VANESSA LAWRENCE, Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom

Vanessa is the adviser to the British Government on mapping, surveying and geographic information. In addition to her work at Ordnance Survey, Vanessa is Chair of the ACE Association, which represents the Chief Executives of public sector Agencies and NDPBs; Chair of the Geographic Information Panel; which gives advice on cross-Government geographic Information issues, a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and a Patron of MapAction. She has recently retired as a Non-Executive Director of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

RONALD LAKE, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Galdos Systems Inc.

Mr. Lake has more than 30 years experience in the development of advanced software systems, including more than 20 years in advanced database, and spatial information systems. He is, a founding member of the Open GIS Consortium, the creator of Geography Markup Language (GML), and chair of the GML Special Interest Group. He is an acknowledged industry leader and technology innovator, has written and spoken extensively on spatial technologies and the Internet and is widely acknowledged as a visionary in the area of advanced spatial information systems.

DAVID MILLER, Chief Operating Officer, eSpatial Solutions Limited

David has over 25 years experience in the global IT industry having been responsible for operations, product development delivery and business development in a number of international companies and having worked within the venture capital industry. Previously, David has provided consultancy services to a number of Venture Capital and Private Equity companies as well as carrying out management roles in a number of companies including middleware company IONA Technologies (SVP Engineering), Sepro Telecom (COO), and a number of other international IT companies including ICL/Fujitsu in Ireland and Logica in the Netherlands.

GEOF ZEISS, Director of Technology, Enterprise Solutions Architecture , Infrastructure Solutions Division Autodesk, Inc.

Geoff has more than 10 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include streamlining the infrastructure management workflow at utilities, telecommunications firms and local government, open source geospatial and Web 2.0 and its impact on infrastructure management, and converged BIM/CAD/GIS solutions. Geoff came to Autodesk from MCI VISION* Solutions where he was Director of Product Development. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering RDBMS-based spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and data versioning in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial events around the world including GITA (US, Australia, Japan), GeoBrazil, GeoTec, Location Intelligence, and MapAsia and recently received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007.

DR. FAISAL AL TAMIMI, CEO/Senior Analyst/Project Manager, Tamimi Consulting Firm

Dr. Tamimi experience over 30 years spans from teaching (associate professor at King Saud University teaching at the college of Architecture and Planning and the College of Computer science. He also was the chairman of the Planning department, the supervisor of the university studies and organization department and the manager of the information systems development program from 1985-1991. Prior to opening his firm, he was a consultant to several government organizations, the ministry of planning, the royal commission for Jubail and Yanbu, the Saudi Central Electricity Company, the Ministry of Commerce as well as a member of numerous committees for the university development, science and technology strategy, five year planning, and conference organizations.

Dr. R Siva Kumar, Head NRDMS & NSDI, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Dr R Siva Kumar graduated in Production Engineering with the First Rank from Sri Venkateswara University and obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in computer Methods and Programming with a Gold Medal. He was commissioned into Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army in June 1977 and later seconded to Survey of India in Oct 1979. He holds the rank of Brigadier in the Indian Army. He has varied experience in all aspects of surveying and mapping though his specialization is Photogrammetry. He obtained his PG Diploma in Production Photogrammetry with Distinction from ITC, the Netherlands. His thesis ' A multi-source digital topographic data base for India' earned him the Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

STEFANO MORISI, Vice President EMEA Bentley Geospatial

Stefano Morisi, Vice President EMEA, Bentley Geospatial, began his career in 1985 as a sales representative in the mechanical design industry. In 1988 he joined Prime Computervision Italia as area manager for the GIS solutions. He later held the same position with Intergraph Italia, where he was soon named sales director for Italy, Greece and the Balkans. Mr. Morisi joined Bentley in 1994 as managing director and president of Bentley Systems Italia. In this capacity, he was charged with opening the Italian regional office and initiating operations in Italy, Greece and the former Yugoslavia. In 1999 he was named vice president with responsibility over Italy, France and Spain and in 2001 he held the same position for the Mediterranean and Middle East region. In 2004 he was named vice president for the Geospatial industry covering the EMEA area.

CHRISTIAN LEMPEREUR, Business & Market Development Manager Ionic Software

Being Business & Market Development Manager of IONIC Software, Mr. Christian Lempereur has long experience in managing Partner Network that customize final solutions according to each specific local customer expectations: presentation will demonstrate how an SOA using RedSpider Technology has been deployed in a variety of vertical markets such as: 1. Government, E-Gov, Geo-portal, SDI, Public Safety, 2. Defense, Geospatial Intelligence, 3. Space, Imagery & Earth Observation , 4. Enterprise, New Mobility, Location-Based Systems (LBS)

DOMINIC MCPOLIN, Chartered Town Planner and Chartered Surveyor,
Specialist in Infrastructure Planning and Coordination

Mr. McPolin holds two degrees in Planning together with the postgraduate entry examinations of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Mr. McPolin has worked in Bahrain for almost 20 years in the Office of the Minister and he has been the Head of the Central Planning Unit (CPU) in the Ministry of Works and Housing since 1997. The CPU is responsible for the coordination of the planning and implementation of all infrastructure in Bahrain. Mr. McPolin has served on many high level committees including the Bahrain National Plan Steering Committee (2006), the Formula One task team (2003), the Al Ezzel private power station (2006), Implementation Committee (2005).

ED PARSONS, Geospatial Technologist of Google

Parsons was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organization from mapping to Geographical Information. Parsons developed technology strategy, identified strategic technology partners, and lead the Ordnance Survey Research Labs, leading an overall team of more than 200 people. Parsons came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division. During his tenure, he helped Autodesk to become one of the key providers of GIS software.

OSCAR CUSTERS, Business Development Director, Geospatial

Oscar Custers is Bentley System, Inc.'s overseas business development director for geospatial; managing Bentley's key accounts outside of North America. Since joining Bentley in 1998, Mr. Custers has organized 3 global Bentley research seminars, and delivered numerous high-level presentations and papers in various international industry conferences. Graduating with a degree in Geographic Information Science from the University of Utrecht, Mr. Custers began his work in the Geospatial field over 15 years ago; with a primary focus on Land and Property