09.30  Registration - Ogilvie Room, Geography Building

 10.00	Welcome
        Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 10.10	Session: Hazards
 	Chair: Tom Armitage (Maptiler)

        Daily Hazard Assessment: using the power of geospatial and visualisation to make hazard warnings easy to understand
        Duncan Moss (Ordnance Survey)

        Monitoring Earth’s deformation from space for seismic hazard, climate change, flood risk and sustainable development
        Qi Ou (University of Edinburgh)

 11.10  Coffee

 11.40	Session: Open Systems
 	Chair: Guy Chisholm (CGI)

        Open Source for Estate Management
        Christine Brown and Will Carter (Buccleuch Estates)

	Diving into Open Water
        Carmel Connolly (ESRI)

 12.40	Lunch (Ogilvie Room)

 14.00	Session: Research
 	Chair: Amy Tyndall (Eolas Insight)

	GIS for Earth Science at the BGS
	Amelia Baptie (British Geological Survey)

        Examples of using LLMs and LVMs for spatial analysis
        Phil Bartie (Heriot-Watt University)

	Driving Insights: Leveraging Machine Learning to Understand Causes of Road Collisions
        Caroline Broughton (SYSTRA)

 15.30	Close

 15.40  Tea, possibly some beer :-)

 17.00	Celebration of William's Retirement, jointly with AGI-S/EEO Seminar Series
	Chair: Iain Cameron (EOLAS Insight)
        Automating Cartography: A Game of Snakes and Ladders
	William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh)
        William will be reflecting on his 40 years of research into the field of 
        geographical modelling as it relates to the design of maps. He will be 
        talking about the design of maps and how we make sense of them, and how 
        his research fits into this rapidly evolving space.


EVENING EVENTS:
	From 18.00 Bar, Probably Pleasance Bar as there's football everywhere else :-) 
        7.30pm Restaurant (Pizza Posto, South Bridge)

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