6th International Conference on Cartography and GIS

A seminar with EU cooperation on early warning and disaster / crisis management was organized by Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny, Chair of Commission on Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management and ICA President (former) under the auspices of the Czech ambassador to Bulgaria His Excellency Mr. Dušan Štrauch and with co-organizer Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

World-famous scientists were invited to present keynote speeches: Prof. Laszlo Zentai, ICA Secretary General and Treasurer, Hungary, Prof. Liqiu Meng, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, and Aleksandar Todorov, HERE Ltd. Sofia, Bulgaria.

The main international organizer was the International Cartographic Association with the exclusive support of the Secretary General of ICA Prof. Laszlo Zentai, the Vice-President of ICA Lynn Usery, and sevaral chairs of ICA commissions. This cooperation aroused interest among 150 participants from more than 40 countries.

Four ICA commissions - Commission on Cartography and Children; Commission on Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management; Commission on Map Projections; Commission on Use, User and Usability Issues, held their annual meetings during the conference.

Meetings of management committee and working groups of COST "Mapping and the Citizen Sensor" project were held during the first 2 days of the conference. An interactive workshop on “Designing and Conducting User Studies”, organized by Dr. Kristien Ooms from Belgium, ICA Commission Chair was organized for young participants of the conference.

ICC&GIS scientific jury presented the Young Scientist Award to Jakub Havlicek from the Czech Republic. The Jury decided to present another award for Young Prosperous Researcher to Shun Ikezawa from Japan.

More information can be found here: http://iccgis2016.cartography-gis.com/