Rocket City Geospatial

18 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

This has been really one of the most interesting conferences I have been to.  This morning we listened to Jack Pellicci, late of Oracle, and more recently with Intergraph reiterate his slightly modified message “Don’t make geospatial special.“

And then right after that, John Christy of the UN IPCC provided a very intImg_0808eresting and radically different perspective on global climate change (Rocket City Keynote ).  For a more mainstream perspective on the IPCC report, see (Susan Solomon).

And all this occurred 100 m from one of the most incredible and historic space museums US Space and Rocket Centre in the world.
  Huntsville was where about 118 German scientists and engineers led by Werner von Braun ended up after the war and ultimately built the Saturn V rocket – and you really have to stand next to this to appreciate just how huge this is – that incredibly never had a major failure and put a man on the moon.

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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