Chairperson and Keynote Speaker
Carl Reed
CTO and Executive Director of Standards Program
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
USA

Biography
Dr. Carl Reed is currently the Chief Technology Officer and an Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Dr. Reed is responsible for facilitating the OGC standards development process, chairing the OGC Architecture Board, and Chairing the OGC Planning Committee. Dr. Reed also participates in and collaborates with other standards organizations, including OASIS, NENA, W3C, ISO, and the IETF. As a result, Reed has contributed to numerous internet and web standards. During his tenure at the OGC, Reed has written numerous book chapters and articles and presented dozens of keynotes at geospatial/GIS conferences. Prior to the OGC, Reed was the vice president of geospatial marketing at Intergraph and pervious to that President of Genasys Americas. In the late 1970’s, Dr. Reed designed and implemented the first interactive (and open source) vector based GIS, the Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS). Dr. Reed received his PhD in Geography, specializing in systems architectures for GIS technology, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. In 1995 and in 2009, Reed was voted one of the 10 most influential people in the GIS industry. For his contributions to the geospatial industry, in 2009 Reed was inducted into the URISA GIS Hall of Fame.

Abstract
Tackling climate change through standards: Redux

The WMO 2004 Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCC states, “"Ensuring that high-quality climate data records are collected, retained and made accessible for use by current and future generations of scientists and decision-makers is a key objective of this Plan. As a result, investment in the data management and analysis components of the system is as important as the acquisition of the data." Many OGC member organizations have a commitment to collect, share, model, and visualize climate data. As such, the OGC has domain working groups for meteorology, oceans, hydrology, and other geoscience focus areas that have a policy or other vested interest in climate monitoring, research, modeling, and other analytics. This paper will provide an overview of OGC standards work as well as Member and community activities using OGC standards for climate related applications. The discussion begins with an overview of the 2009 Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP) and concludes with observations on work yet to be accomplished.