GIS UPDATE '19 FINAL PROGRAMME
Friday 7th June 2019
09.30 Registration
Coffee / Tea (Old Library)
10.00 Welcome (LT 2.13)
Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
10.10 Session: Open Source or Not?
Chair: Catherine Wood (University of Edinburgh)
Refugees and migrants - are you biased yet?
Ed Scrase (UNHCR, Geneva)
The Open Source Advantage
Tom Armitage (Innovation IT)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Session: Data
Chair: David Saunders (University of Edinburgh)
Adding Value and Delivering Open Data
Carol Blackwood (EDINA)
The Historic Environment Record: Putting Lincolnshire's Archaeology on the Map
Kathryn Murphy (Lincolnshire County Council)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session: Research
Chair: Sarah Cheesebrough (University of Edinburgh)
Dynamic Coast - Mapping the Past and Future Evolution of Scotland’s Shores
Freya Muir (University of Glasgow)
Using lidar remote sensing of forests to improve weather and climate models
Steven Hancock (University of Edinburgh)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Session: GIS in the Organisation
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
Shell's Digital Strategy and the Geospatial Advantage
Rob Dunfey (Shell, Aberdeen)
How the US Government does Geospatial: Trends, Observations and Implications
Rob Pitts (New Light Technologies, Washington DC)
16.30 Open Forum
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
17.30 Close
FRIDAY EVENING:
From 18.00 Pear Tree (West Nicholson Street)
19.30 Restaurant (Pizza Posto, Nicholson Street)
c.22.30 Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)