IMIA MeetUp Brisbane Australia

Following the success of the inaugural Meetup in Melbourne in January 2016, the next IMIA Meetup is scheduled to be held on the 21st of April, 2016 at the Department of Natural Resources and Mines offices in Landcentre, Woolloongabba. Participation is free for this event, but pleaseregister beforehand to avoid disappointment.

The IMIA Meetups are lightning talks of 10 minutes per speaker and five minutes for questions lasting a total of one hour. The targeted, informative and relevant topics of the presentation intend to share the experiences and innovations of real industry leaders in the field of mapping, cartography and spatial business.

Audience feedback from the past Meetup has been overwhelmingly positive with many complementing the speakers and the format. The pre- and post- meetup drinks for the Meetup has been sponsored by Hema Maps with support from DNRM for venue and organising the event.

Due to constraints with space and to keep the participation to relevant industry leaders and trailblazers, there will be limited spots available so please register early to avoid disappointment. Looking forward to your participation on the 21st of April 2016 at Level 1, Landcentre DNRM, at 3:30pm

IMIA Brisbane MeetUp Presentations

Speaker #1 Chris Schlebusch

Spatial Thinking - Asking the right questions give better answers.

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With recent advances in technology and legislation relating to the spatial industry are we leaving the general population behind?

Should Open Data or Data Visualisation be the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for job postings?

Chris will discuss what is being done to help people ask the right questions thereby enabling the spatial industry to give the best answers. There will be a 5 minute question session after the 10 minute presentation.

Chris Schlebusch is the owner of Rudma Tek (http://www.rudmatek.com.au). Rudma Tek was founded in 2015 to provide GIS services as well as promoting the spatial industry.

Chris arrived in Australia in 2002 as an electronic engineer working in the automotive industry. He completed post graduate studies in GIS and Industrial Design at QUT and then spent 8 years at Resource & Exploration Mapping consulting into the mining and resources industry internationally. He joined the Adani Carmichael project in 2012 and was the GIS Lead until the project restructure at end-2015.

Experiences during the multi-disciplinary Carmichael project highlighted that there is a need for our society to better understand the capabilities of the contemporary spatial industry and for significant public-private partnership to develop efficient reporting, monitoring and compliance frameworks.

Rudma Tek is a SIBA member and Chris is currently the Queensland Branch Chair for SIBA.

Speaker 2 : Matt Higgins

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#2 - Changes in Australian Datum – How will it affect your business?

Australia is changing its geodetic datum from GDA94 to GDA2020 which will take effect from 1st January 2017.

Hear Matt Higgins clarify: What is being done? What are the changes? Will it affect your spatial business? How can you prepare? What happens if you do not prepare?

At the end of his 10 minute lightning talk, ask him questions for 5 more minutes, and of course he will be available after the presentation if you have more questions.

Matt Higgins is Manager of Geodesy and Positioning in the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. (https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/)

He is a past Vice President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He has also been a Co-Chair of a Working Group of the United Nations International Committee on GNSS.

In 2013, Matt was appointed to the U.S. Position, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board, which is a Presidential committee that advises the U.S. Government on GPS-related policy, planning, program management and funding issues.

In 2014, Matt was also appointed to Australia's National Positioning Infrastructure Advisory Board.

Matt is also currently President of the Australian based IGNSS Society and an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology.

Speaker 3 : Igor Stjepanovic

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#3 - Smart Data Collaboration using Gruntify

If you had 100,000 people to help you with your project, how would you handle it?

Gruntify, a multi-award winning solution developed in Australia, harnesses technologies and techniques such as crowdsourcing, citizen science and sensor networks, for the purpose of collecting data with geographic context and undertaking government, scientific and community projects.

Join us for Founder Igor Stjepanovic’s 10-minute presentation to hear the Gruntify story – what inspired Gruntify creation, how Gruntify evolved from concept to fully working product, and where the platform is going next.

Igor Stjepanovic, Founder of Gruntify

"Worth doing - worth doing properly"

Applying this philosophy to his work, Igor has grown GIS People (http://www.gispeople.com.au) from a $3000 startup in 2010 into one of Australia's fastest growing GIS companies. GIS People reached multi-million dollar annual revenue target in less than 3 years from inception, and averaged 250% year-on-year growth during that time.

In addition to GIS People, Igor also runs Gruntify and Discover Spatial, and organises world’s largest GIS Day events.

Speaker 4 : Felicia Andrews

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#4 - Story Maps – How telling a good story helps your business

Everyone has a story to tell. ESRI Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.

With no coding skills required, Story Maps are an incredibly powerful source to share and showcase your plans, projects or engaging with your community and customers.

Listen to Felicia Andrews as she takes you on a Story Map journey. Learn how it was created, how to use spatial information to engage customers to drive business to your site using Story Maps.

Or just join the Story Map party.

Felicia Andrews is a Spatial Information Officer with the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. (https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/)

Felicia has recently been working with ESRI Story Maps, which use spatial information to tell a story. Felicia has worked in various spatial roles within flood and tsunami emergency management and planning, biodiversity planning, wetland and vegetation mapping and satellite imagery services across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland Governments. Felicia holds a Bachelor of Science in Australian Environmental Studies from Griffith University and a Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from Queensland University of Technology.