More than 3,000 people are meeting in MundoGEO#Connect 2011 event in São Paulo, Brazil
MundoGEO Group is promoting MundoGEO#Connect event in São Paulo in June. The expectation is to receive more than 3,000 professionals in MundoGEO#Connect, among specialists, decision makers, data producers, application developers, content providers and users of geoinformation in general. The event is internationaly supported by GIM, Directionsmag, Vector One, ISPRS and GITA. The event fair has already confirmed the presence of the main brazilian companies, including the local distributors of Spot, DigitalGlobe, Hexagon, Trimble, Google, Topcon, Erdas, Logica, Mapinfo, Radarsat, Spectra, Garmin, Navteq, Nikon among others.
There will be six seminars, three courses, many workshops and other events happening simultaneously. According to Emerson Zanon Granemann, director and founder of MundoGEO Group and coordinator of the event, “the contents of the presentations and debates are based on a great research that was made with the geospatial community participation. All the presentations will be interactive allowing people to participate live or by internet. Live updates from the conference discussion panels will be broadcasted on Twitter and delivered through a webinar plataform”.
The geotechnology subjects of the presentations are: Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), data quality, 3D mapping, remote sensing, photogrametry, radar and laser, GIS, land surveying, geoweb, GNSS and LBS. The subjects of the application areas bring the economic growth of Brazil nowadays concerning infrastructure/utilities, civil defense/environmental disasters, mining, oil and gas, environment, sustainability, agribusiness, forestry and federal, state and local government.