Rocket City Geospatial Conference – Lead Author of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

15 October 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I’m in Huntsville, Alabama for the Rocket City Geospatial Conference where Neal NiRocket_city_logoemiec and I will be running a lab today on Creating Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform, I’ll be talking later in the
week on Web 2.0, Open Spatial Data Access, and Open Source Geospatial Software and Darren Dambly will talk about 3D Visualization in Urban Training and Planning. 

There are going to be interesting speakers tomorrow and Wednesday including Dr John Christy of the University of Alabama here in Huntsville.  Dr Christy is the lead author of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which together with Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday. “The University of Alabama-Huntsville has one of the few research
centers which actually builds from scratch the types of datasets which
describe variations and trends in climate. These may come from digital
counts of satellite sensors, to individual balloon ascents to
long-dormant dusty files of African weather data in a British library.”  Should be interesting.

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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