The HP - Press Event 2009 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event included a tour of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Iaac) in the center of the city accompanied by formal presentations from members of the HP Research Print facilities in nearby San Cugat together with a tour and presentations at those facilities. This included demonstrations of many HP large format print products together with a question answer period. Francois Martin of HP opened the event explaining the relationship of the company to the Iaac. "We are designing products that many architects use," he said. The company is also sponsoring the 'City of the Future' initiative for 2009. Martin indicated that the overall market for large format print solutions had declined by about 50%, and that was attributable to the decline in activity throughout the construction industry. The current numbers indicate that 2010 will see growth in the neighbourhood of 4%.
Bentley held its annual infrastructure best practices and awards ceremony in Charlotte, North Carolina from Oct. 12-14. This year’s invite-only Be Inspired seminar and awards event highlighted the best work of Bentley software customers from 6 continents and 21 countries in disciplines ranging from the design of bridges, buildings and plants to cadastre and land development, communications, transportation, mining and metals and water and wastewater.
This topic was addressed in a workshop called “Putting complexity to work – supporting the Practitioners” organised by The abaci Partnership on 24 September 2009 as part of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2009) held at the University of Warwick, UK. The Workshop explored novel approaches for dealing with the complex spatial realities that practitioners face in their day-to-day work. It showed that insights from complexity science could assist people working in emergency relief, humanitarian aid, local and regional planning, sustainable development, climate change initiatives, health care, logistics planning and business strategy development, to name a few.

The sixth-annual Location Intelligence Conference took place in Westminster, Colorado from Oct. 5-7, with more than 250 people in attendance and a show floor that showcased 25 companies. The focus of this event, sponsored and produced by Directions Magazine, is largely on the business consumers of geospatial technologies and data, highlighting the trends that extend location-based information within enterprise information technology.
INTERGEO was held in Karlsruhe, Germany last week under sunny skies allowing for the 15,000 in attendance to participate in both indoor and outdoor displays of the latest geospatial technologies developed by international manufacturer's from 30 countries. At 25,000 square meters, INTERGEO remains one of the largest geospatial events on the planet.
The 2009 ESRI International User Conference took place in San Diego, Calif., from July 13-17. This year's event attracted more than 12,000 people this year, with the theme, "GIS: Designing Our Future". Sustainability was again a strong theme in the plenary session as well as throughout the conference program.The annual Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI Forum 2009) was held at University Salzburg in Austria July 7 - 10. About 1000 people attended the English speaking event which is combined with the Deutsche language AGIT 2009 event. GI Forum is a GIScience focused event with a strong educational component and AGIT is oriented around applications involving new discovery, research and education involving geoinformatic related technologies.
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