Why Attend

Why should Militaries/ Governments attend GDI APAC?

• Learn from your peers! GDI APAC 2011 features Asia’s senior geospatial experts, including presentations from Major General Steve Meekin, Director, DEFENCE IMAGERY AND GEOSPATIAL ORGANISATION, AUSTRALI and Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General, SURVEY OF INDIA
• Understand the learning opportunities from best practice operational case studies: Hear from operational experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf of Aden from Colonel Keith Geiger, Chief of Intelligence, US Army Pacific Command, US ARMY. Colonel Geiger, whose team has been heavily involved in Japan’s disaster relief operations will provide his experience and the challenges faced during a multilateral disaster relief mission.
• Adopt the lessons learnt in military intelligence in Asia: Find out the technologies offered by the different geospatial solution providers at the conference and learn from their technical briefs.

Why should Industry attend GDI APAC?

• Presence of 80+ senior military and government speakers and guests at the event: Leverage on their presence and establish contact with your potential clients in the APAC region
• Personalised involvement opportunities: Having trouble distinguishing yourself from the number of solution providers in this market space? There are a number of ways you can stand out from the crowd and distinguish yourself and your product at the conference. Call our Sponsorship Manager today at +65 6722 9388
• Looking for partners in this region? With regular attendance of Asian geospatial distributors and core GIS providers in the GDI APAC series of conferences, the event will provide the perfect platform for you to source your distributor and partner in Asia’s advanced and emerging markets

Attend and learn about:

• Interoperability challenges related to regional armed forces and intelligence organisations
• Use of geospatial intelligence to facilitate asset management and defence installations across large geographical areas
• Looking at latest developments in data mining and analytics for operational intelligence
• Utilising GIS to support mission planning, command and control and tactical operations
• Best practice case studies to move towards an SDI
• Geospatial applications for national security and civil defence
• How geospatial data can assist in effective anti crime operations
• Battle space management

Who should attend GDI APAC?

• J2- Intelligence
• J3- Operations
• J4- Logistics
• J5- Plans and Policy
• J6- C4ISR
• J7- Training
• Army- Air Force- Navy- Joint Command
• Civil Defence
• National security
• Customs
• Coast Guard