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 09.45  Registration

 10.00	Welcome
        Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 10.10	Session: Antipodean Talks
 	Chair: Hadewij Sint (Rothamstead Research)

        Points, Lines and Kiwis - my GIS journey from UK industry to NZ academia.
	Graham Hinchliffe (Auckland University of Technology)

        Human Movement Data - shaping cities and communities.
	Alistair Towers (Urbis, Melbourne)

	How online hazard mapping is bringing scientists and communities together.
	Neil Stuart, (University of Edinburgh)

 11.10  Break - Find your classmates

 12.00	Session: Urban Environments
 	Chair: Gary Watmough (University of Edinburgh)

	GIS in Flood Protection Schemes and Construction Project Management.
	John Wallner (CPE Consultancy Ltd. Edinburgh)

        Mapping Mobile Coverage.
	Nikki Robertson (FarrPoint, Edinburgh)

	GIS Struggles; finding acceptance & support in organisations.
	Chris Kinnear (London & Quadrant Housing Association)

 12.50	Lunch

 14.30	Session: GIS in Large Organisations
 	Chair: Paul Georgie (Geo Geo, Glasgow)

        How we benefit from opensource GIS community. Lessons learnt from QGIS plugin and Open City Toolkit (OCTOPI).
	Ariel Chang (Univeristy of Hamburg)

        A refreshed Public Task - the role of an NMA in a brave new world.
	Rollo Home (Ordnance Survey)

	Using GIS to support Humanitarian Operations.
	Robert Trigwell (United Nations Migration Agency)

 15.20	Break

 15.50	Session: North American Talks
 	Chair: Tom Armitage (University of Edinburgh)

        Geospatial and Workplace trends in a fast-growing global-based company
	Scott Cattran (Woolpert, Springboro Ohio)

        Towards cloud-native GeoSpatial: STAC and the Features API.
	Tom Christian & Joe Burkinshaw (SparkGeo, British Columbia)

 16.30	Open Forum
        Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 17.30	Close


FRIDAY EVENING:
        19.00 Geo Quiz
        19.45 Geo Drinks

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