AGI GeoCommunity '11: Gary Gale joins plenary speaker line-up

The AGI is delighted to announce that Gary Gale will be a plenary speaker at AGI GeoCommunity '11.

A self professed "geek with a life", Gary's had a lifelong love affair with maps since discovering the Harry Beck map of the London Underground on the back of the London A-Z street atlas at an early age. After "growing up and getting a proper job" he now lives in Teddington in South West London with his family and works in London and Berlin as the Director of the Ovi Places Registry for Nokia; he's also the co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf (AGI W3G) and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location Council User Group.

Prior to Nokia, Gary was at Yahoo!, leading their Geo Technologies group in the UK, releasing GeoPlanet and Placemaker and providing the geo heavy lifting for Flickr and Fire Eagle; he's also been at Digicon, developing geophysical technologies to aid in the search for natural resources and at the European Space Agency Research Institute in Rome, Italy, participating in the development and launch of ERS-1, Europe's first remote sensing satellite.

Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, he blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.

"Gary is an enthusiastic, highly knowledgeable and entertaining 'geo-speaker'" said Chris Holcroft, AGI Director & CEO. "He is very active at the cutting edge of international mapping services with Nokia and he can bring an incisive perspective on historical as well as future factors and trends. I am extremely pleased that Gary will be able to take to the podium at AGI GeoCommunity this September" he added.

Gary joins our other plenary speakers already announced Emer Coleman, Sir Ian Magee CB, and Professor Danny Dorling.

About AGI GeoCommunity '11

The AGI is pleased to announce that this year’s AGI Annual Conference - AGI GeoCommunity '11 - will be held in Nottingham on the 20 – 22 September 2011, at the well appointed, centrally located East Midlands Conference Centre.

AGI GeoCommunity is the largest and most comprehensive independent conference in the UK digital mapping and geospatial calendar. The conference provides real insight and leadership in current geographic information and location based issues via a range of keynote addresses and conference papers as well as by hands on training and face to face delegate networking.

AGI GeoCommunity '11 will open on the 21 September and offer two full days of thought leadership, practical education, knowledge transfer and real world best practice and case studies. The popular pre-conference 'Icebreaker'  evening event will be hosted the night before conference opens on the 20 September 2011.

AGI GeoCommunity ‘10 attracted 500 delegates. The residential format, introduced in 2007, is now well established and the event has proven its growth and sustainability. Feedback from last year’s delegates indicated that 98% of those polled thought the event offered value for money and 90% felt it fulfilled their expectations. Over 90% stated that they would probably or definitely attend in 2011 and the same number gave voiced approval for the 2 day/2 day plus Icebreaker format now used.

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