On Wednesday I chaired a meeting of the AGI Conference team. We were all very bullish because registrations had passed 170 that morning. Today I got a mail that we had gone through 300 registrations just before the early bird discount closed. There are still places left at the conference but don’t leave it too long or you will have to book your own accomodation as we will have run out of rooms. The conference […]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
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A thoughtful client recently asked us how he could explain the value of his organisation’s investment in Enterprise GIS to elected members and senior management who thought that everything could be done for nothing with Google. I have written about this previously on this blog and don’t want to repeat that stuff. Undoubtedly the professional GI community needs to better articulate the value of what we do if we are not going to be overtaken […]
Well the program is finalised and published. The speakers are hopefully completing their papers. The party planning is well underway. Looks like we have an exceptional conference in the making. All we need now are the delegates, and they are registering fast – we have over 100 registrations already which is way in front of previous years. I have a bottle of single malt staked on us selling out and am increasingly confident of collecting. […]
Last week I was invited to speak at the Metropolitan police’s GIS Awareness day. It was a fantastic day with nearly 300 people attending including the deputy Assistant Commissioner responsible for the Olympics through senior officers to operational staff and analysts. The purpose of the event was to raise the profile of the use of location or as analysts describe it “place” in the police service. the comments of senior police officers and IT managers […]
People who know me will understand that I can turn any conversation around to football – well to Arsenal actually. Consequently I have taken a lot of stick from friends and colleagues who all seem to be Chelsea or Tottenham fans over Thierry Henry switching his loyalty to Barcelona despite pledging his eternal love for Arsenal and the fans as little as a year ago. Truth is I was gutted at this desertion and wished […]