Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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Upcoming GITA 2007 Panel

9 February 2007 Geoff Zeiss

There is going to be a very interesting seminar and panel discussion on Mapping Applications on the Web: Evolution or Revolution on Sunday March 4th at the annual GITA conference in San Antonio. The speakers […]

Map World Forum

30 January 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I just spent a few days at the Map World Forum conference in Hyderabad. This conference was quite different from its MapIndia predecessors for several reasons. More of the participants were international, where in the […]

Leveraging the value of CAD data

21 January 2007 Geoff Zeiss

One of the dimensions of the point of inflection which has been occurring in the geospatial world over the last year or two is that spatial is becoming increasing less special. What this means in […]

OSGEO Japan Seminar

13 December 2006 Geoff Zeiss

The Japan Chapter of the OSGEO held its first seminar at the Tokyo Convention Center. I have heard that more than 170 people attended, which is a tremendous turnout. Kazunori Noda, well-known in the geospatial […]

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INSPIRE and Free Data

30 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Last week, the European parliament and council of ministers worked out a compromise to the INSPIRE directive whose purpose is to harmonise spatial information in Europe. The directive had become the focus of an intense […]

MapGuide Open Source and Community Participation

28 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Most of this week I am at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. I don’t know the numbers, but last year there were about 5,000 participants, if I remember correctly, and this year there appears to […]

Map Africa and Open Source Geospatial

23 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I’ve just spent a few days at Map Africa and this has been a very interesting conference. First of all it has not been a traditional GIS conference. There has been a strong focus on […]

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Improving the Information Flow at the St Johns River Water Management District

19 November 2006 Geoff Zeiss

At Oracle Open World I had a chance to chat with Peggy White, CIO of the St Johns River Water Management District, and Jim Ren, who I’ve known for many years and who also is […]