10:30 am - 4 pm, December 11, 2013
Watch RecordingCoffee will be available at 10 a.m. and lunch will be served at noon.
Commission Office
The ACP Building - 8th Floor
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA
For directions Call (215) 592-1800
Please Use Sixth Street Entrance
IREG Geospatial Technology and Open Source event
Agenda is under development and subject to change. Check back closer to the meeting date for the final agenda.
NOTE: This FREE event is limited to 75 people. Registration thorugh TicketLeap is required for admittance.
10:30 am Welcome / IREG Business
10:40 am Robert Cheetham (Azavea) - “The Future of Geospatial Technology”
11:20 am John Duchneskie (Philadelphia Inquirer) – “How journalists use geospatial technologies for reporting”
11:40 am Aaron Ogle (OpenPlans) - Leaflet
12:00 pm Lunch / Network
12:45 pm Member Roundtable
1:00 pm Andrew Hill (Vizzuality/CartoDB) –CartoDB
1:20 pm Dana Bauer (Rackspace) & Michele Schmitt (ManetoMapping) - Balloon Mapping in Public Spaces
1:40 pm Lauren Gilchrist (Center City District) – "Federal Open Data (ACS, LED & BEA)"
2:00 pmAndrew Thompson (Azavea) - "Your New Partners: Understanding Civic Hacking, Why You Should be Involved, and How to Get Started"
2:20 pm Coffee Break
2:30 am Mike Tedeschi (Azavea) - "Designing Apps for the Masses"
2:50 pm Atanas Entchev (Entchev) – “Developers and users: Divided by a common language”
3:10 pm John Reiser (Rowan University) – “Web Maps – Aren’t they so cool”
3:45 pm CartoDB Workshop
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