AGI GeoCommunity '12 Conference Programme

Programme is subject to change without advance notice

Speaker information can be found here.

Information about each stream can be found here.

Speaker information can be found here.

Information about each stream can be found here.

AGI GeoCommunity '12 Conference Programme

Programme is subject to change without advance notice

Information on streams

Who, What, Where: This stream deals with national geographic issues such as the Census and Land Registration.

Environmental Impacts: From managing the aid response during humanitarian crises to reducing pollution in sewer networks; here is the application of GI with an environmental perspective.

Emerging Technologies: This part of the conference addresses hot topics like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Linked data.

Data: Attend this stream if you wish to hear about aspects of INSPIRE, OpenStreetMap and OS MasterMap.
Sharing Best Practice: Learn from a series of projects relating to GI in local government, education, the third sector and insurance sectors.

Social Geography: Here you can learn about the role GI and GIS has in connecting the citizen with public services and community information.

Engagement: This stream addresses about how GI has a vital role to play in data sharing and collaboration with examples from the public and private sector.

Health Geography: The health sector is yet to fully embrace and exploit the power of GI. This stream covers aspects of health geography from two leading speakers in the field.

BIM: Building Information Modelling is being mandated by Government for large construction and infrastructure projects. GI is a key part of BIM. Learn about many aspects of BIM and GI in this section of the conference.

Opening Up: This stream straddles both days to look at Open Source and Open Data from a range of backgrounds and applications.

Cloud Solutions: Cloud Computing is an increasingly popular approach. What is the role of GI in this? This is the stream to find out.