Women in Spatial

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Women in Spatial is a SSSI initiative designed to   to engage women in surveying and spatial sciences. The launch of the program in the NT will  offer women in the industry the opportunity to come together in a relaxed and informal forum to present and discuss ideas followed by high tea (champagne and fine food). More information about the national Women in Spatial group can be found here   

A cross section of women in the spatial profession (government, academia, private industry/volunteer sector, and a research student) will be presenting at the launch on Wednesday the 21st March 2012 on a number of focus topics:
  • What brought you into spatial as a career?
  • What is a "typical" day on the job for you?
  • Your persepective on challenges for spatial from the private industry point of view.
The presentation format, is “Fast Forward”. Each speaker is given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. There will be no Question and Answer time. There will be 5 speakers which will allow for plenty of networking time. 

Please note that this is not a women only event - men are most welcome to attend also.

This event is free to attend, but registration is required for catering purposes.
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Program


The launch will be held at the Office of the Supervising Scientists at Pederson Rd Marrara from 430pm Wednesday 21 March 2012.

4:30 Welcome: Richard McAllister (Acting Supervising Scientist)


4:35 Sponsors address: Peter Kinne (DigitalGlobe)


4:40 Introduction to Women in Spatial and 2011 Survey Results: Dr Renee Bartolo (Program Leader Spatial Sciences & Data Integration Group, Supervising Scientist Division)


4:50 Title tba:   Katherine Graham (Office of the surveyor General, NT Department of Lands & Planning)


4:55 An atomic ball in space:  Dr Karen Joyce (Senior Lecturer Remote sensing and Spatial Sciences, Charles Darwin University)


5:00 Title tba: Keera Pullman (ESRI Australia)


5:05 Challenges and opportunities for spatial scientists in the new era of open source software and downloadable data: Sarah Hobgen (PhD Candidate, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University)


5:10 Where to from here for NT Women in Spatial?


5:20 Networking and high tea, including champagne and fine food


This event is supported by:
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Dr Renee Bartolo
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Katherine Graham
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Dr Karen Joyce
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Sarah Hobgen
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than one billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, visit www.digitalglobe.com.
Venue: The  Office of the Supervising Scientists is on the corner of Pederson Rd and Fenton Court with the Darwin International Airport, Marrara.