There are several sessions in which research presentations, showcases and hands-on laboratories are held (use links on the left sidebar for details).

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Research sessions

• Wednesday
  • Spatial hydrology - chair : Markus Neteler (IT)
  • Geoprocessing - chair : Guillaume Moreau (FR)
  • Cartography & Standards - chair : Bénédicte Bucher (FR)
  • Geospatial Web - chair : Christophe Claramunt (FR)
• Thursday
  • Remote sensing - chair : Gilberto Camâra (BR)
  • From feedback to future - chair : Stefan Steiniger (CA)

Showcase sessions

• Thursday
  • Opensource in action ! - chair : Olivier ERTZ (CH)
  • Webmapping & Standards - chair : Vincent Heurteaux (FR)
• Friday
  • Collaborative Geoweb - chair : Daniel RAPPO (CH)
  • Mobility & Logistics - chair : Jean-Michel Follin (FR)

Lab sessions

• Twelve labs take place on Thursday and on Friday
• Labs will run with pre-installed Virtual Machines for VirtualBox 2.2.4 and live-cd
  • virtual machines, live-cd and lab documents are available here

Poster session

• Attendees and authors are invited to join the poster exhibition zone so they can ask and answer questions during 30 minutes on Thursday afternoon.

Round table

• An interesting discussion about “Is there a future for open geospatial data ?” moderated by Dominique Rabu (SGAR / GEOPAL), with :
  • Mme Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , Secrétaire d'Etat à l'économie numérique (*)
  • M. Dominique Caillaud, député de la Vendée, Président de l'AFIGEO
  • M. Patrice Parisé, Directeur général de l'IGN (Institut Géographique National)
  • M. François Elie, Président de l'ADULLACT
  • M. Christophe Claramunt, Directeur de IRENAV, co-directeur du GDR MAGIS
  • M. Nicolas Chavent, consultant, OpenStreetMap evangelist.

(*) to confirm

Notice : a translation service will be available during the conference from french to english and vise et versa.