Intergraph 2008: Experience the Power
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- 15 June 2008 | By Matt Ball | 2613
The 2008 Intergraph 2008 International Users' Conference took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 2-5. More than 2,600 attendees gathered from more than 60 countries, making the event one of the largest ever. The theme of the event was "Experience the Power," with strong connections to Intergraph's power business, but also a connection to the resurgence of the company after extensive restructuring.BE 2008: Sustaining Infrastructure
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- 09 June 2008 | By Matt Ball | 4142
The 2008 Bentley Empowered (BE) Conference took place from May 28-30, in Baltimore, Maryland. The event drew roughly 2,000 registrants from 50 countries from many infrastructure disciplines, including roads, bridges, buildings, communications, water, architects, engineers, contractors and owner/operators. The theme of the event was "Sustaining Infrastructure," and the green theme permeated event preparations and is becoming a corporate mantra for the organization. Bentley has committed to reduce their carbon footprint by 15% before 2009. They've also adopted a less travel-intensive schedule for their own staff as well as offering deep online training options to reduce the travel of their users.
EVENT: GI 2008 Symposium Dresden, Germany
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- 25 May 2008 | By Jeff Thurston | 2773
The GI2008 Symposium took place recently in Dresden, Germany. The symposium brought together a wide range of public, private and educational people, all interested in the pursuit of geoinformation and geospatial applications for sustainability purposes. As an educational and capacity building event, GI2008 featured many unique cross-border applications. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston attended the event and reports on some of the many leading examples of European projects in such areas as metainformation, catalog services, cross-border geospatial collaboration, data search and public information re-use and more.
HP Barcelona - 'Behind the Scenes'
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- 13 April 2008 | By Jeff Thurston | 4635
Last week media were invited to Barcelona, Spain for the HP 'Behind the Scenes' event – A Celebration of 20 Years of Innovation and Leadership for Large Format in Barcelona. This was a unique event because it also included a tour of the HP facilities together with stops at other interesting locations in the City of Barcelona. It is in Barcelona where HP began in 1988, setting up large format printing operations.
bautec 2008 / Build IT Berlin
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- 19 February 2008 | By Jeff Thurston | 2824
The International Trade Fair for Building and Construction Technology opened today in Berlin, Germany at the Messe Berlin conference grounds. With 810 exhibitors from 18 countries the conference was officially opened by German Minister for Traffic Construction and Urban Development , Wolfgang Tiefensee.
ICC2007 Moskau: The 23rd Int'l Cartography Congress
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- 27 October 2007 | By Lars Brodersen | 3115
About 1200 participants from all over the world gathered in Moskau, Russia recently to celebrate the ICA’s 23rd International Cartography Congress (ICC). Countries from all over the world were represented, most of them members of the International Cartographic Association. A rough estimate would divide the participants into four cultural groups of equal size; ‘the Western’, ‘Russia and East-Europe’, ‘China’, and ‘all other parts of the world’.
20th Annual British Construction Industry Awards
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- 12 October 2007 | By Jeff Thurston | 2880
With an estimated 600 in attendance from all parts of the UK, the Annual Gala Awards and Dinner were held at the Grosvenor House in London this week. This event, was chosen as the premiere event for the construction industry in the UK by the Prime Minister in 2001 and is a showcase for British talent in the civil engineering field and for projects originating both within and outside the country.
Geographical Perspectives: 3 People - 3 Views
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- 04 October 2007 | By Jeff Thurston | 2489
I had the opportunity to interview three prominent people in the UK geoinformation community while at the Association for Geographic Information (AGi) conference in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Vanessa Lawrence is Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the British Ordnance Survey, Andy Coote is Consultancy Services Director for ESRI (UK) and Ed Parsons is Geospatial Technologist for Google. I asked each of them similar questions.
Overview: InterGeo 2007 Leipzig, Germany
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- 27 September 2007 | By Matt Ball | 3411
The 2007 InterGeo event in Leipzig this week was well attended with estimates approaching 15,000 people from more than 80 different countries. This event provides a unique perspective as it combines on one tradeshow floor all of the disciplines that create, manage, analyze, display and distribute geospatial data. It includes both manufacturers and suppliers, and a significant number of small to medium sized businesses (SME's) The breadth of companies represents the entire geospatial value chain including surveying, GPS, photogrammetry, 3D visualisation and data integration.