OpenTechnologyConference Mar2007

Open Technology Development - Realizing the Vision

We are currently working with the Associate for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) to organize a two day conference in Washington DC, 14, 15 March at the Hyatt at Crystal City. 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 15 March.

Conflict with venue is resolved and conference continues on schedule, March 14-15, Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington VA. Attendees have choice of attending just one day, or both days. Day one focuses on DoD Open Technology Development. Led by Advanced Systems and Concepts organization of OSD, it focuses on making open standards, architecture and open source software metods available in DoD acquisition processes.

Day two focuses on Open Geospatial Software, co-sponsored by OSGeo. Please watch AFEI website (www.afei.org) for more details. Registration will begin soon. - Dave Chesebrough, President, AFEI

Marketing

This is an opportunity to communicate the benefits of OSGeo and Open Technologies to government agencies and contractors. Perhaps the key message is that these technologies are mature and supportable through existing organizations and companies.

Why should you attend?

Learn about the latest trends in bringing open technologies solutions into government systems and acquisitions. A special focus will demonstrate open source geospatial solutions and their supporting organizations and companies. Open source software and open systems have revolutionized how complex architectures are implemented. The collaboration, tools, and technologies used in open source systems provide agile technology paths that are critical in our ever changing environment. This conference will educate the participants on open technology initiatives and open source software solutions that are backed with commercial support.

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.

Agenda

14 Mar - Open Technology and the Federal Government

Keynote Speakers

Possible:
Sue Payton (AF Aq)
Gen Croom (DISA)
Ray Ozzie (MS)
Capt Shannon (Navy OA)
Eric Haseltine (DNI)

Panels/Sessions

AM

- Business
SI's
Vendors
Ecipse.org

- Gov
GSA
DDR&E
DoD Software Group
JFCOM
OSD-NII
others

PM

2 tracks
- 1st track, open source 101 (andy gordon has the material)
- 2nd track, advanced issues

Hosted Social?

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 - OSGeo Executive Director
Gary Lang - VP Autodesk
Mark Lucas
Dave McIlhagga - DM Solutions
Canadian Government Speaker (DM)
Large Data JCTD
Al Kelly - Ilabs
Jim Long - NGA
Chris Holmes
Michele Weslander - DNI CIO
MetaCarta - OpenLayers
Refractions - Paul Ramsey uDig, PostGIS

Agenda

Keynote Speakers

Government Keynote

OSGeo Keynote - Tyler Mitchell

Panels

Potential panelists, moderators

Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) - LizardTech

Presentations

Case Studies in Open Source Geospatial

Business and government have been deploying open source geospatial infrastructures in mission critical portions of the operations for the last several years. Why do they do it? What is the value? What have the results been? This talk will cover several case studies of government organizations and business that have deployed the PostGIS open source spatial database and related open source technologies to meet their business needs, and will discuss the business value derived through the adoption of an open source infrastructure.

Paul Ramsey is the President and founder of Refractions Research, a spatial database and geomatics consultancy. Refractions' staff of 30 provide consulting on spatial database design, spatial data infrastructures and enterprise GIS systems. Refractions is heavily involved in the open source geomatics community, making contributions and providing commercial support for PostGIS, Mapserver, GeoTools, GeoServer and uDig.

Paul has been working with spatial data, open spatial standards and open source tools for the past 8 years, and has kept Refractions focussed on open source tools and technologies. As a frequent conference presenter and writer on geospatial topics, Paul maintains a high profile in the professional geospatial community. Paul holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia and a MSc in Statistics from the University of Victoria.