TO KNOW MORE Asia 2017 22-24 AUGUST, 2017 Putrajaya International Convention Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE ASIA 2017 22-24 AUGUST, 2017 PUTRAJAYA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA THEME: COMMERCIALIZATION & COMMODITIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION REPORT OVERVIEW he Asia Pacific region’s premier geospatial industry conference, GeoSmart Asia 2017, was successfully held on 22-24 August in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The three-day event brought together the entire geospatial ecosystem and proved to be a great networking platform for policy makers, technology providers, end users and academia. The conference hosted 1198 delegates, who represented 31 countries Tand 486 organizations. 146 speakers and 30 exhibitors shared their knowledge, experiences, and thoughts in defining and enabling geospatial information’s growth in the marketplace. With an array of high-level panel discussions, industry seminars, technology demonstrations, and interactive workshops, the conference has been a professionally-rewarding experience. Co-located event, GeoIntelligence APAC, held on 23 August 2017, witnessed active participations from the defence and national security community in the region. The introduction of Asia Geospatial Leadership Awards, announced alongside Asia Geospatial Excellence Awards at a vibrant Gala Dinner & Awards Night added significant value to the overall event. Key Statistics 1198Delegates 486Organizations 146Speakers 38Partners 31Countries 30Exhibitors Delegates Profile 35% 34% 16% 13% 2% Technology Government Private Research/ Others (Professional Agencies End-Users Academia Bodies, Embassies, Providers Media) GEOSMART ASIA 2017 2 17 Hours conference 11 Hours networking 8 Thematic sessions 5 Plenaries 3 Technology tracks 3 Workshops Participating Countries ASIA PACIFIC & AUSTRALASIA • Philippines MIDDLE EaST • Netherlands • Australia • Singapore • Jordan • Russia • Brunei • Taiwan • UAE • Spain • Thailand • Cambodia EUROPE • United Kingdom • China • Vietnam • Austria NORTH AMERICA & CaRIBBEan • Hong Kong S.A.R. SOUTH ASIA • Belgium • Indonesia • India • France • Canada • Japan • Nepal • Germany • Jamaica • Korea • Sri Lanka • Hungary • USA • Malaysia CONFERENCE REPORT 3 OPENING CEREMONY YB Dato Sri Dr. Haji Wan Junaidi bin Tuanku Jaafar, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Malaysia “Geospatial information needs to be viewed as one of the nation’s critical enablers to support the management and preservation of sustainable environment for future generations.” Sanjay Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Geospatial Media and Communications “Geospatial technologies help in locating our assets and monitoring developments. To bring most of these technologies to human use, we need private and public sector to work together to augment the geospatial industry.” Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey “We’re entering into a new wave of geospatial, where instead of products, consumers are served with individual features and bits customized to their needs.” Quah Beng Chieh, Head of Marketing, Asia Pacific, FARO Technologies "The key driver to digitization is the wide usage, availability and adoption of digital data." Brett Dixon, General Manager, Asia, Esri “Web GIS is enabling a whole new scale of data sharing. This transition is happening organically within organisations. They are naturally migrating toward this idea of globally distributed GIS.” GEOSMART ASIA 2017 4 PLENARY I: SPATIAL ANALYTICS & BUSINEss INTELLIGENCE Kumar Navulur, President, Siva Ravada, Senior Director of Sandeep Singhal, Director, Cloud DigitalGlobe Foundation Software Development, Oracle Storage, Google “Business insights that can be “Next generation Business “Managing data at scale is a supported with location intelligence Intelligence is all about “self- problem for every company with derived from satellite imagery service”. Businesses looking for a digital connection to customers, include retail store sales estimates, deeper, customizable functionality employees or stakeholders. It’s oil reserve estimates, steel do not want to turn to specialized what allows us to understand inventories, solar energy estimates, vendors for advanced spatial markets, identify our best and billboard advertising.” analytics and additional data sets performers (and potential recruits), such as demographics.” better serve and sell to our customers and a thousand other critical tasks.” Robert Toba Siahaan, Head of Peter Hawkins, Head of Map Geoscience Data, Group Technical Content and Operations, Asia Data, PETRONAS Pacific, HERE Technologies As always, our team “PETRONAS is addressing our By 2050 we will have close to enjoyed the conference resource at enterprise level where ten billion people on this planet, and especially enjoyed we will optimize and share rather close to 2000 megacities. ‘Virtual than segregated approach via roads’ are needed so that drones the networking and many individual entities.” can glide through the system. We side meetings that such a need to serve the populous with real time/predictive demands and conference facilitates. expectations. Location is the glue Brian Nicholls, Executive Director, that links these factors together.” AAM, Australia CONFERENCE REPORT 5 PLENARY II: REALITY MESH & DIGITAL ENGINEERING Chris Gibson, Senior Vice President, Trimble Brian Nicholls, Executive Director, AAM Group “We are all familiar with What You See is What You Get. With “Putting together a digital database of an entire city – creating reality mesh – once we provide a highly accurate alignment a digital twin – will be the building block of a smart city and between digital and physical, it will be – What You See is What address city’s social, economic, and environmental problems.” You Do. Imagine creating a structure without drawings and without measuring devices – just do what you see.” François Robida, Deputy Head, Information Systems and Technologies, French Geological Survey Jason Hutchings, Senior Design Director, ATKINS “Holistic modelling of cities that integrates the subsurface (and “10% reduction in traffic has the ability to boost GDP by 2%. the other components of the natural environment as air, water, Digital transport network integration via Mobility as a Service and biodiversity) is the key to smart, sustainable, resilient cities (Maas) could be one solution to reduce traffic congestion.” and infrastructures.” PLENARY III: GEospATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND POLICY FRAMEWORks DEFINING NATIONAL GEospATIAL STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Basanta Shrestha, Director Strategic Cooperation, Regional Nirarta Samadhi, Country Director – Indonesia, World Coordinator NASA-SERVIR-Himalaya, International Centre for Resources Institute Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) “Among the first steps towards sustainable development is “Integrating earth observation information and geospatial forest and land governance improvement. One Map Policy is one technologies into development decision-making will strengthen of the Government of Indonesia’s strategic paths.” the capacity of governments and other key stakeholders to improve environmental management and resilience to climate Mark Sorensen, President, GPC Group change.” “Technology advances over the years made it technically possible for more people and organizations to be connected. We Anne Hale Miglarese, Chief Executive Officer, Radiant.Earth have to invent new institutional and governance frameworks to “There is an influx of imagery in the industry due to drastic take maximum advantage of these developments.” increase in earth observation satellites. We need rapid innovation for automated, faster and better imagery analytics in order to make new discoveries.” GEOSMART ASIA 2017 6 PLENARY IV: DEFENCE & PUBLIC SAFETY Gen Tan Sri Dato' Sri (Dr) Hj Zulkifeli bin Mohd Zin Brig. Gen. Ricardo Nepomuceno, Chief of Command (Retired), Director General, National Security Council Center, Armed Forces Philippines Malaysia (speech delivered by Deputy Director General) “GIS is an effective tool in AFP for the creation of situational The attainment of a complete operational picture to enhance awareness and common operating picture during planning shared awareness and afford a common foundation for the of various military operations, HADR operations and event national security stakeholders to strategize, plan and conduct monitoring during regular staging of political, cultural, and security measures will require state-of-the-art systems, religious events.” contemporary platforms and relevant practices in the realm of Dr. Rao S. Ramayanam, Vice President, Deimos Imaging geospatial information. “Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite data accounts for almost Frank Suykens, Chief Technology Officer, Luciad 2/3 of the $1.5 Bn market, with main application in defense, “Time is the most important dimension of geospatial data. security, mapping, 3D modelling, and in any applications that We need to make time and change visible to users through require frequent monitoring over high-value areas of interest.” interactive visualization – 2D, 3D, 4D.” PLENARY III: GEospATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND POLICY FRAMEWORks DEFINING NATIONAL GEospATIAL STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Trevor Taylor, Director, Member Services-Asia & the Americas, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) “The use of standards to enable interoperability in the era of big data and a multitude of sensors and devices dramatically improves GeoInt capabilities.” CONFERENCE REPORT 7 PLENARY V: COMMERCIALIZATION & COMMODITIZATION OF GEospATIAL INFORMATION Dr. Viraj Perera, Chief Executive Officer, PlaTCOM Ventures, Ton van Helvert, Manager,