OpenTechnologyConference Mar2007

Open Technology Development - Realizing the Vision

Working title. We are currently working with the AFEI to organize a two day conference in Washington DC, 14, 15 March at the Hyatt. The 14th will be focused on the Open Technology Development effort within the federal government. The 15th will focus on open source geospatial capabilities and support for those technologies. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation will guide the planning and agenda for that day.

15 Mar - Open Source Geospatial Software and the Government

The goal this day of the conference is to educate the attending government decision makers and contractors that open source geospatial technologies are mature and supportable. These technologies and open source practices would provide substantial benefits to government programs and projects. The collaborative technology development methodologies employed by open source geospatial projects can be accessed through collaboration with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

Potential speakers:
Tyler Mitchell
Gary Lang
Mark Lucas
Dave McIlhagga
Canadian Government Speaker (DM)
Large Data JCTD
Al Kelly - Ilabs
Jim Long - NGA

Marketing

Who should attend

Decision makers, systems integrators and technologists from contractors and government that are interested in how to improve government solutions through the use of open architectures and open source software. The conference will focus on the efforts of the Open Technology Development Initiative within the Department of Defense with a special focus on advanced open source geospatial technologies from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

What is the audience?

need some verbiage about that for marketing/targeting purposes