imaGIne 2014

08 October 2014

08:15

09:00

Registration

8A

09:00

10:30

Plenary Session: Opening

09:00

09:05

Welcome: Mr. Bruce McCormack, President of EUROGI

09:05

09:25

Opening Address: Mr Roberto Viola, Deputy Director General of DG-CONNECT/European Commission

09:25

9:40

Opening Address: Mr Detlef Dauke, Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany, representing Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel

9:40

10:05

European Geo-Information in a Global Perspective Mr Dean Angelides, Corporate Director Worldwide Alliance Network, Esri, USA

10:05

10:30

Top Geo-Information and Geo-Technology Priorities in China – a Comparison with the European Situation Mr. Hui Lin, Professor and Director, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Founding President of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science, Editor-in-Chief Annals of GIS

10:30

11:00

Coffee / Tea

8B

11:00

12:30

Three Parallel Sessions: GI Applications and Impacts

GI for a Sustainable Future Energy Supply (DDGI / DE) 

GI and the Demographic Change (Geoforum / DK)

GI in the Insurance Business (Swiss Re and others)

8S

12:30

14:00

Anniversary celebration: EUROGI and EUROGI member associations: DDGI, EARSC, GI Norden, HUNAGI

12:30

13:00

Addresses by Mr Bruce McCormack -President of EUROGI, Mr Udo Stichling – President of DDGI, Mr Geoff Sawyer – Secretary General of EARSC, Mr Jesper Høi Skovdal – the Network Coordinator of GI Norden  and Mr Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp – Secretary General of HUNAGI

13:00

13:30

Celebratory speech by Dr. Gerhard Thiele, ESA Astronaut: “My endeavour on board the international Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 2000 and the impact of global Digital Elevation Models”

8C

14:00

15:30

Three Parallel Sessions: GI Applications and Impacts

Open Source and Open Data for GI (HUNAGI / HU & ISPIK / PL)

GI for Smart Cities (Geonovum / NL)

Geostat: Integration of Statistics and GI in a Common EU Info Infrastructure (DG-EUROSTAT)

15:30

16:00

Coffee / Tea

8D

16:00

17:30

Three Parallel Sessions: GI Applications and Impacts

GI for Environment Protection, resource management and Spatial Planning (IRLOGI / IE)

GI for Job Creation and Economic Growth (AFIGEO / FR)

COPERNICUS and the Big Geospatial Data Challenge 1: User Uptake (Copernicus Services, DG-ENTR)

09 October 2014

08:15

09:00

Registration

9A

09:00

10:30

Plenary Session: Today’s Challenges to the GI Community

09:00

09:05

Welcome: Mr François Salgé, Vice-President of EUROGI

09:05

09:35

European GI – Key Strengths & Weaknesses- Evolution & Trends: Mr Claudio Mingrino, Executive Director EMEA of Hexagon Geospatial

09:35

10:05

Linked Data, Internet of Things, Cloud & GI: 
Prof. Manfred Hauswirth, Technical University Berlin, Director FOKUS (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin)

10:05

10:30

The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management UN-GGIM What it is, what it means for Europe: Mr Peter ter Haar, Director of Products, Ordnance Survey, UK

10:3

11:00

Coffee / Tea

9B

11:00

12:30

Three Parallel Sessions: GI Applications and Impacts

Use of GI in Geo-Marketing and Real Estate Management (SOGI / OSIG / CH With Geo-Marketing Industry)

Towards Implementation of the European Union Location Framework (JRC)

COPERNICUS and the Big Geospatial Data Challenge 2: Final Workshop of Market-Pull-Pack 2, (ESA, EUROGI & member associations)

12:30

14:00

Lunch & Fair

9C

14:00

15:30

Three Parallel Sessions: GI Applications and Impacts

Education & Training in GI (AGEO / AT and Salzburg University)

Surveyors for GI- GI for Surveyors (CLGE)

Making Sense of Big and Real-time Data for Better Action in Dynamic Situations (GI-Industry)

15:30

16:00

Coffee / Tea

9D

16:00

17:30

Plenary Session: Summary and Conclusions

16:00

17:00

Panel of Rapporteurs from parallel sessions

17:00

17:30

Conference Messages / Closure: Mr. Bruce McCormack, President of EUROGI