GITA Geospatial Solutions Conference – Intelligent Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future

1 March 2011 Geoff Zeiss

The program for this year’s GITA’s Geospatial Solutions Conference, which takes place in Grapevine TX, right next to the Dallas Fort Worth airport (DFW) April 10-13, 2011, is available.  This really is a completely overhauled event including the program.

One of the completely new things this year is an open source track organized by OSGEO, and includes open data folks from OpenStreetMap and MapQuest Open.

GITA GSC 2011 Utilities There is also a greater focus on some of the major challenges such as intelligent networks/smart grid and workforce challenges and new technologies such as cloud computing, 3D and new geospatial data acquisition technologies in vertical industries including electric power, telecommunications, gas, water/wastewater, the public sector, and transporation.

Peter Batty and myself will be speaking at the opening session. I’ll be involved in a workshop on workforce challenges, and I’ll be participating in the open source track as well.  Tuesday morning there will be the Industry Trends and Analysis Group (ITAG) session, which is a group of utility industry folks from electric power, water/wastewater, transportation, gas, and telecom talking about industry trends and what they expect to be the big items in 2011/2012 – for me one of the highlights of the conference.

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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