Here’s a quick look at all the technical sessions that are currently being planned for at GeoWeb 2009 (note: this program is subject to change). View the the technical sessions details page to read the abstracts:

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

9:25AM - 10:05AM

• The gap between SDIs and the GeoWeb - Clemens Portal, Interactive Instruments
• Key elements to consider when building 3D City GIS for sustaining infrastructure - Benoit Fredericque, Bentley Systems, Inc.
• Geographical Data on the Semantic Web and the Long Tail of Geographic Information - Serge Boucher, Brussels Free University

10:15AM - 10:55AM

• Event Driven Geospatial Data Synchronization for Collaborative SDI using SOA technology, Google Earth, and OGC Web Services - Hans Schoebach, Galdos Systems, Inc.
• Simple Relational Model for Temporally Diverse City Models - Paul Cote, Harvard University
• Integrating Canadian Base Data for use on the GeoWeb - Gordon Plunkett, ESRI Canada Limited

11:10AM - 11:50AM

• Progressive transmission of variable scale vector data over the web - Martijn Meijers, Delft University of Technology
• A Fuzzy Model for Evaluation of the Urban Quaility in Sarajevo - Jasna Pleho, Institute of Canton Planning
• Address Management: The Secret Ingredient for Geospatial Success - Boris Gutkin, DMTI Spatial Inc.

12:00PM - 12:40PM

• Geospatial Registries, Catalogs and Search - Are we there yet? - Satish Sankaran, ESRI
• In My Backyard (IMBY): Renewable Energy for Everyone - Christopher Helm, NREL
• Session TBA

3:20PM - 4:00PM

• How good is your information architecture? - Carsten Roensdorf, Ordnance Survey
• Changing our perspective from ‘collection’ to ‘utilisation’: - Stephen Rixon, Met Geoinfo
• MultiSpeak Version 3 Web Services Data Transfer - John Hedstrom, Great River Energy

4:15PM - 4:55PM

• Enableing the GeoWeb with Small Organizations - James Fee, RSP Architects, Ltd.
• Advances in Virtual City Data Management - Xavier Lopez, Oracle Corporation
• Building a new location-aware infrastructure for calendaring and scheduling - Peter Batty, Spatial Networking

5:05PM - 5:45PM

• OWS6 AIM - A standards based architecture for Aeronautical Information Exchange - Ian Painter, Snowflake Software
• GIS and CAD enables community led city planning: the Mississauga Lakeview waterfront experience - Stephen Bohus, Parallel World Labs
• Integrating GIS, CAD, Raster, 3D and BIM Data - Dale Lutz, Safe Software Inc.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

9:25AM - 10:05AM

• Implementation of a Web-GIS Application for the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project in ArcGIS Server 9.2 - Dennis Chao, Alberta Geological Survey, EUB
• Adding A Truly Open-Source 3D Globe To The Stack: Open, Community Driven, & Browser-Based - Mark Korver, Aerial Services, Inc.
• Delivering GIS to everyone using ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online - Bernard Szukalski, ESRI

10:15AM - 10:55AM

• The Undiscovered Country - Aaron Cope, Flickr
• Moving Objects: Look in the Past, Manage the Present and Predict the Future - Jans Aasman, Franz Inc.
  
• World’s most realistic 3D city models - Ludvig Emgard, C3 Technologies

11:10AM - 11:50AM

• Exploiting Geospatial Systems - The Attackers Perspective - Martin Kyle CSSLP GISP, Sierra Systems Inc.
• Future directions in 3D Modeling and Visualization in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - John Sharrard, ESRI
• Bringing the GeoWeb to the Enterprise - Sean Gorman, FortiusOne

12:00PM - 12:40PM

• Access to GIS Data for Emergency Resources and Response - Bill Timmins & Jaymes Pardue, GIS Services & TerraGo Technologies
• GeoTemporal Reasoning in Diverse Data Sources - Jans Aasman, Franz Inc
• Building a Virtual World: 3D Buildings in Google Earth - Mike Springer, Google

4:05PM - 4:45PM

• Digital Cities Experts Panel - Doug Eberhard, Autodesk
• GeoWeb Standards: How far they’ve come, How far they need to go - Andrew Turner, FortiusOne
• Mapping any Part of the World at Scale 1:50,000 within one Single Day for Rescue Purpose: A Big Challege - Pascal Albericci, Infoterra

Friday, July 31, 2009

9:25AM - 10:05AM

• Mashing Distribution Network Status Maps at Entergy - Chad Swenka, iFactor Consulting
• Open Access to Geospatial Data Using Open RESTful Web Services - Haris Kurtagic, SL-King
• Efficient Encoding of 2-D and 3-D Geospatial RDF Data with Near-Linear Search Time - Steve Haflich, Franz Inc

10:15AM - 10:55AM

• The VISTA project: integrating UK utility data - Anthony Beck, School of Computing, UK
• Google Earth 5.0 KML Extensions - Michael Ashbridge, Google
• Supporting Error-Free GeoParsing of Text on the Web - Aaron Novstrup, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.

11:10AM - 11:50AM

• Providing a Higher Level of Service through Web Architecture: City of Nanaimo and the MapGuide REST Extension - Jason Birch, City of Nanaimo
• Hybrid Geospatial Solutions - Mark Alexander, I.S. Consulting (Canceled)
• XML Technology Tools in the Cityscape and BIM Domains - David Dodds, Open-Meta Computing
• Grand Challenge of On-Demand Geospatial integration - Solved! - Perry Peterson, The PYXIS Innovation

12:00PM - 12:40PM

• Using Spatial ETL for Web Services-Based Data Sharing - Don Murray, Safe Software Inc.
• On-line Delivery of Natural Gas Pipeline Leak Survey Results from Differential Absorption Lidar - Rulon Simmons, ITT Corporation
• Leveraging Complimentary Models for Geospatial Representations of Buildings - Stuart Rich, Penobscot Bay Media

12:50PM - 1:30PM

• Collaborative Mapping in the Green Building Industry - Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Recollective
• A Web-based Enterprise Vector GIS Editing System - Gary Zhang, MRF Geosystems Corporation
• High-resolution Coastal Mapping and Geospatial Analysis for Hazard Map - Jinah Kim, Korea Ocean Research & Dev. Institute