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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 [[1]]. 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)

Schedule

Chair: Paul van Genuchten - Geocat - NL

11.30 Just vd Broecke - OSGeo.nl board - NL
11.50 Mark Vloermans - Flamingo Geo CMS Community - NL
12.10 Marjan Bevelander - Dutch Provinces - NL
12.30 Chris van Lith - B3Partners - NL
12.45 Simone Giannecchini - GeoSolutions - IT

Break

14.00 Arnulf Christl: Open Data - in the GeospatiL Context - metaspatial, DE
14.20 Andrew Ross - Eclipse Foundation Inc, CA
14.40 Paolo Cavallini - QGIS - IT
15.00 Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus - ISRIC World Soil Information, NL
15.20 Oliver Morris - Neftex Inc, UK

15.40 Discussion

Organisation

GWF has been organized in the Netherlands two years in a row (12 Amsterdam, 13 Rotterdam). Like last year OSGeo.nl (this year mostly Geocat (Paul/Jeroen))) drew the preparations. Next year (14) the event will be organised in Switzerland, so it would be good if fossgis.de or a swiss organisation continues the organisation of the event. The event has quite some exposure to general GEO industry.

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 There is a 20% discount for OSGeo members/affiliates, register with this link [[http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2013/reg/registrationonline_osgeo.asp]]. 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 ==
+== Schedule ==
-* B3Partners, The Netherlands
+Chair: Paul van Genuchten - Geocat - NL
-* Interprovinciaal Overleg, The Netherlands
+* 11.30 Just vd Broecke - OSGeo.nl board - NL
-* Eclipse Foundation Inc, Canada
+* 11.50 Mark Vloermans - Flamingo Geo CMS Community - NL
-* Metaspatial, Germany
+* 12.10 Marjan Bevelander - Dutch Provinces - NL
-* ISRIC World Soil Information, The Netherlands
+* 12.30 Chris van Lith - B3Partners - NL
-* Just Objects, The Netherlands
+* 12.45 Simone Giannecchini - GeoSolutions - IT
-* GeoSolutions, Italy
+Break
-* Neftex Inc, Oxford
+* 14.00 Arnulf Christl: [http://metaspatial.net/conferences/gwf2013_opendata.html Open Data - in the GeospatiL Context] - [http://metaspatial.net metaspatial], DE
-* Vicrea Solutions, The Netherlands
+* 14.20 Andrew Ross - Eclipse Foundation Inc, CA
-* GeoCat, The Netherlands
+* 14.40 Paolo Cavallini - QGIS - IT
+* 15.00 Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus - ISRIC World Soil Information, NL
+* 15.20 Oliver Morris  - Neftex Inc, UK
-== Planning Stage ==
+* 15.40 Discussion
-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:
+== Organisation ==
+GWF has been organized in the Netherlands two years in a row (12 Amsterdam, 13 Rotterdam). Like last year OSGeo.nl (this year mostly Geocat (Paul/Jeroen))) drew the preparations. Next year (14) the event will be organised in Switzerland, so it would be good if fossgis.de or a swiss organisation continues the organisation of the event. The event has quite some exposure to general GEO industry.
-''For this years OSGeo track on GWF we looked for an optimal blend of succesfull opensource usecases and some substantive
+[[Category:Events]]
-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