NGIS Australia is proud to be an official sponsor of the 2009 WALIS Conference, being held from 11-13 November at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The theme of Forum this year is, "Business Intelligence, Business Solutions and Education". It aims to engage people with location-based information and demonstrate collaboration and sharing of information across government and the private sectors.
As one of the premier GIS conferences in Australia, WALIS attracts more than 800 delegates from a diverse range of professions. The event draws local, national and international delegates who are involved in the use of spatial information from a variety of sectors including state and local government, the private sector, academia and the community.
The Forum is open to everyone, however, it is targeted at people working with geographic information or those who would like to find out how they can harness geographic information to improve their business.
The NGIS Australia and Microsoft Workshop
Day One - Wednesday 11 November 2009, 15:15-16:40
Room 4
A sleeping giant has awoken with a new spatial database platform. See how it works and why it might be the next big thing for spatial technology in the enterprise.
NGIS Australia and Microsoft proudly present…
SQL Server 2008 and the Spatial Industry: A conceptual and practical demonstration of how to create spatial solutions using this technology.
In this workshop members of the NGIS development team will explain the reasons for choosing SQL Server 2008 for the award winning Indji Watch SaaS and open up the hood of the technology to provide a closer look into how it can be used as the foundation for spatial business solutions.
During the workshop attendees will gain an insight into the processes of building the solution and see some of SQL Server 2008’s stand-out features in action. The discussion will also consider the integration of other Microsoft applications, such as Bing Maps.
The workshop will benefit anyone working with enterprise spatial solutions who is interested in finding out more about this new spatial database platform.
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Our speakers and topics
Paul Farrell (Keynote Address):
Leadership of the global spatial technology game - how can Australia get there?
Day Two - Thursday 12 November 2009, 10:30 - 11:10am
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There are many countries that profess to be the leaders in spatial technology. Australia has a unique opportunity to position itself as the undisputed global leader - a title that is yet to be claimed.
Established players such as the United States, Canada, The Netherlands and the UK all show strength in developing ground-breaking spatial technology. Emerging markets such as China and India are starting to develop the leadership and maturity to compliment their technical expertise and are starting a play a role on the world stage.
Australia is one of the most spatially challenged countries on the planet. It has a unique opportunity to position itself as the undisputed global leader in the spatial technology game - a title that is yet to be claimed. There is a common misconception that the entrepreneurial aspects of private business alone will provide the leadership in this space. However, this effort in isolation will not provide results.
This presentation will look at the science of how globally competitive industries are created, demonstrating that a combination of careful planning, entrepreneurial venturing - and chance -all play a role. It then relates to the spatial information industry in Australia and what we have to get right if we want to achieve a vision of being the leader in location based technology.
About the speaker
Paul has more than 18 years experience in the GIS and IT industry, having worked both overseas and in Australia. He is currently an Executive Director of NGIS Australia and a Director of NGIS China and iintegrate Systems. He is also a Director of the Australian Spatial Information Business Association....read more
Adam Hender
Cloud Computing and the Spatial Tech Landscape – Challenges and Opportunities
Stream One, RAPID FIRE - Emerging Technologies
Day Three - Friday 13 November 2009, 13:15 - 13:40
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In 2008 Gartner claimed that “Cloud Computing will be as influential as e-business”. Is 2009 the year of Cloud Computing begins to fulfil this promise?
Cloud computing is commonly understood as being the provision of information technology services over the Internet and has been categorized into the following models:
IaaS – Infrastructure as a service
PaaS – Platform as a service
SaaS – Software as a Service
The major attraction is the promise of utility-like access to information and information management systems.
Spatial technologies have been of particularly relevance to Could Computing since the introduction MapQuest web service in 1996 and continued as one of the showcase SaaS application areas with the emergence of Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth in 2005.
Globalisation has moved the focus from expensive architectures of desktops and enterprise software, operating systems and hardware platforms to simple secure reliable services that can drive business anytime and be available from anyplace.
In the spatial technology arena it seems that many of the old standards are becoming stalled as they struggle to form strategies addressing the Cloud that do not cannibalise legacy revenue. Open Source spatial technologies may lose their attraction as savings through cloud delivered IaaS, PaaS combined with elastic SaaS offerings put pressure on Open Source TCO.
The announced release by Google of a data management API in March 2009 and Microsoft’s release of a cloud based Azure powered SQL Server 2008 indicates the real planning challenge ahead for the CIOs of GIS reliant organisations.
About the speaker
As NGIS’ Chief Technology Officer, Adam is responsible for R&D, the technical direction and all product development . Adam’s role is quite simple… keeping NGIS at the cutting-edge of spatial technology so we continue to deliver the best solutions to our clients...read more
Mark Carniello
Indji, addressing the challenge of real-time complex event management
Day Two - Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:45 - 15:10
GITA Infrastructure Stream
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Complex Event Processing is emerging as the next big thing in the spatial technology. After several years of R&D the Indji CEP framework enables electrical utilities, construction and Oil & Gas companies to manage large amounts of real-time spatial sensor information.
In 2008, Indji Watch, a SaaS Indji powered solution addressing the electrical transmission industry won the APSEA Innovation and Commercialisation Award.
The culmination of several years of Australian research and development, Indji provides a Complex Event Processing (CEP) framework capable of managing large amounts of real-time spatial information. Based on a set of flexible, configurable rules, Indji processes rapidly changing data from multiple sources and transform this data into easily understandable, up to date information.
Unlike most other spatial platforms, Indji is entirely event driven. This is due to the variable nature of most real-time information sources: while data changes frequently in some circumstances (for example, several thousand lightning strikes can occur within minutes during a severe thunderstorm over a small area), there are also extended periods of little or no change (Perth often has no lightning strikes for several months). All entities in the system are also time-aware as many of the rules involve not just spatial co-location, but also temporal co-incidence. Each entity passes through a standard lifecycle which includes key milestones such as creation and termination.
With the amount of real-time information sources available via the internet increasing almost daily, it is becoming more and more difficult for individuals to monitor all of the available information manually. Thanks to the flexible, rule-based nature of Indji, it is now possible to monitor these sources automatically and distil the available data into succinct information which is delivered to recipients in a fit-for-purpose format.
About the speaker
Mark owns the Indji Watch product development, he drives its business development activities. He previously worked for the WA Department of Land Information (now Landgate) where he was the lead consultant for the definition of the Emergency Management component of Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP).
Our booth and location
NGIS Australia will be located at Booth no. 33 and 34, immediately left of the main entrance, facing into the main pavilion.
Within this space, NGIS professionals will be on hand to provide one-on-one demonstrations to some of our latest geospatial technologies developed for high profile projects from around the world.
View our animated presentation to learn more about NGIS.