GeoBrazil/GeoBrasil: CAD, BIM, GIS Convergence

21 July 2008 Geoff Zeiss

I have attended GeoBrazil almost every year since 2003.  This year it was part of Geo Summit Latin America 2008Geobrazil_header_logo_pt
, together with three other geospatial related conference Geo Oleo e Gas, Geo Cidades, and ExpoGPS.

GeoBrazil is a combined trade show and conference.  It is always well organized and includes most of the important geospatial vendors and service providers in Brazil.  This year I believe that about 3 000 attendees participated.

CAD/BIM/GIS Integration

One of the things I like about GeoBrazil is that they always organize very interesting panel discussions on topics that are currently high on the charts in the geospatial world.  The panel participants often include international as well as Brazilian speakers, and when they include international speakers they arrange for simultaneous translation, Portuguese and English.  This year Eduardo Francisco organized and moderated a panel discussion on CAD/BIM/GIS – Integrated Solutions. The presenters were myself, Wolmar Sabino, and Salvio Lerner.  I was quite amazed by the size of the audience.  To me it was indicative of the tremendous interest that there is in this area, even though BIM, the acronym and the methodology, is still relatively new to most geospatial folks.  Of course at a geospatial conference like this everybody is familiar with CAD and GIS, and CAD/GIS integration is not a new topic, but BIM/CAD/GIS integration appears to be something that most geospatial people have at least heard enough about to be motivated to attend a discussion like this one at GeoBrazil.

Geoff Zeiss

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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