Keynote Speakers ideas for FOSS4G 2013
Posted by Suchith Anand on November 19, 2012
It will be good if all start putting ideas on keynote speakers for FOSS4G 2013. It will be good to have some good keynote speakers from governments, academia and industry.
My suggestion is that there is atleast one government keynote speaker from UK (ideally someone from Cabinet Office esp with the UK Government Open Standards policy implementation in place) . All suggestions and ideas welcome.
Sir Tim Berners Lee is also good to invite as keynote speaker as it fits well with open data, open standards.
For other EU countries government level, Professor Evangelos Livieratos , Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece might be good to invite. He is also current chair of ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage, so has strong academic background (till recently was Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). I know him through my ICA chair role.
http://www.ypeka.gr/Default.aspx?tabid=427&locale=en-US&language=el-GR ;
Prof Georg Gartner (President, ICA) is also good speaker to consider inviting from the academia esp with the ICA-OSGeo MoU
Prof Georg Gartner (President, ICA) is also good speaker to consider inviting from the academia esp with the ICA-OSGeo MoU
All of these people are very busy, so we need to contact early to see their availability.
Suchith
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Addy Pope on November 19, 2012:
Jo Cook on November 19, 2012:
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Antony Scott on November 19, 2012:
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Peter Batty on November 19, 2012:
He would obviously be a big draw!
Jo Cook on November 19, 2012:
https://basecamp.com/1920286/projects/762306-foss4g-13/documents/1191978-keynote-speaker
Suchith Anand on November 19, 2012:
btw how many keynote/invited speakers can we aim?
Peter Batty on November 19, 2012:
Rollo Home on November 19, 2012:
In terms of making contact with speakers, I'd suggest that there needs to be a highly organised system with a key person (Steven?) responsible. Suggest focus on getting the hit list sorted for now.
Suchith Anand on November 19, 2012: