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EMINENT SPEAKERS

UELI MAURER

Member of the Swiss Federal Council, Head of the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, Switzerland

HON’BLE ALHAJI A.B. INUSAH FUSEINI

Minister for Lands and
Natural Resources
Ghana

STEVE W. BERGLUND

Chief Executive Officer
Trimble
USA

CHRIS GIBSON

Vice President
Trimble
USA

JEAN PHILIPPE AMSTEIN

Director
Swisstopo
Switzerland

RAYMOND O’CONNOR

President and CEO
Topcon Positioning Systems
USA

Actuary Ronaldo Ocampo-Alcántar

Vice President – National Geographic and Environment Information
INEGI
Mexico

JUERGEN DOLD

President
Hexagon Geosystems
Switzerland

JAY W. FREELAND

President and Chief
Executive Officer
Faro Technologies
USA

CHRISTOPHER CAPPELLI

Director of Sales
Esri
USA

STEVEN HAGAN

Vice President Development
for Server Technologies
Oracle Corporation
USA

AMAR HANSPAL

Vice President - IPG Product Group Autodesk
USA

CARLO DES DORIDES

Executive Director
European GNSS Agency
Czech Republic

PETER HANSFORD

Chief Construction Adviser
London Government
UK

DORINE BURMANJE

Chairman Executive Board
Cadastre Land Registry and Mapping Agency
The Netherlands

TOM WALSH

Managing Director
Government, Tax & Accounting
Thomson Reuters
USA

PASCAL BERTEAUD

Director General
IGN
France

BERNHARD BRENNER

Executive Director of
Airbus Defence & Space
France

BARBARA RYAN

Director
Group on Earth Observations
(GEO) Secretariat
Switzerland

DR. WENDY WATSON-WRIGHT

Assistant Director General &
Executive Secretary, Intergovern-
mental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
France

REINHARD SCHULTE-BRAUCKS

Head of Unit, Copernicus
Infrastructure, DG Enterprise &
Industry, European Commission, Belgium

SALLY FEGAN-WYLES

Assistant Secretary General
United Nations
Director-UNITAR
Switzerland

MICHAEL JONES

Chief Technology Advocate
Google
USA

CHAIRPERSONS

GEORGE GARTNER

President
International Cartography
Association (ICA)
Austria

HUGO DE GROOF

Chief Scientist
Research and Innovation Unit at DG Environment
European Commission

DR. VANESSA LAWRENCE CB

Director General & Chief Executive
Ordnance Survey
UK

PRASHANT SHUKLE

Director General for
Mapping Information Branch
Geomatics Canada
Natural Resources
Canada*
*Tentative

GWF 2013 : AT A GLANCE

Stakeholder Participation Over the Years


36% Technology Providers
28% Users*
25% Policy Makers
11% Academia & Non-Government

*This includes end users from industry verticals such as Agriculture, Mining, Construction, Utilities, Land Administration, Governance, Energy, Public Safety, Climate Change, Environment, Water, Transport

Exhibitor Participation Over the Years


32% Solution & Service Providers
28% Software Companies
25% Data Providers
11% User Organizations
9% National Geospatial Agencies
7% Hardware Providers
6% Academic Institutes
3% Multilateral Agencies

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Programme Objectives:
  • Need for considerable capacity building through industry engagement with education and training initiatives
  • Utilisation the capabilities of the geospatial workforce to their full potential and satisfied with the current growth trends?
  • Difficulties in stepping on the next level and a challenge in procuring competent human resources
  • Education and training institutions playing their role effectively and producing the fit-for-job graduates
 
 
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