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GITA Announces Annual Conference 27 Speaker Award Recipients
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June 8, 2004: Aurora, Colo. — The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) has announced the 2004 Speaker Award winners from its recent Annual Conference 27 in Seattle, Wash. The award recognizes the top five percent of session speakers, each of whom were rated by session attendees in the areas of quality of presentation, visual aids, session content, and relevance of topic.
Recognized as the leading educational association dedicated to geospatial information, GITA has developed a reputation for bringing together industry leaders to present papers, take part in panel discussions, and participate in seminars at the association’s annual conference. Using their industry knowledge in addition to effective presentation skills, these speakers share their knowledge with GIS professionals.
The recipients of the 2004 GITA Speaker Award include:
Peter Batty, Ten Sails, “Technology Trends in the Spatial Industry”
Jack Dangermond, ESRI, “The Role of Geospatial Information—Its Future for Utilities”
Linda Gerull, Pierce County, “Innovative GIS Business Strategies to Do More With Less”
Wayne Lindsay, Las Vegas Valley Water District, “Implementing an Enterprisewide Field Data Acquisition Program”
Jeffrey Meyers, Miner & Miner, “Wars and Rumors of Wars: Change Management and Enterprise GIS Implementation”
Shinsuke Nakanishi, NTT Infrastructure Network Corp., “Innovating Fieldwork With Wireless Web GIS and Third-Generation Mobile Services”
Greg Ramon, City of Phoenix WSD, “Implementing the City of Phoenix Water Services Department Enterprise Mobile Application Program Solution (MAPS)”
Mark Riccio, National Geospatial Intelligence, “The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Role In Homeland Defense and Security”
Arthur Spencer, Intergraph, “Implementing Geospatial Resource Management—How to Maximize the Benefits”
Recognized GITA’s Annual Conference 27, which attracted 2,120 attendees, featured 91 educational sessions organized into 15 tracks ranging from data management to federal geospatial strategies. The conference also included 15 seminars and three panel discussions, as well as an exhibition hall with 134 vendors.
GITA’s Annual Conference 28 is set for March 6-9, 2005, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colo.
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