Speakers
Opening Session
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R S Sharma Chief Secretary, Jharkhand |
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Steven W. Berglund Chief Executive Officer and President Trimble, USA |
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K K Singh Chairman & CEO, Rolta Group |
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Narsing Rao CMD, Coal India Ltd |
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Dr V K Dhadwal
Director National Remote Sensing Centre |
Plenary Session 1 - Defining Business Directions Of Geospatial Industry
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Chair: Maj Gen (Dr.) R Siva Kumar
CEO NSDI Bio |
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Bhupinder Singh
Senior Vice President Bentley Systems USA Bio |
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Suren Ruhela
Director Google Maps Content Operations & Product Manager India Maps Bio |
Plenary Session 2 - Enabling Industrialization With Geospatial Workflows
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Steven Hagan
Vice President of Development for Server Technologies Oracle, USA Bio |
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B N Devaiah
Chief Executive Secon Private Ltd Bio |
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Rajesh Kalra
Managing Director Atkins Bio |
Plenary 3 - Convergence: Fostering Innovations In Applications
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Chair & Lead speaker: B N Satpathy
Sr. Advisor E&F and S&T Planning Commission Bio |
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P D Meena
Special Secretary Department of Land Resources Ministry of Rural Development Bio |
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Barbara J. Ryan
Secretariat Director Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Switzerland Bio |
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B N Sharma
Joint Secretary Ministry of Power Bio |
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Agendra Kumar
President NIIT GIS Bio |
SYMPOSIUMS
GEOAGRI
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Moderator: Mark Noort
Editor - Agriculture, Geospatial World Magazine |
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Dr. Pramod K. Joshi
Director - South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute |
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Dr. S. Ayyappan
Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) & Director General, –& Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture |
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Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar
Head - Geoinformatics, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) Abstract |
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Amit Bhardwaj
Head Sugar Research, Indian Sugar Mills Association |
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Dr. G.P. Obi Reddy
Sr. Scientist & Incharge - GIS Section, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning |
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Chris Gibson
Vice President, Trimble, USA |
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Joseph Plappallil J.
Chairman cum Managing Director, Agriculture Insurance Company of India, Ministry of Finance |
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Dr. J.P. Mishra
Adviser - Agriculture, Planning Commission |
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Dr. Animesh Shrivastava
Lead Agriculture Economist, South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank |
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Dr. B. Venkateswarlu
Director, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture |
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Dr. K. C. Bansal
Director, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
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Dr. Narendra Singh Rathore
Vice Chancellor, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University |
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Dr. T. S. Sharma
Project Director, State Remote Sensing Application Centre, Rajasthan |
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Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma
Chief Soil Survey Officer, Soil and Land Use Survey of India |
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M.L. Nagpal
General Manager, Movement, Food Corporation of India, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
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Dr. P.G. Diwakar
Deputy Director, Remote Sensing Application National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Dr. R.S. Hooda
Chief Scientist, Haryana Space Applications Centre |
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Dr. Brijendra Pateriya
Director, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre |
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Girish Jain
Business Head - Machine Control division, Elcome Technologies Abstract |
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Dr Rowan Barling
Group Manager Government and Environmental Agencies, Sinclair Knight Merz Australia |
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Prasenjit Gupta
Practice Head, GNSS Solutions, Stesalit |
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Dr Rowan Barling
Group Manager Government and Environmental Agencies, Sinclair Knight Merz Australia |
GEOWATER
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Dr. J N Singh
Managing Director, Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam |
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Sushil Gupta
Chairman, Central Ground Water Board |
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Atanu Pattanayak
Vice President & Territory Executive, Bentley Systems |
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T. Venkatraju
Engineer-in-Chief, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board |
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Dr Subrata N Das
Director, Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Centre |
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Dr. J. R.Sharma
Scientist/Engineer 'H', Chief General Manager, Regional Remote Sensing Centers, Project Director, India-WRIS |
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Dr. Giriraj Amarnath
Researcher - Remote Sensing & GIS, International Water Management Institute |
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H Hemanth Kumar
Head - Karnataka State Spatial Data Infrastructure |
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Venu Gopal. K
Joint Director, AP Ground Water department |
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Dr. Ravinder Kaur
Project Director, Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
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Ashish Arora
Enterprise Solutions Consultant Intergraph SG&I |
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M Mehta
Ground Water Management Expert EU SPP TA Team, Rajasthan India |
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Dr. Sanjay Dahasahasra
Founder - Dahasahasra Waternet (Ex Member Secretary, Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran and Ex- President Indian Water Work Association) |
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Dr. Subhash Chandra
Senior Scientist Ground Water Division, NGRI, Hyderabad |
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Sanjay Gupta
Ex-officio Special Secretary to Government, Planning Department and Director General, Andhra Pradesh |
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Rajeev Chawla
* Managing Director, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board |
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Venugopal Parasuraman
Vice President, Amigo Optima Software Solutions |
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Mahendra Mehta
Ground Water Management Expert, European Union |
GEOMINING
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B. Surender Mohan
CMD Neyveli Lignite |
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Gopal Singh
CMD, Central Coalfields Ltd |
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Prof D C Panigrahi
Director, Indian School of Mines |
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A K Bhandari
Sr Advisor, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries |
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Dr. D R Patel
Joint Director - Geology, Directorate of Geology & Mining, Chattisgarh |
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Dr. Chandru Asnani
Director - Technical, Indian Rare Earths Ltd |
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Dr. Antonio Machado E Silva
Director & Senior Consultant, AMS Kepler, Brazil |
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Dwaipayan Dighal
Regional Sales - Geospatial Intergraph SG&I |
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Narendra Kavedia
General Manager - Exploration, Hindustan Zinc Ltd |
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D U Vyas
General Manager - Geology & Technical, Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd |
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A. Subhash Babu
Research Scholar, Osmania University |
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V K Misar
Senior Mining Geologist Indian Bureau of Mines |
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Dinakar Devireddy
Sr Project Manager Infotech Enterprises |
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Shailesh Shankar
Manager – Sales Engineering – Asia Pacific DigitalGlobe |
GEOCITIES
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T. Sheshadri
Advisor and Head - IT, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike |
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Dilip Singh Anwar
Joint Director - IT, New Delhi Municipal Council |
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U N Tiwari
Institutional Expert, N.J.S. Engineers |
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Dan Campbell
Systems Analyst II - GIS & CADD Services Branch IT Dept, Financial Services Group, City of Vancouver, Canada |
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P K Mishra
Chief Assessment Officer, Varanasi Nagar Nigam |
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Dr. Aniruddha Roy
Vice President, Navayuga |
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Kumud Dhanwantri
Lecturer, Amity University Haryana |
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S B Honnur Director Town & Country Planning, Government of Karnataka India |
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Dr. Julian Kardos Director Global SG&I Project Services Intergraph Corporation |
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Somesh Kumar Commissioner Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation |
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Thami Reddy Director Town & Country Planning, Andhra Pradesh |
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Arijit Roy Google Enterprise |
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Alpana Mitra City Engineer Rajkot Municipal Corporation |
GEOENERGY
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Moderator: Geoff Zeiss
Editor - Buildings & Energy, Geospatial World |
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Dr. Nivedita Haran
Additional Chief Secretary, Kerala* |
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Arup Ghosh
Chief Technology Officer, NDPL |
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James Weninegar
Manager - Transmission Line Services Dept, Alabama Power, USA |
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Thomas Mathew
Senior GIS Specialist, GIS & As-builts, Spectra Energy, USA |
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Francois Valois
Director of Product Management, Civil and Geospatial, Bentley Systems USA |
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Arul I
Assistant Executive Engineer, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board |
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Vishnu Boorla
Manager – Technical Services,Intergraph SG & I India |
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Subir Saha
GM (R-APDRP), Power Finance Corporation |
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Harsh Sharma
Vice president, BSES Yamuma Power Limited |
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M. Jayachandran
Vice President, GIS Business Solutions, Navyuga Infotech |
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Pankaj Gupta
Enterprise Geospatial - MEA Trimble Navigation India |
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Reji Kumar Pillai
President and CEO India Smart Grid Forum |
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J.K. Yachu
Chief (Geology), Engineering Geology & Geo-tech Division, NHPC Limited |
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Kaushik Banerjee
Head - GIS Division, Stesalit |
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Yogita Shukla
Fellow (Honorary), Association of Geospatial Industries |
GEOLAND
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Vandana Kumari Jena Secretary Dept of Land Resources |
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Kevin Daugherty
World Wide Sales Manager - Land Administration Solutions, Trimble Navigation, USA. Abstract |
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Bruce Thompson Deputy Secretary Corporate Services, Department of Environment and Primary Industry, State Government of Victoria, Australia Abstract |
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Dr. Alok Upadhaya
Head - GIS & International Business Development, Navayuga Abstract |
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Actuary Rolando Ocampo - Alcantar
Vice-President National Geographic & Environment Information, INEGI Mexico |
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Ratan Awasthi
Sr. General Manager Elcome Technologies Abstract |
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Bharti Sinha
Executive Director Association of Geospatial Industries |
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N.S. Shankaranarayana
Senior Director- Government Programs DigitalGlobe Abstract |
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Dr T Ravishankar
Group Head (LRUMG) , National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Dr. Sultan Singh
Senior Scientist HARSAC, Haryana |
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Bhanu Rekha
Executive Editor Geospatial Media & Communications, India |
GEOFORESTY
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M L Srivastava
Deputy Director General - Forests, Ministry of Environment & Forests |
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Praveen Singh Pardeshi
Principal Secretary (Forest), Revenue & Forest, Govt of Maharashtra |
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Dr. H C Mishra
APCCF- IT, Andhra Pradesh Forest Department |
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Vinod Kumar
PCCF & Project Director, Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project |
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Anoop Singh
Special Secretary - IT, Govt of Andhra Pradesh |
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Rajbir Singh
Bio-Informatics & GIS Division, Forest Research Institute |
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Srinibas Patnaik
Senior Director, SAARC DigitalGlobe India |
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GEOWEATHER
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Dr. LS Rathore
Director General, India Meteorological Dept |
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L. Harenduprakash
Senior Consultant, Nansen Environmental Research Centre Abstract |
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Kaushik Chakraborty
Regional President, India Hexagon Geosystems Abstract |
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Barbara J. Ryan
Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Switzerland. Abstract |
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Mark Reichard
President & CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA |
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Dr S C Kar
Scientist G National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting. Abstract |
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Munish Malhotra
Regional Sales Manager- INDIA & SAARC region, Trimble |
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Dr K Hanumantha Rao
Group Head, Ocean Sciences Group National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Rahul Saxena
Scientist E, India Meteorological Dept |
SEMINARS / SESSIONS
Emerging trends & technologies
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Chairperson: Dr R. Nagaraja
Group Director, National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Ahmed Abukhater
PhD, GISP, USA |
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf
Chair of GIScience, Heidelberg University, GIScience Research Group, Germany |
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Mena Paghadar
Manager, Sectoral Analysis & Studies Group, National Dairy Development Board |
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Pallavi Singhvi
Geospatial Advisor, Geospatial Delhi Ltd Government of NCT of Delhi |
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Hurrsh Kaoul
Regional Software Sales Director Pitney Bowes India |
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Saurabh Bagaria
Project Director - GPTS GeoIT services Rolta |
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Dr Philip Collier
Research Director Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information-Australia |
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Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse
Principal Scientist -Spatial & IT GHD Australia |
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Dr Ram Singh
Asst. Chief Tech Officer, Central Institute of Fisheries Education |
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Ashwani Kumar Rawat
Key Account Manager – SAARC Region Trimble India |
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Mahesh Soni
Country Business Manager-Design GSB, PPS, HP, India |
GEO3D
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Nirmalya Chatterjee
COO & Director Tekla India & India Manager, Trimble Buildings |
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Surender Singh
Geospatial Advisor, Geospatial Delhi Ltd Government of NCT of Delhi |
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C D Murthy
Sr. Divisional Director, Rolta India |
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Mudit Kapoor
Assistant Professor, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies |
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Partha Sarkar
Sr. Developer Consultant, Autodesk India |
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Hannu Korpela
Marketing and Sales Manager Terrasolid Finland |
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Suresh Gupta
President Mansycom Consultants Pvt. Ltd. |
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Christoph Fürst
Assistant, International Sales Department RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems |
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Prof. Manohar Yadav
Asst. Professor MNNIT Allahabad |
Web GIS
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Chairperson: Prof V C Jha
Director National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation |
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L R Yadav
Senior Technical Director, NIC, Uttar Pradesh |
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Surya Chandra Rao Lanka
Manager - GIS Solutions, Tech Mahindra Limited |
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Vivek Kumar Gautam
Scientist/Engineer 'SC', ISRO Satellite Centre |
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Vinod M Bothale
Group Director (G &WGS), NRSC |
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Shivangi Garg
Assistant Professor, Anand International College of Engineering |
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Anuj Tiwari
Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee |
NRDMS
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Chairperson: Dr. Bhoop Singh
Advisor / Scientist G, Dept of Science & Technology |
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H Hemanth Kumar
Head - Karnataka State Spatial Data Infrastructure |
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V.Shailaja Nair
Scientist E, National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Sampath Kumar P
Scientist, National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Dr Sultan Singh
Senior Scientist, Haryana Space Applications Centre |
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Nagesh Kolagani
PhD scholar and Principal Scientist, IIT Madras |
Special Forums
National Forum for IT & Business Decision Makers
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Chairperson: Rajesh Mathur
Vice Chairman, Esri India |
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Sanjay Jaju
Secretary - IT, Govt of Andhra Pradesh |
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Rajiv Bora
Principal Secretary Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Assam |
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Hari Ranjan Rao
Secretary - IT, Govt of Madhya Pradesh |
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Rajesh Aggarwal
Principle Secretary IT, Govt. of Maharashtra |
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Brad Skelton
Vice President, Hexagon Geospatial, USA |
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Andreas Siebert
Head Exposure Analytics & Geospatial Solutions, Munich RE |
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Rajeev Jorapur
VP - MIS, Bajaj Auto |
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Suresh Shanmugam
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltdm |
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Nikhil Kumar
Director of Strategic Marketing Trimble |
GEOCAPCITY
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Dr. Shahnawaz
Director (S & SE Asia), UNIGIS International University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, Austria |
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Dr. Prithvish Nag
Vice Chancellor, MG Kashi Vidyapith University |
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Maj Gen Rc Padhi
Director, Survey Training Institute, Survey of India |
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P K Verma
Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology |
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Dr. Kaushalya Ramachandran
Principal Scientist & ICAR National Fellow in Geography Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture |
Workshop on Spatial Law
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Moderator: Kevin Pomfret Executive Director, Centre for Spatial law & Policy, USA |