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50 GITA - Conference report UNDERSTANDING USERS Key to successful implementation The three-day 15th Annual Geospatial Solutions Conference organised by Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) Australia/ New Zealand in Brisbane, Australia from 2-4 August 2010 offered an excellent opportunity to see how important it is to understand the complexities and dynamics of user domain. Each user domain has its own unique set of business processes, issues, challenges and dynamics. In oder to serve those industries, it is fundamental to enable onself and understand as much as possible about their domain. Having Smarter Infrastructure for Sustainable Future as its theme, the GITA Australia/New Zealand conference provided exactly this kind of opportunity for the geospatial industry by bringing some of the top leaders from utilities and infrastructure domain. The conference began with an inspiring Keynote by Councillor Campbell Newman, serving his second term as Lord Mayor of Brisbane City. He outlined his priorities and pro- grammes which are underway to make Brisbane a smart thinking, easy living and world class city. Terry Effeney, CEO of ENERGEX provided a very detailed overview of the energy sector with special emphasis on priorities of his own company. He further added that a major challenge being faced by ENERGEX is decarbonisation of the energy sector and environmental compliances, which is putting additional burden of costs leading to price rise. Peter Birk, Chief Technology Officer of Energy Australia stressed upon building smarter grid network to ensure optimum utilisation of every amount of electricity being generated and reducing the losses. Jon Black, Chief Executive of UnityWater raised an alarm on increasing demand of water and advocated building better infrastructure for water treatment today to avoid major water crisis tomorrow. Another very interesting presentation was delivered by Peter Ferris, General Manager of Planning and Design of Australian National Broadband Network, responsible for design and planning of fiber, terrestrial radio and satellite networks for NBN Co. He mentioned that although 93% of Australia can be very well covered by the proposed fibre to home network, the remaining 7% is much more difficult and economically unviable. Geospatial World I September 2010
52 MAP ASIA 2010 - Conference report Connecting government with citizens GIS Development and The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM) jointly organised Map Asia 2010 and the International Symposium and Exhibition on Geoinformation (ISG) to foster the growth of geospatial sciences and spread its benefits for the community through discussions and deliberations among academicians, researchers, policy makers and industry representatives. With the theme "Connecting Government and Citizen through Ubiquitous GIS," Map Asia and ISG 2010 turned out to be a phenomenal success where there was an active and dynamic participation of over 1358 members of GIS community from over 41 countries. Plenary sessions The first plenary witnessed speakers from reputed organisations talking on ways to connect the government with citizens through ubiquitous GIS. Assoc Prof Dr Somchet Thinaphong, Chairman, Geo- Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, Thailand, discussed how Thailand NSDI is connecting with people through its services. Margaret Coughlin, Chief Marketing Officer, DigitalGlobe described the new features of WorldView-2 and the application of various satellites in DigitalGlobe constellation. Dean Angelides, Corporate Director, International Operations, ESRI analysed how a geospatial platform is emerging on the Web, creating a distributed network of data and services. Dato Dr Ahmad Sabirin Arshad, CEO, ATSB, discussed how space technology can be utilised in a high income nation. Dato Dr. Ahmed added that to be an effective economic contributor, space and related technology development is not a miracle cure and needs to be nurtured properly. Joel Campbell, President, ERDAS, while talking in the second plenary on the changing landscape of remote sensing, said that the government demand for commercial imagery will double and the market for spa- tial information management software/ services will grow from USD 3.2 billion to 5.7 billion. Discussing the societal applications of earth observation systems, PG Diwakar, Scientist and Associate Director, Earth Observation System, ISRO, listed several space-based applications India has developed. Opening up the world of LiDAR to the audience, Brian Nicholls, General Manager, AAM explained how LiDAR and Geospatial World I September 2010
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