| Wednesday 24 September | ||||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Registration and coffee in the lobby | |||
| Single session | ||||
| Opening Session - "Trusted data, in a changing Europe" Chairs: Zehra Alamkhan, Svein Reid & Jørn K. Undelstvedt video | ||||
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Welcoming, housekeeping, information and update on the programme. Introducing session moderators and technicians. | |||
| 10:00 – 10:05 | Welcoming address: European Forum for Geography and Statistics - Ingrid Kaminger, President of EFGS, Statistics Austria | |||
| 10:05 – 10:20 | Welcoming address & Keynote: Statistics Norway - Geir Axelsen, Director General presentation | |||
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Welcoming address: Norwegian Mapping Authority - Arvid Lillethun, Advisory Director | |||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Welcoming address & Keynote: Eurostat - Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of unit: Regional statistics and geographical information presentation | |||
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Keynote: UN Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information - Olive Powell, Co-chair presentation | |||
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Break | |||
| 11:10 – 11:40 | How NRK changed public discourse through public data, AI and GIS - Mads Nyborg Støstad - NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) presentation video | |||
| 11:40 – 12:00 | a) Recap and learnings from the Pre-Conference Day - with the presenters b) A brief introduction to the parallel sessions starting after lunch - Svein Reid & Jørn K. Undelstvedt, Statistics Norway | |||
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Lunch | |||
| Parallel sessions | ||||
| Frameworks in Geospatial and Statistical Communities - Concepts & Implementation Moderator: Janusz Dygaszewicz, Statistics Poland video | Transition to Cloud and Open Source in Organisations Moderator: Kristín Ósk Ingvarsdóttir, Statistics Iceland video | |||
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Assessing the maturity of statistical-geospatial data integration in Europe - Jerker Moström - Statistics Sweden presentation | Data platform for Statistics Norway - Transition to open source and cloud - Anni Normann Fretheim - Statistics Norway presentation | ||
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Unlocking Geo-Stats Features: UN-IGIF meet GSGF v2 - Olive Powell - ONS & James Norris - Ordnance Survey presentation | The pros and cons of open source in organisations: Implementation and support considerations - Pascal Coulon - CGI presentation | ||
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Norwegian SDI – a valuable model for cross-sectoral cooperation and value creation - Arvid Lillethun - Norwegian Mapping Authority presentation | Hoots Wain, stop yer greetin’: Embracing the messiness of spatial data in statistical production - Justin McGurk - Central Statistics Office, Ireland presentation | ||
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Building trust in geospatial data - Ileana Spiroiu - National Agency for Cadaster and Land Registry/National Center for Cartography - Romania presentation | Transitioning to GIS with Python in the cloud - Challenges and implications - Morten Wiig Letnes - Statistics Norway presentation | ||
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Questions/Panel discussion | Questions/Panel discussion | ||
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Break | |||
| Frameworks in Geospatial and Statistical Communities - GEOS Funded Projects Moderator: Panu Muhli, National land survey of Finland video | New Technologies - AI/ML Moderator: Olive Powell, Office for National Statistics - UK video | |||
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Analysis of GEOS grants: Trends, impacts, and strategic alignment over more than a decade - Márta Nagy-Rothengass - Eurostat presentation | Automated change detection with Sentinel-1: An OpenEO implementation - Torgeir Ferdinand Klingenberg - Norwegian Mapping Authority | ||
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Building strategic geostatistical coalitions - Arndís Vilhjálmsdóttir - Statistics Iceland presentation | GeoAI: Revolutionizing data collection and analysis for national statistics offices - Kate Hess - ESRI presentation | ||
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Geospatial linking of water and electricity consumption microdata - Črt Šuštar - Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia presentation | Seeing the source: Using Computer Vision to locate and map cooling towers to enhance preparedness for Legionella - Musa Chirikeni - UK Health Security Agency presentation | ||
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Measuring accessibility to essential services with travel times: an example for Portugal - Maria José Aurindo - Statistics Portugal presentation | Geospatial AI - experiences from research to production - How can artificial intelligence contribute to better data and decisions within climate, environment and land use? - Mathilde Ørstavik and Alexander S. Nossum - Norkart presentation | ||
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Questions | Questions/Panel discussion | ||
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Break | |||
| Single session | ||||
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Wrap-up – remarks of Day 1 Information about the banquet Chairs: Svein Reid & Jørn K. Undelstvedt | |||
| 17:00 – --:-- | EFGS General Assembly | |||
| 18:30 Conference banquet at Hotel Bristol | ||||
| Thursday 25 September | ||||
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Morning coffee | |||
| Single session | ||||
| 09:15 - 09:25 | Welcome and "Plan for the day" - together with the moderators Chairs: Zehra, Svein & Jørn K. | |||
| 09:25 – 09:30 | Break | |||
| Parallel sessions | ||||
| GIS Tools for Processing and Dissemination Moderator: Suvi Vilkki, Statistics Finland video | GSGF Principles in Action Moderator: Linus Rispling, Statistics Sweden video | |||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Geo-based tools and dashboards on risk assessment and crisis management – practical issues, data challenges, creative use in Oslo - Osman Ibrahim - The Emergency Planning Agency, Oslo Municipality presentation | High-resolution housing mapping for Europe in 2021: Bridging census data and modern geospatial needs - Sergio Freire - Joint Research Centre/Engineering SpA presentation | ||
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Modernizing census data delivery: WebGIS implementation at the Kosovo Agency of Statistics - Burim Limolli & Idriz Shala - Kosovo Agency of Statistics presentation | The new process for geocoding addresses to census enumeration areas - Davide Fardelli - ISTAT presentation | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 | FME – A key tool for geospatial data processing at Statistics Sweden - Esbjörn Pettersson - Statistics Sweden presentation | Using H3 cells as a decision-making tool for collecting external marine depth data - William Rudolph-Lund - Norwegian Mapping Authority presentation | ||
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break | |||
| New Technologies - Automation Moderator: Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia video | New Technologies - EO / Mobility Moderator: Phillip Harwood, ESA SEF video | |||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | A GIS-based evaluation of green and public spaces in Austria - Christian Stefan - Statistics Austria presentation | From space to statistics: ESA projects enabling EO-based environmental indicators - Federica Marando - European Space Agency (ESA) presentation | ||
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Automation of GIS-analysis for land use planning ("DOK spatial analysis") - Arvid Lillethun - Norwegian Mapping Authority presentation | Comparing MNO and GPS data for spatiotemporal population assessment using commercial, off-the-shelf data - Michele Tucci - European Commission, Joint Research Centre presentation | ||
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Challenges and potential of AI for high resolution and reliable land use statistics - Romain Douard - Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland presentation | OREO NI: Supporting public sector transformation through Earth Observation data - Sara Stewart - Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) presentation | ||
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Semi-automatic methodology for updating ISTAT cartography - Pietro Nurzia - ISTAT presentation | Operationalising EO for post-2030 SDG monitoring - Mónica Miguel-Lago - European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) presentation | ||
| 11:30 – 11:45 | GeoLiving – Geospatial integration of living conditions across statistical scales - Vilni. V. H. Bloch - Statistics Norway | Remote sensing data: Do we have the tools, skills and collaborative frameworks needed to turn a big amount of data into real value for the society? - Ola Nordbeck - Norwegian Space Agency presentation | ||
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Questions/Panel discussion | Questions/Panel discussion | ||
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch | |||
| Data Integration for Cross-border Work and Common Geometries Moderator: Hugo Poelman, independent expert video | Geodata for Spatial and Statistical Analysis - Case Studies and Country Examples Moderator: Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Eurostat video | |||
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Longitudinal municipal geographies in Norway – A geospatial backbone for statistical production - Dana Moe - Statistics Norway presentation | Identifying functional urban areas using social security data. The case of Ankara, Turkey - Mert Kubilay Uludağ - TurkStat presentation | ||
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Geospatial foundations of the Degree of Urbanisation: Methodology and applications in city statistics - Máté Farkas - Eurostat presentation | Trends and distribution of drug-related incidents in Vilnius, Lithuania - Gordonas Jankūnas - Institute of Geosciences, Vilnius University presentation | ||
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Open Maps for Europe 2 (OME2): Building a new Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for pan-European large-scale data - Hannes Frings - BKG & Clément Godin - IGN-France presentation | Environmental Accounting – challenges in marine areas - Kathrin Bögelsack - Norwegian Mapping Authority presentation | ||
| 13:30 – 13:45 | The critical role of data in cross-border cooperation: Challenges and collaborative solutions - Viktória Jánosi & Csaba Siki - CESCI (Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives) presentation | Integrating land ownership data into ecosystem accounts: A case study from the Netherlands - Frank Prins - Statistics Netherlands presentation | ||
| 13:45 – 14:00 | ACROSS Project: Unlocking the potential of geospatial data for cross-border regions - Viktória Jánosi, on behalf of Matteo Berzi - JRC | A Norwegian base map for spatial analysis and land accounting - Maria Oldeman Lund - NIBIO presentation | ||
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Questions | Questions/Panel discussion | ||
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Break | |||
| Single session | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Wrap-up-presentation – closing remarks for the conference. Information on feedback form. Thank you to moderators, presenters, technicians, hosts. Chairs: Zehra, Svein & Jørn K. video Safe travel home! | |||
