We are glad to announce the preliminary programme and presenters of EFGS 2018:
| Day 1, October 16th 2018 | |||||
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| 08.30 – 09.30 | Registration | ||||
| 09.30 – 10.30 | Conference Opening
Welcome Speech by Statistics Finland — Marjo Bruun, Director General of Statistics Finland National Land Survey of Finland — Arvo Kokkonen, Director General of the National Land Survey of Finland EFGS — Janusz Dygaszewicz, President of the European Forum for Geography and Statistics Eurostat — Ekkehard Petri, European Commission Eurostat-Gisco |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Keynotes
Futures of Geographic Information in a Digitalising Society — Toni Ahlqvist, Professor of Regional Development and Policy, University of Oulu, Finland UNECE Activities on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information — Steven Vale, Senior Statistician and the Regional Advisor in Statistics at UNECE in Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 12.00 – 13.00 | Session 1: International and National Cooperation
Introduction by Chair — Timo Koskimäki, Statistics Finland A Guide For Implementation of the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework in Europe — Jerker Moström, Statistics Sweden UN-GGIM:Europe Working Group on Core Data — Dominique Laurent et al., National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, France INSPIRE Community Forum – A Redesigned Platform for All Things INSPIRE — Miroslaw Migacz, Statistics Poland |
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| 13.00 – 14.30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.30 – 16.00 | Session 2: International and National Cooperation Continues
Introduction by Chair — TBA The Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure — Jani Kylmäaho, National Land Survey, Finland Open European Location Services – What Is Possible — Dominik Kopczewski, Eurogeographics, Belgium The POPGRID Data Collaborative — Kytt MacManus et al., Columbia University, USA Project fairHair – A Global Geoinformation Demonstration Project — Vilni Bloch, Statistics Norway A Swedish National Land Cover Database — Birgitta Olsson, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden A Sustainable Partnership: Geospatial & Statistical Collaboration in Ireland — Dermot Corcoran, Statistics Ireland |
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| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Session 3: Sustainable Development Goals, SDG indicators
Introduction by Chair — TBA UN-GGIM:Europe – The Combination of Geospatial Data with Statistical Data for SDG Indicators — Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu et al., Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodecy, Germany Testing SDG Indicators in Geostat 3 Project — Marianne Vik Dysterud, Statistics Norway Applying Geospatial Tools to Produce Data for SDG Indicators in Mexico — Enrique Ordaz, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico Developing Spatial Indicators for the Territorial Monitoring of South Korea — Lee Bo-Kyeong et al., Associate Research Fellow at Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea Finding New Ways of Reporting Geographical Data Against the SDG Indicators — Frensis Bras, Office for National Statistics, UK Hungarian GIS Data for the Sustainable Development Goals — Tamas Palya et al., Government Office of the Capital City Budapest, Hungary |
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| 18.00 | Closing of the Day | ||||
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Reception by the City of Helsinki | ||||
| Day 2, October 17th 2018 | |||||
| 09.00 – 9.30 | Keynote
The Delicate Exercise of Geo-data Visualisation — Julien Grunfelder, Head of GIS Department at Nordregio, Sweden |
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| 09.30 – 11.00 | Session 4: Geospatial Analysis and Visualisation
Introduction by Chair — Ian Cody, Office for National Statistics, UK Measuring Accessibility Through Sustainable Mobility in European Cities — Hugo Poelman, European Commission, Belgium Quantifying the Spatial Accesibility of Services in Switzerland — Michael Buhler, Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland Official Data and Population & Environment — Maria de Carmo Bueno et al., Pier Fransisco De Maria Unicamp Contribution to the Geospatial Analysis of the Poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Edin Šabanović, Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina NordMap – Web-mapping Tool for the Nordic Region — Shinan Wang & Julien Grunfelder, NordRegio, Sweden |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Keynote
The Informed Traveller, from Intelligent Maps to Flying Cars — Ed Parsons, The Geospatial Technologist of Google, London, UK |
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| 12.00 – 13.30 | Session 5: New Data, Standards and Tools
Introduction by Chair — Jani Kylmäaho, National Land Survey of Finland Scraping Data for Rented Vacation Home Statistics — Katja Löytynoja, Statistics Finland The Review of the GSBPM and Other Statistical Standards — Steven Vale, UNECE, Switzerland Presentation of the French Handbook of Spatial Analysis — Vincent Loonis, Insee, France Using Linked Data Concepts to Blend and Analyze Geospatial and Statistical Data — Hans Viemann, Oracle, Germany The New Geospatial Reference Architecture of Statistics Finland — Rina Tammisto et al., Statistics Finland |
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| 13.30 – 13.45 | Group Photo | ||||
| 13.45 – 14.30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.30 – 16.00 |
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| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
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| 18.00 | Closing of the day | ||||
| 19.30 – 22.00 | Conference dinner and Lars H. Backer Prize | ||||
| Day 3, October 18th 2018 | |||||
| 09.30 – 11.00 | Session 10: Benefits of Integration of Statistics and Geospatial Information
Introduction by Chair — Rina Tammisto, Statistics Finland UN-GGIM:Europe – Enhancement of Cooperation by Using a Questionnaire Poll — Franka Ginter & Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodecy, Germany The Geospatial Platform in Finland – More Effective Use of Spatial and Statistical Data — Teemu Saloriutta, National Land Survey of Finland The German Micro-Census-Routing Project — Kathrin Gebers et al., Destatis, Germany Collaboration Between Kosovo Agency of Statistics and Kosovo Cadastral Agency — Idriz Shala, Kosovo Agency of Statistics Innovations in Gridded and Subnational Population Mappig — Joshua Comenetz, U.S. Census Bureau, USA Joint Development of Open Source Geoportal Software with Integration to Statistical Interfaces — Sanna Jokela, Oskari Community Coordinator, Finland |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Panel discussion; A Way Forward
EFGS, Eurographics, Eurostat, NSI, NMA |
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| 12.30 – 13.00 | Conference Closing, Announcement of EFGS 2019 Conference | ||||
| 13.00 – 14.30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.30 – 16.00 | EFGS General Assembly
Chair — Janusz Dygaszewicz, President of EFGS Secretary — Marina Backer Skaar, EFGS Secretary |