Day 1

Receive your badge, an up-to-date agenda, grab a coffee and start networking!

Prepare yourself for all the day’s sessions during this introductory speech from a world renowned expert on defence intelligence Mr Neil Thompson who will help you navigate the complexities of geospatial intelligence development in North America and the Arctic region.

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Attend this session led by NGA’s top representative in Europe as she explains the objectives and priorities for one of the biggest buyers of geospatial technology in the world. Ranging from recent operations to future requirements this session will provide you with the information you need to fully grasp how the NGA will operate in support of future
operations.

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Protecting Canadian sovereignty, security and safety, Canadian satellites monitor the Earth round the clock, peering through cloud cover, darkness, fog and smoke. Research instruments in orbit probe everything from the complexities of the atmosphere to the Earth's ionosphere – where the atmosphere ends and space begins.

Meanwhile space systems have become crucial to daily essential services, from banking to the Internet to telephony. Weather forecasting and environmental monitoring, natural disaster warning and response, air traffic control and seagoing navigation, border security, military surveillance and crop management – all of these depend on sophisticated space technologies.

Scheduled for launch in 2018, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission is a fleet of three sophisticated remote-sensing satellites that will monitor all of Canada's land and ocean territories and 95 per cent of the world's surface. The configuration builds on the success of Canada's previous RADARSAT missions, launched in 1995 and 2007, which have been invaluable in everything from oceanography to forestry, marine surveillance to humanitarian relief efforts. The Constellation Mission will extend those capacities, aiding in ship identification, ice monitoring, oil spill detection and forest firefighting. It will be of particular value in monitoring the Northwest Passage, crucial to safety, security and sovereignty in Canada's North.

Attend this keynote session from one of the most senior leaders in Canada’s Space community to understand:

● The role, organisation and mission of Canada’s Space Agency so you can easily identify current leadership and learn about the objectives and priorities for the organisation
● How Space systems are evolving to offer more predictive powers to nations and what this means for the geospatial intelligence community
● The impact of the most recent RADARSAT mission on asset tracking, event prediction and avoiding crises in North America

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Visit the website www.dgi.com for up-to-the-minute information about this keynote session from one of the world’s leading imagery providers.

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One of the most anticipated sessions every year is the morning keynote from Mr Murrett, former head of the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), make sure you have a front row seat! During this in-depth analysis of the geo-political risks you face today you will learn about the uneven use of GEOINT and the challenge this poses; the relationship between strategic intelligence, homeland security, military support and national missions; how to go about enhancing your capabilities and integrating them into the existing framework and much more besides! Make sure you attend this briefing and you will take away:

● A deeper understanding of how partnerships with foreign intelligence services really work
● New knowledge about the continuing challenges by ‘state’ and ‘non-state’ actors
● Strategies to manage terrorism in all its new guises
● An explanation as to why there is increased emphasis on the ‘global commons’ – space, the high seas and cyberspace and what this all means for your organisation

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Refresh your cup of coffee, bump into old friends and colleagues and make new contacts.

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Attend this exclusive session from a world-renowned expert on Ice and the Environment to understand how changes in Ice are shaping requirements for geospatial capabilities today. As you may know glaciers and ice sheets are hundreds to thousands of metres deep and cover vast areas of the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as many mountain regions at lower latitudes. Sea ice is the frozen sea surface, only a few metres thick but covering vast areas
of the polar seas. This is important in a global context for several reasons, including the links between ice-sheet melting and sea-level rise and those between sea-ice formation and the thermohaline circulation of the global oceans.

The climatic context of the past 150 years is of a relatively cool 19th Century and a marked warming since about the 1980s, which many workers have linked to increasing levels of greenhouse gases from anthropogenic sources. Temperatures over the next hundred years are predicted to rise by between about 1.5 and 4 deg. C. The polar regions, especially the Arctic, will warm preferentially over this period due to a self-reinforcing process known as ice-albedo feedback. The response of both glaciers and sea ice to warming since the 1980s has been melting. Glaciers in most parts of the globe are thinning and retreating, the exception being East Antarctica. The extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic has also been reduced to about half the levels of 40 years ago.

Less sea-ice formation may mean changes in the strength of the ocean circulation. Glacier and ice-sheet melting is, together with thermal expansion of the oceans, the cause of rising sea levels. Sea level today is rising by about 3 mm per year, and may rise by a total of between 0.2 m and about a metre over the coming century. Attend this session to benefit from:

● The latest research into Ice and Environmental change so you can build a more informed view on a topic gaining increasing attention and investment from nations in the Western World
● News and developments from hard-to-penetrate regions changing the requirements for geospatial capability and how this will impact your roles in future places of work
● New thinking about future challenges that could be solved by investing differently in geospatial intelligence

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Attend this session to understand how the Norwegian Mapping Authority gathers into one place geographical or ratified information from disparate sources including place names, property boundaries and rights. You will learn how the Norwegian Mapping Authority collates, systemises, manages and communicates public geographical information in an effective manner and about the associated challenges too. In addition you will find out how the Norwegian Mapping Authority is addressing the challenge of making sure that all emergency units (police, fire brigade and ambulance) are using the same source of information in time of crisis and time of tension. Don’t miss this presentation to:

● Learn about the organisation and objectives of one of the world’s most active mapping agencies in one of the world’s most exciting geographical locations
● Gain a precise picture of the capabilities of the Norwegian Mapping Authority as it modernizes its approach to collection and dissemination of mapping information
● Gather new strategies to create one source of accurate information for event management teams to tackle crisis more effectively

Option for Ms Dickerson to Join

Discover new ways to develop a world-class geospatial capability during this interactive panel discussion by exchanging ideas and views with a panel of experts assembled from agencies in North America for your benefit. During this open and frank discussion you will hear how different agencies are generating requirements and exploring new solutions as well as receiving ample time to ask your own questions and challenge answers offered. As the central panel of the day this is one session you can’t afford to miss! Topics to be discussed include:

● New capabilities and data and analysis tools
● A five year outlook on user requirements
● What is the current demand spike for imagery doing to user experience?
● What are the new applications to be aware of?
● What does the move into mass market mean for satellite imagery?
● Future sensor capabilities

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Use this time to connect with new and existing contacts to update your professional network over lunch, coffee and tea before the next sessions begin.

Refresh your cup of coffee one last time, bump into old friends and colleagues and make new contacts.

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As cyber-attacks continue at pace both in the public domain and more secretly and in more deadly ways it is imperative for nations to prioritise the protection of GEOINT as it passes between user groups in cyber space. But how should this be achieved and how can you be sure of the right level of protection for your specific requirements? Attend this session led by arguably one of the world’s leading experts on Cyber, GEOINT and the defence and security community’s needs for both as he shares his views. During this must-attend session you will learn about:

● The impact of new data sources
● How to assess the challenge, social media, robotic data collection technologies
● How geographic information system (GIS) methods are being integrated and incorporated
● How to integrate with traditional GEOINT tools and methods

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Benefit from a wrap-up of today’s sessions during this summary offered by the chairman to ensure you capture key points to share with colleagues back in the office.

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Register for DGI today to take part in the annual social event following the Focus Day at an excellent venue nearby the event venue. Relax and unwind with friends, colleagues and new contacts.

Everyone is invited to the Silver Cross Pub 33 Whitehall, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2BX
http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/silver-cross-whitehall/c0694