Lootah to open Map Middle East 2007 today

The 3rd Annual Conference and Exhibition on GeoSpatial Information, Technologies and Applications, held under the patronage of the Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Industry and Chairman of Dubai Municipality Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, will last until Wednesday.

The conference organized by Dubai Municipality in cooperation with GIS Development, with the theme, "GeoSpatial Convergence - The Next Step," would embrace all aspects of geospatial technologies and their applications.

The Geospatial Executive Leadership Forum will be held along side the event with the theme "GeoSpatial Enterprises." It will have personalities from leading organizations from the geospatial industry and academia addressing the participants on project management, leadership challenges and various successful business development strategies.

Map Middle East 2007 will also host an exclusive conference on Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry under the umbrella of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Also a part of the conference would be a Round Table Discussion on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). This discussion forum will review the status of SDI activities within the various organizations using Geo-information on local and national levels.

This year's conference will also witness different seminars as a part of Map Middle East 2007. The topics will cover the ongoing construction boom, growing demands for oil and gas and the geospatial world moving towards open source in terms of software/data and standards.

Managers and research professionals from the government sector involved in planning, developing and managing projects; directors and corporate executives interested in acquiring leadership knowledge and practical skills; human resources professionals entrusted with the development of leaders within their organizations; academicians and researchers dedicated to advancing leadership studies in higher education; specialists in leadership assessment; developers of training simulation models; illustrators of multi-media activities and graduate students pursuing a major focused upon leadership studies are expected to attend the event.