25-29 May 2015 lisbon congress center, portugal
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Bio & Abstract
 

Chair and Lead Speaker
Dan Shannon

Senior Program Manager
TELUS
Canada

Biography
Daniel Shannon is a Senior Program Manager in the Technology Strategy division with TELUS Communications. Previously he served as Systems Architect responsible for developing TELUS’ Geospatial Technology Road Map. He was also Manager of Data Operations for TELUS Geomatics. Dan has authored several GIS business cases, and project managed large GIS data conversion and systems migrations. Daniel graduated from the College of New Caledonia's Drafting Technology program. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Knowledge Management from Royal Roads University and an MBA from Athabasca University. Over the past several years Daniel has spoken and taught across North America, Asia and the Middle East on Geospatial issues such as GIS Project Management, Return on Investment and GIS Re-engineering. Daniel is the President of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and is a Director and Past President of British Columbia’s Integrated Cadastral Initiative Society (ICIS). He is also a member of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Geomatics Advisory Committee.