Peter Batty, CTO INTERGRAPH

Spatial Industry Technology Trends

This presentation will take a wide-ranging look at various technologies and trends that will impact the spatial industry over the next few years.

Topics to be covered will include:

· Developments in wireless communications and mobile devices, which will continue to have a major impact on IT in general and geospatial applications in particular

· Web services which, together with other Internet-related developments, will have a major impact on the way that geospatial projects are implemented and how data is maintained and shared.

· Location tracking technologies, both global and local, which are having a major impact on how data is collected and maintained, and enabling many new applications

· The growth in real time geospatial applications: increasingly geospatial technology is evolving from traditional application areas such as planning and documentation to more real time operational applications

· The impact of non-traditional vendors on the industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, who are driving commoditization of certain aspects of geospatial technology

BIO:

Peter Batty is Chief Technology Officer of Intergraph. He has 20 years of experience as a technical innovator in the geospatial industry and has worked on many industry-leading projects and products. He was formerly a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ten Sails, Vice President of Technology for Smallworld Systems/GE Network Solutions, and also worked for IBM in the geospatial area. He is an internationally recognized speaker and author, and has received a record eight speaker awards from GITA. He has been a member of GeoWorld magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board since 1996 and has been involved in various industry standards initiatives, including the Open GIS Consortium and IEC TC 57 Working Group 14. He has a Masters degree in computer science from Oxford University, finishing top of his year, and a BA in Mathematics, also from Oxford.