spatial@gov® Program
Conference Schedule
The following Schedule for the spatial@gov® Conference 2011 is still evolving and subject to change.
| Date | Tuesday 15 November 2011 | Wednesday 16 November 2011 | Thursday 17 November 2011 | ||||||||
| Morning | Conference and Exhibition Registrations from 9:00am | Conference Registrations from 8:00 | Conference Registrations from 8:00 | ||||||||
| Event | Open Day 10:00 - 16:00 Open Day Showfloor Presentations 12:00 - 14:00 | Conference Opening & Plenary 8:45 - 13:00 | Exhibition Day One 8.30 - 17:30 Morning Tea 10.45 - 11.15 Lunch 13.00 - 14.00 Afternoon Tea 15.30 - 16.00 | Concurrent Sessions 9.30 - 15.30 | Concurrent Sessions 9.30 - 15.30 | Concurrent Sessions 9.30 - 15.30 | Concurrent Sessions 9.30 - 15.30 | Exhibition Day Two 8.30 - 15.45 Morning Tea 11.00 - 11.30 Lunch 13.00-14.00 | |||
| Concurrent Sessions 14:00 - 17.30 | Concurrent Sessions 14:00 - 17.30 | Concurrent Sessions 14:00 - 17.30 | Concurrent Sessions 14:00 - 17.30 | ||||||||
| Conference Registrations 16:00 - 17:00 | Conference Closing Plenary 15.45 - 16.30 | ||||||||||
| Evening | Welcome Cocktail Reception 17.00 - 18.30 | Networking at the Exhibition 17.30 - 18.30 | Networking Drinks in the Foyer 16.30 - 17.30 | ||||||||
| spatial@gov® Dinner including Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) Industry 2011 at the National Museum Australia 19:00 - 23:30 | |||||||||||
Conference Program
The following program for the spatial@gov® Conference 2011 is still evolving and subject to change. Additional information will be added when available. Download Conference Brochure*.
*Please note that Conference Brochure is now out of date. Refer to the online program for up-to-date information.
| Tuesday 15 November 2011 | |
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| 10:00 - 16:00 | Exhibition Open Day (including a program of presentations from the Event Sponsors from 10:00 - 14:00) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Conference Registrations |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Welcome Cocktail Reception |
| Wednesday 16 November 2011 | ||||
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Conference Registrations | |||
| CONFERENCE OPENING AND PLENARY (Ballroom) | ||||
| Chair | Ollie Hedberg AM Independent Chairman PSMA Australia Limited | |||
| 09:00 | Opening Welcome - Ms Jackie Taranto Managing Director, Hannover Fairs Australia | |||
| 09:05 | Welcome to Country - Mrs (Aunty) Agnes Shea Ngunnawal Elder | |||
| 09:15 | Opening Address - The Hon. Gary Nairn Chairman, Vekta Pty Ltd | |||
| 09:30 | Drew Clarke Secretary, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism & Chair, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council 'National Spatial Data Developments' | |||
| 09:55 | Colin MacDonald Chief Executive, Land Information New Zealand 'The Role of Spatial Information in Open Government' | |||
| 10:20 | Roger Wilkins AO Secretary, Attorney-General's Department 'Geospatial Capabilities & Disaster Resilience: Horse and Carriage' | |||
| 10:45 - 11:15 | MORNING TEA | |||
| Chair | Liz Marchant Executive Director, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council | |||
| 11:15 | Senator the Hon Kate Lundy Senator for the Australian Capital Territory | |||
| 11:40 | Prof John McMillan AO Australian Information Commissioner ‘Public Access to Spatial Data’ | |||
| 12:05 | Stephanie Foster PSM Deputy Secretary, Policy and Implementation, Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government ‘The Use of Spatial Data in Regional Policy Development' | |||
| 12:30 | Fraser MacLeod Executive Director, Basin Plan Division, Murray-Darling Basin Authority ‘Build Smart Connection to Deliver Enduring Solutions' | |||
| 12:55 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |||
Virtual Australia | International | Emergency Response | Water Security: Spatial Water Information | |
| Ballroom | Swan / Torrens Rooms | Murray Room | Derwent / Fitzroy Rooms | |
| Chair | John Weaver A/General Manager, Office of Spatial Policy | Jack de Lange Chief Operating Officer, Spatial Industries Business Association | Mary Sue Severn Director CRCSI, New Zealand, New Zealand Geospatial Office, Land Information New Zealand | Tony Boston Branch Head, Climate and Water Data, Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:00 | Michael Haines Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Australia New Zealand Infrastructure (VANZI) Limited ‘Virtual Australia'
| Steven Ramage Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) International 'OGC Web Services Phase 8 and OGC's Role in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems' | Jose Diacono & Danny Broadbent Custodianship Specialists, Victorian Spatial Council ‘Emergency Datashare Victoria' | Tony Boston Branch Head, Climate and Water Data, Bureau of Meteorology 'Spatial Information for Environmental Intelligence: Informing Improved Water Management' |
| 14:30 | Richard Simpson Business Development Director, Nextspace (New Zealand) ‘Evidential Data Management and Streaming 3D Visualisation for Vast Urban Models' | Greg Scott Group Leader, National Geographic Information Group, Environmental Geoscience Division, Geoscience Australia
‘Beyond Spatial Enablement' | John Moore Manager, Building and Infrastructure Project, Emergency Information Coordination Unit, Department of Finance & Services (NSW) ‘Designing and Building a Virtual City for Emergency Management Purposes' | Elizabeth McDonald Geofabric Project Manager, Bureau of Meteorology ‘Geofabric v2.0'
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| 15:00 | Paul Farrell Managing Director, NGIS Australia ‘The Future of GIS' | Paul Watson Chief Technology Officer, 1Spatial ‘Automating the Spatial Data Supply Chain' | Abhineet Jain Technical Sales Manager, DigitalGlobe ‘Seconds to Anywhere' | Shane Crossman Geofabric Foundation Data Manager, National Mapping, Geoscience Australia ‘Evolving Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric from National to Regional Scale' |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | AFTERNOON TEA | |||
Virtual Australia | International | Emergency Response: Natural Disasters | Water Security: Groundwater | |
| Ballroom | Swan / Torrens Rooms | Murray Rooms | Derwent / Fitzroy Rooms | |
| Chair | Steven Ramage Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) International | Jack de Lange Chief Operating Officer, Spatial Industries Business Association | Mary Sue Severn Director CRCSI New Zealand, New Zealand Geospatial Office, Land Information New Zealand | Adam Sincock Acting General Manager, Sustainable Water Management Group, National Water Commission |
| 16:00 | David Beard Director, Geospatial Applications and Visualisation, Geoscience Australia ‘Geoscience Australia's Digital Globe' | Matthew Jakab Spatial Data Manager, Geoscience Australia ‘Spatially Enhancing Natural Hazard Risk Analysis in the Asia-Pacific Region' | Craig Armitage General Manager Policy & Regulatory, Land Information New Zealand | Adam Sincock Acting General Manager, Sustainable Water Management Group, National Water Commission ‘National Atlas of Groundwater Dependant Ecosystems' |
| 16:30 | Matthew Coleman ROAMES Capability Development Manager, Ergon Energy Rohan Fernando Enterprise Sales Manager - Geospatial, Google ‘Spatial Data in the Cloud - How to Make Better Business Decisions' | Andrew Coote Director, ConsultingWhere ‘The Economic Value of Spatial Information to UK Local Government'
| Steve Jacoby General Manager, Information Policy, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water (Queensland) 'Role of Spatial Information in Response to Queensland’s Natural Disasters 2011' | Alys Wall Manager, National Groundwater Information System, Bureau of Meteorology ‘Developing and Implementing a National Groundwater Information System in Australia' |
| 17:00 | Malcolm Lester Managing Director Lester Franks Survey and Geographic Pty Ltd ‘Strategic Planning - a New Approach using Modern Technology' | Dr Luca Pietranera Head of COSMO-SkyMed Product Innovation and Technical Support, e-Geos (Italy) ‘The COSMO-SkyMed Very High Resolution SAR Satellites Constellation for Earth Observation and its Applications in Support of Defence, Intelligence and Emergency Response' | Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed Ghouse Lead Consultant - Spatial Information, Sinclair Knight Merz ‘A Spatial Query Tool to Estimate the Impact of Changes in Land Use and Climate Change on Water Availability’ | Chris McAuley Principal Hydrogeologist, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) Milos Pelikan Principal Analyst, Spatial Vision ‘Building on a SAFE Foundation - Extending the NGIS Framework to Delivery Management Outcomes for Victoria' |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Networking Drinks at the Exhibition | |||
| 19:00 - 23:30 | Conference Dinner and the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (Industry) 2011 (National Museum of Australia) APSEA hosted by the Spatial Industries Business Association Dinner sponsored by ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council | |||
| Thursday 17 November 2011 | ||||
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| 08:00 - 09:30 | Conference registrations | |||
Defence | Access to Public Sector Information | Access to Public Sector Information: Spatial Infrastructure | Water Security: Hydrological Applications of Digital Elevation Models | |
| Ballroom | Swan / Torrens Rooms | Murray Room | Derwent / Fitzroy Rooms | |
| Chair | Charles Vagi CSC and Bar Director Asian Security Developments, Department of Defence | Kevin Sweeney Geospatial Custodian, New Zealand Geospatial Office | Richard Murcott Geospatial Standards Leader, New Zealand Geospatial Office | Prof Mike Hutchinson Professor of Spatial and Temporal Analysis, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University |
| 09:30 | Steve Meekin AM Director, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Department of Defence ‘Implementing Geospatial Capability for the Australian Defence Force' | Jeremy Palmer Data Service Customer Promotion Manager, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) ‘Opening Government Data: A New Zealand Experience' | Kylie Armstrong Program 3 Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information ‘Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information – Spatial Infrastructure Program - A Central Hub for Implementing Change' | Prof Mike Hutchinson Professor of Spatial and Temporal Analysis, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University ‘Progress and Prospects in National Digital Elevation Modelling' |
| 10:00 | Group Captain David Millar Director, Targeting and Network Analysis, Department of Defence ‘Targeting with Precision (Oxymoron or new paradigm)' | Kevin Sweeney Geospatial Custodian, New Zealand Geospatial Office ‘A New Zealand Spatial Data Infrastructure' | Cathy Crooks Project Manager, ANZSM Project, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) ‘Australia and New Zealand Spatial Marketplace Demonstrator Project' | Dr Janet Stein Researcher, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University ‘Describing the Stream and Catchment Environment at Multiple Spatial Scales' |
| 10:30 | Squadron Leader Glen Campbell System Manager, Mission Planning System, Command and Intelligence Systems Support Office ‘Geospatial Information in the Australian Defence Force Mission Planning System' | Liz Marchant Executive Director, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council ‘The National Address Management Framework' | Maurits van der Vlugt Spatial Information Strategist, Mercury Project Solutions ‘Spatial Data Supply Chains in Australia and New Zealand: Overlaps, Gaps and Opportunities' | Dr John Gallant Research Scientist, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country ‘The National Hydrological One-Second Digital Elevation Model' |
| 11:00 | MORNING TEA | |||
Defence | Access to Public Sector Information: Spatial Development in Victoria | Access to Public Sector Information | Water Security: Sharing Water Information | |
| Ballroom | Swan / Torrens Rooms | Murray Room | Derwent / Fitzroy Rooms | |
| Chair | Stuart Spence Director Strategic Capability, Department of Defence | Jeremy Palmer Data Service Customer Promotion Manager, Land Information New Zealand | Simon Costello Product Manager, PSMA Australia | John Bally Forecast System Scientist, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research |
| 11:30 | Helen Owens Director, Office of the Capability Coordinator - Geospatial Information, Department of Defence 'Critical Elements of Success for an Enterprise Level Capability' | Bruce Thompson Chief Information Officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) ‘Spatial Development in Victoria' | Stephen Lead Principal GIS Consultant, Ajilon ‘Why Most Online GIS Fails - and How to Succeed' | John Bally Forecast System Scientist, Weather and Environmental Prediction, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research ‘Forecast Systems to Generate Spatial Weather Information' |
| 12:00 | Mark McInerney Assistant Director, Defence Spatial Standards Office, Office of the Capability Coordinator - Geospatial Information, Department of Defence ‘Supporting Information Interoperability – Defence Feature Model' | Sergeant Peter Branca GIS Services, Infrastructure and IT Department, Victoria Police ‘Knowledge-based Policing - the Need for an Integrated Spatial Information Management Model for Policing' | Alan Smart Chairman, Spatial Industries Business Association ‘Productivity, Skills and Statistics'
| Rob Atkinson Interoperability Architect, CSIRO Land and Water ‘Sharing References for Hydrologic Features'
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| 12:30 | Dr Mike Brennan Director General Simulation, Department of Defence 'Future Geospatial Requirements for Defence Simulation: To have, to Hold and to Re-use' | Denise McKenzie Project Manager - Vicmap API, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) ‘Vicmap API & VicGIS - Open Source in Practice' | Simon Callaghan GIS Coordinator, District Council of Mt Barker/Carnegie Mellon University ‘When Three Become One: A Business Case Study in Spatial ROI' | Darren Smith Geofabric Architect, Bureau of Meteorology 'Innovations in the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric) v2.0' |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |||
Defence | Access to Public Sector Information | Access to Public Sector Information | Access to Public Sector Information: Spatial Analytical Tools | |
| Ballroom | Swan / Torrens Rooms | Murray Room | Derwent / Fitzroy Rooms | |
| Chair | Peter Frosch Assistant Director Strategic Capability, Department of Defence | Gary Maguire President, Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute | Liz Marchant Executive Director, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council | Dan Paull Chief Executive Officer, PSMA Australia |
| 14:00 | Captain Michael Carroll SO2 Geospatial, Directorate of Network Enabled Warfare, Army Headquarters ‘Geospatial Support to Military Operations' | Dr Greg Laughlin Principal Policy Adviser, Australian National Data Service John Weaver A/g General Manager, Office of Spatial Policy ‘The Gazetteer of Australia' | Katherine Williams Senior Spatial Scientist, GHD ‘Development of an Alternative Water Atlas - How Spatial Technologies can Support Analysis of Water Supply Options' | Peter Robertson Assistant Secretary, Department of Human Services ‘Using Location-based Information to Support Service Delivery Reform' |
| 14:30 | Brett Dixon Senior Spatial Consultant, geoplex ‘Taking Agility Seriously – Establishing Agile Geospatial Capability in Defence’ | Naomi Withers PLM25 Project Coordinator, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) ‘PLM25 - A New Approach to Public Land Management' | Milos Pelikan Principal Analyst,Spatial Vision ‘Sustainable Peri-Urban Development - Scenarios and Impacts' | Ishara Kotiah GIS Development Manager, Spatial Vision Ori Gudes Research Fellow & GIS Specialist, Griffith University ‘Extending Health Web Mapping with Spatial Analytical Tools' |
| 15:00 | Air Cdre (Rtd) Mark Ashwell Director, International Defense Business Development, DigitalGlobe Inc. 'Asymmetric Warfare Geospatial Requirements to Counter Threats to Internal Security' | Jim Dentrinos Project Manager, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 'Indigenous Locations – Authoritative Naming and Geo-location' | Lee Belbin Team Leader, Spatial Data Management, Atlas of Living Australia 'The Atlas of Living Australia' | Mark Lound Director, Industry, Land and Energy Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics 'Towards a Spatial Land Account for Australia: Integrating Statistics and Spatial Information Using an International Framework' |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | BREAK (MOVE TO BALLROOM FOR CLOSING PLENARY) | |||
| 15:45 - 16:15 | CLOSING PLENARY - Michael Haines Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Australia New Zealand Infrastructure (VANZI) Limited | |||
| 16:15 -16:30 | Conference Wrap-Up - Liz Marchant Executive Director, ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council | |||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Networking and farewell drinks | |||
Exhibition closed at 15:45.
