Last week we launched our main events series for 2014 titled ‘Geo: The Big
5’. This is a series of six national events (the five referring to the issues)
made up of five one day events and the annual conference.
With this year being the 25th Anniversary of the AGI we
wanted to ensure that rather than looking to the past we produced an event
series that is tackling the issues in the industry today and looking towards
changes in the future.
Throughout 2013 we held discussions with our members, SIGs, delegates
at events and industry experts to help identify some of the top issues and
challenges that the industry is experiencing today. We had great feedback on
this and have managed to group most of these issues into the following five
areas:
·
Future Cities
·
Open Geospatial
·
Big Data
·
BIM and Asset Management
·
Policy
Each of these topics will have its own one day event dedicated to it and
have been chosen because they are nationally significant.
The first event of the series will be Future Cities and will (rather
appropriately) be held in Glasgow, home of the Future Cities Demonstrator on
the 18th March.
It’s important to note that we aren’t neglecting other areas of the
industry and each conference will contain a strong second stream of content
showcasing best practice and innovation beyond the main theme of the
conference. The second stream in Glasgow for example will showcase great uses
of GI from within Scotland.
All of these themes will feature in the annual conference ‘GeoCom: The
Changing Face of Geo’. The new annual conference will serve to bring together
the discussions from the other events and set the agenda for Geo going in to
2015 and beyond.
Plans are well underway with a number of speakers already lined up and
a call for papers ready to go for what is going to be an exciting programme of
events. Last year’s showcase events were a great success but we’re confident
that this is going to be something a bit more special.
To book for any of the events click
here
If you want any more information or are interested in volunteering with
the organising groups for any of the events (or think you know a great speaker)
then please get in touch! (chris.rhodes@agi.org.uk)
Also as part of the new look events series we are using the lovely new logo you can see at the top and will be tweeting under #geobig5
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