Volume 26 • No 04 • 2003
ISSN 0742-468X • Since 1978
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GITA Announces Conference 26 Speaker Award Recipients

Did you manage to attend The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA http://www.gita.org) Conference in San Antonio? About 2,500 of your closest friends were there. That may not sound like a big crowd, but considering that GITA focuses on the power utility market, it is a decent attendance number. To put it in focus, consider that most utilities have implemented their AM/FM/Systems, so they don’t have a big need to learn about the basics of the industry. Most will attend their supplier’s users group meeting. But, the innovators, pioneers, and the hearty go to the GITA conference to hear about new trends and overcoming the odd implementation hurdle that may be unique to the industry.

As is their habit, GITA recently announced the 2003 Speaker Award winners from its Conference 26 in San Antonio. According to Ken Goering, (kgoering@gita.org ) GITA spokesman, “The award recognizes the top five percent of session speakers, each of whom were rated by session attendees in the areas of quality of presentation, visual aids, session content, and relevance of topic.”

And the winners are …

• Eric Ackerman, Edison Electric Institute, “Electricity Restructuring: New Opportunities and New Challenges for Geospatial Information”
• Pat Drinnan, Aquila Networks Canada, “Data: The New Life Line for the Field!”
• Nancy Lerner, EMA, Inc., “Using Business Case and ROI to Justify GIT Spending”
• William Meehan, ESRI, “Forget the Intangibles: GIS Improves the Bottom Line”
• Jennifer Nieland, Wisconsin Public Service Corp., “Using Change Management to Achieve Success in Second-Generation Mobile GIS Implementation”
• Ed Parsons, Ordnance Survey, “The Role of Web Services for Spatial Data Delivery”
• Christopher Tucker, IONIC Enterprise, “Designing Open GIS Conformant System Architecture for the Enterprise”

GITA’s Conference 27 is set for April 25-28, 2004 at the Washington State Trade & Convention Center in Seattle.

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