Geospatial industry is currently going through transformation towards being value based solution centric industry, wherein several stakeholders (who have traditionally been working as standalone isolated players) are exploring opportunities of integration, convergence and embedment, further leading to evolution of industry workflows and seamless delivery of solutions adding value to geospatial context and content in world economy and society. This is indeed very exciting times for geospatial community and offers greater opportunities for our profession to make difference in world economy and society. At the same time, greater opportunities do require greater commitment and collaboration amongst key industry stakeholders to develop, harness, and convert this opportunity in larger business and professional gains.

Geospatial Business Leadership Summit shall be intereactive and participative in nature and networking over tea/coffee breaks shall offer opportunity for one to one interactions. Programe shall touch upon below mentioned topics.

• Overview of Geospatial Industry Trends and Directions
• Industry and Geography wise Business Opportunities and Dynamics
• Geospatial Policies Driving Business Opportunties
• Geographical Hubs Offering Attractive Provisions for Geospatial Business
• Perspectives of User and Consulting Industries

• CEO and Business Heads of Geospatial Companies
• CEO/CIO and Divisional Heads of User Industries
• Administrative and Political Leaders associated with Policy Making Agencies
• Heads of National Geospatial Agencies focusing on Public Private Partnerships
• Investment and Financial Institutions

Geospatial Business Leadership Summit shall be an unique opportunity for geospatial leaders to share, learn, deliberate, collaborate and think move forward with emerging trends and opportunities of geospatial business. However there could be several TAKEAWAYS for different set of geospatial industry stakeholders as below:

• Broad Understanding of larger geospatial industry eco-system and Business Directions
• Learning about relevance and dynamics of several key stakeholders of the geospatial eco-system including technology companies, system integrator/Consulting companies, user industries, policy making agencies, and geospatial organisations
• Best practices and successful public-private partnership models
• Socialisation and Networking with Peer Group
• Opportunities for Business Collaborations

Date: 26 May 2015 Time: 1400 – 1830 hrs Hall: Pavilion 3C

* Tentative