Conference Overview
The growing use of Earth browsers, satellite navigation devices in cars and PDA’s, location-based services associated with cell phones, business intelligence, social networking and satellite tracking of vehicles and equipment raises a number of issues concerning privacy, intellectual property rights, liability, and national security. In many cases, the existing legal and policy framework is inadequate to provide governments, businesses and consumers clear guidance on these issues.
Why Attend
At this unprecedented event, experts will discuss legal and policy issues associated with growth in consumer and business applications of geospatial systems, software and services.
This Emerging Technology Summit will feature a keynote talk by Dr.
Robert W. Correll, Vice President of Programs at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Most noted for his role in climate science research, Dr. Correll served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the American Meteorological Society and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. During his long tenure as Assistant Director for Geoscience at the National Science Foundation, Dr. Correll also served as Chair of the President's National Science and Technology Council's Committee for oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The Summit will be chaired by OGC director and Executive Committee member Kevin Pomfret, a Richmond, Virginia based attorney who has written and spoken extensively on spatial law and technology.
Preliminary Agenda
| 0800-0900 |
Continental Breakfast and Registration |
| 0900-0920 |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 0920-1000 |
Keynote talk by Dr. Robert W. Correll, Vice President of Programs at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
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| 1000-1015 |
Break |
| 1015-1215 |
Panel Discussion Centered on Sharing of Spatial Data In Emergency Response Use-Case
Moderator: Kevin Pomfret, Esq. (Cantor Arkema, P.C.)
Panelists: Gordy Chinander (GIS Coordinator, Metropolitan Emergency Services); Hugh Archer, Esq. (former Director Kentucky Department of Natural Resources); John Moeller (Senior Principal Engineer for Strategy and Policy, Northrop Grumman Corporation and former Staff Director of the Federal Geographic Data Committee); Dan Connors, Esq. (Associate General Counsel, GeoEye); Sean Gorman (Chief Executive Officer and Founder, FortiusOne) |
| 1230-1330 |
Lunch
Steven Wallach (GEOINT Information Executive, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Vice-Chairman, National Geographic Advisory Council) |
| 1345-1430 |
Licensing Considerations
Kara Johns (Vice President – Privacy and Intellectual Property DMTI Spatial) |
| 1430-1445 |
Break |
| 1445-1530 |
Analysis of Use Case and Proposed Next Steps
Jim Simon (Founding Director of Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology In Government); John Palatiello (Executive Director, Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS)); Peter C. Schreiber, Esq. (Managing Attorney, Contracts and Legal Services Department, ESRI) |
| 1530-1600 |
Closing Remarks |
Who Should Attend
Professionals from government, the private sector, and academia/research, whose work involves laws and policies related to geospatial technology are invited to register and attend.
Conference Organizers
OGC and GITA have collaborated on four previous ETS presentations: I – Location Based Services; II – GeoWeb Services; III – Advancing the Sensor Web; and IV – Building Information Models. With ETS V we will open the door to discovery and understanding of the legal and policy issues whose resolution will often involve the technical advances that were explored in the previous four ETS events.
The OGC(R) (www.opengeospatial.org) is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. These standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) (www.gita.org) is the professional association and leading advocate for anyone using geospatial technology to help operate, maintain, and protect the infrastructure, which includes organizations such as utilities, telecommunication companies, and the public sector. Through industry leading conferences—along with research initiatives, chapters, membership, and other programs—GITA provides education and professional best practices.
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