09.30  Registration - The Pod, ECCI Building

 10.00	Welcome
        Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)

 10.10	Session: Where are People and Penguins? (ECCI Conference Room)
 	Chair: Tom Armitage (Maptiler)

	The Penguin Census Project
	Nathan Fenney (British Antarctic Survey)

	Everything in its right place: adding the 'Where' to Scottish historic birth, death and marriage records
	Fiona Hemsley-Flint (Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, University of Edinburgh)

 11.10  Coffee

 11.40	Session: Intelligence
 	Chair: Katie King (Aether)

	Oil Spill Monitoring using a Multi-Modal Satellite Remote Sensing approach to support Decision Making and Emergency Response
        Safaa' Alawadhi (University of Edinburgh)

	Building AI: What It’s Really Like Behind the Hype.
	Freddie Gower Isaac (Ensemble AI)

 12.40	Lunch (The Pod)

 14.00	Session: Reflections
 	Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)

	How to think about GIS and AI
	Charles Kennelly (CTO, ESRI UK)

	GeoSplats: Photorealistic 3D Maps
	Tom Armitage (MapTiler)

	PPPP ... Perpetual Geospatial
	Robin McLaren (KnowEdge)

 15.30	Close

 15.40  Tea, possibly a visit to a local bar :-)

 17.00	Keynote, jointly AGI-S/EEO Seminar Series
	Chair: Iain Cameron (EOLAS Insight)
        
        UK Experiences Informing Global Best Practice - Insights from Crime Analysis and National Mapping
        David Henderson (Ordnance Survey) and Prof. Spencer Chainey (Jill Dando Institute, UCL) 
        
	Drawing on decades of experience, they will explore how spatial insights are used to improve national 
	service delivery and showcase how the UK continues to develop global leadership in national geospatial 
	data infrastructures.  Spencer will focus on improving hot spots policing using an automated spatial 
        computational patrol route generation approach.

EVENING EVENTS:
	From 18.00 Bar, Pear Tree (West Nicholson Street)
        7.30pm Restaurant (Pizza Posto, South Bridge)

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