FOSS4G'13

Steven Feldman
Steven (@StevenFeldman) has been working in the geobusiness for the last 14 years, initially with whereonearth.com, subsequently as MD of GDC and latterly MD of MapInfo UK and head of their EMEA product and industry strategy. He now works as a non-executive director, a strategic consultant and  mentor to technology startups. He is currently chairman of geo.me Solutions, a board advisor to Astun Technology and OpenCage Data. He is a Special Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, where he initiated the OpenStreetMap GB quality enhancement project and also advises the Open Source humanitarian project Taarifa. Steven is passionate about geography, Open things, politics and Arsenal football club.

Suchith Anand
Suchith is leading open source research at the University of Nottingham. He is also the chair of the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies. He is one of the founding members of the Open Source GIS Summer School initiative, and the Geospatial Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data e-learning initiative. He is also the founder and co-chair of the Open Source GIS Conference Series. He is now in the process of establishing Open Source Geospatial Labs/Research Centres in key universities worldwide as part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation – ICA MoU.

Franz-Josef Behr
Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr joined Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences as a full time professor of spatial information processing in 2002, where he teaches software development, Internet Technology and Internet GIS, as well as Database design, XML technologies and scientific writing. He has supervised about 40 Masters Theses, published two GIS text books, more than 50 scientific papers, and has given presentations at several international conferences. In addition, he has conducted workshops in India (IIITM-K, Trivandrum) and Egypt (National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo) and organised scientific conferences in Arequipa, Peru (AGSE 2010), Nairobi, Kenya (AGSE 2011), and Johor Bahru, Malaysia (AGSE 2012). He is an active member of the German Organisation for Standardization and active supporter of Open Source and Open Data.

Jo Cook (Deputy Conference Chair)
Jo (@archaeogeek) is the founder of the local chapter of OSGeo (OSGeo:UK) and has wanted to bring FOSS4G to the UK since she went to her first one in 2006. Three FOSS4Gs later, she is even more committed to bringing the tribes to her home country. In her day job she has been advocating open source use since 2006, previously in the archaeology sector, and now as part of her role as a geospatial consultant for Astun Technology. She can be found blogging here.

Ian Edwards
Ian (@isedwards) is a senior software engineer at the UK Met Office and is chair of OSGeo:UK. His GIS career has spanned academia, business and government; including research positions at the universities of Cambridge and Exeter, director of a GIS company and more recently as a civil servant developing open source software solutions for the Met Office. Ian is an honorary fellow of the University of Exeter, and continues to be a regular speaker at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Ian Holt
Ian (@IanHolt) is the Developer Programme Manager at Ordnance Survey. In this role he is responsible for encouraging and stimulating the use of OS OpenData. In addition, he is a member of the GeoVation team, actively promoting innovation through the use of geography. He has over 20 years experience in the geospatial industry and has spent a good part of his career developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public organisations. More recently, Ian has helped run a series of master classes to highlight the benefits of open source and open data.

Rollo Home
Rollo (@rollohome) is the 3D product lead for Ordnance Survey. He cut his teeth as a geo-consultant working for various international engineering consultancies (relying far too heavily on his trusty “GIS-on-a-Stick”) and then a 3D modelling vendor. He (occasionally) writes about (at #SpatialNeeds) and promotes (through the AGI, where he is a Council Member & Director) the use of geographic information. He also manages the #W3G conference series.

Claire Huppertz
Claire is the Events Manager at the Association for Geographic Information (AGI). She is responsible for the logistical management of the Events programme including the annual conference – AGI GeoCommunity – the main independent GI event in the UK and for third party events including the Public Sector Mapping Agreement one day events, INSPIRE one day events and the ISO/TC 211 workshops when they were held in the UK.

Mark Ilife (@markiliffe)
A PhD student at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute and a geospatial consultant for Global ICT sector of the World Bank. He has surveyed and worked in developing nations across the world, and is also the chief architect of Taarifa, an Open Source public services reporting platform.


Barend Köbben
Barend Köbben is a Cartographer, and works at ITC, part of the University of Twente.  His teaching includes Cartographic Theory, WebCartography and  courses and workshops in Open Source GIS & Web Mapping. His main research interest is automated mapping in a services environment.

Jeremy Morley (Deputy Conference Chair)
Jeremy (@jeremy_morley) is Theme Leader for Geospatial Science at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute, the successor institute at the University of Nottingham for the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS). He has worked in the academic GIS sector since the mid-90s. Jeremy has promoted and researched Open GIS standards (through the OGC TC since 2000), data (UK Location Programme User Group) and software (hosted the “EOGEO” workshops, predecessors to FOSS4G, in 2000 & 2004). He is chairing the AGI GeoCommunity conference in 2012 after chairing first in 2011.

Addy Pope
Addy (@go_geo/@Addy_Pope) is a member of the Research and Geodata team at EDINA, where he promotes the use of geospatial technology in higher and further education in the UK through services such as GoGeo and ShareGeo. He has over 10 years experience working as a GIS analyst in both the private and public sectors, but still likes to think he is a glaciologist. Addy maintains the GoGeo blog.

Barry Rowlingson (@geospacedman)
A Senior Research Associate in Spatial Epidemiology at Lancaster University. He specialises in open-source packages for the R statistics system and plugins for Quantum GIS with application to tropical disease mapping.

Antony Scott (@antscott)
Works at Sustain Ltd, using open source GIS for domestic energy management and renewable energy feasibility. He is active in OSGeo:UK, and volunteers for MapAction, a UK-based NGO providing emergency mapping in humanitarian disasters.

Matt Walker (@_walkermatt)
Geospatial consultant / dev at Astun Technology implementing solutions on open software. A day to day user of and contributor to open software, and has hosted workshops, presented at and organised various events.

Kenneth Field (@kennethfield)   
Senior Cartographic Engineer at Esri Inc and formerly Principal Lecturer and Course Director in GIS at Kingston University London. Mapper, writer, presenter, blogger, tweeter, Editor of The Cartographic Journal and passionate promoter of good cartographic design. 25 years as a geogeek and cartonerd and counting.