Friday 13th June 2014
09.30 Coffee (Room 2.01) 10.00 Welcome (Room 2.13) Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) 10.10 Session: Scottish Public Sector Applications Chair: Selena Masnikosa (AECOM) Step Change: Embedding GIS in the delivery of a digitally connected Scotland Colin Morrison (Digital Scotland) Asset information visualisation for Scottish Water, an open source and agile project Tom Stork (Kemeling Consulting) 11.10 Coffee 11.30 Session: Web-based Working Chair: Robin McLaren (Know Edge) Moving 1000+ ArcGIS for Desktop Editor users to the Web Morag Hawkins (Forestry Commission) and Murray Roden (ESRI) The GeoWeb Challenge Rob Dunfey (Shell) 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session: Data and Beyond Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh) SpaceBook: The Final Frontier and Beyond? William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh) Information Technology and Environmental Data Management; from Observations and Measurements to Decision Support Systems Felipe Fernandez Perez, (IH Cantabria, Spain) 15.15 Tea 15.45 Session: Data Acquisition Research Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) New Opportunities for Synthetic Aperture Radar in Research and Business Chris Haworth (Selex ES) Gecoding Scottish Civil Registration Records from the C19th and C20th: Challenges and Research Opportunities Chris Dibben (University of Edinburgh) 16.45 Open Forum Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh) 17.30 Close FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower) 7.30pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge) c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street) SATURDAY EVENT: From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 667 0184 to make sure its on if weather poor) 26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre) Bring fancy meat (if you want to) and drink. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.