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Introduction
Eight speakers, five minutes each, Lightning Talks will be presented to the full conference attendance, and should be fast paced, visual, and entertaining. Please note we reserve the right to juggle the order of talks listed below to align better with topics etc.
Proposed Speakers
If you would like to give a lightning talk, or would like to put forward someone to give a talk, please provide adequate contact details here:
- Name, affiliation, email, proposed topic
Confirmed Speakers
(speaking order to be confirmed)
1 Steven Ottens
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- One sentence talk summary
- URL to head shot
2 Speaker: OSGeo4W
- Frank Warmerdam (or Jeff McKenna)
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- A brief introduction to OSGeo4W, the "OSGeo Windows Software Stack", including a call for users and packagers.
- URL to head shot
3 Dr Manie Brynard: Serving global geological data using Mapserver
- Dr Manie Brynard, Council for Geoscience mbrynard <at> geoscience.org.za:
- One sentence bio GIS Specialist and Senior Geologist at the Council for Geoscience for 12 years
- As a contribution to the global initiative to present global geology on a Google-earth like the CGS has applied MapServer to serve countrywide geological data as a WMS.
- URL to head shot
4 Speaker: Geospatial at the United Nations
- T. Suha Ulgen (Mr.) ulgen at un.org
- Coordinator - UN Geographic Information Working Group Secretariat (UNGIWG)
- Introduction to the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG), the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) and UN's FOSS4G initiatives.
- URL to head shot
5 Speaker: Talk Title
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- One sentence talk summary
- URL to head shot
6 Speaker: Talk Title
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- One sentence talk summary
- URL to head shot
7 Speaker: Talk Title
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- One sentence talk summary
- URL to head shot
8 Speaker: Talk Title
- Position / person title
- One sentence bio
- One sentence talk summary
- URL to head shot