UNIGIS UK - Archive News & Events 2008

ICGIS 2008 - International Conference on Geographic Information Systems
24 December 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
The International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (ICGIS 2008), organised by the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Geographic Information.

Location: Exploiting the Benefits
5 Dec 2008, Corinthia San Gorg Hotel, St Julian's, Malta
This is the premier surveying and geographic information event organised by the Maltese geo-community for the local geo-community. The conference is aimed to all stakeholders of the local industry, providing networking, knowledge-sharing and collaboration opportunities to engage and strengthen the surveying and GI industries in Malta. Papers from former UNIGIS graduates Savior Formosa and Nicholas Spiteri will be included in the presentations.
Registration for the conference is now open. For more information contact info@csgimalta.org

GeoTunis 2008
26-30 November 2008, Tunis
The International Symposium Geotunis 2008 with the participation of scholars, experts, researchers, companies and research laboratories which use the geographic information systems and remote sensing. Natural resource management and study of the impact of climate change with geographic information systems, science and space technologies.

ESRI EMEA 2008
28-30 Oct 2008, QEII Conference Centre, London, UK
The theme is GIS for everyday life.

URISA 2008 Annual Conference and Exposition
7-10 October 2008, New Orleans, USA
The conference theme is Spatially Enabling the Enterprise. A wide variety of applications have been brought together that highlight how GIS supports critical business applications from almost every conceivable discipline and profession.

AGI Conference 2008
24-25 September, 2008, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
The theme of the conference will be 'Shaping a Changing World'. AGI GeoCommunity '08 takes the success of 2007 and plans to build on that.
The conference will run from 24th to 25th September 2008 in Stratford-upon-Avon. In the evening of the 23rd September, a pre-conference 'icebreaker' event will also be run at the same venue for early arrivals. As in 2007 highly competitive delegate rates, including all accommodation and meals, should attract a larger than ever attendance from across the public and private sectors. On the night of the first day of the conference, delegates will enjoy a party buffet dinner and entertainment plus a range of competitions and activities.

GIScience-2008: 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science
23-26 September, 2008, Park City, Utah, USA
The conference program aims to attract leading GIScience researchers from all fields to reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of the field including cognitive science, computer science, engineering, geography, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and statistics.

GIScience 2008: Workshops
23-26 September, 2008, Park City, Utah, USA
Years ago, the unavailability of robust geocomputational tools and the lack of georeferenced individual-level travel data hypothecated the research about moving objects. Nowadays, location-aware technologies allowing for collecting, storing and processing moving object data are abundant. However, still perspectives lie in transforming raw moving object data into relevant information, and in how to move in between natural and formal language. The workshop mainly includes the following topics:

Spatio-temporal reasoning, in particular concerning moving objects
Spatio-temporal linguistics, in particular concerning moving objects
Conceptual modeling of moving objects
Database modeling of moving objects
Perception of moving objects

UNIGIS UK Induction Meeting
19 - 21 Sept 2008, Manchester Met. University, UK
The new intake, Intake 18, will be meeting at Manchester Metropolitan University for the Induction Workshop. There will be the opportunity to meet the UNIGIS UK staff and to attend seminars describing the study programme and the first unit.

EUGISES 2008
11-14 September 2008, Cirencester, UK
This will be the tenth anniversary of the biennial European GIS in Education Seminar - EUGISES. After very successful meetings in the Netherlands (1998), Hungary (2000), Spain (2002), Austria (2004) and Poland (2006), it will come to the campus of the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, the United Kingdom in 2008. The basic purpose of the seminar remains unchanged, an occasion for all of those interested in the teaching and learning of GIS in Europe (and beyond) to meet to share ideas, best practice, innovation, the odd confession and possibly a drink or two.

2008 ESRI International Users Conference
August 4 –8, 2008, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
ESRI users across the globe are encouraged to attend the 2008 ESRI UC. This exciting and stimulating conference brings together more than 14,000 professionals who work with or are interested in GIS solutions for their organizations or communities.

GeoWeb 2008
21-25 July, 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada
The annual conference will take place in Vancouver, Canada from July 21-25th, 2008 with the meetings being held at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. The theme for this year’s conference is “Infrastructure: Local to Global”. The GeoWeb has a local community dimension as well as a global dimension. The integration of global aggregators will drive the creation of local infrastructures and will give rise to a global infrastructure.

INTERGRAPH 2008
2-5 June 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Intergraph 2008 is the world's largest event dedicated to helping customers harness the power of Intergraph technology.

MAGI 2008
6 May 2008, Malta
MAGI (Malta Association for Geographic Information), in association with the Malta Institution of Surveyors and the Royal Institution of Surveyors (Malta) is hosting a conference "Exploiting the Benefits". The Malta Association for Geographic Information (MAGI), the Malta Institution of Surveyors (MIoS) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Malta (RICS Malta) are organising a conference that will focus on surveying and geographic information.
The conference will highlight the following themes:

- The business value and benefits of location
- Location based decisions and strategic planning
- Location information in the public sector
- Security and public order
- Risk management
- Mapping, modelling and imagery

UNIGIS UK is very pleased to have a number of Maltese graduates, the current Chair person of MAGI, Carol Agius, being a former UNIGIS UK student.

AGILE 2008
5-8 May 2008, Girona, Spain
The 11th AGILE conference will be held in Girona in Spain. There will be two keynote speakers: Kurt Brassel, a Director of the Centre for GIS and Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda, on "GI Science for the Developing World: The Rwanda Experience" and Ed Parsons who is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google's mission to organise the world's information using geography, and tools including Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Maps for Mobile.

GEO-8
9-10 April 2008, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
"GEO-8" provides a new umbrella title to combine the well established World of Geomatics with GIS Innovations, a new event. GEO-8 will be the UK's biggest event focussed solely on ALL aspects of geospatial information - from measurement and data collection to the many uses of geographical information.

GISRUK 2008
2-4 April 2008, Manchester Met University, UK
UNIGIS UK are hosting the UK's premier GIS research conference in Manchester. GISRUK 2008. We are honoured to be providing the venue for this prestigious event. Keynote speakers at the conference will be Prof. Henk Scholten (UNIGIS Free University of Amsterdam) who will deliver the opening speech on "Geo-ICT and the role of location within science" and Ed Parsons (Google) who will be delivering the closing speech on "The challenges ahead: the role of GI Science in providing geospatial information to the mass-market".

Symposium: GIS Education in Latin America
26-28 March 2008, UNIGIS centre at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador
The UNIGIS centre will be holding a Symposium on GIS Education in Latin America will be held on March 26/27, 2008, followed by opportunities for field trips and a visit to an ecology research station in the Amazon. For further information and registration please contact Richard Resl or Leo Zurita, UNIGIS-USFQ, América Latina
unigis.admin@usfq.edu.ec, ++593-2-2971743.

Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference 31
9-12 March 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA
The Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference's technical program will include interactive half-day seminars, educational sessions, user forums, panel deliberations, and networking socials. The corresponding exhibition will feature the leading geospatial hardware, software, and services vendors.

The conference program will address topics of interest to executives and managers in government agencies; electric, gas, and water/wastewater utilities; telecommunications companies; pipeline companies; the public sector; and other organizations interested in using geospatial information to enhance their bottom line.

GSDI-10
25-28 Feb 2008, St. Augustine, Trinidad
The selected theme of GSDI 10 is "Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges: The Role of Spatial Data in Supporting a Sustainable Future." The pressing needs of small island nations are a particular emphasis of the conference and include such concerns as:

sustainable development,
disaster prevention, warning, management, response, and recovery,
alleviation of poverty and crime,
economic development,
lessening the digital divide including access to information technologies,
ensuring food security,
support of transportation, health and communication systems, and
facilitating land ownership

GIS, spatial data infrastructure concepts, and affiliated tools and technologies are being utilized worldwide to help address all of these issues.

Mountain Forum: A Virtual Conference
14-25 Jan 2008
The two-week e-conference is being jointly organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Mountain Forum Secretariat (MFS) to promote geo-information technology and applications for integrated mountain development.
The e-conference will address the following themes:

Capacity building and networking;
Mountain databases, tools and methods;and
Thematic applications and decision support systems.

Participation in the e-conference is free and open to all. To confirm your participation, you must register online.