Speakers

Speakers

Geocapacity

Prof. Dr.Josef Strobl
Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS
University of Salzburg
Austria
Karl Donert
Director of the European
Centre of Excellence digital - earth.eu
Austria
Prof. Dr. Martin Raubal
Department Civil
Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Dr.Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz
Special Advisor to the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs
Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs
Switzerland
Franois Golay
Professor
cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland*
Giorgio Saio
GISIG - Geographical Information Systems International Group
Italy
Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
Nottingham Geospatial Building
University of Nottingham
UK
Adrijana Car
Associate Professor - GIS German University of Technology, Oman
Nicola Spafford Furey
Vice President
Earth Focus Foundation
Switzerland
Dr. HaeKyong Kang
Associate Research Fellow, Geospatial Information Research Division
Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
South Korea
Hendrik Westerbeek
Director,
Geo Employment Market Foundation (SAGEO)
The Netherlands
Dell Oro Luca
Specialist
UNITAR-UNOSAT
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny
Head of Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography
Masaryk University
Czech Republic

GEO3D

Prof em Dr Armin Gruen
Chair for Information Science
ETH Zuerich
Switzerland
Alain Samaha
Business Area Director of GIS and Geospatial Software
Trimble
USA
Jean-Marc Gauthier
Associate Art Professor of Animation and Digital Arts Tisch School of the Arts NYU Singapore
Dr. Gertrud Riegler
Product Line Manager
DEM Airbus Defence and Space
Germany
Roberto Putzu
Professor
Fluid mechanics laboratory CMEFE, Hepia University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Switzerland
Claude Hannecart
Manager Services - UrbIS Data CIRB - Centre d'Informatique pour la Région Bruxelloise
Belgium
Yacine Benmansour
Senior Researcher and Lead
of ''Digital Cities'' Research Center, HEPIA,
Switzerland
Vincent Lusser
Deputy Secretary General
for the Promotion of Urban
Projects at State of Genve Switzerland
Gert Van Maren
Product Management Lead for 3D
Esri Switzerland
Vincent Streignard
Project Manager
Projects - IS CIRB - Centre dInformatique pour la Rgion Bruxelloise
Belgium
Rollo Home
Senior Product Manager
Ordnance Survey
UK
Emmanuel Belo M
Head of the Geospatial Solutions
Division Camptocamp
Switzerland
Jacynthe Pouliot
Professor
Department of Geomatics Sciences
Université Laval
Canada
Nicolas Gouneaud
Area Manager at State of Geneva
Noise, air and nonionizing radiation division
Switzerland
Kilian Ulm
Chief Market Manager
COWI A/S
Switzerland
JungRae Hwang
Principal Researcher - R&D Team
Spatial Information
Industry Promotion Institute
South Korea
Steven True
Product Development Manager
ComputaMaps
South Africa
Martin Christen
Senior Scientist FHNW - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Horesh BenShitrit
CVlab Computer
Vision Laboratory
Switzerland
Claudio Carneiro
LASIG Geographic information System Laboratory
Swiss institute of Technology EPFL
Switzerland

Geo Developers

Dr. Thomas Bahr
Senior Consultant
Exelis Visual Information Solutions
Germany
Mano Marks
Lead Developer
Advocate for the Google Maps APIs, Google
Cedric Moullet
Head of FSDI
Web Infrastructure, Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Dino Ravnic
CEO
GIS Cloud Ltd.
Ian Holt
Head of Developer Outreach
Ordnance Survey
Faheem Khan
Vice President
Business Development HDS, Leica Geosystems
Matthias Schenker
Director Implementation Services, Esri
Tim Williams
Business Development
what3words
United Kingdom

Geo Energy

Chairperson
Geoff Zeiss

Editor - Building and Energy
Geospatial Media and Communications
Canada
Georgios Sarantakos
Expert on Sustainability and Energy
GEO Secretariat
Switzerland
Carsten Hoyer-Klick
Head of Department
Systems Analysis & Technology Assessment
DLR
Germany
Manfred Mittlboeck
Key Researcher
iSPACE
Austria
Stephane Chevrel
Project Coordinator
BRGM
France
Thomas Wanderer
Research Associate
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Systems Analysis & Technology Assessment
Germany
Holger Ruf
Research Coordinator
Ulm
Germany
Melanie Davis
Research Project Coordinator
IC3
Spain
Albert Susino
Director, - OCEN
Department of Securities
State of Geneva
Switzerland
A.L.M. (Ad) van Houtum
Advisor Product and Process Innovations
Kadaster
The Netherlands
Theo Laughner
Tennessee Valley Authority, USA
Artur Brei
Head of Graphic Data Processing
UZ (Unterfrnkische berlandzentrale eG)
Germany
Anit Ghose
Principal Advisor (Dept of Geospatial Services)
Supreme & Co. Pvt. Ltd.
India
Anit Ghose
Principal Advisor (Dept of Geospatial Services)
Supreme & Co. Pvt. Ltd
India
Piergiorgio Cipriano
GI/SDI Project Manager
Sinergis
Italy
Wei Zhang
Senior Technical Manager
Jiantong
China
Rajiv Gupta
Senior Professor
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
India
Dr. Recai Ogur
Assoc.Professor - Department of Public Health
Center for Education and Research on Environment – Gene Interaction
Turkey
Arul.I Tenkasi
AEE
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board
India

Geo Disaster

Chairperson
Aida Opoku-Mensah

Special Advisor: Post 2015 Development Agenda
UN Economic Commission for Africa
Ethopia
Kaushik Chakraborty
Vice President
Hexagon Geosystems
India
Iain MacInnes
Sr. Regional Manager EMEAR
DigitalGlobe
UK
Francesco GAETANI
Scientific Officer
GEO Group on Earth Observations
Switzerland
Dr.Fernando Nardi
UNESCO Chair “Water Resources Management and Culture”
University for Foreigners of Perugia
Italy
W.A. Frederic Zanetta
Disaster Information Senior Officer
Disaster Services Department International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Switzerland
Prof Sue Grimmond
Department of Meteorology
University of Reading
UK
Daniel Tobler
Deputy Head of Engineering and Natural Hazard Department
Geotest AG
Switzerland
Dr. Taehoon Kim
Senior Researcher
Korea Institute of Construction Technology/ICT Convergence and Integration Research Division
South Korea
Enrico C. Paringit
Program Leader, DREAM
University of the Philippines
Philippines
Philippe Arnold
Specialist Natural Hazards
Federal Department of Environment
Transport Energy and Communications
Switzerland
Myung-Hee Jo
Professor
Kyungpook National University
South Korea
Dr.Tomas Fernandez
Professor - Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing
University of Jaen
Spain
Rahul Dev Garg
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee
India
W.A. Anusha Priyahti Wijesundara
Hydrographic Surveyor
National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency
Sri Lanka

Geo Agri

Mark Noort
Editor - Agriculture
Geospatial Media and Communications
The Netherlands
Emmanuel de Maistre
Co-Founder & CEO
RedBird
France
Dr. Joachim Herbold
Senior Underwriter - Agro
Munich Re
Germany
Foster K. Mensah
Executive Director
Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS)
University of Ghana
Daniel Kull
Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist
World Bank
Geneva
Switzerland
Xiaoyuan Geng
Head Scientist
Agri-Food
Canada
Tim East
Manager Enterprise Accounts
Trimble Navigation
USA
Raymond De Lai
Centre Manager
Herbert Resource Information Centre
Australia
Gary Holmes
Business Development Manager
DMC International Imaging Ltd.
U.K.
Antonio Tabasco
Remote Sensing Applications and Services Division Manager
GMV
Michel Deshayes
Scientific and Technical Officer - GEOGLAM Programme
GEO Secretariat, Geneve
Switzerland
Tamme van der Wal
Partner
AeroVision B.V.
The Netherlands
Dr. Ephrem Gebremariam
Assistant Professor
School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University
Ethiopia
Damien Powell
Delivery Director
ABACO SPA
Italy
Dr.Matthias Trapp
Head of Department for Environmental Systems
RLP AgroScience GmbH, Institute for AgroEcology
Germany
Lorenzo Martelletti
Sales and Business Development Manager
Pix4D
Switzerland
Dr. Jens Knodel
Smart Farming Project Manager
Fraunhofer IESE
Germany

Geo Build

Chairperson
Geoff Zeiss

Editor
Building and Energy
Geospatial Media and Communications
Canada
Dr. AC Kemp
Director
BIM Strategy and Development
ATKINS
UK
Leif Granhom
Senior Vice President
Tekla
Finland
Faheem Khan
Vice President
Business Development HDS
Leica Geosystems
Andrew Evans
Applications Development Manager
Topcon
The Netherlands
Christoph Kaeser
Section Leader
MISTRA Bundesamt fuer Strassen ASTRA
Switzerland
Andy Rhoades
Head of Service Protection
Knowledge & Information Management
Technical Standards and Assurance
Heathrow Airports Holdings Limited,UK
Warren Cartwright
Product Manager
MDA
Canada
Soren Aage Normolle
Partner/Head of Office
LE34
Christoph Strecha
CEO
Pix4D SA
Switzerland
Dr. Rade Hajdin
President and Founding Partner
Infrastructure Management Consultants Ltd
Switzerland
Bertier Luyt
President and CEO
Le FabShop
France
Hakan Engman
CEO
Agency9 AB
Sweden
Dr. Julien Vallet
CEO
Helimap System SA
Switzerland
Ing. Jerome HENRY
Directeur
HKD Géomatique SA, ONEX
Switzerland
Norbazlan Mohd Yusof
Manager, Database Management Department
Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad
Malaysia
Ing. Junhee Youn
Senior Researcher
Korea Institute of Construction
Korea
Laura Pinfold
Lecturer
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
South Africa
Peter Hansford FREng
Government Chief Construction Adviser
Department for Business,Innovation & Skills
HM Government
UK
Hakan Engman
CEO
Agency9 AB
Sweden

Geospatial Industry Forging Ties with GEOSS: A Value Proposition Dialogue

Chairperson
Barbara Ryan

Secretariat Director
GEO
Switzerland
Chairperson
Mark Noort

Editor - Agriculture
Geospatial Media and Communications
The Netherlands
Dr. Stephen Briggs
Head, Department of EO Science
Applications & Future Technologies
ESA/ESRIN
Italy
Raghava Murthy
Director EOS
ISRO
India
Ivan B. DeLoatch
Executive Director
Federal Geographic Data Committee
U.S. Geological Survey
Alessandro Annoni
Head of the Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Taner Kodanaz
Director of Global Alliances
DigitalGlobe
USA
Dr. Vark Helfritz
Director Strategy & Marketing
Airbus Defence and Space
France
Herbert F. Satterlee III
CEO
MDA Information Systems
USA
John Ahlrichs
VP - Marketing and Sales
BlackBridge
Germany
Xiaoyang Cheng
CEO
Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology
China
Chairperson
Geoff Sawyer

Secretary General
EARSC
Belgium
Dr. Thomas Heege
Managing Director
EO Map
Germany
Chetan Pradhan
Earth Observation Account Manager
CGI
UK
Stefan Jensen
Head of SEIS and SDI Group
European Environment Agency
Denmark
Dr. Derek Clarke
Chief Director: Surveys & Mapping and NGI
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
South Africa

Land Information system for Smart cities

Dave Carter
Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency
City of Manchester
UK
Kees de Zeeuw
Director
Kadaster International
The Netherlands
Abhilash Panda
Senior Programme Officer
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Switzerland
Elena Szolgayov
Chair, UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management
Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development, Slovakia
Chairperson
Arup Dasgupta

Managing Editor
Geospatial Media and Communications
India
Didier Vancutsem
Chairman
The International Society of City and Regional Planners
Belgium
Virginia Cram-Martos
Director, Economic Cooperation, Trade and Land Management Division
UNECE
Switzerland
Iain Langlands
GIS Manager - Land and Environmental Services
Glasgow City Council
Scotland
Komilov Abduvali Hakimovich
Director
Committee for Construction and Architecture Tajikistan
Siegfried Nagl
Mayor
City of Graz
Austria
Natalya Oliynik
Director
Department for Strategic Reform and Development of Housing Sector
Ministry of Regional Development and Construction
Ukraine
Christopher Barlow
Director,Strategic Relations and Communications
Thomson Reuters
USA
Doug Hurdlebrink
Deputy Commissioner
City of Chicago
USA
Elshad Khanalibayli
Chair, UNECE Working Party on Land Administration; and Head Investment and Cooperation Department State Committee on Property Issues, Azerbaijan
Nikolay Bobylev
Marie Curie Research Fellow
University of Birmingham UK
David Gigineishvili
Head of Spatial Planning and Construction Policy Department, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Georgia
Peter Creuzer
Director
State Survey and Geospatial Basic Information Agency for Geoinformation and Land Development of Lower Saxony (LGLN), Germany
Gulnara Roll
Head - Housing and Land Management Unit, Trade and Sustainable Land Management Division
UN Economic Commission for Europe
Switzerland
Alena Rakava
Deputy Head of Regional Planning and Urban Planning Department , Ministry of Architecture and Construction Belarus
Mahmoud ElBurai
Managing Director
Dubai Real Estate Institute
UAE
Svetlana Ristic
Head of Housing Department
Ministry of Construction and Urbanism
Serbia
Stefano Scalera
Director
Agenzia del Demanio
Italy
Manuel Garcia Alvarez
ITC
Netherlands
Andreas Littkopf
Director International affairs
Austrian Environment Agency
Austria
Nick Russill
Director
TerraDat
UK
Karam Hasanov
Chairperson
State Committee on Property Issues
Azerbaijan
Tony Bonnici
Economic Affairs Officers
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe
Switzerland
Prabhat Kumar Sarangi
IAS
Joint Secretary
Department of Land Resources, India
Andrew Trigg
Chief Geographic Information Officer
HM Land Registry of England and Wales
UK
Kari Aina Eik
Secretary General
Organization for International Economic Cooperation
Austria
Martinus Vranken
Project Manager-Energy and Climate
Kadaster
The Netherlands
Andrew Hudson Smith
Director
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
UK
Vincent Hoong
Chief Executive Officer
Singapore Land Authority
Somkid Sari
Advisor on Performance Efficiency
Land Titling Project Office
Thailand
Jill Urban Karr
Executive Director - Consulting Services/landfolio® Solutions
Trimble Navigation, Ltd.
USA
Rodrigo Alejandro Nieto Enríquez
Vice Minister of Urban Development and Housing
Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development
Mexixo
Evgeniy Mavrin
Deputy-Prime Minister of Republic of Bashkortostan of Minister of Economy Russian Federation
Konstantinos Alexopoulos
Secretary, Transport Trends and Economics Secretariat
UNECE
Switzerland
Brinda Wachs
Coordinator, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP)
UNECE-WHO joint programme
Switzerland
Ulo Sare
CEO, Tartu Smart City Lab
Estonia
Iemke Idsingh
Public Sector Solutions Director
Oracle
The Netherlands
Nick Land
Business Development Manager
Esri Europe
UK
John Peaden
Director of Operations
HM Land Registry of England and Wales
UK

Space Technologies Empowering Geosmart Applications in Switzerland

Chairperson
Jose Achache

Managing Director
AP-Swiss
Switzerland
Urs Wegmuller
CEO
GAMMA Remote Sensing
Switzerland
Philipp Schaer
R&D Director
GEOSAT
Switzerland
Valeria Fabbroni
Director
Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD)
Switzerland
Thomas Staub
Chief Scientist
DFRC
Switzerland
Stefan Reidy
CEO
Arviem
Switzerland
Alan Brunstrom
Head of the Applications Business Office
ESA.
Einar BJORGO
Manager
UNOSAT
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Switzerland
Paolo Pasquali
Technical Director and President
SARMAP
Switzerland
Richard Bru
CEO
NOVELTIS
Switzerland
Ferdinando Tiezzi
Director Business Development
VIASAT
Switzerland
Yves Buehler
Scientific Staff Member
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Switzerland
Jose Demetrio
CEO
GEOSATIS
Switzerland
Marcin Poturalski
R&D Engineer
GEOSATIS
Switzerland
Anton B. Ivanov
CubETH Project Manager
Space Engineering Center EPFL, Swiss Space Center
Switzerland

SWISS Day

Chairperson
Christian Dettwiler

Cantonal Survey Supervision Services (KKVA)
Switzerland
Dr. Xavier Comtesse
Director
Avenir Suisse
Switzerland
Dr. Daniel Steudler
Scientific Associate
Federal Office of Topography
Swisstopo
Switzerland
Nicolas Schmidt
Project Manager
PLR-cadastre GIS Center
Construction Directorate
Canton of Zurich,Switzerland
Geoffrey Cornette
Canton of Geneva
Switzerland
Maurice Barbieri
Chair IGS and CLGE IG - PARLS
Ingenieur- Geometer Schweiz (IGS), CLGE IG - PARLS
Switzerland
Dr. Andre Streilein
Head of Topography
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
Dominik Kauferle
Project Manager
New National Map Series
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
Dr. Roland Stengele
CEO
BSF Swissphoto AG
Switzerland
Dirk Mergelkuhl
Engineer Experiment Metrology of Large Scale Metrology Section
CERN
Switzerland
Jean-Philippe Amstein
Director
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
Wilfried Haeberli
Em. Professor
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Frederic Kaplan
Professor
Digital Humanities Lab (DHLAB), EPF Lausanne
Switzerland
Urs Gerber
Head of Base Data for Environmental Monitoring
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
David Beni
CEO
arx iT
Switzerland
Alain Buogo
Head of Coordination
Geo- Information and Services (COGIS)
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
Dr. David Oesch
Project Lead
Swiss Federal Geoportal
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Switzerland
Pascal Oehrli
Director
Geomatic Competence Centre
Canton of Geneva
Switzerland
Martin Utiger
Member of the Project Management of SwitzerlandMobility Foundation
SwitzerlandMobility, Velobro Olten, Switzerland
Tamara Estermann
Head of Competence Centre
Geoinformation
Swiss Parcs
Switzerland

Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Shaping the Future

Massimo Craglia
Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit
DG Joint Research Centre
European Commission
Chi-Chao Chang
President of Products & Technology
XAD.com
USA
Wim Broer
Commissioner of Police
Programme Director - Professional Gaming,Virtual Police Corps Programme
The Netherlands
Ed Fennema
CEO
Sightes, The Transreality Company
The Netherlands
Didier Schmitt
Scientific Adviser and Foresight Coordinator
ECs Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA)
Belgium
Bob Bishop
CEO
International Centre for Earth Simulation
Switzerland
Prof. Thomas Ludwig
Director
German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)
Germany
Felix Schuermann
General Project Manager
Human Brian project
Switzerland
George Tyc
PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Urthecast
Canada

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Chris Dermody
CIO
Denver Water
USA
Dennis Devriendt
Technical Director
4CGrid
Belgium
Prof. Yaron Felus
Chief Scientist
Survey of Israel
Israel
Ali El Battay
Assistant Professor
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain
Jan Van de Steen
Service Line Manager
Geographic Information Systems
Capgemini
Belgium
Nicola Sandoli
Business Development Manager
ICONSULTING
Italy
Marco Vignoli
Consultant Expert
ICONSULTING S.p.A.
Italy

CLIMATE CHANGE

Chairperson and Keynote Speaker
Carl Reed

CTO and Executive Director of Standards Program
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
USA
Robert Shibatani
CEO & Principal Hydrologist
The Shibatani Group
USA
Xavier Irias
Director of Engineering and Construction
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)
USA
Espen Volden
Expert on Climate
GEO Secretariat
Switzerland
Ornprapa P. Robert
Assistant Professor
Silpakorn University
Thailand
Felipe Cerbella Mandarino
Instituto Pereira Passos
Rio de Janeiro City Hall
Brazil
Martin Sauerbier
Project Manager
Photogrammetry MFB-GeoConsulting GmbH
Switzerland
Zahrah N. Musa
Researcher
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
The Netherlands

OPEN DATA

Chairperson
Prof Robert Barr

OBE CGeog(GIS) FRGS FRSA
Open Data User Group
Manchester Geomatics, UK
Marc Leobet
Mission Geographic Information Commissioner
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
France
Yoav Tal
Director
National Spatial Databases
Survey of Israel,Israel
Dr. Tina Svan Colding
Head of Function - Private Sector
The Danish Geodata Agency
Denmark
Graeme Blick
Chief Geodesist and Manager National Topographic Office
LINZ, New Zealand
J. Eric Lomeli
GIS Projects Coordinator
eServices & Innovation Technology Division
Bexar County Information Technology (Texas)
USA
Yaniss Guigoz
Geographer
UNEP/GRID-Geneva
Switzerland
Anne Marie Carstens
Consultant
Ministry of the Environment
Denmark
Antoine Logean
Data Scientist in Casualty R&D at SwissRe
Founding Board Member of the Opendata.ch Association
Switzerland
Ben Bruns
Product Manager Topography
Cadaster
Land Registry and Mapping Agency
The Netherlands
Antoine Stroh
Open Data Project Manager
Transports Publics Genevois
Switzerland

BIG DATA

Chairperson and Lead Speaker
Thomas Glatthard

General Secretary
Swiss Organisation for Geographic Information (SOGI)
Switzerland
Giovanni Marchisio
Director - Product Development and Labs
DigitalGlobe
Hans Viehmann
Product Manager EMEA
ORACLE
Germany
Chris Tagg
Product Manager
1Spatial
UK
Mathieu Becker
CEO
Isogeo
France
Prof. Uma Shama
GeoGraphics Laboratory
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA
USA
Dr. Pouria Amirian
Computer Science Department
Maynooth Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies, National University of Ireland
UK

GOVERNANCE

Chair and Lead Speaker
Dr. Dae-Jong Kim

Head of Center for Territorial Policy Simulation
Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
South Korea
Omar Al Shaiba
Director - Property and GIS Division
Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Siow Suan Neo
Unit Head NKRA Safe City Programme
Federal Department of Town and Country Planning
Malaysia
Tobias Brunner
Project Manager at Geomatik + Vermessung Zurich
City of Zurich
Switzerland
Reem Al-Kharouf
Department of Geography
Yarmouk University
Jordan
G. P. Singh
Senior Technical Director
National Informatics Centre
Lucknow
India
Marije Louwsma
Senior Projectleader
Kadaster
The Netherlands
Prof. Mirna Cortopassi Lobo
President Advisor
Brazilian Council of Achitects
Brazil
Alexander Aronsohn
Associate Director
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
UK
Martin Geilhausen
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
Switzerland
Adriana Vial
Architect
Instituto Pereira Passos
Rio de Janeiro City Hall
Brazil
Marino Carhuapoma Hilario
System Engineer
IdeasG SAC
Peru
Rofaida Elzubair
KM and GIS unit Coordinator
Epidemiological Laboratory
Sudan

SENSORS

Chairperson
Ian Dowman

Emeritus Professor of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, University College London
United Kingdom
Giovanni Marchisio
Director - Product Development and Labs
DigitalGlobe
Peter Rieger
Product Manager
Airborne Laser Scanning
RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH
Austria
Ruedi Wagner
Vice President
Leica Geosystems
Switzerland
Dr.-Ing. Michael Cramer
Institute for Photogrammetry
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Philipp Grimm
Marketing & Sales
IGI
Germany
Michael Gruber
Chief Scientist, Ultracam
Microsoft
Germany
Owen Hawkins
Development Manager
Surrey Satellite Technology
UK
David Belton
General Manager
MDA Geospatial Services
Canada
Hannu Korpela
Sales and Marketing Manager
Terrasolid
Finland
Dr.-Ing. Uwe Stilla
Professor
Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Germany
Michael Bolsunovsky
First Deputy Director General
Sovzond
Russia
Maxime Elbaz
President
Optech, Inc.
United States
Inna Cruz
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
Switzerland
Isao Kojima
Principal Research Manager, Information Technology Research Institute
National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan
Jérome Soubirane
SPOT Product Manager, Geo-Intelligence
Airbus Defence and Space
France
Ionut Iosifescu
Senior Researcher
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Shenghua Chen
Research Assistant
Institute of Engineering Geodesy
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Ismat M. Elhassan
Professor
King Saud University
College of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department
Saudi Arabia

Collaborative Approach Fostering Global Peace and Prosperity

Chairperson
Einar BJORGO

Manager
UNOSAT,United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Switzerland
Alex Mejia
Manager
Decentralized Cooperation Programme (DCP)
UNITAR
Switzerland
Predrag Milicevic
Chief of Service for Geospatial Information and Telecommunication Technology
UNLB/Global Service Centre (UNLB/GSC)
USA
Ahmed Abukhater
Senior Director
Global Enterprise GIS, Trimble
USA
Hussein Gadain
Chief Technical Advisor
SWALIM Project, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Kenya
Olivier Senegas
UNOSAT
Switzerland
Yann Rebois
GIS Specialist
International Committee of the Red Cross
Switzerland
Theresa Hitchens
Director
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Switzerland
Craig Williams
Chief, a.i. Field Information Services
OCHA
Switzerland
Dr. Angela De Santis
Advisor - Information Management
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
Switzerland
Kimberly Roberson
Chief of Field Information and Coordination
UNHCR
Switzerland
Julien Temple
Manager, Humanitarian Partnership
UNICEF
Switzerland
Neil Buhne
Senior Deputy Director
UNDP
Switzerland
Vincent Anoni
IMPACT
Switzerland
Luca Pupulin
ACTED/REACH
Switzerland
Andrea Amparore
GIS Analyst
UN World Food Programme
Switzerland

CLOUD COMPUTING

Chair and Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. Stephan Nebiker

FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern, Switzerland
Dr. Jasper van Loon
Advisor Science and Applications
Netherlands Space Office
The Netherlands
Chih Hong Sun
Director
Taiwan GIS Center
Taiwan
Dr. Kyoung-Sook Kim
Researcher
Information Technology Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Jessi Dick
Cloud Services Marketing Manager, Geo-Intelligence
Airbus Defence and Space
USA
Steven Eglinton
Founder and Managing Director
GeoEnable
UK
Tom Counts
President
3-GIS
USA
Silvester Fischer
Account Manager
Exelis Visual Information Solutions
Germany
Elisabeth Leu
Project Manager
Camptocamp
Switzerland

International GIS ROI Methodologies and Findings: Applying ROI Findings

Prof. Dr. Jixian Zhang
President
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
China
Dr. Inder Jit Singh
IAS Joint Secretary
Ministry of Science & Technology
India
Anil Kumar
Director - Environmental Information Sector
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
UAE
Neil Kuruppu
PepperStack Pty Ltd
CEO
Australia
Akbar Hiznu Mawanda
In-House Lawyer
Geospatial Information Agency
Indonesia
Dr. Rania Qutieshat
Assistant Professor
Balqa Applied University
Jordan
Dr. Ko Ko Lwin
Division of Spatial Information Science
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Nicholas Pinfold
Lecturer
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
South Africa
Junior Tumare
Technical Instructor-I
Department of surveying and Land Studies The Papua New Guinea University of Technology Papua
New Guinea
Dr. Tarig A. Ali
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering
UAE