital Map Creates New Markets

    

Chairperson Keith J. Masback President United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, USA	Keynote Speakers Barry Barlow National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) USA	Heinrich Liebing Deputy Director Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office and Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service, USA
Speakers
Colonel RNLAF Peter LJ Loukes MA Project Leader GeoInt Chief of Intelligence Support Division The Netherlands	Col. John Kedar Commander Joint Aeronautical & Geographical Organisation (JAGO), MoD, UK	Adam C. Denman Vice President & Managing Director EMEA Intermap Technologies Inc.
Col. Andries Mahapa Senior Staff Officer South Africa Army Engineer Formation South Africa	Dr. A Stewart Walker Product Director BAE Systems USA	Air Cdre Mark Ashwell (Retd) Managing Partner MLA Consultancy Services USA
Dr. Christopher K Tucker Chairman and Chief Executive Officer The MapStory Foundation USA	Sanjay K Agarwalla Chief Executive Officer Integrated Digital Systems India	Capt. Ibrahim Alzaabi UAE Air Force, Space Reconnaissance Center United Arab Emirates
Richard R Smith Force Information Manager British Transport Police UK	Steve P Wallach Senior Vice President Product Integration GeoEye USA	Joerg F Herrmann Senior Strategy Manager Astrium GmbH Germany
Terry Ford Director, J2 United States Africa Command USA	John Teufert Geo-Officer and GeoMetOc Group Head The NATO C3 Agency The Netherlands	Major Osvaldo da Cruz Morett Neto 3rd Survey Division the Army Staff, Brazil
Stephen Wood Vice President - Analysis Center DigitalGlobe USA

    

Chairperson M Christian Braux Head - Mineral Resources BRGM France
Ashok Kumar Singh Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) India	Piyush Pandey Chief Executive Officer EICE India	Marksuel Bastos Manager- Technology Geodesy Geo-processing and Oceanography Petrobras S.A, Brazil
Francois Robida Deputy Head Information Systems & Technologies BRGM, France	Puguh Sarwanto Head - GIS Development Total E&P Indonesia	Norman Banks CEO Southern Mapping Company
Matthew Mccauley Managing Director Atlass (Aust) Pty Ltd Australia	Dr. Kumar Navulur Director - Product Management DigitalGlobe USA	Narendra Singh General Manager CMPDI India
Ruedi Wagner Head -Product Management Airborne Imaging Leica Geosystems, USA	Prof. Dr. F D (Freek) van der Meer Chairman & Vice-Dean , Dept of Earth System Science University of Twente, (ITC), The Netherlands	Peter Gyuris Geonardo Ltd Hungary

  

    

Chairperson Prof. Dr. Ing. Christian Heipke Managing Director, Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ing. Peter Reinartz Head of Department, German, Aerospace Center, Remote Sensing, Technology Institute Germany	Prof. Dr. Ing. Dieter Fritsch Head Institute for Photogrammetry Germany	Prof. Dr. Ir. M G (George) Vosselman Professor in Geo-Information Extraction with Sensor Systems University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands
Dr.-Ing. Werner MAYR Managing Director GerMAP GmbH Germany	Prof. Dr. Stephan Nebiker Professor, School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland	Prof. Ian Dowman Emeritus Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing & Editor-Europe, Geopatial World, UK
Prof. Gottfried Konecny Emeritus Professor- Photogrammetry & RS & Former Head - Institute of Photogrammetry & GeoInformation Leibniz Universität Hannover Germany

    

Chairperson Prof. Dr. Ir. P J M (Peter) van Oosterom Professor, Delft University of Technology OTB, Section GIS Technology The Netherlands
Dr. Jantien Stoter Associate Professor & Consultant Geo-ICT TU Delft & Kadaster & Geonovum The Netherlands	Dr. Michiel van der Meulen Chief Geologist TNO Geological Survey The Netherlands	Wouter Brokx Managing Director Imagem BV The Netherlands
Dr. Ir. Martijn Meijers Postdoc Researcher Delft University of Technology The Netherlands

    

Chairperson Prof. Josef Strobl Director Centre for Geoinformatics University of Salzburg Austria
Prof. Henk Scholten Chief Executive Officer GEODAN The Netherlands	Euro Beinat Vice President Location Solutions Zebra Technologies The Netherlands	Steven Ramage Executive Director Marketing and Communications OGC, International Norway
Dr. Bernd Resch Visiting Professor University of Osnabrueck Germany	Florian Fischer Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Geographic Information Science Austria

    

Chairperson Jan Willem van Eck Director of Strategy, Esri Nederland & President, Geo-Informatie Nederland The Netherlands
Ingrid Vanden Berghe Administrator-General National Geographic Institute Belgium	Prof. Karl Donert President European Association of Geographers, UK	Tanguy De Lestré Senior Public Affairs/Policy Advisor and Coordinator AGORIA
Dr. Ir. M A Salzmann Director Strategy & Policy Cadastre Cadastre Land Registry & Mapping Agency The Netherlands	ir. A.A. Kwitowski Manager Geo-Informatics BGT, Land Registration and Cadastre, DHV The Netherlands	Noud Hooyman Department of Policy on Geo-information Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment
Francesco PIGNATELLI European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit

    

Chairperson Mark E Reichardt President & CEO Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) USA
Juergen Wahlen Image Analyst European Union Satellite Centre Spain	Peter ter Haar Director of Products Ordnance Survey UK	Dr. rer. Thomas H Kolbe Professor Technical University of Berlin Germany
Andrew Turner Chief Technology Officer GeoIQ USA	Martin Lechner Chief Technology Officer Wikitude GmbH Austria	Andreas Wytzisk CEO 52°North GmbH Germany
Olivier Cottray Coordinator-Information Services Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) Switzerland

    

Chairperson Prof. Dr. Ir. A K (Arnold) Bregt Professor Geo-information Science, Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Graham Hunter Chief Executive Officer 3D Laser Mapping Ltd UK

Laurent Geeraerts Aerial & Mobile Solutions & Services Couderé b.v.b.a. Belgium

    

Speakers
Keynote Arnulf Christl Geospatial Systems Architect and Project Manager-Metaspatial President- OSGeo Germany	Anthony Tuffour GIS Technical Manager, Master Data Management, Finance and Resources - ICT London Borough of Hackney, UK	Ir. Pieter G. Meijer Program Manager Publieke Dienstverlening op de Kaart (PDOK), Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands
Dr. Javier Morales Assistant Professor Faculty of Geo -Information Science and Earth Observation University of Twente, The Netherlands	Chris Holmes President OpenGeo USA	Marc Vloemans Partner Age of Peers The Netherlands
Drs. Thijs van Menen Senior Advisor Rijkswaterstaat	Jeroen Ticheler Director GeoCat bv The Netherlands