GSDI 11 World Conference - Rotterdam, June 2009

02 January 2009, 7:09pm

From June 15th until June 19th 2009 the GSDI 11 World Conference in WTC Rotterdam will be the beating geo heart of the world! Parallel to and in synergy with GSDI, INSPIRE (EU) and Geonovum/RGI (NL) will organize their high-quality conferences with national and international top speakers.

Call for Papers big success

The Call for Papers for the GSDI 11 World Conference has brought in almost 350 abstracts. They comprise a selection of inspiring geo-related themes from all over the world. Next month the program committee will select the most innovating and appealing contributions. The conference gives the authors an opportunity to present their papers in June 2009 in Rotterdam to an international audience. The selection of abstracts for GSDI 11 will be announced in February.

Platinum Sponsors sign up

With pride we inform you that Cyclomedia, ESRI and EuroGeographics have already signed up as Platinum Sponsors.

CEO Paul Bosman: “CycloMedia recognizes that GSDI is a vast platform to discuss the challenges that different organizations face at the (inter)national, public and private level. It is a pleasure to have the Netherlands act as host country this time and I am proud that CycloMedia can deliver a contribution to this worldwide conference”.

ESRI spokesman Frank Holsmuller clarifies: "ESRI recognizes the GSDI conference as THE event to meet and inform the key players in the field of geo information. The GSDI-11 event promises to become extra interesting because it will take place close to the heart of the INSPIRE program.”

EuroGeographics, the association for cadastral organizations in more than 40 European countries, is quite involved as well. The executive director, Dave Lovell, says enthusiastically: "We are building bridges between our members and the many communities of users who rely on their authoritative information. We are pleased to have the opportunity to improve and enrich these inter-connections in the wider community of this conference and look forward to using the GSDI 11 World Conference to further expand the use of spatial data infrastructures for the benefit of all."

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See you in Rotterdam!

www.gsdi.org/gsdi11

Geo: International