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The document summarizes the 25th anniversary Geomatics Atlantic conference to be held in Halifax from June 12-14, 2012. It announces that Dr. Robert Fournier will give the keynote address, highlights various speakers and sessions, and notes that the conference will be hosted for the first time at Saint Mary's University. The conference organizers signed a media deal with Directions Magazine to promote the event. Support for small and medium enterprises to attend the conference was also provided by Tecterra.
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- 1. 25 Years Saint Marys University , Halifax Geomatics Atlantic News Service Vol. 1 June 12-14, 2012 www.geomaticsatlantic.com Where the news is. Where it happens. CONTENTS: GANS ONCE AGAIN PLAYS HOST GANS PLAYS HOST TO GA 2012 Bill Jones, President of the Geomatics FOURNIER TO KEYNOTE FOR 25TH Assoc. of NS is excited that GANS was once again hosting Geomatics Atlantic MEDIA SPONSOR AGREEMENT In an exclusive interview Jones said TECTERRA SUPPORT FOR SMEs we always look forward to the year GA SMU PLAYS HOST TO GEOMATICS comes here we include it in our HAVE A STORY TO SHARE business plan for members and for hosting other groups from around the BREAKING NEWS: region. What of 25 years of GA? I am FOURNIER TO GIVE not sure if it was luck or design said KEYNOTE FOR 25th President Jones. Either way, we are ANNIVERSARY - humbled to be hosting this historic GA News has learned event for our industry in Atlantic Dr. Robert Fournier is Canada. What of the plans for this to headline the 25th Anniversary anniversary? Jones pointed to the Geomatics Atlantic Conference in program for the event. Besides the Halifax this June. Bob is Emeritus amazing speakers and workshops, we Professor at the Dalhousie University havent hidden surprises, we havent Oceanography Department. His career gone overboard. He pointed out that, and contributions in ocean science are we are from this region, all of us, and internationally recognized for the we know a party can be friends getting significance of their impact. Fournier is together and laughing and talking well known in Nova Scotia as weekly about the great times, and catching up science contributor for CBC Radios on all the news. He also said, it will Information Morning. For almost the be a celebration. We didnt have to same time as Geomatics Atlantic has break much of a sweat coming up with existed, Bob has provided, insight, this years motto of looking back and humour and brain twisting questions moving forward. It made sense. It was for early morning listeners of the most a natural. And that is what attendees popular morning radio show in the will experience this year. In fact, it province. This talk is not to be missed. would be fun if people could talk to each other about where they were 25 POSTER CALL EXTENDED GA2012 years ago. With a wry smile on his Update: Call for Posters Extended to May face, Jones concluded, some of us 11. Send abstracts to lbeazley@gans.ca were not here 25 years ago, and some www.geomaticsatlantic.com of us may wish to turn back the clock Top Ten Reasons to Come to GA2012: #10 and get rid of some grey hairs and Halifax is awesome in June, and any day of the wrinkles. I dont think we can do that in week that ends with a y the conference program. @GeoAtlantic Geomatics Atlantic 2012 G A N S www.geomaticsatlantic.com
- 2. 25 Years Saint Marys University, Halifax Geomatics Atlantic News Service Vol. 1 June 12-14, 2012 Where the news is. Where it happens. www.geomaticsatlantic.com TECTERRA PROVIDES GA 2012 CONFERENCE SIGNS ELAINE MACEACHERN TO ADDRESS SUPPORT In an exciting turn of MEDIA DEAL WITH LEADING GA 2012 FROM ASIA: events, the GA 2012 Committee PUBLISHERS: In what can only Elaine MacEachern is currently the found out that Tecterra was be described as exceptionally Asia Pacific Regional Manager for able to provide funding to positive piece of news, GA2012 IFCs financial infrastructure secured organization has secured lending product and is based in support SMEs in the geomatics Directions Magazine (DM) as the Jakarta, Indonesia. In a unique sector with help to attend trade OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSORS for move, GA 2012 will hear from her shows like GA 2012.This paper the 2012 event. Committee live from her base in Jakarta. Her also learned, the agency is also experience spans areas in both the able to provide ongoing support representatives explained how public and private sectors within for companies to reach out to this happened. We reached governments, consultancies, other markets through trade out to them and we both saw development agencies, and shows and trade missions. This the benefits of talking to each international funding institutions news came just in time as of our respective audiences including the World Bank Group, sponsors and exhibitors were about who we are and the Asian Development Bank, Inter- planning to attend and support support we provide to the American Development Bank and the GA 2012 event. Readers are geomatics communities. DM has the Caribbean Development Bank. encouraged to visit the GA 2012 a very large readership who This is sure to be a presentation web site or Tecterra for details : trust and rely upon their work with depth and well grounded http://www.tecterra.com and information sources. We experience to share. Elaine was a admire their work too and we former Registrar of both Land Titles SAINT MARYS UNIVERSITY are looking forward to working (immoveable) and Personal HOSTS GA FOR FIRST TIME: The with DM now and in the future. Property (moveable) for the 25th Anniversary Geomatics As part of the GA partnership , Province of Nova Scotia, so her Atlantic Conference sees the information from the event will return (even via Skype) is still a be transmitted live to followers rerun home of sorts.. Of interest to Nova Scotia section move the of DM through such media-rich many us, lovers of travel, is her event to Halifax and the Saint platforms as Twitter and blogs. experience in countries such as Marys campus. This was done Bhutan, Barbados, Canada, China, as a means to recognize the Ghana, India, Lao, Kenya, Mongolia, contributions of Saint Marys to Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, South geomatics through the only Sudan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad Tobago, geography degree program in Uganda, and Vietnam. Nova Scotia. The campus as a whole has been supportive and STORIES TO SHARE REQUESTED: The 25th Anniversary Geomatics Atlantic welcoming with GA 2012, and Conference is looking for a few good working with their conference stories about the last 25 years. All you services has helped make the have to do is send your ideas to GAnews planning of the event a pleasure. via james.boxall@dal.ca and we will be Visit our GA site for more info. sure to place them in the newsletters. COME JOIN US AS: WWW.GEOMATICSATLANTIC.COM WELL SEE YOU AT GA2012 IN HALIFAX JUNE 12-14