The AGI is delighted to announce that Andrew Watson will be a plenary speaker at this year's AGI conference.
Andrew is the Deputy Director of Information at the Metropolitan Police.
He is also the national police lead for GIS, a member of the PSMA GI Customer Group and was responsible for the delivery of GIS products in support of Olympic Security.
He graduated from Strathclyde University with an honours degree in civil engineering and spent 12 years working as a chartered civil engineer, mostly on highways projects. Having moved over into the information and technology world, he became the CIO for the British Transport Police in 2004 and moved to the Met in 2009.
Andrew has been responsible for developing GIS policy and practice in the Police Service since 2005 and recently hosted the first ever Police GIS conference.
More about AGI GeoCommunity '12
AGI GeoCommunity '12: Sharing the Power of Place will be held at East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham on 18 - 20 September 2012.
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.
The AGI GeoCommunity series has a proven reputation as a 'must-attend' event for a range of service delivery managers and information management and technology professionals. Previous delegates and speakers have been drawn from Central and Local Government, Utilities, Health, Emergency Services, Infrastructure, Insurance, Marketing, Business Intelligence, Finance and Technology sectors.
AGI GeoCommunity '12 will open on the 18th September with the popular pre-conference 'Icebreaker' evening event and offer two full days of thought leadership, practical education, knowledge transfer and real world best practice and case studies.
AGI GeoCommunity ‘11 attracted 450 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 97% of those polled thought the event offered value for money and 89% felt it fulfilled their expectations. 97% said the venue was ‘good’ or ‘excellent. A full report of delegate feedback is available on the AGI website.
AGI GeoCommunity Website: www.agigeocommunity.com