The first round of speakers for GeoNext 2014 has been announced, with Nic Lowe from Sydney car-share startup GoGet, Dr Kurt Iveson from the University of Sydney, and Simon Hope from spatial solutions provider Geoplex being among the first.
Nic Lowe is the co-founder of GoGet, Australia’s first car-sharing startup. Nic’s presentation is entitled “Building a fine-grain transport network from scratch: What’s changed and what’s stayed the same,” and will focus on some of the challenges that faced GoGet in marrying the locations of cars to the locations of customers, balancing supply with demand, and creating the tools to manage over 1250 vehicles in nearly 1000 locations.
Dr Kurt Iveson is senior lecturer in urban geography at the University of Sydney, and Co-Chair of the Sydney Alliance Transport Research Action Team. He is particularly interested in the relationship between cities and citizenship, and is currently working on a research project called “The Politics of Location: Location-Aware Mobile Media and Urban Governance”, funded by the Australian Research Council. He is author of the book Publics and the City, co-author of the book Planning and Diversity in the City, and has written numerous articles on the politics of urban public space. He also writes about his research at the blogs Cities and Citizenship and The Politics of Location.
Simon Hope is the Development Manager at Geoplex, and has been working in spatial software development for the past 14 years. His presentation will discuss the ‘Geekification of GIS’, including how techniques and practises inherited from the broader technology and innovation space are filtering into the GIS space, as well as some interesting software innovations and how they’re beginning to have an impact in the spatial world.
GeoNext is the conference for users and creators of location-based information, with a particular focus on the next wave of geo-technologies, and how they are shaping entirely new ways to conduct business.
GeoNext has been created to bring together the existing and emerging threads of geo users, businesses, and developers in the certainty that there is an immense opportunity in sharing, inspiring and connecting these geo threads. This opportunity is driving the GeoNext team to making GeoNext the premier event for geo-innovation and leadership in Australia in a few short years.
GeoNext 2014 will be held on the 26 February, at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney.
Sponsorships for GeoNext 2014 [PDF link] are still available.
The team at GeoNext will deliver a program and event that is fundamentally different to the existing industry and vendor events. They will work with you to build a sponsorship package that will directly leverage your organisational capabilities, strengths, and brand to make you part of the fabric and conversation before, during and after the event.
For more information, contact Troy Hale via thale@intermedia.com.au or (02) 8586 6128.