AGI GeoCommunity '12: Conference Programme Announced

The conference committee met at the conference venue in late May to construct this year’s programme of content.

Twelve themes across five streams of papers will be delivered along with plenary and keynote sessions and a varied mix of social and networking activity.

The twelve themes are as follows:

• Who, What, Where?
• Environmental Impacts
• Emerging Technologies
• Data
• Sharing Best Practice
• Social Geography
• Engagement
• Health Geography
• BIM
• Opening UP
• Cloud Solutions

To see the whole programme go to http://www.agi.org.uk/conference-programme/

More about AGI GeoCommunity 

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 '12 will also offer a select number of sponsorship spaces to showcase new products and services and network with delegates both at the sponsors' exhibition pods and in the conference sessions and social events. Prices are frozen for existing sponsorship packages and a new category has been created for Small Business and Education Members, plus companies that are AGI members can get additional booking discounts. The conference format will offer our sponsors an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with the key practitioners and influencers across government and the commercial sectors.

AGI GeoCommunity Website: www.agigeocommunity.com

Excellent opportunity to sponsor two AGI Annual Awards

Every year in November, the AGI celebrates and marks outstanding achievement and innovation in the UK geocommunity at the AGI Annual Awards.

This year will be the 23rd year of the awards and presently two of the award categories have become available for sponsorship.

The two awards are as follows:

• Innovation and Best Practice (Private Sector) Award
• AGI Student of the Year Award

If your organisation operates in either or both of these sectors perhaps you would like to support these national geographic information awards? Not only would you be helping to award achievement and innovation, but it would also clearly associate your organisation with these sectors and its dedication to their development.

Sponsorship of each award is only £525 ex VAT. If you would like further information about sponsoring one or both of the awards please email Chris Holcroft, AGI Director & CEO.

AGI GeoCommunity '12: Another bumper crop of paper abstracts

Once again AGI GeoCommunity has proven popular with interested conference speakers.

This year the conference community has received no less than 92 paper abstracts for consideration. This is more than double what can usually be accommodated in the AGI GeoCommunity conference programme.

"We are extremely pleased at the level of interest shown in AGI GeoCommunity by speakers" said Chris Holcroft, AGI Director & CEO. "It reflects the currency and relevance of the event format and its popularity as a platform for the sharing of experience, innovation and best practice. I would like to thank everyone who has submitted an abstract and wish them the best of luck during the forthcoming marking and programme setting process.

The AGI GeoCommunity '12 conference committee, (chaired by Jeremy Morley of the University of Nottingham), will gather in Nottingham at the end of May to agree and construct this year's programme and is busy in the meantime marking all the abstracts received. The conference programme will be published in early June.

More about AGI GeoCommunity 

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 '12 will also offer a select number of sponsorship spaces to showcase new products and services and network with delegates both at the sponsors' exhibition pods and in the conference sessions and social events. Prices are frozen for existing sponsorship packages and a new category has been created for Small Business and Education Members, plus companies that are AGI members can get additional booking discounts. The conference format will offer our sponsors an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with the key practitioners and influencers across government and the commercial sectors.

AGI GeoCommunity Website: www.agigeocommunity.com

More AGI GeoCommunity '12 Sponsors

The AGI is extremely pleased to announce three further sponsors for AGI GeoCommunity '12.

Civica has taken Gold Sponsorship, whilst Cadcorp and Océ have opted for Silver sponsor packages.

The three companies join a number of leading organisations that have already sponsored this September's event. Orther sponsors include: Esri UK, Ordnance Survey. GGP Systems, Leica Geosystems and UNIGIS.

"With some months to go before AGI GeoCommunity '12 it is excellent to see a good level of support by the industry for the conference. Sponsorship is vital to all aspects of AGI GeoCommunity. It helps us keep down attendance costs for all delegates and the presence of a wide-range of sponsors enriches the event. We are extremely grateful to our sponsors and hope all will have a rewarding conference", said Chris Holcroft, AGI Director and CEO.

As before Silver, Gold and Platinum sponsorship options are available. But new for 2012 is a Bronze package especially designed for members of the AGI from the Small Business and Education categories.

Sponsor prices are frozen at 2011 rates and AGI Sponsor and Corporate members can get discounts on Silver, Gold and Platinum options.

In 2011, nine out of 10 sponsors said that sponsoring AGI GeoCommunity was "good value" or "very much so".

Sponsorship details can be seen HERE.

About Civica

Civica is an international market leader in specialist IT systems and business process services for the public sector in particular. Broad market capability and presence make Civica a leading supplier for local government, education, social housing, health care, and blue light, together with other regulated markets including pension administration, utilities and legal services.

About Cadcorp

Cadcorp is a UK based developer and supplier of industry leading geographic information systems (GIS) and web mapping software. Its cost-effective solutions help organisations in the public and private sectors maximise their investment in geographic information by making it easier to share spatial data between people and between systems.

About Océ

Océ is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and colour display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers.

More about AGI GeoCommunity 

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 '12 will also offer a select number of sponsorship spaces to showcase new products and services and network with delegates both at the sponsors' exhibition pods and in the conference sessions and social events. Prices are frozen for existing sponsorship packages and a new category has been created for Small Business and Education Members, plus companies that are AGI members can get additional booking discounts. The conference format will offer our sponsors an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with the key practitioners and influencers across government and the commercial sectors.

AGI GeoCommunity Website: www.agigeocommunity.com

Tim Stonor is announced as AGI GeoCommunity '12 plenary speaker

The AGI Conference Committee is extremely pleased to announce that internationally acclaimed architect & urban planner Tim Stonor will be presenting a plenary session at AGI GeoCommunity '12.

Tim first spoke to an AGI audience earlier this year at the AGI Environmental SIG event in March 2012. There he was extremely well received for his engaging style and extremely pertinent look at the role of GI to support creativity in urban planning. 

Tim is an expert in the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns in buildings and urban areas. His work explores how social, economic and environmental value is created by the movement, interaction and transaction of people in space.

He advises governments, private organisations and communities worldwide. His approach combines robust analysis and visionary thinking. 

Tim is Managing Director of the strategic consulting firm Space Syntax Limited, which he founded in 1996. A director of the Academy of Urbanism, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, winner of the prestigious Harvard Loeb Fellowship and Advocate for the EPSRC, he is a Visiting Professor at University College London.

He speaks regularly at conferences throughout the world.  

More about AGI GeoCommunity 

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 '12 will also offer a select number of sponsorship spaces to showcase new products and services and network with delegates both at the sponsors' exhibition pods and in the conference sessions and social events. Prices are frozen for existing sponsorship packages and a new category has been created for Small Business and Education Members, plus companies that are AGI members can get additional booking discounts. The conference format will offer our sponsors an unrivalled opportunity to meet and network with the key practitioners and influencers across government and the commercial sectors.

AGI GeoCommunity Website: www.agigeocommunity.com