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CRCSI Launch & Annual Conference

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:14:00 +1200

Event Date: 23-24 November

The CRCSI Annual Conference is open to all current participants of CRCSI and 43pl, and is an event many regard as the network opportunity of the year. You will hear about activities across the whole CRCSI and from our international networks; and forge new commercial and technical relationships.

View the conference programme online.

For more information, contact:

Mary Sue Severn
Director CRCSI New Zealand
msevern@linz.govt.nz
DDI: +64 (0)4 460 0188

Celebrate 50 Years of ICT

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:52:00 +1200

Event Date: 15-18 September

A special one-off conference is being held to mark the 50th anniversary of ICT in New Zealand.

With both the Minister of ICT, Hon Steven Joyce, and Opposition ICT Spokesperson Hon Clare Curran attending, and leaders and decision-makers across the ICT sector (from ICT companies, other companies, government and academia), this is the time and place to make a difference and set a clear direction for ICT.

The conference is being held in Rotorua and registrations close at the end of August or when sold out.

For more information and to register visit www.innovation.org.nz.

Fifth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:07:00 +1300

Event Date: 22-26 September 2010

The "Fifth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences" is to be held in Wellington, August 2011. These symposia are held every three years, and are organised by the Environmental Simulation Laboratory in Japan.

There has been a clear uptake of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in these Symposia, since the first in 1999, when few there had heard of it, to 2008 when virtually everyone presenting was using some form of FOSS tools/libraries in their work. Symposium organiser, Brent Wood, is hoping some NZ projects using FOSS tools in this arena will be able to present their work.

With standards compliant tools like -

SpatialLite & PostGIS to manage spatial data, GDAL/OGR to import/reformat, QGIS, uDIG, OpenJump, gvSIG as desktop GIS browsers, GMT, GRASS, SAGA GIS & R as analytical & cartographic tools, mapserver, Geoserver, Deegree, OpenLayers, Mapfish for web mapping, Geonetwork for metadata management,

an Open Source suite can provide functionality rivaling or exceeding that of most commercial tools.

FOSS users/enthusiasts are generally good at presenting in FOSS venues, but Brent believes less so in trade shows and conferences which do not have a specific FOSS focus. Brent hopes we can showcase FOSS in the Fisheries/aquatic arenas in NZ.

NIWA & Silverstripe are the local sponsors/co-organisers.

Initial info available at:
http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/5th/first_announcement.pdf

For more information contact:

Brent Wood
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Ltd
Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Email: b.wood@niwa.co.nz
Phone :+64 (NZ) (4) 386-0300 (from within NZ: 04 386-0300)
Fax :+64 (NZ) (4) 386-0574 (from within NZ: 04 386-0574)

Geospatial Defence & Intelligence Asia Pacific 2010

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:02:00 +1300

Event Date: 29-30 September, 2010

The Geospatial Defence and Intelligence Asia Pacific 2010 has presentations from 25+ end user, both regional and international, the conference promises to attract a high level delegation from military, intelligence and civil defence agencies to speak on topics covering:

Data interoperability challenges related to regional armed forces
Looking at latest developments in data mining and analytics for operational intelligence
Utilising GIS to support battle space management, command and control and tactical operations

The conference has a special focus on national security and counter terrorism operations. Commander David Crossman, Director Geospatial Organisation, from the New Zealand Defence Force is a key speaker.

For more details and to register click here.

spatial@gov Conference 2010

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:08:00 +1300

Event Date: October 2010

Combining a wealth of experience, the Australian Spatial Consortium and CeBIT Australia have joined in partnership to stage spatial@gov Conference 2010, which will look at location as an enabler for government business.

This event is organised in conjunction with organisations in Australia and New Zealand representing the public, private, research and professional sectors of the spatial community; including ANZLIC-the Spatial Information Council (representing all governments of Australia and New Zealand), and the German Government (through global associate Deutsche Messe AG).

The spatial@gov Conference will feature an array of speakers, all experts or practitioners in employing geospatial technologies to enhance the business of government. It will be held over two days and feature a combination of case-study presentations with interactive workshops, and offer four presentation streams.

For the first time, the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) will be held in conjunction with the spatial@gov Conference. The APSEA awards recognise significant achievements of individuals and organisations in the Asia-Pacific region engaged in the spatial information industry.

Key themes

Experts will examine how governments at all levels are applying geospatial technologies to address contemporary issues including:

social inclusion
climate change and water
indigenous communities and culture
federal, state and local government
cities: response to change
the significance of spatial capabilities
access to public sector spatial information
data delivery and access
new approaches to mapping
governments' roles in the spatial marketplace.

For more information on the conference see the spatial@gov Conference website.