Programme of the EUROGI Extra Members Meeting 2011

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18th – 19th November 2011, Waterworks Museum in Bratislava

Programme:

Friday, November 18th – FREE ENTRY

08:30 – 09:00 Registration of participants

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome by EUROGI, SAGI, CAGI, local stakeholders

09:15 – 09:45 Bruce McCormack (President EUROGI): EUROGI: Vision, mission and activities

09:45 – 10:30 Block I: Building of national infrastructure of Spatial Information in the Slovak Republic (Moderator: Wolfgang Steinborn, Executive Member EUROGI)

Keynote speakers

  • Mgr. Radoslav Bonk – Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic
  • Ing. Katarína Leitmannová – Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic
  • Ing. Marek Žiačik – Slovak Environmental Agency
  • prof. Ján Tuček – Technical University in Zvolen

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

Opening the accompanying exhibition of posters presenting additional projects, activities and institutions.

11:00 – 12:30 Block II: Issues of national importance to EUROGI members (Moderator: Catharina Bamps, Secretary General EUROGI)

Country review and member plus invited host reports based on prepared hot-topics questionaire:

  • GI added value in crisis time (leave the encapsulated GIS)
  • What after INSPIRE will expire („SDI 2020“)
  • Benefits of self-governing expert associations
  • Subnational SDIs

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Block III: Best Practices in the Slovak Republic (Moderators: doc. RNDr. Dagmar Kusendová, CSc., Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava and prof. Ján Tuček, Rector Technical University in Zvolen)

  • RNDr. Štefan Káčer – State Geological Institute of Dionyz Stur
  • Ing. Alica Szebényiová, CSc. – Slovak Road Administration
  • Ing. Vladimír Stromček, PhD. – G-BASE s.r.o.
  • Ing. Renáta Šrámková – GEODIS SLOVAKIA, s.r.o.

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break with poster exhibition

15:00 – 16:45 Block IV: Open Discussion, short presentations by participants (Moderator: Bruce McCormack, President EUROGI)

Open discussion based on presentations sent in by participants focused on EUROGI added value to European Spatial Data Infrastructures, research, long-time strategy and reasons and possibilities why and how to assist with GI/GIS/SDI development specifically in Southern and Eastern Europe or other topics.

16:45 – 17:00 Concluding comments

EUROGI and brief comments from sponsors

17:00 – 17:15 Celebration: EUROGI/SAGI

Bruce McCormack, President EUROGI
Róbert Fencík, President SAGI

19:00 Members’ Dinner

Saturday, November 19th

09:00 – 13:00 General board meeting (Closed session for EUROGI-members and invited guests)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:30 Sighseeing of Bratislava (Voluntary social programme)