The winners will be divulged on June 15, during the largest event of geo-technologies of Latin America
The largest event of geo-technology of Latin America will recognize the most outstanding people of the sector, and they will be known during the presentation of MundoGEO#Connect’s award, on June 15, starting at 6 p.m. Throughout January and February the community participated in the first phase, nominating the finalists. From March to May the last stage was accomplished, in which over 2 thousand people voted to choose who should win the award.
The stage for this award will be MundoGEO#Connect, event that will take place in São Paulo from June 14 to 16 and which will gather companies, institutions and professionals of the geo-processing sector that will be in direct contact with the last tendencies of the geospatial industry. Emerson Zanon Granemann, director and publisher of MundoGEO Group and promoter of the event, already foresees MundoGEO#Connect’s award for next year. “The election for the best professionals took place exclusively through the voting online. For MundoGEO#Connect 2012, we will enlarge the categories adding projects and researches that will be judged by specialists of the sector”, he explains.
The prize will be granted during MundoGEO#Connect’s event and will be open for all the people that are present in the event. Besides that, a technical programming with seminars, mini-courses, workshops and users’ meetings will take place, and there will also be a fair that will count on over 30 companies which are specialized in geo-technologies.
The admission to MundoGEO#Connect’s fair is free, and the accreditation can already be made online on the site. When accomplishing the accreditation online, the visitor will be able to get his/her admission card in the fair and avoid having to stand in lines. Furthermore, all the people who are registered to visit MundoGEO#Connect’s fair will receive, as courtesy, a subscription to the InfoGEO and InfoGNSS magazines, with innovations, releases, opinions and technical products on geo-processing, satellites images, GPS and cartography.
Get to know the three most voted ones, in alphabetical order, in each one of the categories of MundoGEO#Connect’s award:
Personality of the Decade in the Sector of Geo-technology
Gilberto Câmara, director of the National Institute of Space Researches (Inpe)
João Francisco Galera Monico, professor at São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp)
Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes, geosciences director at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Institution of Teaching and/or Researches of Larger Prominence
University of Science and Technology (FCT-Unesp)
National institute of Space Researches (Inpe)
Federal university of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
List of the most active Discussion
Abec-SP | http://br.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEC-SP
ArcGIS-Brazil | http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/ArcGIS-Brazil
GeographicList | http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/listageografia
Best Blog of Geo-technology
Geoinformation Online | http://geoinformacaonline.com
Geo.Net | http://blog.geoprocessamento.net
Sadeck Geo-technologies | http://geotecnologias.wordpress.com
Company of Geo-technology with the largest presence Online
Engemap www.engemap.com.br | @ engemap
Image www.img.com.br | @ imagem_oficial
Santiago & Cintra www.santiagoecintra.com.br | @ santiagoecintra
Most Outstanding Marketing Professional
Fernando Schmiegelow, marketing director for Latin America & Caribbean in Sisgraph
Lúcio Muratori de Alencastro Graça, Image marketing director
Luiz Henrique Amoedo, marketing manager of the companies Santiago & Cintra Geo-technologies, Santiago & Cintra Consultoria and Geo Agri
In the final phase of the award, the community was also invited to nominate the best Brazilian companies of the geo-technology sector, in eight different categories. Get to know the most voted companies on the site.
Products and services fair
During every single day of MundoGEO#Connect the fair will be opened, providing free admission for all the participants, and it will count on the presence of the main companies from the geo-technology sector. The accreditation in advance can already be done on this site. When accomplishing the accreditation online, the visitor will get his/her credential at the fair’s general office, what will prevent the participant from having to stand in lines and will allow him/her to enter the fair at the moment he/she arrives there.
