The award ceremony will take place on June 19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

On June 19, the ceremony of MundoGEO#Connect 2013 Awards will take place in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil. The award presentation recognizes professionals, companies, institutions and brands of the geospatial industry. The five finalists list is available of each category.

“In the preliminary stage, we evaluated the relevance of the categories from previous years (2011 and 2012) and asked the community suggestions for new categories for this year’s awards, which brought us pleasant surprises, such as the best Facebook page,” says Eduardo Freitas, coordinator of the prize. “In the first stage, with all categories defined, once again we asked the geospatial community to indicate who the finalists should be,” he concludes.

Check out the finalists in some categories:

Person of the Year – Universities
João Francisco Galera Monico (Unesp Presidente Prudente)
Joel Gripp (UFV)
José Augusto Sapienza Ramos (Labgis UERJ)
José Quintanilha (USP)
Vandemberg Salvador (IFBaiano)

Person of the Year – Public Sector
Edmar Moretti (MMA)
Gilberto Câmara (Inpe)
Moema José de Carvalho Augusto (IBGE)
Pedro Ronalt Vieira (DSG)
Roberto Tadeu Teixeira (Incra)

Person of the Year – Geospatial Industry
Antonio Machado e Silva (AMS Kepler)
César Antonio Francisco (Engemap)
Eduardo Oliveira (Santiago & Cintra)
Enéas Brum (Imagem)
Rogério Neves (CPE Tecnologia)

Most Memorable Course – Land Surveying and/or Cartographic Engineering
Engenharia  Cartográfica UFPE
Engenharia Cartográfica Unesp
Engenharia de Agrimensura e Cartográfica UFPR
Engenharia de Agrimensura e Cartográfica UFV
Engenharia de Agrimensura Unesc

Most Memorable Course – Geography
UFBA
UFPR
Unesp Rio Claro
Unicamp
USP

Most Prominent Public Institution
Emplasa
IBGE
IGC-SP
Inpe
Ministério do Meio Ambiente

Best Facebook Page about Geospatial Technologies
Abec-SP
Alezi Teodolini
ClickGeo
CPE Tecnologia
Embratop

Best Maps Provider
Digibase
Google
Imagem
MapLink
Nokia

Best SDI Initiative in Latin America
IDE Colômbia
Idera Argentina
Inde Brasil
SNIT Chile
Idemex México

Best Junior Geospatial Company
Ejeag (UFV)
Ejecart (Unesp Presidente Prudente)
Geoplan Jr (Unesp Rio Claro)
Labgis Jr (UERJ)
UniSigma (IFPB)

Most Memorable Company: Satellite Images
Astrium Geo Brasil
Engemap
Engesat
S&C Consultoria
Space Imaging Brasil

Most Memorable Company: Image Processing Software
AMS Kepler
Imagem
S&C Consultoria
Sisgraph
Sulsoft

Most Memorable Company: Mapping
Base
Engefoto
Engemap
Esteio
Topocart

Most Memorable Company: Geodesy and Topography Equipments
Alezi Teodolini
CPE Tecnologia
Furtado & Schmidt
Leica Geosystems
Santiago & Cintra Geotecnologias

Most Memorable Company: GIS Software
Geoambiente
Globalgeo
Imagem
S&C Consultoria
Sisgraph

Most Memorable Company: Solutions Development
CGI/Logica
Coffey
Cognatis
Geoambiente
Notoriun

Most Memorable Brand: Satellite Images
Alos
Astrium
Deimos
DigitalGlobe
RapidEye

Most Memorable Brand: Image Processing Software
ArcGIS
eCognition
Envi
Erdas
Inpho

Most Memorable Brand: UAV
AGX
Gatewing
SenseFly
Smart Planes
XMobots

Most Memorable Brand: GPS Topographic and Geodetic
Geomax
Javad
Leica
Spectra Precision
Trimble

Most Memorable Brand: Total Station
Geomax
Leica
Nikon
Topcon
Trimble

Most remembered Brand: Topographic Software
DataGeosis
Geoffice
Posição
TopoEVN
Topograph

Most remembered Brand: GIS
ArcGIS
Erdas
GeoMedia
gvSIG
Quantum GIS

Best Marketing Professional
Felipe Seabra (Geoambiente)
Fernanda Ribeiro (CPE)
Fernando Schmiegelow (Sisgraph)
Lennon Barbosa (Embratop)
Pamela Paiva (Astrium Geo Brasil)

Prêmio MundoGEO#Connect 2012
Winners of MundoGEO#Connect Awards 2012

The second voting stage is already open for MundoGEO#Connect Award 2013 which has 24 categories and brought you by Garmin. To elect the winner, visit https://mundogeoconnect.com/2013/en/mundogeoconnect-2013-awards/second-round/.

About MundoGEO #Connect LatinAmerica

MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica – Conference and Trade Fair on Geomatics and Geospatial Solutions – is the largest and most important event in Latin America in the geoinformation sector. The third edition will be held from June 18 to 20 of 2013 in the Frei Caneca Convention Center, in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil, with the main purpose to provide a new type of interactive experience between experts, researchers, end-users and industry operators using innovative models of dynamic models of debates and lectures, which favors the exchange of ideas and interaction among participants and panelists.