MundoGEO#Connect 2011 Event Will Have More Than 120 Lecturers

Since the stage of planning, the Latin American community, in special the Brazilian, has had a great participation on creating the MundoGEO#Connect event. A wide research was conducted with the 40,000 professionals registered and signed in MundoGEO Web Portal, as well as with the 10,000 participants of some seminars and webinars carried through by MundoGEO Group in recent years. It has already been defined the best place, regularity, time of year, options of registration and the main subjects of the two courses and seven seminars foreseen in the event. Moreover 300 suggestions of subjects and speakers have been recently sent by the participants.

This way, MundoGEO team is finishing the assembly of the definitive programming that will be on the site of the event at the beginning of April. There will be around 120 lecturers, in which more than 20% are international ones.

As it occurred in the last events promoted by MundoGEO Group, MundoGEO#Connect event will have some activities broadcasted through webinars and also via social networks, allowing those who could not be in the event in June in São Paulo, are able to follow and interact with the event. Besides the 3,000 professionals who the event intends to attract, there is an estimation that more than 5,000 will be able to follow it on-line, with other countries included. A highlight: all presentations in English will have simultaneous translation to the Portuguese language. Confirmed in the event, besides the Brazilian community, are professionals of Argentina, Chile and of some African countries.

About 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 event, among specialists, decision makers, data producers, application developers, content providers and users of geoinformation in general. The event is internationally supported by GIM, Directionsmag, V1, ISPRS and GITA. The fair of the event has already confirmed the presence of the main Brazilian companies, including the local distributors of Spot, Digital lobe, RapidEye, Hexagon, Trimble, Google, Topcon, Erdas, Logica, MapInfo, Radarsat, Spectra, Garmin, Navteq among others.

There will be seven seminars, two 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 in the geospatial community. 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 geo-technology 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, disasters response, mining, oil and gas, environment, sustainability, agribusiness, forestry and federal, state and local government.