The conference will be structured around the six (6) themes below. The topics below are suggested to provide some ideas of the focus the event and spark the imagination of contributors.

• Public Policy (for example), Government consultations and reviews; UK Census of Population 2011; General Election 2010; INSPIRE; Climate change and sustainability; Total Place; opening of government data ('making public data public'); the role of the state versus industry as information creators and consumers.
• Governance and management (for example), rapid decision making; management information and business intelligence; managing in a downturn; driving change; business continuity; keeping up with the competition; maintaining an advantage.
• Compliance and regulation (for example), risk identification, mitigation and management; legislation; carbon reduction; business continuity; information commissioner oversight.
• Data access and new opportunities (for example), Information Commission; opening of government data; data.gov.uk; hyper-local information; augmented reality; new approaches via a combination of Software, Data, Infrastructure as a service; the provision of information in disaster and emergency situations; balancing data quality and data acquisition and ownership cost; volunteer generated information; attitudes to information use; new visualisations/ views.
• The drive for efficiency (for example), Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP); supporting front line services ('Putting the Frontline First'); back-office rationalisation; cutting cost; smarter procurement and supply chain management; the role of open and/ or free versus commercial options; quantifying savings; quantifying new gains.
• Information management and information assurance (for example), information security; the balance of personal information collection versus public safety; the provision of information in disaster and emergency situations; personal, government and commercial rights; securing and protecting information and data; business continuity; disaster recovery.

There is some, deliberate duplication across the themes. The topics listed above are not exhaustive but do reflect the major issues identified by the AGI GeoCommunity '10 Conference Committee as topical and relevant.

The pattern Innovate - Connect - Succeed, should be adopted by all contributors. All papers will need to provide clear evidence of a) how a new opportunity/ approach has been identified and what the 'locational' aspect is b) how the 'locational' aspect has been connected to its wider context , and c) what the positive outcome was/ will be. All papers will be need to demonstrate a significant impact so as to address these three elements pass our 'pivotal' 'so what?' test.

In order to reach out to a broad audience, the use of overly technical 'geo' specific terminology is strongly discouraged, as is divisive or pejorative language.

THANK YOU FOR YOU INTEREST - WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR CONTRIBUTION.