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Susan Ancel from EPCOR Water Services in Alberta, Canada presented today at GITA regarding her work at an intelligent water conservation strategy that has helped meet water conservation targets, and delayed a capital improvement investment of $140M dollars for more 14 years. Ancel and her team are responsible for a water utility that serves 1 [...]
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At the GITA Annual Conference this year, the future of the event was up front, with executive director Bob Samborski discussing the fact that the GITA annual conference has run its course. At this 34th annual event, the rapid pace of technology and the evolution of conference outreach were major points of discussion. Dr. Bob [...]
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I facilitated the Industry Trends Analysis Group (ITAG) discussions at last years GITA Geospatial Solutions Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The focus of that discussion was around intelligent infrastructure and its implications for the utility sector. I wrote a white paper on the subject to help synthesize feedback from participants, and the technology trends that we [...]
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Just posted a conference report for last week’s Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference. The report summarizes overall trends and opportunities in the infrastructure space. What I wasn’t able to squeeze into my coverage were a few takeaways from conversations that I had with a few GIS managers. These discussions revolved around the operational benefits versus costs [...]
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The program committee for this year’s Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions (GIS) Conference (April 19-22, Tampa, FL) urged attendees to create the conference. Instead of the standard program tracks that have served past committees, the approach was to provide less structure in the Call for Papers process in order to foster new [...]
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GITA has released the first in a series of whitepapers on, The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response. The first of the series is titled, “Infrastructure Interdependencies,” and it contains valuable insight into how the failure of one piece of infrastructure can have rippling effects that take down the multiple and often co-located [...]
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