09:00 – 09:30

Registration and Coffee

09:30 – 10:00

Keynote: The role of GIS in Transforming Government
Glyn Evans, Corporate Director of Business Change, Birmingham City Council

10:10 – 11:10

Choice of Discussion Groups, including:

Share Session: Usability of GIS and the return on investment
Muki Haklay, Senior Lecturer in GIS Science, University College London

Share Session: Making London’s roads safer
Hamish Keith, Head of Road Safety Technology, Transport for London

Road Safety has traditionally looked toward Engineering Measures and Education Programs to prevent collisions. While these techniques have been successful in the past, and continue to be so where implemented, Road Safety professionals are increasingly looking toward Technology and GIS for answers to problems and to provide new low cost and effective interventions on the road. Despite this, information continues to be a barrier to the implementation of new technologies, as safety systems need to provide a high level of reliability and accuracy.

In this discussion group we will discuss the new technologies which are now available to road safety professionals along with participant’s proposals and how the current data provision is responding to these opportunities.

Case Study: GIS at the heart of Bristol City Council
Val Purkis, Corporate GIS Support Team Manager, Bristol City Council

This session will discuss some of the benefits Bristol City Council has realised through implementing corporate GIS. These include Business Units working smarter using GIS, GIS assisting with Transformational Government and Web GIS saving money on Desktop Licences.

11.10 - 11.40

Refreshments, networking and pre-arranged meetings

11.40 - 12.40

Choice of Discussion Groups, including:

Case Study: The role of GIS in tackling crime reduction
Rob Morris, Principal Research Officer, Worcestershire County Council
In this session we will discuss the use of GIS in Community Safety Partnerships in Worcestershire outlining benefits for a range of purposes including:
- problem analysis and definition
- communication of issues to a range of agencies
- project and strategic planning
- evaluation and assessment of initiatives
- performance management

We will demonstrate how we utilise mapping software for a variety of data sets to guide our work on a daily basis. We will also look into where we think our use of GIS could be improved, and how we hope to adapt our use of mapping software in line with the changing priority focus of Community Safety Partnerships.

Case Study: GIS in use at Manchester Airport
Vickie Withnell, Technical Officer, Manchester Airport
GIS has a key role at Manchester Airport. This discussion group reviews it's operational role which spans drainage and asset management to the commercial side including passenger market share analysis. Moreover, the airport needs to be able to model how it would adapt the existing operational area to handle passenger growth and is using GIS to help plan its future and manage its environmental and commercial operations

Share Session: Increasing the return on investment and reducing the total cost of ownership of public sector GIS
Ian Holmes, UK & Ireland Sales Manager, eSpatial Solutions Ltd

- Centralisation & consolidation of spatial data to enable improved quality, currency and use throughout an organisation
- The potential IT cost reductions through consolidation of departmental based GI solutions
- The barriers to spatial enablement of both new and existing business systems
- How can GI help Local government organisations achieve best possible ratings for National Indicator 14?
- How does the UK Location Strategy effect Local Government?

12.40 - 14.00

Lunch, networking and pre-arranged meetings

14:00 - 15.00

Choice of Discussion Groups, including:

Share Session: Mapping neighbourhood wellbeing
Mike Franks, Research Analyst (GIS), Oldham Council
This session offers opportunity to discuss different approaches to measurement and visualisation of well being and change over time within small areas (ward level and below)

Share Session: Thermal mapping for energy efficiency
Alun Jones, Managing Director, The GeoInformation Group

Share Session: Increasing the return on investment and reducing the total cost of ownership of public sector GIS
Ian Holmes, UK & Ireland Sales Manager, eSpatial Solutions Ltd

- Centralisation & consolidation of spatial data to enable improved quality, currency and use throughout an organisation
- The potential IT cost reductions through consolidation of departmental based GI solutions
- The barriers to spatial enablement of both new and existing business systems
- How can GI help Local government organisations achieve best possible ratings for National Indicator 14?
- How does the UK Location Strategy effect Local Government?

15.00 - 15.30

Refreshments, networking and pre-arranged meetings

15.30 - 16.00

Conference Session: Implementing the UK Location Strategy
Chair: Dan Jellinek, Editor, E-Government Bulletin
Keith Murray, Technical Director - UK SDI Programme, Defra