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It's the premier geospatial event of the year!
Featuring a drastically expanded program with 16 innovative seminars and 99 technical presentations! Check back soon for all the exciting details. This is sure to be a year you won't want to miss!

Register now for GITA’s Annual Conference and Exhibition—the the most highly regarded educational event for geospatial professionals. Annual Conference 30 will provide you with better ways to plan, design, manage, and maintain your geospatial systems and operations.

This prestigious event will present an exciting technical program, including in-depth seminars, educational sessions, user forums, panel deliberations, networking socials.

This year's conference theme—Mission Possible— reflects the idea that each attendee’s path at the conference will lead to them to information and networking to assist in fulfilling missions that are indeed possible.

Thank you to our event sponsors:

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Topics to be addressed at the conference include:

• Data acquisition and maintenance • Enterprise architecture and system integration
• Critical infrastructure protection and emergency response • Organizational impacts and project management
• Organizational impacts • Planning, design and engineering
• Public sector • ROI/Business case
• Operations management and damage prevention • New technology directions
• Business Intelligence/work and asset management • Mobile applications
• Internet and Web services  

The preconference Knowledge Immersion seminars will offer attendees the opportunity to concentrate on some key issues that are critical to successful project planning and implementation. The half-day seminars begin on Sunday morning and conclude on Monday.

The technical program, beginning on Monday afternoon and running through Wednesday, will feature nearly 200 speakers who will present technical papers on a full spectrum of topics, from an introduction to the technology, to database design, to systems integration, to people issues.

The conference exhibition will provide a showcase for state-of-the-art information technology products and services. More than 100,000 square feet of exhibit space will house more than 110 industry vendors. Exhibitors represent a wide array of software and hardware suppliers, consultants, conversion companies, and other geospatial industry suppliers. Exhibits will be open for 14 hours, beginning with the opening ceremony on Monday afternoon and closing on Wednesday afternoon.

Full-conference attendees are invited to participate in scheduled social events: the President's Reception on Monday night and the Closing Reception on Wednesday afternoon. Continental breakfasts are included on Tuesday and Wednesday, with lunch provided on Tuesday. Other special attractions are the "Birds of a Feather" breakfast sessons for users. All social events are designed to promote networking while enhancing the overall educational experience. Full-conference attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of the conference proceedings.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who is interested in using geospatial information technologies is invited to attend. Discussion topics involve geographic information systems (GIS), information technology (IT), mobile and field computing, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), network operations management, work management systems, enterprise application integration, critical infrastructure protection, one-call issues, interoperability, and other related technologies.

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.

 

Questions about annual Conference 30?  Contact us!
Phone: 303-337-0513    Fax: 303-337-1001     E-mail: info@gita.org

 

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