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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 - Steven M. Ottens - Member of the Mapbuilder PSC <steven AT minst.net>
One sentence bio - User interaction researcher by Geodan and developer for Mapbuilder
One sentence talk summary - Obituary for Mapbuilder
URL to head shot
CONFIRMED

2 Speaker: OSGeo4W

Frank Warmerdam (or Jeff McKenna)
Position / person title - Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam AT pobox.com>
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 Dr. Horst Düster : Building a FOSS geospatial solution for a Swiss state

Dr. Horst Düster - Departement of Geoinformation State of Solothurn (Horst.Duester AT bd.so.ch)
GIS - Coodinator and CGO at Public Authority since 13 Years
A short overview on history of the FOSS geospatial infrastructure in Solothurn
[1] URL to head shot
CONFIRMED

6 Paul Scott : Chisimba and Ubuntu GIS

Position / person title - Paul Scott <pscott AT uwc.ac.za> or representative
One sentence bio
One sentence talk summary
URL to head shot

7 Arnulf Christl , Wikinomics - The Foundation of Making Business with FOSS

Position / person title: Arnulf Christl, president OSGeo (arnulf AT osgeo.org)
One sentence bio: Spatial technician, FOSS business model advocate and promoter of standards
One sentence talk summary: This talk wants to make you want to read the book Wikinomics to give you deep insight into processes that change our economic and corporative landscape in unprecedented ways.
URL to head shot: User:Arnulf Christl

8 Raj Singh

Position / person title - Raj Singh - topic and slot to be confirmed(rsingh AT opengeospatial.org)
One sentence bio
One sentence talk summary
URL to head shot

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