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GIS Applications and Corporate IT: Bridging a Gap Between Two Different Cultures
Track: Enterprise Architecture & System Integration
Pieter Meijer, Rijkswaterstaat AGI

Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) is responsible for maintaining and administering transportation in The Netherlands. Government policy has urged RWS to deliver more value on the same budget. Open standards, server-based computing, and central data hosting are part of the IT strategy to meet this challenge. The whole of the IT activities, including GIS, are now centralized in one department, bringing different cultures together. Only by using the best from both worlds can the new IT department become successful.

Project Web Access—Help or Hindrance: Lessons Learned Managing a Development Team
Track: Organizational Impacts & Project Management
Karen M. Bachmeyer, Intergraph Corporation

Despite their best efforts, few technical managers can avoid the details involved in project management. With or without formal training, you must manage your resources, identify your deliverables, and track the progress of your team. Successfully managing your project can be helped—or hindered—by good tools. This presentation will review the pilot deployment of Microsoft’s Project Web Access for a team involved in the design, development and validation of a GIS.
Copresenters: Nancy Koger and Linda Corbet, Intergraph-Security, Government. & Infrastructures.

Ensuring the Success of a Major Geospatial Infrastructure Program
Track: Organizational Impacts & Project Management
Fred Anochie, Cox Communications, Inc.

The speakers will discuss how to set up a major geospatial infrastructure program for success using the multimillion dollar nationwide Geospatial Network Inventory System (GNIS) program at Cox Communications as a case study. The speakers will address key topics, including the development of the overall strategy and benefits case, effective stakeholder engagement and involvement, collaborating effectively with internal suppliers, vendor management, system integration, deployment, and data capture—in each case sharing lessons learned from the GNIS experience. Though the program took place within a broadband cable context, the topics covered and learning points identified will be relevant to any large geospatial infrastructure program, especially those involving a substantial networked asset base.
Copresenter: Chris Steel, PA Consulting Group

From Cradle to Grave and Beyond: Tracking Environmental Contaminant Data
Track: Data Acquisition & Maintenance
Keanan Bell, WRS Infrastructure & Environment, Inc.

Recent advancements in technology have geospatial applications positioned in critical roles in data acquisition and maintenance. This presentation focuses on the life cycle of geospatial information in the context of environmental contaminants. A firm understanding of the life cycle of geospatial information is fundamental to successfully leverage technology to provide new services that best utilize geospatial applications and data. From acquisition to distribution across the Web, this session will evaluate each stage of the life cycle.

State of the Art Command and Control at Hawaiian Electric Company Inc.
Track: Operations Management & Damage Prevention
Shari Ishikawa, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.

Energy Management and Distribution is a delicate matter at Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc (HECo). Experience how HECo moved from manual operation to command and control in the digital age. HECo delivers power to about 300,000 customers on the densely populated island of Oahu. With tourism as the primary industry, keeping a balance between generation and delivery is paramount. Unlike mainland utilities, HECo must be self-sufficient in all ways. This places emphasis on load balance and command and control. This session focuses on the evolution from manual operations to digital command and control, featuring a 48 x 8 ft high resolution wallboard with interfaces to SCADA and OMS. A wallboard application was designed and implemented, which is used to troubleshoot and restore HECO’s system when a sub-transmission line trips open. The wallboard application also features an interface to HECO’s Energy Management System (EMS). The wallboard application will be automatically updated based on the SCADA conditions from the EMS allowing real-time representation of the system. In addition, HECO developed a load shed application that provides dispatchers and managers access to critical information on the impact of load shed scenarios; combining network intelligence, customer and spatial data.
Co-presenter: Volker Elste, Intergraph Corporation

Building and Sustaining a Geospatially Enabled Enterprise Asset Register Capability
Track: Work and Asset Management
Paul J. Yarka, Accenture

T&D Utilities has invested heavily in enhancing their asset management operating model, processes, and tools. An enterprise asset register is a component of these improvements, providing a foundation for asset-related decision making. The geospatially enabled enterprise asset register is envisioned to provide a single system of record for the majority of assets. Some utilities are driving the enterprise asset register toward providing a 360-degree view of assets, enabling all asset planning and work execution.

Online GIS and Storm Water Quality Compliance and Tracking
Track: Public Sector
Steve Bein, SBF Consulting

To respond to ever increasing requirements for monitoring and tracking of progress toward clean runoff from California highways, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has embarked on the development of a statewide online GIS based Storm Water Environmental Tracking Database. To be accessed and maintained by storm water facility construction and maintenance staff in 12 Caltrans Districts, this database will apply state of the art GIS tools such as ArcServer, Spatial Data Engine (SDE), and advanced database and web programming to provide on-the-fly maps and reports to manage their storm water facilities for a cleaner and greener environment.

Using Collaborative Project Management Technology to Create Efficiencies and Maximize the Value of Geospatial Data
Track: Organizational Impacts & Project Management
Richard Johnson, City of Vancouver

In this session, presenters will offer real-world examples demonstrating how the effective use of collaboration technology has enabled the City of Vancouver to speed design reviews and provide extended team members with the ability to access and mark up maps and CAD files.
Copresenter: Allister Lundberg, Autodesk, Inc.