AGI GeoCommunity ’10: Call for Soapbox Pitches

It’s back!  Following a successful first run at last year’s conference we’re pleased to open this year’s call for pitches on this year’s Soapbox at the AGI GeoCommunity ’10 conference.

A Soapbox pitch is not a conference paper. The format is fixed: you have exactly 15 slides, a fixed 20 seconds per slide, to talk for 5 minutes. The scope is up to you – maybe it’s a product or service pitch, maybe it’s a plea to do geo differently, maybe it’s just an irreverent look at our industry and the factions within it. Last year’s pitches covered the entire gamut.

This year we again are looking to fill ten pitches.

The event will take place in the Holiday Inn’s octagonal bar at the end of the first day (Thursday 29 Sept) before the AGI Party – and geobingo and free geobeers will again be part of the event to tempt in the audience! The event will be hosted by Jeremy Morley of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Geospatial Science.

So, if you want a chance to be heard on the Soapbox this year it couldn't be easier, please send these three details to Claire Huppertz at the AGI (claire.huppertz@agi.org.uk) by Monday 13 September:

1. Your name
2. Your affiliation
3. The title of your pitch

The ten pitches will be chosen to give an event which covers a range of topics in the geo-industry in a relatively light-hearted format. 

Please note that you’ll need to provide your 15 slides by the end of 23^rd September so we can integrate all the pitches into one rolling slide-deck. 

We look forward to your thoughts!