OGC Announces Speakers for Spatial Law and Policy Summit

WAYLAND, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) will hold a Spatial Law and Policy
Summit at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center on October 7, 2009.
Professionals from government and the private sector whose work involves laws
and policies related to geospatial technology are invited to register and
attend.

This unprecedented event will feature a keynote talk by Robert W. Corell, Vice
President of Programs at The Heinz Center. Noted for his role in climate science
research, Dr. Corell has served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program
of the American Meteorological Society and as a Senior Research Fellow in the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University`s
Kennedy School of Government.

Speakers and panelists will include:

-- Gordon Chinander, GIS Coordinator for the Metropolitan Emergency Services
Board, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.

-- Hugh N. Archer, former Director Kentucky Department of Natural Resources

-- Steve Wallach, NGA and member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory
Council

-- Kara John, Vice President - Intellectual Property & Privacy at DMTI Spatial
Inc.

-- Jim Simon, Founding Director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced
Technology in Governments

-- John Moeller, former Staff Director at the Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC)

These experts and others will discuss legal and policy issues associated with
growth in consumer and business applications of geospatial systems, software and
services. As the speakers will explain, in many cases the existing legal and
policy framework is inadequate to provide governments, businesses and consumers
clear guidance on these issues.

The Summit will be chaired by OGC director and Executive Committee member Kevin
Pomfret, a Richmond, Virginia based attorney who has written and spoken
extensively on spatial law and technology.

To register, visit the OGC Spatial Law and Policy Summit website at:
http://www.gita.org/events/ETS/ogc_ets.asp

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government
agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus
process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. These standards
empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially
enabled.

OGC
Sam Bacharach, +1-703-352-3938
Executive Director, Outreach
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

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