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Advancing the Role and Use of GIS through Innovative Applications and Collaborative Working

22 & 23 June 2009 Duxton Hotel, Wellington

After a well received inaugural event for GIS, conference provider BrightStar returns to offer a wide range of case studies and perspectives from a wide variety of practitioners, including Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand giving an opening address. Also hear from speakers from local government, research organisations, utility companies, consulting firms and emergency services.

The FOSS4G 2009 conference being held in Sydney in October has released their call for abstracts. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 June 2009. For more information, please see the FOSS4G press release.

The conference programme for GeoCart'2008 has been released. I've just added this to the calendar, and for those that don't know, GeoCart'2008 is being held at the University of Auckland on the 1st to the 3rd of September. More details are available on their website.

The MapInfo New Zealand User Group have released their Call for Presentations for the annual User Group conference to be held in Wellington in September. More details are contained in the attached pdf.

By telling your GIS story, you’re communicating your best practices, successes, and innovative GIS applications with others who face the same day-to-day challenges. We look forward to hearing about your exciting work in the following areas.

• Pitney Bowes MapInfo
• Case Studies
• Local Government
• Web mapping
• Transportation
• Civil Defence
• Retail
• Application Development

Authors will present a 20 to 30 minute live presentation as part of the 2008 MUGNZ Conference. Abstracts and papers will also be published as part of the conference proceedings.

The first of a few conference announces we're going to circulate here. Yes, I know this one starts today. Note that we will also be including conferences in the gis.org.nz calendar as well.

How GIS can transform organisations
23 & 24 June 2008. Duxton Hotel, Wellington.

This unique and inaugural event will focus on the ability of GIS systems to provide true value through enabling practical solutions to enhance business performance. The event will feature innovative uses of GIS systems from around New Zealand, and how GIS tools are used to provide real business benefits across a range of industries.

The programme will take you through the journeys many organisations have overcome and the challenges associated with GIS to help integrate the tools into everyday business processes. Numerous case studies will demonstrate how results can be achieved and provide plenty of practical solutions to the big issues. Explore lessons learned and make sure you are on the right path to success.

For more in-depth information and hands-on learning, there are also separately bookable half-day workshops:
Gaining Buy-in for Investment in GIS
Developing and Implementing Processes that Ensure Data Quality and Integrity

To view the programme in its entirety, please click on the following link:
http://www.brightstar.co.nz/nz/inaugural-geospatial-information-systems-summit.html

I've been passed the following links from the 'Our Place in Space' miniconference that was held as part of GOVIS08 at the start of May. These are all available from here, and are linked directly to the individual presentations below.

Delivering the NZ Geospatial Strategy
Brendon Whiteman - New Zealand Geospatial Office

KEYNOTE: The Australian Scene: Issues & Trends Facing the Australian Spatial Industry
Gary Nairn - Former Australian Special Minister of State

KEYNOTE: Spatially Reengineering Honolulu
Jeremy Harris - Former Mayor of Honolulu City

Achieving Excellence in the Spatial Information Through Partnerships: The Western Australian Phenomenon
Marnie Leybourne - WALIS & SSI President Elect

Case Study: National Aquatic Biodiversity Information Systems
Kim Duckworth - Ministry of Fisheries

Case Study PHI Online
Dyfed Thomas - Public Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health

The New Zealand Scene: Issues and Trends Facing the NZ Spatial Industry
David Park - Geospatial Research Centre

Industry Trends - Focus on Open Source Movement
Simon Nitz - Napier City Council

The Global Geospatial Browser
Scott Campbell - Eagle Technology, Brett Roberts - Microsoft

Central & Local Government Collaboration
Neville Perrie - ALGGI

Future Directions for Spatial Industry
Jim McLeod - Environment Waikato

The 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC) is expected to be the largest ever staged in Australia and will bring together data providers, modellers, researchers, policy makers and end users. The Conference will provide opportunity to discover latest tools, technologies and applications of remote sensing and photogrammetry. The conference will feature pre-eminent practitioners and speakers from Australia and overseas presenting recent developments and future trends in remote sensing and photogrammetry.

More info available here.

The Digital Earth movement has held four international symposia since 1999, most recently in Tokyo in March 2005. The Auckland Summit will be the first opportunity to focus Digital Earth's extraordinary resources towards specific issues of sustainability in partnership with New Zealand's leaders to achieve its sustainability goals. Defining sustainability as humankind's collective survival goals means that there is no better objective for New Zealand's collective efforts.

OASIS Open Standards 2006 is the fourth annual Asia
Pacific event where both management and technical professionals from the business and government sector can gather to share expertise and promote open discussion on the latest technologies, applications and services supporting the global e-Business community.

Presented in conjunction with OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), Open Standards is an event focused on encouraging the use of standards-based technology to improve efficiency and interoperability between business partners.