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The full programme can be found here.

Information about each stream can be found here.

Plenary Sessions
Day 1 1030 Stuart Batey
Day 2 1015 Iain Sterland
Day 2 1045 David Philp
Day 2 1510 Peter Batty

Keynote Sessions
Day 1 1100 Ordnance Survey
Day 1 1630 Esri UK

Stream: BIM & 3D
Day 1 1530 Location Intelligence meets BIM: supporting resilient infrastructure development through an end-to-end solution - Ahmed Abukhater, Pitney Bowes Software
Day 1 1600 Applying the new 3D UKMap data model in Paris - Seppe Cassettari, The GeoInformation Group
Day 2 1145 Geo-Enabling Collaboration for Construction & Infrastructure - Steven Eglinton, GeoEnable
Day 2 1215 Is 3D a solution waiting for a problem? - Rollo Home, Ordnance Survey
Day 2 1400 Gaining public trust from the start - Lenny Winsel, Pitney Bowes Software
Day 2 1430 The Point Cloud Revolution - James Barnes, Environment Agency

Stream: Business Innovation
Day 1 1215 UK GIS is 30 - Time to celebrate maturity or is it all down-hill from here? - Tom Timms, STAR-APIC
Day 1 1400 The other side of the fence. What looks different after 2 years in the commercial world - Matthew Longman, Dotted Eyes
Day 1 1430 Going ‘hybrid’ Open! - Simon Miles, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Stream: Cartography
Day 1 1400 Ordnance Survey's cartographic design principles: An approach to promoting good map design - Christopher Wesson, Ordnance Survey
Day 1 1430 10 more tips to help improve your on-screen cartography - Warren Vick, Europa Technologies

Stream: Case Studies
Day 1 1530 The Crofting Register: Engaging with Citizens to Develop a Spatial Register of Croft Land - John King, Registers of Scotland
Day 1 1600 It Starts With A Bit Of Geography - Michelle Oldfield, Canal & River Trust
Day 2 1145 Using GI in industry-academic collaborations: modelling visitor demand for store-location planning - Andy Newing, University of Leeds
Day 2 1215 The identification of illegal 'beds' and 'sheds' in Slough - Richard Rollins, Rollins Consulting/Slough Borough Council
Day 2 1400 9 Hours to 9 Seconds - Pre Processing for Flood Risk Analytics - James Procter, Environment Agency
Day 2 1430 Tackling Local Environmental Issues using Web Mapping Tools - Chris Mewse, Getmapping

Stream: Infrastructure
Day 1 1400 Data integration and the spatial enterprise - Kendall James, Critigen
Day 2 1430 Nottingham’s Tramway and a Fusion GI - Alex Smith, Buchanan Computing
Day 2 1530 MapRoad Pavement Management System - A Cross Platform GIS Roads Management Toolkit - Andy Day, Compass Informatics
Day 2 1600 Developing an investment strategy for S105a Private Sewers as adopted by UK sewerage undertakers since 2011 - Jeremy Hidderley, AECOM

Stream: Managing Data
Day 2 1145 Innovative application of UML to support a full data management and publication life cycle - Wendy Thomas, Environment Agency
Day 2 1215 GIS and Heritage – The growth and challenge of an integrated approach - Matt Shephardson, Canal & River Trust
Day 2 1400 Inspired by INSPIRE? - Peter Parslow, Ordnance Survey

Stream: Open Data
Day 1 1215 The Successful Business Application of Open Data? - Craig Pinhorne-Smy, Pitney Bowes Software
Day 1 1400 Locating the nation’s numbers: how ONS provides GI for the age of INSPIRE - Ian Coady, Office for National Statistics
Day 1 1430 Gaining Efficiency Savings through Harnessing Open Demographic Data - Michael Talbutt, Dotted Eyes

Stream: Open Source
Day 2 1145 Building Catastrophe Models with Open Data and Open Software - Chris Ewing, Aon Benfield
Day 2 1215 Carbones.eu: an open-source geoportal for climate science - Mark Jackson, CERC
Day 2 1400 Open Source GIS – the promise and the pitfalls - Sean Cleary, Mallon Technology
Day 2 1430 Evaluating open source GIS techniques for addressing database, analysis and visualization aspects of spatiotemporal information - Lynnae Sutton, Fish Passage Center

Stream: Policy in Practice
Day 2 1145 Geography supporting environmental policy development - Liz Tucker, Defra
Day 2 1215 Unexpected possibilities from servicing INSPIRE… - Trish Groves, CARIS Geographic Information Systems BV
Day 2 1400 How the PSMA is opening opportunities for more than just the public sector - Steven Campbell, Borough of Poole
Day 2 1430 Delivering INSPIRE for the UK - Jason King, Defra

Stream: New Technology
Day 1 1215 Assessing the potential for crowdsourced geospatial content to enhance the quality of authoritative land cover mapping - Laura Kinley, University of Nottingham
Day 1 1400 New dynamic operational models for Local-Global Systems & Cities - Elisabete Silva, University of Cambridge
Day 1 1430 Using NoSQL & HTML5 libraries to rapidly generate interactive web visualisations of high-volume spatiotemporal data - Jack Harrison, Ordnance Survey
Day 1 1530 Democratising Spatial Data Access and Understanding for Planning Visualisation with GIality - Crispin Hoult, Linknode Ltd
Day 1 1600 Disconnected GI Mobile & “Open Source” 5 rules to success? - Pascal Coulon, SCISYS