
Relax and let FME take the stress out of complex integration
1Spatial is a leading Platinum Authorised Partner of Safe Software and an FME reseller. We’re hosting a series of free online events as part of the 2020 FME World Tour.
Join us online from 10am till 1pm, where we will talk you through the latest and greatest in the FME 2020 release, demonstrate its capabilities and get you involved in our interactive sessions. We will also welcome a whole host of customers in our ‘FME around Australia’ session, who will showcase the power of FME and how they’re using it within their organisation. Finally we will welcome all of your questions, before wrapping up.
Is bad data giving you a headache? Register to let us detoxify your data problems. Whether you’re a newbie, just discovering the power of FME, or an expert and hungry for new functionality, these fun events should be in your calendar!
This online event will include technical presentations and customer case studies showcasing the FME 2020 data integration platform’s capabilities for both new and existing users. You’ll hear the latest news in data integration and we’ll be able to exchange thoughts on making your data smarter.
5 reasons to attend:
- Learn about FME’s new capabilities for 2020
- Build your FME skills lead online by our FME Certified Professionals
- Hear how other organisations are innovating with FME and 1Spatial to drive better business decisions
- Improve return on investment with technical demonstrations that showcase how to enhance your existing FME processes
- Connect with other like-minded FME users to learn from their experiences.
Want to present?
If you’ve already offered to present at the physical events we’ll be in touch to see if you’d still like to be featured in the virtual event. If you haven’t yet expressed an interest in being involved but would like to share your FME experience with other event attendees, let us know. Simply send an abstract of your presentation to fme@1spatial.com or reach out to the same address for more information and we’ll be in touch.
For more information please contact us on fme@1spatial.com
Register for online FME Training
Our FME Certified Trainers welcome you to join us online for an FME Training Course – click here to view the calendar.

Relax and let FME take the stress out of complex integration
1Spatial is a leading Platinum Authorised Partner of Safe Software and an FME reseller. We’re hosting a series of free online events as part of the 2020 FME World Tour.
Join us online from 1pm till 4pm, where we will talk you through the latest and greatest in the FME 2020 release, demonstrate its capabilities and get you involved in our interactive sessions. We will also welcome a whole host of customers in our ‘FME around Australia’ session, who will showcase the power of FME and how they’re using it within their organisation. Finally we will welcome all of your questions, before wrapping up.
Is bad data giving you a headache? Register to let us detoxify your data problems. Whether you’re a newbie, just discovering the power of FME, or an expert and hungry for new functionality, these fun events should be in your calendar!
This online event will include technical presentations and customer case studies showcasing the FME 2020 data integration platform’s capabilities for both new and existing users. You’ll hear the latest news in data integration and we’ll be able to exchange thoughts on making your data smarter.
5 reasons to attend:
- Learn about FME’s new capabilities for 2020
- Build your FME skills lead online by our FME Certified Professionals
- Hear how other organisations are innovating with FME and 1Spatial to drive better business decisions
- Improve return on investment with technical demonstrations that showcase how to enhance your existing FME processes
- Connect with other like-minded FME users to learn from their experiences.
Want to present?
If you’ve already offered to present at the physical events we’ll be in touch to see if you’d still like to be featured in the virtual event. If you haven’t yet expressed an interest in being involved but would like to share your FME experience with other event attendees, let us know. Simply send an abstract of your presentation to fme@1spatial.com or reach out to the same address for more information and we’ll be in touch.
For more information please contact us on fme@1spatial.com
Register for online FME Training
Our FME Certified Trainers welcome you to join us online for an FME Training Course – click here to view the calendar.
Date & Time
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
We are pleased to announce a Q&A with Ms Alison Rose – Chief of Place, Space and Community Safety, Geoscience Australia & President UNGGIM Asia Pacific, hosted by SSSI’s President, Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse.
Zaffar will be talking to Alison about her recent appointment to GA and her plans for the future.
The Speaker
Alison Rose has extensive senior leadership experience within geospatial and intelligence communities in both the public and private sector
She commenced her role as Chief of Division in late January 2020 at Geoscience Australia. Alison heads the following divisions:
- National Earth and Marine Observations, including Digital Earth Australia and Digital Earth Africa
- National Location Information
- National Positioning Infrastructure
- Community Safety
Registration
By registering below, you receive access to the watch the webinar live OR if you can’t watch it live, you receive the link to the recording 24 hours after the event date. You can then watch the recording at your leisure.
CPD
This event is worth is 0.75 SSSI CPD points.
Contact
Katie Le Miere
rom.qld@sssi.org.au

Date & Time
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
ACT Office of the Surveyor-General’s Update
Outline
- Survey Practice Advisory Committee update,
- Units plan examination and data lodgement
- Laser scanning guideline in NSW and it’s impact on the ACT.
- Legislative review program for the ACT.
- Plan examination update and common problems
- Feedback re Surveyors practice Directions and related Guidelines
Presenter:
Jeff Brown is currently the Surveyor-General of the ACT. He is a registered surveyor in both the ACT and NSW.
Jeff has been with the Office of the Surveyor-General and Land Information for 5 years as the ACT Surveyor-General. Prior to that Jeff ran his own private practice in Yass. He has extensive experience working in a range of jurisdictions in Australia.
The Missing Road – A recent cadastral survey.
Outline:
This “story” describes the survey of a road in a very old subdivision. The road is excluded from adjacent land which the owner wishes to develop. The road is an unused “paper” private road (not Crown or Council Road). The owner wishes to acquire the road to facilitate the future development.
The presentation includes many interesting features such as Adverse Possession and Primary Application, River and Rail boundary definition, ad medium filum and status of roads.
Presenter:
Mike Stapleton. Mike is a surveyor registered in the ACT and New South Wales. He has been doing surveying since graduation in 1978, and as the son of a surveyor has had surveying in his life since he was born 63 years ago!!
Mike has been surveying in Canberra since 2000 with the same organization as it changed from Fisher Stewart to EarthTech to Landata and now Veris. He has recently decided to partially retire, whilst completing on-going projects.
Mike is also a Registered Planner with the Planning Institute of Australia.
Anticipated BOSSI CPD points = 1 Cadastral
Contact
Julie Fairman
julie.fairman@sssi.org.au

Date & Time
Thursday, 28 May 2020
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
It’s time to celebrate at home or in the office with SSSI & SIBA|GITA as we host the annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards ceremony, announcing the oceanic winners from our 2019 season of regional awards. Join us online on Thursday 28 May at 4.30pm AEST.
The APSEAs celebrate the achievements of top spatial information enterprises and individuals, showcasing the finest projects and most significant performance of professionals the surveying and spatial industry has to offer.
Aptly renamed to APSEALIVE just for this year, the ceremony will be held via Zoom. There is no cost to attend however registration is required.
APSEALIVE times:
NSW, QLD, VIC, ACT and TAS: 4:30pm
SA & NT: 4:00pm
WA: 2:30pm
To register for the event, please click here. You will receive the link to the Zoom webinar closer to the event.
Contact
Katie Le Miere
rom.qld@sssi.org.au
Date & Time
Monday, 1 Jun 2020
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Vicmap Roadmap
The tsunami of data headed your way
About the speakers:
Cost
SSSI Member $30 | SSSI YP $20 | SSSI Student FREE | Non-member $45
Contact
Su Ling Meimaris
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Join us for the first session in our ‘Locate Connect’ online learning series! Hear from Scott Dewar, Director, Chris Hewett, Assistant Secretary GEOINT Capability and Development & Phil Shears, Director DEF799 Phase 2.
In this session from 1300 – 1400, the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) will be launching the Defence Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) Strategy, a document that addresses how the Defence GEOINT Community will transform to meet the future needs of the Australian Defence Force. The AGO Executive will also provide an update on their GEOINT projects and announce upcoming opportunities for industry and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the organisation.
Then from 1430 – 1545, AGO, along with Frontier SI will describe how The Analytics Lab Program (AGO Labs) fits into the bigger picture of AGO capability and summarise the outcomes of their 2019 activities. AGO Labs, coordinated through FrontierSI, is investigating a number of ways to better engage and work with industry. Specifically, the AGO is keen to attract a wider pool of companies and technologies to draw on for automated geospatial intelligence. The primary focus of this program is to address AGO capability challenges through a small number of short-term industry projects, with a focus on machine learning and analytics for producing automated imagery analysis, including automated object classification. AGO will announce a new 2020 program of challenges hoping to find innovative solutions through their partnership with FrontierSI.