Calendar

Dec
12
Wed
GeoRabble Sydney Christmas Party @ Occidental Hotel
Dec 12 @ 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm

GeoRabble Sydney’s Christmas drinks are back

Join us on Wednesday Dec 12th for a few chilled drinks, free pizza (courtesy of TomTom), and mingling with likeminded geogeeks.  And be ready for a special surprise – all about the future of geo!

As usual: attendance and pizza are free, but you’ll need to register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/georabble-sydney-christmas-party-tickets-52550863046

See you there!

Jan
14
Mon
GeoBuiz Summit @ Hotel Intercontinental, San Francisco, CA, USA
Jan 14 – Jan 15 all-day
GeoBuiz Summit @ Hotel Intercontinental, San Francisco, CA, USA

GeoBuiz Summit is a two-day confluence of IT and geospatial industry stalwarts, facing the rising tide of innovation, addressing a broad array of issues impacting businesses, innovation and governance dynamics. The Summit will incorporate a power-packed agenda comprising of presentations, panel discussions, social events designed to ensure collective learning and idea generation, networking and collaboration opportunities.

REASONS TO ATTEND

Here’s why you must attend the GeoBuiz Summit!

  • Hear firsthand accounts from business leaders and plan your own path
  • Learn some fresh perspectives, valuable business insights, and predictions led by business stalwarts
  • Improve the way you do business – gain strategy insights & make informed decisions
  • Learn in depth industry analysis – constantly evolving business scenario, user behavior and market trends
  • Expand your network and build your business
  • Understand key developmental issues that impact lives of millions around the world and how businesses can respond to make a difference
  • Establish new collaborations and tie ups that help your business grow and for industry to prosper
Jan
25
Fri
GEO WEEK 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO
Jan 25 – Jan 31 all-day
GEO WEEK 2019 @ Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO

From January 25-31, 2019, the industry will descend on Denver for a geospatial gathering like no other.

Geo Week will commence on January 25th, 2019 with the start of the MAPPS Winter Conference which will run from January 25th until January 28th. Geo Week continues with the start of both International LiDAR Mapping Forum and ASPRS Annual Conference on Monday, January 28th which will run concurrently with a single exhibit hall and inclusive social activities. ILMF will close on the evening of January 30th and ASPRS Annual Conference will conclude with post-conference workshops on January 31st.

Geo Week is a multi-event collaboration including participation from MAPPS, ILMF, and ASPRS. All the education, networking, and business carried out at MAPPS, ILMF, and ASPRS can now be accomplished in just one week!

What does this mean for you?

  • More educational content
  • More networking
  • More exhibitors
  • Less travel

Choose from the following pass options:

  • ILMF + ASPRS Conference Pass* – access to both ILMF and ASPRS programs
  • ILMF Conference Pass
  • ASPRS Annual Meeting Pass
  • MAPPS Winter Conference Pass
  • Exhibit Hall Pass

*Access to MAPPS Winter Conference sold separately.

Feb
10
Sun
International Geoinformatics Conference 2019 @ Sheikh Hamad Al-Jasser Hall, King Saud University, Riyadh
Feb 10 – Feb 14 all-day

Under the patronage of the Prince Mohammed bin Abdurrahman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region,  the Saudi Geographical Society and  ISPRS ( ICWG III/IVb)  organizing:

“International Geoinformatics Conference2019”


Objectives:
     The conference aims to achieve the following objectives:
– New trends in Geoinformatics.
– Geoinformatics solution and decision making.
– Scientific meeting of Geoinformatics.
– Networking meeting.
– Exchange experience.


 Conference Activities:
– Papers.
– Research Poster.
– Workshops.
– A forum for decision makers.
– Exhibition of geospatial technologies.
– Field visits.
– Media (press, television and radio).


Conference Themes:
– Geoinformatics in environment.
– Geoinformatics in safety and national security.
– Geoinformatics in exploring and mining.
– Geoinformatics in decision making.
– Geoinformatics in smart city.
– Geoinformatics in tourism.
– Geoinformatics in geospatial intelligence.
– Geoinformatics in water.
– Geoinformatics in Agriculture.
– Geoinformatics in natural hazard


Invitees to Participate in the Conference:
– Global Technology Leaders
– Users (Governments and Private Sector)
– Academia.


Venue & Time:
1-  Sheikh Hamad Al-Jasser Hall, King Saud University, Riyadh.

2- From: 5 – 8 Jumada’II 1440 AH, (10 – 13 February 2019).


Conference Language:
– Arabic / English


Important Dates:
– Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 December 2018. (Closed)
– Deadline for submission of the full papers: 15 January 2019.

Feb
11
Mon
GeoSmart India 2019 @ Hotel Pullman, New Delhi, India
Feb 11 – Feb 13 all-day

About The Conference

GeoSmart India is an interactive platform that demonstrates the collective and shared vision of the Indian geospatial community and is the most prominent stakeholder event of the Indian geospatial ecosystem. The event plays an integral role in bringing together decision makers and policy developers, national mapping agencies, private sector enterprises, developmental organizations and academic institutions to discuss policies; their implementation and impact, technology advancements and adaptations and how to connect these with the user communities to the benefit of all.

The Year 2019 will witness the 19th edition of GeoSmart India. Over the years, GeoSmart India has become an event best-known for its futuristic themes, engaging content, and top-level attendees. With this edition, Geospatial Media aims to strengthen the “New India” initiative through providing key concepts of geospatial technology for Clean, Healthy, Educated, Complete, Able and Secure India by involving every stakeholder at local, state and national levels.

Theme

India is on the anvil of a major evolution, which is largely supported by technical advancements that will give rise to a digital world where efficient and smart systems will enable in building a new, clean, healthy, secure, inclusive and robust India.

In order to advance on its vision, the Government has laid out plans for Digital India, Smart Cities, High Speed Railways, Irrigation and Skill Development, aiming to create a sustainable base for continuing this development into the next decade.

 

Feb
21
Thu
what3words Webinar
Feb 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
what3words Webinar

Learn how to plan and deliver products and services to any location in Australia – no matter how ambiguous the address with what3words.

what3words has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address, providing a precise and incredibly simple way to talk about location. It means everyone and everywhere now has an address.

Join Peter Landis, 360HR’s geospatial recruitment specialist, as he interviews Tom Blaksley from what3words, to uncover the potential and real world applications benefiting from this revolutionary solution to an age old problem.

Webinar details:

Date:    Thursday, 21 February

Time:    4.00PM AEDT

Register here

MelBIM 2019 @ RMIT, Building 80 (Swanston Academic Building)
Feb 21 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
MelBIM 2019 @ RMIT, Building 80 (Swanston Academic Building)

The MelBIM February event will be hosted at RMIT Swanston Academic Building (SAB), 445 Swanston St, Lecture Theatre 80.07.01 – Level 7. Arrival is from 5:15PM with presentations commencing at 5:45PM.

Attendance is free, drinks and food will be provided but pre-event registration is essential. All attendees are required to register prior to the the event via the Registration button here.

Whether you’re a BIM Manager, Architect, Engineer, Contractor, Facility Manager, Manufacturer, Project Manager or anyone else wanting to learn and share information about BIM, MelBIM events have something for everyone.

We look forward to seeing you there!

MelBIM committee

 

Event Schedule

17:15 – Registration and Networking

Arrive early to enjoy a welcome drink and network with other industry leaders before the presentations and formalities begin. Expect to see high representation from Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, Facility Management, Academia and all other forms of BIM industry stakeholders.

17:45 – Welcome and Introduction

Take a seat in our awesome venue for the evening. Make yourself comfy and hear from our fantastic event sponsor

18:00 – Virtual Business Quality System : Carl Agar (A.G. Coombs)

The Virtual Business Quality System is a Victoria Government sponsored imitative to provide a standard open protocol syntax to permit generic and reliable links to be created between applications and data repositories, a standard labelling convention for the way data can be labelled, or tagged, and a logical parent/child relationship for data.

This simple system makes possible the calling up of useful information from a range of applications including Building Information Models and FM services systems to link to associated data sets seamless, regardless of what stage in the building life-cycle.

This presentation will describe and explain the Virtual Business Quality System, it’s alignment with BIMMEPAUS and how it can be applied to both green and brown field projects to ensure the effective transfer of high value data to building owners and facility managers, and how it will made available to industry.

Speaker Bio

Carl is a senior consultant with A.G. Coombs Advisory with over 35 years industry experience and responsible for the provision of advice to clients on a range of facilities management related issues including asset management, commissioning, building tuning and service management and the adoption of leading-edge technologies to optimise buildings operation and maintenance.

His experience also encompasses the asset management field with over 10 years’ experience in the IT industry implementing service and asset management systems for a diverse range of clients including QANTAS, Telstra and Macquarie Bank.

Since 2008 Carl has been a leading advocate of Building Information Modelling in Australia being instrumental on the early application of BIM on landmark projects and a founding member of BIM initiatives by AIRAH, AIA and NATSPEC.

www.agcoombs.com.au

18:25 – How computation is helping transform our business : Steve Fox & Setareh Motlagh (BIM Consulting)

Architectus supports a shift towards digital technology delivered through their technology subsidiary company BIM Consulting (BC).  The use of computation in architectural design and delivery is one way they are aiming to transform their business.  Analysis, optimisation, and automation are the key areas of focus.

At MelBIM they will provide the context around the shifting culture towards computation, and will demonstrate two applications of computation each with significantly different purpose: An automated model auditing tool that retrieves, evaluates and reports on all of project models in the organisation. The second is a tool that searches and populates project models with updates made to a joinery shop file.

Speaker Bio

Steve specialises in digital design and construction. He gained 15 years as an architect, and for the last 10 years held digital technology leadership positions in Sydney and London. More recently he has become the Principal of BIM Consulting, and strategic advisor for digital technology implementation to their parent company Architectus. [Steve tries to get on the tools when he can, but less successfully as time goes on. He’s mad for computation, but can’t code]

Setareh is a Melbourne based BIM expert with a background in architecture and physics.  After receiving her double bachelor’s degree in physics and architecture from the university of Tehran, she moved to Australia and completed her master’s degree in architecture at the University of Melbourne in 2014.

Setareh first learnt about computational design during her master’s degree. At her first job as a graduate architect, her physics and mathematics background found its logical connection with architecture through Dynamo. This was the first step in her journey towards an integrated computational approach to project delivery.

Since then, she has earned a buildingSMART BIMcreds Certification. In her current position at BIM Consulting, in addition to her Revit expertise, she has had the opportunity to develop her skills in Dynamo, Python, JavaScript and HTML coding, creating PowerApps and Forge apps.

www.bimconsulting.com.au

18:50 – Launch and Future of the Victorian Digital Asset Strategy (VDAS) + Q&A : Tim Mumford (Senior Project Manager – Office of Projects Victoria)

The VDAS has been launched for use on Victorian major projects and Assets. Tim Mumford provides an update on the cornerstone document, the VDAS Strategic Framework. Tim will also detail what to expect, and where to from here with regards to VDAS.

Following the launch will be an audience Q&A session with Tim Mumford and Steve Appleby.

Victorian-Digital-Asset-Strategy.pdf

Speaker Bio

Tim Mumford is an engineer and project manager with a over decade of experience in public and private sectors. Tim’s experience hails from offshore drilling, large mining, minerals, and metals projects, management consulting in projects, and now with the Department of Treasury and Finance. Tim leads the strategy and implementation of the Victorian Digital Asset Strategy.

19:15 – Industry Update

Get the latest BIM news about upcoming BIM events, industry developments and general musings from MelBIM Committee member Will Joske.

19:30 – Networking: Food and Drinks Thanks to Our Sponsor

With the formal part of the evening over, it’s now time to get social. Thanks to our event sponsor, enjoy some complementary ‘BIMbeers’, wine, or soft drink and a casual bite to eat whilst striking up conversation with industry peers and colleagues.

Feb
22
Fri
#BalanceforBetter – Women In Spatial – Off and Racing! @ Bankstown Paceway
Feb 22 @ 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm
#BalanceforBetter - Women In Spatial - Off and Racing! @ Bankstown Paceway

Join us for an amazing late afternoon and evening as SSSI WIS is Off and Racing in NSW! CPD = 2SP

Mary-Ellen Feeney, returned from Homeward Bound, will speak on Leadership in STEM.

This will be followed by a lively and interactive panel session, facilitated by Raelene Forbes who herself will be part of Homeward Bound 4, to provide context and stimulate ideas with the focus being on gender equity.

Each panellist will then lead a workshop group concentrating in on the top three issues that SSSI should be focussing on to affect change for WIS.

Post workshop we will be able to network together and enjoy a wonderful three course meal with standard drinks all included plus night racing under lights!

In support of International Women’s Day and Team Teal (for Ovarian Cancer) this is an event not to be missed!

Feb
26
Tue
Aerospace & Defence Expo and Australian International Airshow @ Avalon Airport
Feb 26 – Mar 3 all-day
Aerospace & Defence Expo and Australian International Airshow @ Avalon Airport

AVALON 2019 – THE ESSENTIAL AVIATION, AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE SHOWCASE FOR AUSTRALIA AND THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

The Asia Pacific region is undergoing major growth in defence and aviation, with budgets in many countries continuing to rise and an ever increasing level of sophistication in technologies, equipment, systems and operational methods.

One of the leading gateways to these important markets is AVALON 2019 – the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition staged at Avalon Airport, Geelong, Victoria.

AVALON 2019 will again present a unique opportunity to showcase products, technologies and services to an informed target audience and to demonstrate a marketing presence in this vibrant and vital region. High levels of economic growth and technological development have resulted in growing demand for aviation and aerospace services, products and technology, right across the spectrum from General Aviation to airlines, air forces and space.

AVALON 2019 will be a valuable opportunity for decision-makers to be informed and for exhibitors to connect with their customers.

The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition is the essential aviation, aerospace and defence event for the Asia Pacific.

Mar
14
Thu
Sydney Build Expo 2019 @ Royal Hall of Industries
Mar 14 – Mar 15 all-day
Sydney Build Expo 2019 @ Royal Hall of Industries

Sydney Build Expo 2019 – 14th & 15th March – Royal Hall of Industries

Show Features:

– Australia’s Leading and Largest Construction & Design Show
– 150+ Senior Speakers at our Free Conference, Workshops, Partner Sessions & Live Demos
– Thousands of Attendees will be joining us from across Australia
– 250+ Exhibitors within 5 zones
– Co-located with CIVENEX
– Topics Focusing on: Residential construction, transport and infrastructure, commercial construction, new contracts and opportunities, Sydney’s waterfront, prefab, urban design, sustainability, BIM/Digital etc.
– 60+ Industry Partners – Large-Scale Promotion of the Show
– Networking: Live Music, Craft Beer Festival, Whiskey Tasting, Live Demos & Prize Giveaways.
– Keep up-to-date with the latest projects, news, industry standards and technologies across: construction, design, architecture, cladding, insulation, flooring, lighting, building supplies, hardware, joinery, home automation and everything build related.

Your free pass gives you full access to the entire Sydney Build event and CIVENEX event including all conferences, summits and the 250+ booth exhibition. For further details, visit sydneybuildexpo.com

Exhibition: If you would like to inquire about exhibiting or sponsoring Sydney Build – Click Here

Check out: Event Website / Gallery or Ask for a Quote (Booth / Stand) / Contact Us

Contact Information:
marketing@sydneybuildexpo.com
AU: +61 (2) 8006 7557
NZ: +64 (9) 889 7707
HK: +852 3792 0940
UK: +44 203 058 2350

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