Geospatial World Forum 2013

This year OSGeo will again be present at GWF with an Open Source track. Check out the GWF2013 program.

Press Release (from Geospatial Media)
Join the experts in discussing the emerging and evolving role of Open Source Technologies in geospatial domain on 16 May, 2013 during

Geospatial World Forum 13-16 May, 2013 Beurs-World Trade Centre, Rotterdam The Netherlands http://www.geospatialworldforum.org

About the Conference
Geospatial World Forum is a premier global geospatial industry event aimed at connecting communities, knowledge sharing, business development and raising the industry profile. It creates a platform to bring forth thought leadership and showcase state-of-the-art technology and its utility in the world economy. The conference aims at enriching the geospatial ecosystem, which comprises of the geospatial technology providers, users, policy makers and the academia with market intelligence, latest technology knowledge, success stories and capacity building. It is a confluence of a variety of activities in the form of plenary, symposia, seminars, workshops, panel discussions, dialogue and exchange forums – covering the vast gamut of technology, application, policy, use cases from across the world.

Key Features of Geospatial World Forum 2013

 * 2100 sq mtrs of exhibition
 * 1500 delegates
 * 700 organisations
 * 400 presentations
 * 80 countries
 * 40 thematic sessions

Registration
Online brochure - http://geospatialworldforum.org/2013/GWF_Brochure.pdf

There is a 20% discount for OSGeo members/affiliates, register with this link []. Notice that there is also an option to buy a single day-registration (and for example only visit the OSGeo and OGC tracks on thursday)

Supporting Organizations

 * B3Partners, The Netherlands
 * Interprovinciaal Overleg, The Netherlands
 * Eclipse Foundation Inc, Canada
 * Metaspatial, Germany
 * ISRIC World Soil Information, The Netherlands
 * Just Objects, The Netherlands
 * GeoSolutions, Italy
 * Neftex Inc, UK
 * Vicrea Solutions, The Netherlands
 * GeoCat, The Netherlands

Planning Stage
GWF is organized in Rotterdam from 13 to 16 May The idea is to make this year a half day track, in a slightly larger room than last year. Geocat (Paul/Jeroen) 'll draw the preparations, they're open to all kinds of suggestions and offers to lend a hand :-). We did send out some invitations for slots to fill and based on the replies created a short list. At the end of the track we want to do a panel discussion. For now we didn't apply for a booth, since it's quite costly and the expo is not even opened on the 16th.

For the tentative program (deadline this week) I created this intro:

''For this years OSGeo track on GWF we looked for an optimal blend of succesfull opensource usecases and some substantive talks to enlarge insight in business concepts around open source software in the geospatial sector. You'll notice there is a slight focus on metadata use. Since metadata is one of the major players in making geospatial data accessible. And data is what we've seen a lot of last year. About every week some country or city announced a new open data portal. And a vast amount of open data is location oriented. Providing new opportunities for Enterprizes to create appealling apps.''

Find the list of speakers (+bio/abstacts) at GWF2013_program.

On Friday January 18th we have a meeting at station Utrecht 9.30am with Megha Datta from GWF to discuss the programme (also she will hand out some preliminary leaflets for the conference). feel free to join