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RE MAPS-L: 2006 GeoTec Event June 18-21
DA Thursday December 15, 2005
TO Maps-L
FR Angie Cope
<http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=13210>
*GeoTec Media Announces Keynote Speakers, Program Tracks for Its
2006 GeoTec Event*
December 14, 2005
*Company:* GeoTec Media
<http://www.directionsmag.com/companies/byID.php?id=2662>
*Location:* Boulder, CO, United States of America
*Boulder,CO*--GeoTec Media, the publisher of GeoWorld magazine and
developer of the Web portal GeoPlace.com, announces its selection of
keynote speakers and program tracks for its annual GeoTec Event, June
18-21, 2006, at the Ottawa Congress Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Opening Keynote, Mon., June 19
Peter Morville - Widely recognized as a founding father of information
architecture, Morville co-authored the best-selling book, Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web , and has consulted with such
organizations as Harvard, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the National Cancer
Institute. Morville is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder of the
Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the
University of Michigan.
Gala Dinner Keynote, Mon., June 19
Rex Murphy - Social commentator and editorial journalist with weekly
television commentary on The National Magazine, host of the Sunday
afternoon CBC Radio program Cross Country Checkup , an editorial
contributor to CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera , and a weekly
Saturday columnist in The Globe and Mail.
Breakfast Keynote, Wed., June 21
Tom Koch - Adjunct professor of geography (medical) at the University of
British Columbia and adjunct professor of gerontology at Simon Fraser
University (SFU), both in Vancouver, Canada. With undergraduate and
graduate degrees in geography, Koch earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D.
for a dissertation that used GIS mapping to consider the U.S. organ
transplant system. The result, his 12th book, was published under the
title Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation (2001).
His latest book, Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping and Medicine,
was published in 2005 by ESRI Press.
The 2006 GeoTec Event education sessions have been organized into the
following program tracks: Atlases, Cartography and Visualization;
Enterprise Integration; Geospatial Data; Geospatial Research and
Education; GIS Development; GIS and Public Policy; Imagery,
Infrastructure and Interoperability; and Integrated Case Studies. In
addition to educational sessions, an expanded trade show will feature
more than 60 industry vendors from around the globe, including ESRI
Canada, MDA, Oce Canada, and I.S.M. International Systemap Corp.
For the first time since its inception, the GeoTec Event will also be
co-located with the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives;
the Canadian Cartographic Association; the Geomatics Industry
Association of Canada; and the International Cartographic Association.
These alliances promise to bring hundreds of new attendees to the event.
For further conference information, visit www.geoplace.com/gt
<http://www.geoplace.com/gt>, call Matt Ball at 303-544-0594 or e-mail
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
For information about the exhibition, please contact Cody Pearson at
303-355-1715 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Matt Ball ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Phone: 303-544-0594
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ANGIE COPE
American Geographical Society Library
UW Milwaukee
2311 E. Hartford Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html
Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm
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(414) 229-6282
(800) 558-8993 (US TOLL FREE)
(414) 229-3624 (FAX)
Map Librarian, MAPS-L Moderator
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/welcome_to_mapsl%20forum.html
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