Page 2 of 2 Previous The Application Perspective The second plenary session put forth the application perspective of finding mainstream leading to an interesting and informative discussion. The discussions revolved round the integration of business strategy to incorporate GIS and IT solutions consistently across an enterprises enabling informed decision making rather than scattered infor- mation. The session was chaired by Dr N Vijayaditya, Director General, National Informatics Centre. The first speaker of the session was B V R Mohan Reddy, Founder, Chairman of Infotech Enterprise. According to him, GIS should become an integral part of the total IT plan of an organisation. Joe Astroth, Executive Vice president, Autodesk Location Services added an unique flavour to the session by expressing in Hindi his happiness to be back in India. Mr Astroth mentioned that GIS is getting off the back offices and desktop and slowly reaching the hands of the common man.Bhupinder Singh, Managing director, Bentley South Asia, focused on the integration of GIS in fields like infrastructure, faster response to natural disasters, national security, Real time Business Demands, etc. The session concluded with a presentation by Mr Mike McGill, Director of International Commercial Sales, Digital Globe. He highlighted the present challenge for the mapping community where there is a continous growing demand for mapping applications from end users which is not matched with an equally growing budget allocated for the same. The Chairperson Dr N Vijayaditya, shared his views at the end where he elaborated on the actual implementation of the technolgy to increase the application for all areas of the country especially the rural areas.  Enterprise GIS This keynote session was chaired by Dr. P Nag, Director, NATMO, India. The session had four speakers- Mr Rajesh Kalra, Executive Vice President, RMSI, who spoke on the conventional and emerging usage of GIS, Mr Rajesh Mathur, President, ESRI India spoke about the challenges and opportunities in ‘Enterprise GIS’, Mr Jim Farley, Vice President, Leica Geosystems, Geospatial Imaging, summarised how imageries are intelligent and cost effective tools to maintain and update corporate spatial databases. The last speaker, Mr Vikram D. Apte, Principal Executive Officer, New Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), India opined that GIS usage becomes ornamental in the absence of updated data. Technology Trends The second keynote session was chaired by Commodore S K Jha, NHO, Indian Navy. The speakers in this session were Mr Ronald Bisio, Director Marketing, Trimble, Mr Joan Perez Pericot, Marketing Manager, HP, Dr Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, GIS Development and Mr Joseph Arokiadas, Head, NRSA Data Centre. The session had a discussion on the existing and emerging geospatial technology trends. Training Programme A two days pre-conference training programme was organized by GIS Institute. The training programme was attended by fifteen attendees from government, private and academia. Some of the organizations represented were from DIPAC, New Delhi, DRDO/ ISSA, New Delhi, De Beers India Ltd., Mumbai, Rites India Ltd, Gurgaon, National Institute of Smart Governance, Hyderabad, MANIT, Bhopal, Dept of Town Planning and Bangalore Municipality, Bangalore. Other Highlights The other highlights of the conference were Seminar/Tracks, Workshop, Poster, Session, Technical and Student Session, Dinner Receptions and User Meets. There were 12 Technical Sessions, 3 tracks/seminars namely, Energy, Transportation and g- Enabled Business Processes, 3 dinner receptions- Digital Globe, Canadian and Leica Geosystems. Exhibition The exhibition was spread over 1800 sq mts with over 30 exhibitors from across the globe showcasing and displaying products, services and solutions. It also presented 3 best exhibitor awards based on participants’ feedback which went to – Rolta India, ESRI and Bentley
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