2012 Panel of Experts
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Ed Parsons
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Chris Moore
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Peter Batty
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Biographies of Panel Members
Ed Parsons
Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google's mission to organise the world's information using geography, and tools including Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for Mobile. In his role he also maintains links with Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology. Ed is based in Google's London office, and anywhere else he can plug in his laptop.
Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information. Ed came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division.
He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institutue of Technology and holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is the author of numerous articles, professional papers and presentations to International Conferences and he developed one of first weblogs in the Geospatial Industry at www.edparsons.com
Chris Moore
Chris Moore is the Chief Information Officer at the City of Edmonton. Recognized by Venture Magazine as one of Alberta's 50 most influential people and a founding member of WeGo (World E-government) Executive Committee.
In his role as CIO Chris provides vision and leadership over the City's Information and technology direction. Chris has fulfillment and freedom in his work and as a leader desires to see those around him attain fulfillment and freedom as well. Chris has been described as transformational, innovatived, disruptive and refreshing. His is an advocate of an Open Ecosystem, Open Gov and Open Data, and desires to see his team embrace innovation, pursuing the possible and building the future together.
Peter Batty
Peter Batty is a co-founder and CTO of the geospatial division at Ubisense. He has worked in the geosptial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two leading companies in the industry (and two of the world's top 200 software companies), Intergraph and SmallWorld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years Peter has worked extensively with new generation geospatial technologies, including Google Maps and a variety of open source solutions. He serves on the Advisory Board of geoIQ, and is on the board of OSGeo (the Open Source Geospatial Foundation).
In 2011 he gave the keynote address at the annual Google Geospatial Awareness Day, and was chair of FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial), the leading global conference on geospatial open source. He has received a record nine speaker awards from GITA (the Geospatial Information and Technology Association), for presentations at their North American and Australian conferences. He blogs at http://geothought.blogspot.com
2012 Panel of Experts
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Ed Parsons
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Chris Moore
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Peter Batty
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Biographies of Panel Members
Ed Parsons
Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google's mission to organise the world's information using geography, and tools including Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for Mobile. In his role he also maintains links with Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology. Ed is based in Google's London office, and anywhere else he can plug in his laptop.
Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information. Ed came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division.
He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institutue of Technology and holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is the author of numerous articles, professional papers and presentations to International Conferences and he developed one of first weblogs in the Geospatial Industry at www.edparsons.com
Chris Moore
Chris Moore is the Chief Information Officer at the City of Edmonton. Recognized by Venture Magazine as one of Alberta's 50 most influential people and a founding member of WeGo (World E-government) Executive Committee.
In his role as CIO Chris provides vision and leadership over the City's Information and technology direction. Chris has fulfillment and freedom in his work and as a leader desires to see those around him attain fulfillment and freedom as well. Chris has been described as transformational, innovatived, disruptive and refreshing. His is an advocate of an Open Ecosystem, Open Gov and Open Data, and desires to see his team embrace innovation, pursuing the possible and building the future together.
Peter Batty
Peter Batty is a co-founder and CTO of the geospatial division at Ubisense. He has worked in the geosptial industry for 25 years and has served as CTO for two leading companies in the industry (and two of the world's top 200 software companies), Intergraph and SmallWorld (now part of GE Energy). In recent years Peter has worked extensively with new generation geospatial technologies, including Google Maps and a variety of open source solutions. He serves on the Advisory Board of geoIQ, and is on the board of OSGeo (the Open Source Geospatial Foundation).
In 2011 he gave the keynote address at the annual Google Geospatial Awareness Day, and was chair of FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial), the leading global conference on geospatial open source. He has received a record nine speaker awards from GITA (the Geospatial Information and Technology Association), for presentations at their North American and Australian conferences. He blogs at http://geothought.blogspot.com