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Event Chair: Dan Jellinek, Editor E-Government Bulletin

09.30 - 10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00 - 10.10

The Chartered Geographer Scheme
Steven Bird, Membership & Information Manager, AGI

10.10 - 10.50

Keynote: Raising our game: delivering through geography
INSPIRE and GI Strategy and how it Relates to Government

Dr. Niall Watson, Senior GI Adviser, CIOD, Defra

10.50 - 11.20

Data Sharing in a Mashed-Up World
Graham Vowles, Principal Consultant, Ordnance Survey

11.20 - 11.50

Networking & Refreshment Break

11.50 - 12.20

Google Maps/Google Earth and X-Maps
Dane Wright, Service Development Manager, IT Unit, Brent Council

12.20 - 13.00

"The OGC and Standards - am I bovvered?"
Eddie Curtis, Chief Technology Officer, Snowflake Software

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.30

The London 3-D Mapping Project
Duncan Smith, Researcher, UCL

14.30 - 15.30

Workshops: A choice of:

A. Data Quality Control

Jonathan Makin, Head of Corporate Geospatial Information Management, Ordnance Survey
Neil Dewfield, Operations Development Manager, Ordnance Survey Data Collection & Management Business Group
Steve Cowell, Accreditation Manager, Ordnance Survey

B. Consolidation of Spatial Data, Why & How - Hull City Council experience & discussion
Bryan Hughes, Senior Technical Consultant, eSpatial Solutions
Glenn Dobson, Team Manager ICT and E-Government, Hull City Council
Paul Saunders, Business Development UK, eSpatial Solutions

15.30 - 15.45

Networking and refreshment break

15.45 - 16.30

End Keynote: Applying GIS: moving toward mashups - opportunities and nightmares
Chris Jarvis, Freedom of Information Manager, Environment Agency