Conference and Seminar Proceedings
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FIG Kick-Off Event
24 January 2015 in Athens, Greece
Programme and handouts
MORNING SESSIONS |
Chair: Robin McLaren, Know Edge Ltd, RICS |
Welcome address by Greek hosts |
Christos Spirtzis, President of TCG
Chronis Akritidis General Secretary of TCG
Speech
Giannis Machikas President of HARSE
Socrates Alexiadis, General Secretary of the Ministry of
Environment, Energy and Climate Change
Prof Angelos Siolas, Vice Rector of National Technical
University of Athens (NTUA)
Prof Marinos Kavouras, Dean of the School of Rural and
Surveying Engineers, NTUA
Handouts
Gikas Manalis, CEO, Attica Bank, (Gold sponsor)
Dimitris Andritsos, MSc MRICS Chief Executive Officer,
Eurobank Property Services SA, (Gold sponsor)
Handouts |
Looking ahead |
Prof Chryssy A. Potsiou, Associate
Professor, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA FIG
President
Ensuring the Rapid Response to Change, Ensuring the Surveyor of
Tomorrow
Handouts
Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Co-Chair of the United Nations
Committee of Experts of Global Geospatial Information Management
(UN-GGIM), formerly Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance
Survey (Skype presentation)
The importance of surveying: looking to the future
Handouts -
extra |
Economic Developments |
Prof Nicolas P. Retsinas, Harvard Business
School Boston
Opening Doors to Private Investment |
Land Management Developments |
Paul Munro-Faure, Deputy Director of the
Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
Global FAO guidelines on governance of tenure of land, fisheries and
forests
Handouts
Gavin Adlington, Lead Land Administration Specialist, The World
Bank
Cadastral Survey in the 21st century, and why the 19th Century
matters
Handouts |
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John Kontos, Marathon Data Systems (Silver sponsor)
Handouts |
AFTERNOON SESSIONS |
Technological Developments |
Prof Pengfei Cheng Director General,
National Quality Inspection and Testing Center for Surveying and
Mapping Products of China, and FIG Vice President
Developing Emergency Mapping, Meeting the Surveyor of Tomorrow
SpeechSeeLian Ong,
KMN Property Developer and Consultant, formerly Global President of
RICS, Chair of FIG Commission 10
Building Information Modeling (BIM)-Global Maturity in Adopting BIM
Handouts |
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Chair: Diane Dumashie, RICS, FIG Vice
President |
Professional and Institutional
Developments |
Kees de Zeeuw, Director, Kadaster
International, The Netherlands
A new era: Dynamic Information Management
Handouts
Robin McLaren, Know Edge Ltd
Tomorrow’s Surveyor Today – Member Associations' Responsibilities
Handouts
Brent A. Jones PE, PLS Global Manager, Cadastre/Land
Records Esri
The Changing Value of Professional Associations
Handouts
Malcolm Lelliott, General Secretary of EGoS
The Private Sector and its Response to Change. Mobility of
Professionals within Europe
Handouts
Artemis Valani, Surveying Engineer, Consultant
The experience of a Greek Young Surveyor
Handouts |
FIG Response to Change |
Robert W Foster, PE,PLS FIG Honorary
President, past ASCM President
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Handouts
CheeHai TEO, Licensed/Chartered Surveyor, Malaysia Former FIG
President
FIG: 2011 – 2014
Handouts
Prof Rudolf Staiger, Professor, Dept. of Surveying
Engineering and Geoinformatics, University of Applied Sciences
Bochum FIG Vice President
ACCO-Achievements and future Goals
Handouts
John Hohol, President of FIG Foundation
The FIG Foundation - Building A Sustainable Future. Activities and
Accomplishments During The Past Four Years
Handouts
Marc Vanderschueren, Director/Surveyor in Charge of the
International Relations for the General Administration of
Patrimonial Documentation of Belgium
Technical and Political Support of FIG and FGF (Federation of French
Speaking Surveyors) for the African Associations of Surveyors
Handouts
Prof Chryssy A. Potsiou Associate Professor, School of Rural
and Surveying Engineering, NTUA
FIG President
The FIG Work Plan 2015-2018
Handouts (2nd
part) |
Closing of Inauguration ceremony |
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