Conference Day One: Wednesday, 28 September 2011

08.30 Registration and welcome coffee

09.00 Opening Remarks

Colonel Keith Geiger
Chief of Intelligence, US Army Pacific Command
US ARMY

09.10 Implementing Geospatial Capability for the Australian Defence Force

• Building the Defence Geospatial Domain
• Discussing the Defence Geospatial Strategy 2010
• The way forward for DIGO

Major General Steve Meekin (retd)
Director
DEFENCE IMAGERY AND GEOSPATIAL ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIA

09.50 Implementing Geospatial Tools for NATO Missions

• Overcoming data and system challenges within inter governmental organisations
• Developing an interoperable GIS infrastructure for NATO operations
• Enhancing communication channels between the HQ and ground forces for military and peacekeeping operations
• Adopting NNEC and SOA in the NATO GIS infrastructure

John Teufert
NC3A Geo-Officer, Consultation, Command and Control Agency
NATO

11.00 Enabling Geo-Intelligence through Geospatial Tools: An Indian Case Study

• Looking at recent developments in survey and mapping techniques
• Developing an Indian SDI: Role of the Survey of India
• Overcoming challenges of data sharing for a large country like India
• Current progress of survey techniques and results in India

Swarna Subba Rao
Surveyor General
SURVEY OF INDIA

11.40 Latest Advancements in the Use of Geospatial Tools: Case Study from Indonesia

• Moving from information to intelligence: Best tools for data mining and analytics
• Using GIS data for homeland security: Case study from Indonesia
• Improving emergency management through enhanced situational awareness

Dr. Ir. Yusuf S. Djajadihardja
Deputy Director of Spatial Data Infrastructure
NATIONAL COORDINATING AGENCY FOR SURVEY AND MAPPING, INDONESIA

12:20 What’s Next for GIS in Defence and Intelligence: Creating the Illusion of Simplicity

• This presentation will explore the changes in digital spatial information and opportunities as they impact the defense community and the broader national security arena.

John Day
Director of Defence Business Development
ESRI

14.00 Developments in Bangladesh’s SDI: Looking at Data Interoperability

• Brief look at a regional SDI: Overcoming challenges in data interoperability
• Discussing the challenges in coordinating a shared GIS data system
• Sustaining business critical systems for emergency management and planning

Major General Mohd Habibur Rahman Khan
Engineering in Chief
BANGLADESH ARMY

14.40 Imagery Intelligence for Defence: Perspective from Ministry of Defence

• Overview of the current imagery analysis technologies of TMOD.
• Overcoming challenges in using high resolution DEM generation images.

Group Captain Praphon Vibulsukh
Director of Geo Informatics and Space Affairs, Department of Defense Technology and Space
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE THAILAND

15.50 Democratising GIS Data: Improving the Intelligence Flow from the Commander to the Foot Soldier

• Blue force tracking: Lessons from an operational counter insurgency warfare with the Tamil Tigers
• How do you filter down data from the commander to the ground troops?
• Delineating the importance of military intelligence in sub conventional warfare

Lieutenant Colonel Thiran De Silva
Head of IT/GIS - CRD, Ministry of Defence
SRI LANKAN ARMY

16.30 Using ArcGIS to Deliver Oceanographic Information

• Demonstrating how ArcGIS provides complete sweep of real time data
• Looking at the utilisations of ArcGIS to forecast data
• Developing the capacity to predict weather data
• Road forward for the naval hydrographic division

Martin Rutherford
Director, Maritime Military Geospatial Information, Navy Hydrography and METOC Branch
AUSTRALIAN NAVY