Athina Trakas
Director for European Services
Open Geospatial Consortium
Germany

Biography
Athina is Director for European Services for the international open standards organisation the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). In her role she is the contact person for OGC in Europe, responsible for the Consortium's activities and networking. This includes raising awareness and increase application of OGC standards by technology providers and users, connecting with European stakeholder organisations, the European Commission and members. She supports regional and national forum activities and manages OGC outreach activities in Europe. Athina has a diploma in Geography and started working in the field of GIS in 1998. Since 2008 she is charter member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).