Speakers

Barry Barlow, Director, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Reston, Va., is the Functional Manager for Acquisition Systems. Mr. Barlow is responsible for systems engineering, program management and contracts management for the development and deployment of the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) worldwide, and for delivering systems and solutions to meet warfighter and intelligence agency needs.

His awards include the R.H. Cold award for Computer Science, several meritorious service awards from Raytheon, E-Systems and Space Imaging, NASA and NGA. In December 2006, President George W. Bush conferred on Mr. Barlow the rank of Meritorious Executive in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service for sustained superior accomplishments in the management of programs for the United States Government. In addition, in December 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates awarded Mr. Barlow with the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian
Service Award.

Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach commanded the Air Warfare Centre at RAF Waddington from 2000 to 2003, was Director General Intelligence Collection in the Ministry of Defence 2003-2006 and Chief of Defence Intelligence and Deputy Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee 2006-2009. He held the appointment of Chief of Joint Operations at PJHQ(UK) from March 2009-December 2011 before assuming his current role as Commander Joint Forces Command in December 2011.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach is married with two children. He is Honorary Colonel of the Joint Service Signal Unit (Volunteers), President of IX (Bomber) Squadron Association, President of Combined Services and RAF Rugby League, senior mentor to Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron and Patron of the Sector Operations Museum at RAF Digby. Interests include poor skiing, worse golf, better cooking and a passion for military history.

Vanessa Lawrence is the Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency.  Vanessa is the adviser to the British Government on mapping, surveying and geographic information and was instrumental in the delivery of Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom which was published and endorsed by Ministers in November 2008. She received her business training from the publishing company Pearson plc.  Prior to joining Ordnance Survey, Vanessa held senior positions at Autodesk Inc.  Vanessa is the Honorary Vice-President of The Geographical Association and a member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge.   She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton and Kingston University. Vanessa is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Geographer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.  She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008. In January 2008, Vanessa was appointed as a Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List. Vanessa is one of the few recipients of the Scottish Geographical Medal, a prestigious award conferred only occasionally since 1890 by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.  In addition, she has six Honorary Doctorate degrees and is an Honorary Fellow of University College London.  In December 2008, she was named South-East Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors.  In July 2009 Vanessa was appointed Honorary Colonel of 135 Independent Geographic Squadron, Royal Engineers.

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Lt Col Fryer has been part of the UK military geospatial community for 16 years and has served in a variety of posts both in the UK and abroad. He commanded 13 Geographic Squadron based in Hermitage UK supporting a number of operational theatres with people and equipment before becoming the Chief Geospatial Officer for the UK Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), during which he spent 9 months as the Chief Geospatial Officer for HQ ISAF as NATO expanded its command from the North and West of Afghanistan to the whole country. A graduate of the UK Advanced Command & Staff Course, he is currently serving in a NATO post as part of the Supreme Allied Command Transformation based in the USA, and is responsible for long term Geospatial Capability Development.

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Mr Colley was born in Dalby, Queensland and educated at the Marist Brothers College, Ashgrove in Brisbane. In 1975 he began what was to be a 29 year career in the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, before transferring to the Australian Public Service in 2004. Mr Colley’s military career included eight years regimental experience, all of them as part of the Rapid Deployment Force in Townsville. He also had three postings to the School of Artillery, and was appointed Commanding Officer/Chief Instructor of the School in 1997. Mr Colley was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross on the Australia Day 2000 Honours List for his service in this appointment. Mr Colley was promoted Colonel on 1 November 1999 and took up the appointment of Director Joint Plans at Headquarters Strategic Command (later Strategic Operations Division). On 31 July 2002, he was awarded a Chief of the Defence Force Commendation for his work in this appointment. Subsequently, in November 2003, Mr Colley was made a Member (in the Military Division) of the Order of Australia for his work in developing strategic options for Australia’s contribution to offensive operations in Iraq. Mr Colley’s last military appointment was as the Defence Attaché in the Australian Embassy, Baghdad from May to November 2003. On transferring to the Australian Public Service, Mr Colley assumed the appointment of Director U.S. Section in International Policy Division, where he was responsible for the development of alliance policy. He subsequently acted as the Director General Support to Military Operations in the Defence Signals Directorate, before being promoted to the SES and assuming the appointment of Assistant Secretary Concepts, Capability and Resources for the Intelligence, Security and International Policy Group on 31 January 2005. Mr Colley moved to the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation and assumed his current appointment on 5 December 2007.Mr Colley is a graduate of the Canadian Armed Forces Gunnery Staff Course and the British Army Command and General Staff Course. He holds a Masters in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Social Sciences, with majors in Human Resource Development and Work and Organisational Studies. In his spare time he enjoys golf and tennis and spending time with his family.

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On 9 May, 2011, Mr. Richard A. Herrmann became the Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center. In this role, he assists the AGC Director in managing the execution of the center’s topographic, imaging science and geospatial programs and assumes the Director’s authority and duties in his absence. In his additional capacity as Chief Operating Officer, he facilitates the direction of the center’s mission by providing top-level leadership and direction to the scientific, engineering, research, operational, systems acquisition and support activities of the organization. Mr. Herrmann also reviews all major activities ensuring mission compliance, customer suitability, budgetary effectiveness and proper execution of resources.

Brigadier Hockenhull was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1986 after reading Politics at the University of York on a University Cadetship. His early postings were as a platoon commander with KORBR in Northern Ireland and in intelligence appointments in the UK, Cyprus and Berlin. Between 1991 and 2003 he served for eight years over three tours in Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) as Detachment and then Company Commander and finally as Commanding Officer. These tours were separated by attendance at the last Army Command and Staff College course and a tour in the Ministry of Defence as SO2 Long Term Plans in Army Resources and Plans. He was posted in 2003 as the British Exchange Instructor at the United States Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas; this tour included 5 months teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In December 2005 he deployed to Headquarters Multi-National Force Iraq (HQ MNF-I) as Chief Campaign Plans and wrote the 2006 HQ MNF-I Campaign Plan and Campaign Assessment. Returning to the Ministry of Defence as Deputy Director Force Development in August 2006 he was responsible for tri-service future force structure planning. Following the Higher Command and Staff Course in early 2008 he was ACOS G5 HQ ARRC and in January 2009 assumed the appointment of Director ISTAR at Headquarters Land Forces, which subsequently developed into Head Information Superiority. In September 2011 he assumed the role of Head Military Strategic Planning. Honours and awards from his operational tours include the MBE, QCVS, OBE and the Bronze Star.

Brigadier Hockenhull is married to Karen and they have 2 girls aged 13 and 11. He demonstrates poor judgement by continuing to play veterans rugby, enjoys recreational tennis, agricultural cricket and is a keen skier. The family’s permanent home is in Herefordshire where horses and hunting dominate family life.

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Advisory Board

Colonel Burrows, trained originally as a chemical engineer but joined the Royal Engineers in 1980 and served in a range of appointments in Germany, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. He was attached to what was then the Defence Mapping Agency and Hydrographic and Topographic Center and carried out a number of surveys in the Caribbean, East Africa and the Maldives. On returning to UK, he was posted to a variety of staff appointments in the UK MOD. After attending the RN Staff Course at Greenwich, he commanded 13 Topographic Squadron in Bosnia Herzegovina and subsequently returned as Commanding Officer 42 Engineer Regiment (Geo). More recently he has been posted to NATO, first in J2 SHAPE and subsequently in Allied Command Transformation as a Defence Planner. He has recently taken over the post of Commander Joint Aeronautical Geospatial Organization.


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Colonel Kedar (John) is Commander Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organisation, part of the Intelligence Collection Group and responsible for the delivery of ‘geo’ force elements to operations and for aeronautical information to Defence. In addition he holds functional responsibility for the RE (Geo) capability and its people spread across Defence. Educated at Norwich (King Edward VI) School, Southampton University, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1984. His younger days included tours in operational and training regiments, including a tour in Belize and two years with Sultan of Oman’s Engineer Regiment. The Army Survey Course and Army Staff College followed in quick succession in the early 1990s, rewarded by a joint operations appointment in Cyprus. Command tours of 14 Independent Topographic Squadron Royal Engineers and 42 Engineer (Regiment) Royal Engineers included operational deployments to the Balkans in 1996 and the Gulf in 2003. He has worked in the Defence Intelligence Staff, led Engineer-in-Chief (Army)’s Future Army Structures work and developed Defence Information Management doctrine at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre.

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Neil Marks joined the British Army eighteen years ago. He has a strategic and operational planning and support background. Initially completing his officer training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst he then joined the Corps of Royal Engineers and served for six years in Germany, which included two tours in the Balkans and a number of overseas detachments. Returning to the United Kingdom to undertake the Army Survey Course he obtained a Masters of Science Degree from Cranfield University in Defence Geographic Information. A mixture of engineer specific and geographic posts then followed, coupled with further overseas detachments. The jobs included command of a Geographic Squadron and Chief of Staff posts in an Engineer Brigade and at the Geographic Engineer Group at Hermitage and a strategic planning post in the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA), now known as the Intelligence Collection Group (ICG). In his last staff job he worked for the Engineer-in-Chief covering operations and plans for the Corps prior to attending the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham, where he obtained a Masters of Arts in Defence Studies. On completion of this course he moved to the European Union Military Staff in Brussels as their Chief Geographic Officer in Sept 2008. Lieutenant Colonel Marks is a keen sportsman, an avid rugby coach, squash and tennis player and enjoys mountain biking. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Member of the Chartered Management Institute.

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Michael Powers is the Technical Director of Geospatial Research and Engineering research for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the Army Geospatial Center. Research interests are in terrain reasoning within military decision frameworks and cross domain semantic interoperability. He has worked for the US Army research organizations from 1983 to 1993 and from 1997 to the present. From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency working in the field of intelligence correlation. Background in physical geography, image processing, knowledge based systems and reasoning with context. Mr. Powers received his B.S from Salisbury State University in Geography and his graduate studies were at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia in Geography and Systems Engineering respectively.

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Steven Ramage is Executive Director, Marketing and Communications at the Open Geospatial Consortium. Steven is responsible for the planning and execution of a broad range of marketing, communications and education program activities. These are to raise awareness and increase application of OGC standards by technology providers and users worldwide. His activities include encouraging membership participation in OGC programs, as well as joint marketing initiatives and sponsorship. He also works closely with the OGC Global Advisory Council and OGC Board of Directors. Over the last 15 years, Steven has worked in a variety of organizations in the geospatial industry including Oceonics (now part of Fugro), Navteq (now part of Nokia) and most recently the 1Spatial Group. He has been working on market development for all of these organizations across a number of industry sectors, including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, energy, government, transportation and utilities. His experience includes working in areas, such as precise satellite positioning, digital mapping, location based services, as well as geospatial data management. Steven has presented worldwide on information management topics, notably in the areas of interoperability, geospatial data quality and standards. Steven has a degree in Information Management from Glasgow Caledonian University and an international postgraduate diploma in European Marketing from ECG in Orleans, France and Staffordshire University, England. He has lived and worked around the world and he speaks French, German and Norwegian.

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Brig. General Amnon Sofrin has a BA in Political Science from Tel Aviv University and a MA in Political Science & Security Studies at Haifa University (1993). He is working on his PhD thesis at Haifa University. Gen. Sofrin's last assignment has been Head of The Intelligence Directorate at the Israeli Intelligence Service (ISIS), from which he retired in January 2008. Gen. Sofrin has served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from 1973 to 2003. His last assignment with the IDF has been Chief Combat Intelligence Corps, which he established and commanded for 3.5 years and retired as a Brigadier General. He served previously in the military as intelligence officer in fighting units, as analyst and as an instructor in the Intelligence School.

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John F. Teufert works since 2003 as the Geo-Officer at the NATO Command, Control and Consultation Agency (NC3A) in The Hague, Netherlands. He is responsible for all of NATO’s R&D projects in the area of geospatial/environmental intelligence. From 2002 to 2003 he has been with the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) at Ispra, Italy. At the JRC he has been responsible for implementing a rapid mapping environment for the European Commission. From 1999 to 2002 he worked at the Western European Union Satellite Centre (WEUSC), later EUSC, at Torrejon, Spain. As the principle GIS researcher he introduced complex GIS products to the product line of the WEUSC/EUSC. He holds a MS in physical geography/remote sensing/GIS.

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Captain Kjetil Utne entered the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in July 1983. After graduation in 1987, he started his service on board submarines. After several years of operational service, he entered the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, graduating as Cand. Mar. in 1996. He was then appointed Head of Maritime Education at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. In 1997 he became Project Department Head at the Navy’s Navigation Center, and in 1999, took over as Commanding Officer of the Center, responsible for delivering project requirements, education, training and assessments of navigation in the Norwegian Navy. The following year, he attended the Norwegian Armed Forces Command and Staff College. In 2002, he was appointed as Head of the Military Geographic Branch of the J2 Division at the National Joint Headquarters, where he also worked at the J7 Division establishing a CD&E Branch. During this posting, he also studied Psychology, with a thesis focusing on Human Machine Interaction and Cognitive aspects of Command and Control Systems. In 2005, he received his orders to NATO’s HQ SACT in Norfolk, as Sensors Capabilities Coordinator. He served from 2006 until 2007 as acting Captain and Chief Training and Equipment Cell in NTM-I (NATO’s Training Mission in Iraq). Upon returning from Iraq, he was tasked to work on the NCS PE review, in addition to establishing a new Operational C2 Branch as part of the realignment of SACT’s C4I Division. Early 2009 he returned to Norway, was commissioned Captain and posted as the new Director of the Norwegian Military Geographic Service.

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Mr. Day is a former British Army officer with over 30 years of experience in military engineering and geospatial technology including counter-terrorism activities in Northern Ireland and geospatial support in the NATO Corps headquarters in Bosnia. Since joining ESRI he has been advising the US Defense and Intelligence Community on how emerging commercial GIS technologies and solutions translate to defense systems. Mr. Day led ESRI's activities with the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit, to provide geospatial tools for US C2I programs. Mr. Day is now a US citizen and the Director of ESRI's global Defense Business Development. Mr. Day has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Cambridge University) and a master’s degree in GIS (Edinburgh University).


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Robert B. Murrett is also a staff member at the RAND Corporation, and the Institute for Defence Analyses. He was a career intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, serving in assignments throughout the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East through his thirty-four years of duty, retiring in the grade of Vice Admiral. His duty stations included service as Operational Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Assistant Naval Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Vice Director for Intelligence on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of Naval Intelligence, and Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Mrs. Amber McCuistion, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Human Terrain Analysis Branch, US Central Command
Mrs. Amber McCuistion joined US Central Command as the Team Lead for the Cultural and Human Environment Team in July 2008. In July 2009 she became the Senior Intelligence Analyst for the Human Terrain Analysis Branch (HTAB), a component of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center (APC) and has been serving as the Branch Chief since May 2011. The HTAB provides contextual understanding on sub-national social groups, local leaders, and popular perceptions within Central Command’s area of responsibility. She advises the AFG-PAK Center Director and Director of Intelligence on policy, analysis, and technological advances relevant to understanding the human environment. She serves as the senior representative to Intelligence Community human factors, human terrain and sociocultural communities of interest. In October 2011 she will assume responsibility as the Director of the Civil-Military Integration Program for International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
She enlisted in the United States Army in 1999. As a military intelligence professional she served in the 1st Stryker Brigade, Ft. Lewis, WA and discovered a passion for understanding the historical and social elements that shape populations all over the world. This led her to earn her undergraduate degree in Social Science from Troy University with a concentration in Sociology and a minor in Psychology. She previously served as the Chief of Human Terrain Analysis at US Special Operations Command, Counterterrorism Pattern Analysis Section. She has written extensively on the practical utility of sociocultural analysis to combat and non-combat operations, civil-military engagement operations, and development opportunities.

Lieutenant General Michael Maples, U.S. Army (Retired), is the Chairman of the Board of Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS). IGS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph and provides a variety of geospatially powered solutions to the U.S. government and defense, intelligence and security agencies.

LTG Maples served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2005 to 2009 and simultaneously commanded the U.S. Strategic Command Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Previous assignments include Vice Director of the Joint Staff, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Field Artillery Center, and DCOS Operations of NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC).

Mike graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds a masters degree from Pacific Lutheran University.

Captain Helge Flaen has since 2006, specialized within the field of GIS, with several tours in Afghanistan as a Geo specialist. His career in the Norwegian Armed Forces started in 1995, where he entered the Officer Candidate School of Engineering at Hoenefoss and graduated in 1996. He worked as squad leader, second in command platoon leader and platoon leader from 1996-1999. During this time, he had a posting in Bosnia as squad leader for a mine clearing team, before entering the Military Academy in Oslo in 1999. After graduating from the Military Academy two years later, in 2001, Helge Flaen worked as second in command class chief and class chief at the Officer Candidate School of Engineering at Hoenefoss for two years. During this time, he undertook additional training in 2002 and 2003 in organization and leadership. In 2004, the then lieutenant Helge Flaen, started studies in Software Engineering at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. After completing the studies in 2005, he took a position as a Geo specialist at the Rena Army base.
His training as a Geo specialist includes national and international courses, amongst others; ESRI courses, geographical information handling at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, in addition to military training and exercises. During the years 2006 - 2010, Captain Helge Flaen had several tours as a Geo specialist in Afghanistan.
Captain Helge Flaen’s current position at The Norwegian Armed Forces military geographic service is focused towards operational units of the Norwegian Armed Forces, and their need for support within the field of GIS. His broad experience of tactical and operational application of GIS, combined with theoretical studies, gives a good foundation for understanding the operational needs of forces in the field.

John has worked across the world in the Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS industries for over 25 years. Having graduated with an Honours Degree in Materials Science and Physics from the University of Warwick, in U.K., John has gained extensive international experience working for companies such as DigitalGlobe, BAE Systems, Leica Geosystems and ERDAS. In the ‘80s, he managed the Geoprocessing Business Unit of GEMS, the leading UK supplier of image processing hardware for satellite remote sensing. In the 90s, he set up ERDAS’ UK and European offices and in 1997 moved to the USA to take up the role of Sales and Marketing Director for the parent company, ERDAS Inc. Over the following 4 years he oversaw a 300% growth in company revenues, helping make ERDAS Inc the global leader in Geographic Imaging. In 2002 he moved to BAE Systems to manage their GXP software business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, moving on to DigitalGlobe Inc. in 2007 to carry out a similar role for their Defence and Intelligence Business Unit.

In his current role, he is responsible for exactEarth’s global sales and marketing strategy and for establishing them as the world leader in the supply of Satellite AIS based data services.

In 2009, John was the Recipient of the Founder’s Award from the UK’s Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society for 25 years of service and contributions to the Society.

Jonathan Chetwynd conceived, designed and built peepo.com, one of a small number of web applications that use open web standards technologies to visualise complex data in real time that helps users to forecast outcomes. He incorporates recent successful advances in risk analysis that use mathematical forecasting models, such as MCTS with information sharing, and contributes innovative visualisation techniques to demonstrate them.
He formerly worked in the City of London for major financial institutions including Nomura and Merrill Lynch. He developed his first innovative web application in 1998, and went on to conceive and manage The Peepo Project for Wandsworth Borough Council and Lambeth College. He has since contributed to the development of web standards, and helped ensure inter-operability across browsers and other user- agents. His current concerns relate to the purpose of communication, and how the web might better serve the common interest. Recent publications include a chapter on the need for a web games standard to model processes together with simple authoring tools that might enable us all to present complex arguments.

After a successful 27-year career as a geospatial specialist officer in the British Army, Colonel Chris Dorman joined Esri in 2003 as the European Defence Business Co-ordinator.

As an Army officer he held a variety of command and staff appointments. His last three military posts were Assistant Director Intelligence for geospatial issues in the UK MOD, commander of all UK’s deployable geospatial assets and Head of the UK’s Defence Imagery and Geospatial Liaison Staff in North America (during 9/11).

As Esri’s European Defence Business Co-ordinator Chris now heads a team responsible for promoting the use of Geographic Information Systems in defence & intelligence in NATO, the EU and nations throughout Europe.

David is a graduate of the Canadian Coast Guard College in Sydney NS, receiving his diploma in Nautical Sciences in 1981. After spending the next 10 years in the CCG Fleet, based in Dartmouth NS, and gaining his Ocean Navigator 1 (ON 1) certificate of competency, he took a stint ashore in the National HQ subsequently working in the Fleet group defining the navigation equipment suite for the Canadian Coast Guard fleet (CCG). In that position, David was heavily involved at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)/International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) in the development of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) carriage regulations and S57 data development. After a time as National Oil Spill response officer, where he was project leader for the development of Response Organizations in Canada, he moved to the Marine Navigation Services group serving as the Navigation and Strategic Advisor to the Director General for many years before taking up the position of National Icebreaking Program Manager for the Coast Guard. David managed the Icebreaking Program for 10 years before accepting his current position with Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service as Director of the Canadian Ice Service.

Martin Jones was educated in Hull and then Aberdeen University gaining a degree in Geology. He joined the Royal Navy in 1984 and after a short period as the Gunnery Officer in HMS CYGNET on patrol off Northern Ireland, he specialised as a Hydrographic Surveyor. His early military data gathering experiences ranged from collecting bathymetry, oceanography and geophysical data from the Atlantic (both north and south), Belize, the Mediterranean and a significant amount of the SW & NW approaches, serving in HM Ships BEAGLE, HECATE, ROEBUCK and HERALD.

He has been privileged to command the RN’s smallest warship HMSML GLEANER, surveying the approaches to Faslane and Devonport as well as HMS QUORN, conducting Mine Countermeasures operations and a period attached to the Fishery Protection Squadron. In 2001, on promotion to Commander, he assumed Command of HMS ECHO bringing the state of the art first of class new Hydrographic and Oceanographic ship from build to full operational status operating in the Northern Arabian Gulf.

He has had two previous assignments to the MOD, firstly procuring specialist surveying services and equipment as an SO2, and then following a brief spell in the deterrent area of the Naval Staff he moved to management planning within the Intelligence Capability, also responsible for delivering the programme of work from the United Kingdom Hydrographic and Meteorological Offices. As a graduate of the Advanced Command and Staff Course he also served as Directing Staff to the course. On completion he was assigned to his homeport, as Commander HM, managing and mentoring the survey squadron, driving Continuous Improvement within the HM branch and the Maritime GEOINT environment as well as formalising the process of delivering HM based Mission Directives. After a short assignment serving with the Defence Maritime Geospatial Intelligence Centre at UKHO as the Customer Relations Manager to defence users, he has recently rejoined the MOD to lead Joint Geospatial Intelligence assuming the role of Deputy Head JGI in December 2011.

He is a Younger Brother of Trinity House, a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, and a Chartered Marine Scientist. As a keen warm water scuba diver and underwater photographer he is also an advocate for marine conservation. He is married to Jo, a marine biologist, and they have one teenage son, Sam

Matthew Jones is a Major in the British Army. After graduating in History from Cambridge University he attended RMAS and was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in August 1998. Following training he served in a number of regimental and staff appointments in the UK and Germany. Operationally he has deployed to East Timor working alongside Australian forces and to Turkey and Saudi Arabia working with the RAF and USAF. More recently he has completed several deployments in intelligence roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Between August 2010 and March 2011 Major Jones was the senior Intelligence Officer (SO2 J2) for 16 Air Assault Brigade/ Task Force Helmand based in Lashkar Gah. Since July 2011 he has been assigned to the MOD in London where he is working in the Operations Directorate. Major Jones is also the author of the 1 Military Intelligence Brigade Operational Intelligence Best Practice Handbook, elements of which have been incorporated into Army Field Manual ISTAR.

Captain Malinowski is the Commanding Officer of Foothill Patrol Division. Foothill Area is located along the foothills in the East San Fernando Valley to the North of Hollywood. Malinowski also serves as the principal investigator (PI) on the National Institute of Justice funded “Los Angeles Predictive Policing Planning Project” and for the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded “Smart Policing Initiative”. In conjunction with the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), these programs are developing and testing methodologies for deploying discretionary police resources based on highly sophisticated predictive analytics. These techniques are being refined and will be evaluated later this year for their effect on property crime in the San Fernando Valley and violent crime in South Los Angeles. Prior to being promoted to Captain, Malinowski served as the Assistant Commanding Officer of LAPD’s Real-time Analysis and Critical Response (RACR) Division. During that time, he was also tasked by Police Chief Charlie Beck to act as the Commanding Officer of COMPSTAT where he conducted a comprehensive needs assessment of the Department’s Command Accountability system and authored a final report and recommendations designed to take COMPSTAT to the next level.

Malinowski joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1994 and has worked patrol assignments in South Central Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley and in the west side beach community of Venice. As a sergeant, he worked Patrol, Internal Affairs and Training Division and as the Executive Officer for former LAPD Police Chief William J. Bratton.

Malinowski graduated from Boston University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and worked as a marketing Account Executive for BBDO Worldwide and for Lever Brothers Foods in New York and in Chicago, where he expanded product lines for Chrysler, Kmart, Jim Beam and Country Crock brands.

Malinowski left the private sector in 1991 to pursue a master’s degree in Criminal Justice and to fill a university appointment as the Director of Development for the Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. While at OICJ, Malinowski developed and implemented training and technical assistance programs for the United States Department of State and other federal and state agencies.

Malinowski earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Illinois in 2003. During his graduate studies, he was named a Fulbright Scholar and studied counter-terrorism at the Egyptian National Police Academy in Cairo. Malinowski is a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Management Institute at Long Island University. He is the former Director of the Mayor’s Commission on Police Integrity for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the Founder of the U.S. State Department Cop to Cop Police Exchange program. Malinowski is married with three children and his wife is also a Los Angeles Police Officer.

Mr Guy Thomas has been involved in Science and Technology for 25+ years, including the latter part of a 23 year Navy career where he directed the Pacific Fleet introduction of the NAVY EP-3E’s automated mission system, and then, globally, the USAF's Rivet Joint Block III, the first fully computerized collection system, becoming, in the process, the first person in history to be authorized to wear both Navy and Air Force wings at the same time. He also qualified for the USAF Space Badge and was one of the first designated Space Operations subspecialists in the Navy.

He is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College, earned an MBA with high honors in Computer Information Systems from Bryant University, and studied Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Neil Thompson had a long and distinguished career in the Canadian Forces with more than 30 years in various command and staff positions in the defence, civilian and international intelligence communities. These included a secondment to the Government of Canada Privy Council Office and a Branch Chief on the International Military Staff at NATO Headquarters.

He was the first Commanding Officer of the Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre. He was also a Defence Intelligence Attaché in the United Kingdom. Upon returning to Canada, he became Director Intelligence Operations within the Chief of Defence Intelligence Staff. He completed his career as the Director of Geospatial Intelligence. He was responsible for all aspects of Geospatial Intelligence in the Canadian Forces.

Neil has kept active in the Intelligence and Geospatial Intelligence fields by accepting the position of Managing Director of the WCGroup. Neil has maintained his contacts in the MENA area and brings a unique perspective to this focus day.

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Geoff Twentyman has 20 years’ experience within the ISTAR domain. Having graduated from the Department of Geomatics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991, he embarked on his civilian career within the UK Ministry of Defence.

This has seen him working for 4 years within Geodesy and Aerial Triangulation at the Defence Geographic Centre in Feltham and for 6 years as the Photogrammetric and Geodetic Advisor at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre at RAF Brampton, both now part of the Intelligence Collection Group.

Since 2001, Geoff has worked within MOD Research and Development at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and is currently based at Porton Down in Wiltshire. His current role is Capability Advisor for the Single Intelligence Environment (SIE) Application area. This role involves supporting the planning, management and future strategy of the UK Defence SIE research programme. SIE includes All Source Analysis, Multi-Int Exploitation, Geospatial Intelligence (including imagery exploitation and MASINT), OSINT and their underpinning enterprise management.

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Andrew Watson is the Deputy Director of Information, at the Metropolitan Police Service.

Andrew was originally a Chartered Civil Engineer, then moved industries to become a Chief Information Officer in the automotive, electronics and defence consulting industries before taking this same role at the British Transport Police (BTP). One of his main achievements at BTP was the development of their mobile data solution, one of the first and most successful deployments of PDAs in the police service.

He is a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers and sits on the Information Management Business Area (ACPO IMBA). One of his early achievements was to create the Geographic Information portfolio. This was the first time that senior GIS and operational staff met to agree developments in the field of GIS.

Andrew is also responsible for the delivery of GIS services and products for Olympics Security, including the new Police Geo-Portal.

Suzanne Yoakum-Stover is a data scientist dedicated to developing Modern Intelligence - the science, practice, and governance of intelligence at Ultra-Large Scale (ULS). Since earning her Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook University in 1992, she has contributed, both as a research scientist and as an educator, to a range of technical fields including physics, artificial intelligence, medical imaging, computer graphics and simulation, statistical and natural language processing, data management, and knowledge representation. Driven by a thirst for insight, the thread that unifies all of her work is an enduring penchant for computation and software engineering.

Dr. Yoakum-Stover currently serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Modern Intelligence (IMI) and as Chief Scientist at Mission Focus where she leads a team developing a practical, ULS systems solution for data storage, exploration, enrichment, and exploitation that can accommodate the diversity of current and future intelligence data, semantics, and perspectives in one unified Data-Space without information loss or distortion. Through her innovation, which provides a unified interface to all data, she strives to enable a diverse ecosystem of processing to be put into production together over the Data-Space and upon that foundation, execute a broad ULS systems research agenda with specific application to intelligence. She, the IMI, and the team at Mission Focus aspire to transform the “data problem” into a sublime intelligence asset and give Modern Intelligence its birth place.

Captain (N) Osborne participated in naval operations during the Cold War off the coast of Norway, the North Atlantic and in the Caribbean. His operational intelligence experience includes serving as Flag Lieutenant and Intelligence advisor to the commander of NATO’s Standing Naval Force Atlantic including Operation Allied Force in 1999; the Intelligence advisor to the commander of Canada’s Joint Task Force Southwest Asia in US CENTCOM shortly after the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 Sept 2001; the Intelligence advisor to the Task Force Commander and Commanding Officer of the intelligence team supporting the Canadian Forces deployed to the Multi-national Stabilization Force in Port au Prince, Haiti in 2004. He first assumed command of the Canadian Forces School of Military Intelligence as a Lieutenant Commander on completion of his deployment to Haiti and returned to the school in 2009 for a second tour as Commandant in the rank of Commander.

He has fulfilled various staff appointments including the interagency intelligence liaison officer in Maritime Forces Atlantic, Halifax supporting national security operations such as counter narcotics and counter illegal migrant activity. He has been an intelligence analyst, has held instructor appointments in the Canadian Forces School of Military Intelligence, and served as the deputy Director Intelligence Operations within the Chief of Defence Intelligence working closely with the Strategic Joint Staff. He has also served as the Intelligence Advisor to the Chief of the Maritime Staff. Captain (N) Osborne was promoted to his present rank in July 2011 when he assumed his duties as Director Geospatial Intelligence.

Captain (N) Osborne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University; a Master of Defence Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a graduate of the Canadian Forces Command and Staff.

Marcello Maranesi is the Chief Executive Officer of e-GEOS, a joint company between the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) which plays a leading role in the Earth Observation market.

Mr. Maranesi has en Engineering degree.

He joined Telespazio in 1982, when the company was starting up the Matera Space Centre for geodesy operations. He became Commercial Director of the Earth Observation Division and CEO of Eurimage, a joint venture between Telespazio and Astrium for the distribution of satellite data on the European market. In 2003 Mr. Maranesi has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Telespazio in the Earth Observation Division, and CEO of e-GEOS. Since 2011, he is Senior Vice President in charge of the Geo Information Business Unit of the Telespazio Group and CEO of e-GEOS.

e-GEOS is in charge of distributing worldwide the commercial part of the COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation and owner of distribution rights for one of the widest data portfolio on the worldwide commercial market, as well as to offer Geo Information applications and services, such as maritime surveillance, land management, emergency response to disasters, and on-line geodatabase services.

Marc Kleemann has worked as a Unit Manager and Head of the GIS Competence Center at Logica Germany, since 2008. He is responsible for all GIS business development and support of GIS projects run by Logica Germany. As a Management Consultant, he is supporting NATO in the implementation of BI-SC AIS Core Geographic Services (CoreGIS) and leading the CoreGIS Independent Verification and Validation team (IV&V). For a german water supplier, he is as Project Director responsible for the implementation of a GIS-based asset management system. From 2001 to 2005 he worked for CSC Germany and was responsible for the development and implementation of GIS solutions at the German Armed Forces. As such, he was the GIS Architect in Command and Control projects like FüInfoSys (PP 9.4.4) in 2001/2002 and VERIS, that he was heading as a Project Manager from 2003 to 2005.

Jens Elstermeier has worked as a Unit Manager and the NATO & International Defence Account Manager at Logica Germany, since 2007. He is responsible for all NATO projects led by Logica Germany. As a Project Manager and Project Director, he led the NATO Document Handling System implementation project for ISAF in 2009 and the Afghan Mission Network Enterprise Portal implementation for all ISAF RCs and NTM-A in 2010/2011 and has been deployed to Afghanistan several times. From 2003 to 2007 he worked for Microsoft Germany and was responsible for the solution business involving the German Armed Forces and Federal Organizations for Public Safety and National Security and from 2000 to 2003 at Hewlett Packard in solution sales and as an architect for Global Accounts such as EADS and NATO (e.g. ACE ACCIS).

Chet Hayes, Director of Solutions at MarkLogic Corporation, leads the technical pre-sales delivery strategy for the company's public sector division. He has worked on major service-oriented architectures for the Department of Defense and the U.S. Intelligence Community, as well as major corporations in the financial service and travel sectors. Prior to joining MarkLogic, Chet served as Vice President of Professional Services for a SOA Governance consultancy, where he was responsible for client delivery, strategy and business development for the public sector. He also was the Manager, Systems Engineering, at BEA Government Systems where he led a team of engineers to bring SOA solutions to the federal government. Chet is a graduate of Brigham Young University and earned his degree in Computer Science.

Barry MacDonald joined the Canadian Forces in 1971 and was commissioned, as an Intelligence Officer, in 1994. He has served in the Infantry and Military Police career fields but has been employed as an intelligence professional since 1978. He has served as an intelligence analyst, manager, trainer, assistant attaché and staff officer.

His assignments have spanned the full range of tactical, operational and strategic positions in Army, Air Force and joint headquarters in Canada, the United States, Cyprus, and Europe. After commissioning and qualification as an Intelligence Officer, he served as the A2 for Fighter Group/Canadian NORAD Region (CANR) responsible for delivering the full range of intelligence support to the CF Fighter Force. During this period, he was a leader in the re-engineering of Airforce Intelligence and oversaw the transition of CANR intelligence responsibilities to a new headquarters and staff.

In 2007, Barry was assigned to National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa where he was the national coordinator for Measurement and Signatures Intelligence and, later, Chief of Staff for the Directorate of Geospatial Intelligence; an organization of some 600 personnel.

Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 2010, he led the Governance and Partnerships Staff responsible for managing Canadian Forces geospatial intelligence relationships both domestic and international. He was also selected to establish a J2 Targeting Branch which he led until his retirement from Regular Force service in May 2011.

Honours and Awards

Barry has been selected for recognition on a number of occasions. Most significantly, he has been awarded:

• the Vice Chief of Defence Staff Commendation
• the Chief of Defence Staff/Deputy Minister of National Defence Award
• the US Department of Defence Joint Service Commendation Medal
• the Owen-Kenyon Award for Excellence in Achievement in National Imagery
• the Major General R.J.G. Weeks Award for Outstanding Service to Canadian Military Intelligence

Stuart Blundell is vice president of Geospatial Products & Solutions at Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems. He has more than 20 years of experience in the geospatial industry and is a recognized thought leader in the field of automated feature extraction from imagery and LIDAR. As the co-founder of Visual Learning Systems, the developers of Feature Analyst and LIDAR Analyst, Blundell has authored more than 50 professional papers and has served as principal investigator on numerous government research programs sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Army Geospatial Center and the NGA.

Brian Sloan is the acting Director, Office of Capability Coordination for Geospatial Information, Australian Department of Defence.

Brian graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1986 joining the Royal Australian Survey Corps and later transferring to the Royal Australian Engineers. His service included appointments to operational, training, staff and advisory positions including postings to Solomon Islands, USA and Iraq.

Brian’s final appointment in Army was as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, where he retired after 23 years service.

In 2010 he joined the public service where he has been involved in a program to reform Defence geospatial capability through strategy development and coordination of the capital investment program.

Brian has interests in history and R&B. He bushwalks and has clung to his golf handicap of 23 for some years.

Atle Ommundsen holds a Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics, Applied Mathematics from the University of Oslo (UIO), where he also undertook postdoctoral research. He started his carrier at Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in 2002 (Associate Professor UIO, 2002-2003). He is the manager of FFI's Maritime Surveillance projects group, working with spatial information and data fusion for GEOMETOC and Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA). As a principal scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, responsibilities involve determining overall direction of research, establishing, coordinating and executing research projects related to MSA.

Timothy Lanfear is a Solution Architect in NVIDIA’s Professional Solutions Group, promoting the use of the NVIDIA Tesla™ computing solution for high-performance computing. He has twenty years’ experience in HPC, starting as a computational scientist in British Aerospace’s corporate research centre, then moving to technical pre-sales roles with Hitachi, ClearSpeed, and most recently NVIDIA. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD for research in the field of graph theory, both from Imperial College London.

As Global Head of Reference Data Management, Lorraine is responsible for managing the day-to-day global reference data operations of RBS GBM and has accountability for driving the reference data strategy, developing the operating model and ensuring global alignment to policy and controls.
Reference Data at RBS GBM includes Client, Market, Common and Organisational reference data.
Prior to this appointment Lorraine was Global Head of Business Management for the Reference Data shared service at ABN AMRO. Her background includes close to 20 years of Investment Banking Operations and Change management experience and she has held senior roles at RBS, ABN Amro, Lloyds TSB Financial Markets, Abbey National Treasury Services, Lehman Brothers and BNP.

Mohammed S. Alfarhan is currently an assistant research pro¬fessor in King Abdulaziz City for Sciences and Technology (KACST), Oil & Gas Research Institute. He joined KACST, in 1997. His research has emphasized the development of the use of LiDAR and close-range digital photog-raphy and photogrammetry for building 3D photorealistic virtual models of geology and manmade features and integrated them in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He has applied this to capturing and modeling sites in USA, Canada and Saudi Arabia for teaching and research. He holds a B.S. degree in geology from King Saud University, an M.S. degree in geosciences, M.S. degree in geospatial information sciences and PhD in Geosciences from the Univer¬sity of Texas at Dallas.

LCdr Susan Long-Poucher is a Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer, currently deployed to the NATO Shipping Centre in NATO’s Northwood Headquarters, in support of Counter-Piracy operations. She is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Shipping Centre; managing the information flow between NATO and the merchant shipping industry, and overseeing various initiatives to reduce the risk of piracy for vessels transiting the high risk area of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. Prior to this position, she was the Commanding Officer of HMCS CATARAQUI, the Naval Reserve Division in Kingston, Ontario, and throughout her career, she has held many positions within training and operations involving the merchant shipping community.
A training consultant and independent contractor in her civilian career, LCdr Long-Poucher holds a BEd in English and a BPEd.

Mark Reichardt is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). Mr. Reichardt has overall responsibility for Consortium operations, overseeing the development and promotion of OpenGIS® standards and working to ensure that OGC programs foster member success. He works with other standards development organizations and professional associations to establish alliance agreements to assure that OGC standards and other standards work together fluidly. Such coordination is critical, for example, to support standards that enable the full integration of geospatial information with real time sensor data and Building Information Models (BIM) used in architecture, engineering, construction and full life cycle management of buildings and other physical infrastructure.

Mr. Reichardt serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association and on the BuildingSmart Alliance Board of Direction.

Sigmund joined the Norwegian Army in 1980 and served until 1997. In the Norwegian Army he graduated from the Military Academy as well as the Norwegian Command & Staff College. When he retired from the army Sigmund was heading the ISTAR section at the Norwegian School of Cavalry.
Most of his military career was related to tactical Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
After leaving the army Sigmund spent 5 years as a sensor product manager in Thales Norway. From 2002 till 2009 he held the position as defence and law enforcement account manager in Geodata (ESRI Norway). In 2010 he moved to Tromso in northern Norway where he now holds the position as International Sales Manager in Kongsberg Satellite Services AS.

Major General USA (ret) John M. Custer is the Director of EMC’s Federal Strategic Missions and Programs. EMC is a leader in enabling government agencies to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
Custer is responsible for leading all aspects of strategy, business development and program execution for EMC Corporation’s Federal Business Division. His background with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations as well as Intelligence Training is crucial as EMC partners closely with the Federal Government and Department of Defense on its “Journey to the Cloud.”
Custer has more than three decades of government experience with intelligence, secure communications architectures, information technology and surveillance operations. As Director of Intelligence for US Central Command he supervised intelligence operations in twenty-seven nations across the Middle East and oversaw all ISR operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the remainder of the Middle East. General Custer commanded at every level and served as the primary Intelligence Staff Officer (S2/G2/J2) at Battalion, Brigade, Division, Corps and Joint Command echelons. He worked as a Space Architectures Planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as a Nuclear Weapons Targeting Officer aboard the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Airborne Command Post.
Custer is a graduate of the University of Delaware, a graduate of the Defense language Institute’s Russian curriculum and earned Masters degrees in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Defense Intelligence College and in National Security Studies from the National War College.

Captain Knight served in the Canadian Forces for almost 30 years before transitioning to the private sector. As a member of the Intelligence Branch, he was engaged in “Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance” (ISR) duties throughout his career, to include command of the Navy’s Joint Ocean Surveillance and Intelligence Centre. From 2002-2005, he was the Director of Joint Force Capabilities, and in this capacity was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his contribution to the development of military Command & Control systems. Building on his force development experience, he then completed a tour of duty as Director of the National Defence Command Centre, followed by an appointment as Director General Intelligence Capabilities. He retired from the Canadian Forces in 2007 and worked with Lockheed Martin Canada until 2011, when he joined ING Engineering and re-located to the lovely town of Cheltenham in the United Kingdom.

Hervé Touron is currently Operations Manager of the Operations Division of the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC). The EUSC is an Agency of the Council of the European Union (transferred from the Western European Union (WEU) in 2002), which provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and services to support the decision-making of the European Union including EU crisis management operations. It is one of the key institutions for the European Union Security and Defence Policy, and the only one in the field of space.

Hervé Touron joined the EUSC in 1993 after 16 years of service in the French Navy. Initially trained in the field of telecommunications, he joined the submarine forces and also served on surface warships for some years. He was then assigned to the Naval Intelligence Headquarters in Paris before joining the newly created WEU Satellite Centre near Madrid in 1993 as an Image Analyst. Later he supervised the Non Proliferation Team for some years and was appointed as Operations Manager two years ago.

With 23 years of experience in the field of GEOINT, he holds various diplomas and certificates in telecommunications, Intelligence, Imagery Analysis, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He actually follows the High Level Course in Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) awarded by the European Security and Defence College.

Born in Southeast England, Dave obtained a BSc honours degree in Physics and Solid State Electronics from Exeter University in 1980. He then worked in both Government laboratories and private industry in a number of roles. In 1985 he returned to academia to undertake postgraduate research, obtaining his PhD from Exeter University in 1989. Dave then joined the UK’s Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (which became part of the MOD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in 2001). During his career within Defence Science and Technology he has contributed to numerous R&D projects applying computer techniques to various forms of imagery/passive electro-optic signals (passive mm-wave, infrared and visible). This work has developed image restoration techniques as well as methods for analysing signatures from imaging sensors. Dave has led teams investigating and developing related computer-based image exploitation techniques and has provided advice and technical guidance in the use of specialised data and information exploitation techniques used by military staff and government analysts. Since 2006 Dave has been engaged in a number of additional roles; including the provision of capability advice to MOD defence staff and the leadership of elements of the MOD’s research programme. More recently Dave was selected to act as the UK National Project Officer for MAJIIC and in this role he is based within the ISTAR domain of the UK MOD’s Defence Equipment and Support organisation in Bristol.

Dave is a Chartered Physicist and also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He has produced over 50 publications (papers, conference papers and official reports) and received a number of commendations including a US Government award in November 2004 for being part of a UK/US team.

John Oechsle is an international business executive and seasoned speaker whose strategic insights about market creation and product innovation have helped transform businesses around the world. His 20+ year track record of building highly profitable and sustainable revenue growth for emerging companies and established global leaders includes key leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America with Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg Company, LandAmerica Financial and IHS. In addition, John created the vision, strategy and operational plans that helped triple revenue growth for two companies and resulted in their successful IPOs. He is currently Executive Vice President of Strategy and Product at DigitalGlobe.
John is a former Chairman of the Colorado Technology Association (CSIA). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Executive Program at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Air Commodore (Rtd) Mark Ashwell joined DigitalGlobe as the VP of Strategy and International Business Development in October 2009. Mark’s area of specialization is in Command and Control and Intelligence systems and capabilities. Previously he was Director of Intelligence Capability Strategy and Policy within the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence where he was responsible for the Defense Intelligence Modernization Programme and the fusion and exploitation of GEOINT, HUMINT, MASINT, SIGINT and open source intelligence. In a broad Royal Air Force career Mark commanded several major UK Air Defence units and was, ultimately, the Head of the RAF Air Battle Management specialization. His achievements include the reinvigoration of UK Air Defence and Command and Control Systems following the tragic events of September 11 2001 and establishing the first collaborative multi intelligence, cross agency, joint narcotics analysis centre focusing on Afghanistan. Mark is a graduate of the University of London and an Ancien of the NATO Defense College. He lives in High Wycombe UK and is married to Alison. They have a teenage daughter Sophie.

Textron Systems Corporation has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for more than 50 years. Known for its unmanned aircraft systems, advanced marine craft, armored vehicles, intelligent battlefield and surveillance systems, intelligence software solutions, precision smart weapons, piston engines, test and training systems, and total life cycle sustainment services, Textron Systems includes AAI Corporation, Lycoming Engines, Overwatch, Textron Defense Systems and Textron Marine & Land Systems.
Mr. Dolan has managed Geospatial System Development Groups within the aerospace industry, providing US Government and the defense ministries of international partners with systems and technologies supporting the tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination of geospatial intelligence.
Prior to joining the industry, Mr. Dolan served as a naval intelligence officer and held numerous positions involving the acquisition and production of geospatial intelligence. Mr. Dolan graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1977.

Marc Hocking is Senior Director of Technology in support of Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS) international growth. In this role, Mr. Hocking, who is located in London, works closely with the company’s Chief Technology Officer to expand RTCS’ current international presence by promoting the benefits of their cross domain access and transfer capabilities throughout the United Kingdom (UK) and other countries outside of North America.
For the last 12 years Mr. Hocking has created and delivered architectural design and operational deployments of cross domain, e-security and Web-based systems for PwC, Becrypt, LTD, and served in several Cabinet Office positions in the UK government working on security and infrastructure architecture initiatives. Hocking brings over 20 years of experience in the IT industry to RTCS with roles encompassing senior architecture design, security architecture, application integration incorporating n-tier architecture, messaging/middleware, and application development.

Colin is Head of Data Architecture for the Global Banking and Markets (GBM) division of Royal Bank of Scotland.

Colin graduated from Durham University with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and spent the early part of his career in software development and operational analysis in the defence sector. He joined Smith New Court in 1990 and progressed though a number of roles in Front Office Technology, Back Office Technology and Technology Infrastructure. In 1996, Colin became Head of Development for Cantor Fitzgerald in Europe. He then joined the EMU Programme at UBS, before returning to Merrill Lynch in 1998 where he managed a number of business migrations, data initiatives and major programmes.

Colin joined The Royal Bank of Scotland in 2006. He has led several initiatives to address some of the key data and architecture challenges facing GBM, including the programme to develop and implement a consolidated, authoritative store of all transactions. As Head of Data Architecture, Colin works across GBM to ensure progress towards an agreed target state for how data is sourced, shared and stored, with this architecture underpinned by suitable standards, best practices, models and documented "knowledge".

Colin is married, has three children and enjoys music, cycling, golf and watching a variety of sports.

Sven Bues is EMEA Industry Director Defence & Intelligence at Intrgraph. He joined Intergraph in 1996 as Technical Sales Assistant. In 1998 he became Sales Representative for Intergraph´s Defence & Intelligence Business Unit in Germany. From 2003-2004 he was leader of the European Competency Center for Military & Mapping.
Prior to joining Intergraph, Sven was an Officer in the German Army from 1985-1996 specialized on reconnaissance systems.
Sven graduated from the Military University Hamburg and holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Dennis leads the Geospatial-Intelligence Solutions business unit, responsible for the company’s portfolio of development and integration programs for mission-critical computing and storage infrastructure; outsourced cartographic and geospatial data production; and related system engineering, factory support, operations and sustainment, and R&D programs with his customer government agencies. The business also includes the GXP commercial software brand. The business has 1,100 employees in a dozen locations worldwide, including the UK and Australia.

Dennis has held several senior positions within BAE Systems–San Diego, including P&L responsibilities for two other business units. He joined BAE Systems through the legacy GDE Systems in 1994. His earlier career was in R&D, engineering, program management, and product line management for precision long-range weapons; battle management and mission planning; real-time surveillance and targeting; and naval combat systems. He began his career as a Navy surface line officer on a destroyer and project engineer at a Navy engineering laboratory.

Dennis has undergraduate and graduate degrees in applied mathematics and completed several company-sponsored executive programs. He has been an adjunct professor at a local university for twenty-five years, where he teaches mathematics and economics.

During a 20-year career in the defence, intelligence, and homeland security arenas John has collaborated with partners in industry as well as at the local, state, federal, and Coalition levels. He served as a signals and all-source intelligence officer in the US Marine Corps with tactical, theater, and national agency assignments. Worked as a Senior Source Strategies Analyst with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Supported the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) command’s space control mission as a Space Control Analyst. And was a Principal Analyst with Electronic Warfare Associates contributing to the development of the homeland security policies and practices for the State of Texas. As the senior manager for DigitalGlobe’s Analysis offerings, John is responsible for defining and implementing the company’s strategic Analysis product roadmap which contributes to saving time, resources, and lives.

Dr. Leif Haglund, received his PhD in computer vision from Linköping University, Sweden in 1992. After a post-doc period at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada he joined Saab 1995 working with radar and optronic applications both with functional design and as director for sensor development. He has published around 30 articles in the field of computer vision and was runner up for Ny Tekniks swedish innovations price 2009.
He has also been heavily involved in two spin out companies.
- Tracab (www.tracab.com) 2005, which tracks sports palyers in real time and currently employs approximately 30 people.
- C3Technologies (www.c3technologies.com) 2008, which builds 3D models using photogrammetry method and employs more than 30 people, where he also is a board member.
Presently he works as director Business Development for Image Processing and Computer Vision, mainly working with 3D-mapping for military applications.

Steve has worked within the defence and security arena for over 20 years. A considerable amount of this time has been focussed on providing solutions within the geospatial domain. From 1992, Steve worked as a consultant for the Maritime Warfare Centre, within the Submarine Tactical Development Group, supporting the planning, conduct and exercise of Royal Navy Trials. More recently Steve worked with the UKHO, where in addition to other projects; he supported the transition of the business to an innovative system for the management of Source Data.

Steve joined Envitia in 2007 and is responsible for the growth of Envitia in the defence domains such as research and C4ISR. Steve is also account manager for the Envitia led AGIS programme that will ensure that MoD stays at the vanguard of geospatial research.

Jamie Lytle, Director of International Sales, Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions (RTCS). RTCS is the global leader in multi-level access and cross domain transfer products for Defence and Intelligence Communities. As Director of International Sales, Jamie frequently represents RTCS at information sharing events within 5-eyes and NATO member countries and provides education on the value of cross domain technologies in military, civilian, and commercial environments. For the past 15 years, she has worked with Defence and Intelligence organisations to deliver successful enterprise solutions for secure information sharing.

Jamie has developed RTCS' international strategy and presence for cross domain solutions within the 5-eyes nations. During her tenure at RTCS, Jamie has been instrumental in ensuring that the deployed RTCS PL4 solutions successfully meet critical information sharing challenges while balancing the country specific information assurance (IA) requirements set forth by local technical authorities. Under Jamie’s purview, RTCS has established a solid reputation within the 5-eyes and NATO member countries and is experiencing rapid international growth.

Axel Oddone graduated in Environmental Engineering, with a specialization in Remote Sensing and Geo-resources, at the Politecnico di Milano in 1997. He is the Head of Multi-mission Data Access of e GEOS. e-GEOS is a company created by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) which plays a leading role in the Earth Observation market (www.e-geos.it) and it is the world-wide exclusive distributor of the Italian Constellation COSMO-SkyMed.
In 1998 he joined Eurimage, a joint venture between Telespazio and Astrium for the distribution of satellite imagery in the European market, where he set up and managed the Technical Help Desk.
In 2010 he joined e-GEOS, and is working now as Head of Multi-mission Data Access. His work is focusing mainly on the development and improvement of COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation data access, both from an operational and infrastructural point of view. He coordinates also the e GEOS Collection Planning team, who is in charge of all the e-GEOS satellite planning activities, both VHR Optical and Radar; these activities are performed in cooperation with the e-GEOS Matera Ground station in Southern Italy, the Neustrelitz station in Germany run by Euromap, and by interfacing the major Satellite Operators such as GeoEye and DigitalGlobe.
During these years he also worked as the Technical Manager for many Eurimage/e-GEOS complex projects such as EC’s GMES, the JRC CwRS (Control with Remote Sensing) and other D&I activities, being responsible for the optimization of the e-GEOS collection planning to match high level technical requirements.

Luca Pietranera graduated in Physics with a specialization in Astrophysics and experimental Cosmology at La Sapienza University of Rome. He is the Head of COSMO-SkyMed Product Innovation and Technical Support in e-GEOS. e-GEOS is a company created by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) which plays a leading role in the Earth Observation market (www.e-geos.it)

He has worked on the design, development and testing of infrared surveillance and tracking systems both for military and environmental applications including the design, testing and realization of an infrared system for automated forest fire monitoring.

He has also worked on the design and testing of weather radars and other meteorological instruments and systems. In 1997 he joined the Telespazio Earth Observation division as leader of the product innovation group. While on sabbatical leave in 2005-2006 Luca Pietranera was visiting researcher at the School of Physics and Astrophysics, Cardiff University, UK, working on experimental cosmology and microwave component design. He also has wide teaching experience and is the author of over 25 refereed papers, Since 2007 he has been working on high-resolution radar data and in e-GEOS is now responsible for both new COSMO-SkyMed application development and design for future missions.