Denise McKenzie

Executive Director, Communications & Outreach
Open Geospatial Consortium

Denise is the Executive Director,Communications and Outreach for the international open standards organisation the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). In this role she is responsible for the planning and execution of marketing, communications and education programs to raise awareness and increase application of open geospatial and location standards by technology providers and users worldwide. Her other international roles include representation for the OGC at the United Nations Global Geographic Information Management (UNGGIM) committee and Chair of the Marketing and Outreach committee for the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)association. Prior to her role with OGC, Denise worked for over 12 years with the Victorian Government (Australia) in areas of strategic policy, collaboration and innovation.

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Day 2

Monday, August 1st, 2016

14:30 Sensors, Mobile & Big Data – Next steps for Geo-standards

With billions of mobile devices & sensors gathering data throughout the planet we are constantly being told that the Internet of Things will revolutionize our world. However ,without open standards, realizing this vision will be challenging if not impossible. Developed with key organisations in the Defence and Intelligence community the OGC Sensor Web Enablement, SensorThings, OWS Context, OpenGeoSMS & Geopackage standards provide a mature standards infrastructure for understanding and managing the location aspects of sensors & mobile technology. Learn from Denise McKenzie how these changes impact your organisation specifically:

Understand location in the Internet of Things
How open standards provide the freedom to achieve real interoperability
Implications of Cisco’s prediction that as of 2015 there will be more mobile devices that people on the planet
Why access to quality data is key

16:25 Roundtable Sessions

New to DGI - Benefit from structured roundtable sessions facilitated by GEOINT experts from a wide range of backgrounds providing you with the chance to exchange ideas, challenge current thinking and come to new conclusions. Each table will run as follows:

5 mins introductions
40 mins discussion
5 mins summary
10 mins for 3 tables to share 3 key take-aways

Roundtable 1 : Interoperability - myth or reality? And can standards actually help?
Simon Doyle, Solution Principal, UK and Ireland, HP Enterprise Services

Roundtable 2 : How to Leverage Standards to Drive Cooperation
Tom Richardson, Standards Manager, UK Hydrographic Organisation

Roundtable 3 : Drivers for Greater Collaborative Environments to Share GEOINT
Paul Hancock, Director Defence Geographic Centre, Intelligence Collection Group, UK MOD

Roundtable 4 : New Ways to Enable Location Data Comptability
Denise McKenzie, Executive Director, Communications & Outreach, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Roundtable 5 : How Important are Content Standards in an Uncontrollable Open Source World
Captain Martin Jones, Chairman, NATO DGIWG