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24 - 27 January, 2011
QEII Centre London
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We Would Like To Thank All Of Our DGI 2010 Speakers


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Jill Smith

President & CEO

DigitalGlobe

 

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Jerry Thomas

Assistant Chief of Defence

UK MoD

 

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LTC Pat Fryer

Geospatial & Imagery Capability Development, Intelligence Sub-Division, Supreme Allied Command Transformation

NATO

 

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General Sir Rupert Smith

 

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John D. Kedar

Comd Jago

UK MoD

 

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Jeff Peters

Director of Federal programmes

ESRI

 

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Neil Ackroyd

Director Of Data Collection and Management

Ordinance Survey

 

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Stuart Haynes

Director

UK MoD

 

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Patrick Brooijmans

GIS Consultant

Netherlands MoD

 

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Jeff Kerridge

General Manager, Defense & Intel Business Unit

DigitalGlobe

 

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Neil Thompson

Director Geospatial Intelligence

National Defence Canada

 

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Richard Smith

Force Information Manager

British Transport Police

 

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Steve Malcolm

DI ICSP-JGO

Royal Navy, UK MOD

 

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Marlene Meyer

Head of Defence

Geospatial Organisation, Denmark

 

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Kjeti Utne

Director

Norwegian MoD

 

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Ronald Kvalsund

Senior Engineer and Strategist

Norweigan MoD

 

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Brian Routledge

Head of Operations Support

EU Satellite Centre

 

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Jonathan Shears

Defence and Intelligence Divisional Manager

Spot Infoterra

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Jean-Armel Habault

Chief of Joint Geographic Department

France MoD

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Laure Dassonville

Head of Geospatial Department, DGA

France MoD

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Orjan Wallers

Geographic Support Establishment

Swedish Armed Forces

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Joshua Lyons

GIS Analyst

UNOSAT/UNITAR

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Jim Dolan

Vice President

Textron Systems

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Antonio De Vita

Commander

Italian Military Geographic Institute

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Tim Buckley

GIS Consultant

British Embassy, Kabul

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Caroline Wyatt

Defence Correspondant

BBC

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John F. Olesak

Vice President, Integrated Intelligence Systems

Northrop Grumman

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Bob Burkhardt

Geospatial Information Officer & Director

US Army

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Laura H. Munchmore

Director for Business Enterprise Integration

US DOD

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David Labranche

Programme Manager

US DOD

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Michael W.Powers

Technical Director

US Army

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Bruce M. Lawlor

Major General

US Army-Ret.

Former Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former Senior Director for Protection and Prevention, White House Homeland Security Council, and the first Commanding General, Department of Defense Joint Task Force-Civil Support. Gen. Lawlor is experienced in U.S. Government homeland security policy making at the most senior levels. As DHS Chief of Staff, he managed the department’s policy decision making process, coordinated department operations, and provided oversight for implementation of the DHS Secretary’s decisions. While a member of the Homeland Security Council staff, he directed the development of U.S. Government strategic plans and policies, provided oversight of interagency coordination of inter- and intra-governmental programs.
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Aquilino Diaz

Chief Geospacial Intelligence

Intelligence Fusion Centre (IFC) In Support of Nato

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Charles Howard-Vyse

Officer Commanding, RAF

UK MoD

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John Knight

Principal, Royal School of Military

UK MoD

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Caralampos Paraschou

Chief Geospacial Officer

NATO Deplyoment Core, Greece

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Ian R. Readhead

Director of Information

Association of Police Officers

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Nigel Woof

Operations Director

mapAction

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Graham Davidson

DI ICSP ASI Photo

UK MoD

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John Allan

Director of European Sales for Defence and Intelligence

DigitalGlobe

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Zvonko Biljecki

President of the Board

Geofoto

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Hugh MacKay

Director, European Sales

Intermap Technologies

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Luca Pietranera

COSMO-SkyMed Lead Application Specialist

e-GEOS

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Marcello Maranesi

Chief Executive Officer

e-GEOS

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John Day

Director Global Defence Business Development

ESRI

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Bret Cameron

Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (MJMTK) Program Manager

Northrop Grumman

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Stefan Carlyle

Program Director

DEFRA

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Mark Ashwell

Director, International Defense Business Development

DigitalGlobe

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Scott Simmons

Executive VP of Technology

TECHNIGRAPHICS

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David Stanley

Chief Techololgy Officer

PCI Geomatics

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Keith Wishart

Central Government Strategist

ESRI UK

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Brigadier General USA (Ret) Jack Pellicci

Senior Vice President

Intergraph Corporation

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David Burridge

Officer Commanding, No.1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit

RAF, MOD UK

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David Burridge

Senior Consultant

ITT

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Emese Csete

Operations Director

MapAction

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Leif Sundgren

Director, Geographic Support Establishment (Geo SE)

Swedish Armed Forces, National Land Survey

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Emese Csete

Operations Director

MapAction

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Vytautas Roamonaitis

Head of Telecommunications Solutions

HNIT Baltic

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Daniel Fainsod

Program Manager - National imagery Archive

ELTA Systems

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Michael Arieli

Geo-Intelligence Systems Marketing Manager

ELTA Systems

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Frank Pabian

Project Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

National Nuclear Security Administration

Frank Pabian has over 37 years experience with GEOINT, including 18 years with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Special Projects Division. Frank also served as a Chief Inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency during United Nations inspections in Iraq from 1996-1998 focusing on “Capable Sites.” In December 2002, he served as one of the first US nuclear inspectors back in Iraq with UN/IAEA. Frank has also been a frequent lecturer at Stanford University on the “New Geospatial Tools” and Open Source Applications at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)and is the author of a textbook chapter on the utility of commercial satellite imagery for IAEA safeguards purposes in NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS, SECURITY AND NON PROLIFERATION, Elsevier Publishers, 2008.
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Captain (IT-N) Nunzio Iacomino

Chief, Policy Branch

Italian Defence General Staff

Captain Nunzio Iacomino, Italian Navy, graduate of the Italian Naval Academy, NATO Defence College and Italian Joint Military School.

In 1990, Captain Iacomino obtained his first appointment as Commanding Officer of an Ocean Minesweeper. From 1994–99 he served on the Italian Navy General Staff and on the Italian Defence General Staff. During that time, soon after the Dayton Agreement, he was appointed as Chief of the Information Section of the Sarajevo-forward HQ-European Community Monitor Mission in the Balkans.

From 1999 – 2000 he was the Commanding Officer of the Frigate “Lupo”. From September 01 to September 04 he was appointed as Assistant Defense and Defense Cooperation Attachè to the Italian Defense Attachè Office, Washington D.C..

Then back to the Defence Staff-Intelligence Division as Head of the Policy for Information and Electronic Warfare Branch.

In his capacity he has also the overall responsibility on the policy related to the international cooperation with the Geospatial Organizations of the allied partners as well as on the efforts of the three Italian Geographic Institutes.

He holds a degree in Strategic Maritime Science from the University of Pisa, a degree in International and Diplomatic Science-University of Trieste, and a post university degree in Strategic Science, University of Milan.

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John Lee

Director of Business Development

Vexcel, a Microsoft company

Mr. John E. Lee holds a B.Sc. Degree in Biology from McGill University and an M.S. Degree in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University. He has been active in the GIS industry for 30 years, working for GIS and remote sensing organizations that include DigitalGlobe, Space Imaging, and Vexcel Corporation, the latter acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006. In his role as Director of Business Development for the Microsoft subsidiary, Mr. Lee continues to oversee business initiatives relating to Vexcel’s legacy offerings as well as for those of the new Virtual Earth Server, Microsoft’s off-line on-premise version of their Bing Maps internet mapping platform.

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Jack Pellicci

Senior Vice President

Intergraph Corporation

Jack Pellicci is a senior vice president at Intergraph Corporation and is the General Manager of the Federal, Security, Intelligence and Map Production divisions. He served with distinction in the United States Army and retired at the rank of Brigadier General. He served in key command and staff assignments both peace and war and commanded operational battalion and brigade level organizations. In his last 2 assignments in the Army he served as the Director of Training, US Department of the Army and Commanding General of the Army Personnel Information Systems Command and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Total Army Personnel Community. Upon retiring from the US Army, he joined Oracle Corporation as a key executive in the company’s Federal Government/ Public Sector Group. While at Oracle for 14 years, he served in numerous positions including Vice President, Business Development Oracle Federal, Group Vice President for the Global Public Sector and Group Vice President Business Development and Program Management for the North America Public Sector. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1995, where he has been a proponent of Global Geospatial standards and interoperability and has been a strong advocate for the development of a US National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). He has been a keynote Speaker at Global Spatial Data (GSDI), Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Defense Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) conferences in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In 2002 he joined the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) where he chaired the Outreach and Awards committee and helped initiate Geospatial Intelligence tradecraft programs with major academic institutions in order to stimulate development of curriculums essential to support both industry and government with high quality graduates.

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Marc Tondriaux

CEO

Spot Infoterra

 

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LT. COL. (ITAF) Sabato Rainone

Chief, Geospatial Section, Intelligence Division

Italian Defence General Staff

Lt.Colonel Sabato (Dino) Rainone joined the Air Force in 1980.

In 1981, soon after completition of an imagery analysis course, he moved to the Air force Geographic Information Center (CIGA) at Pratica di Mare Air Force Base, where he served, until December 1994, as imagery analist on the Acquisition Data Section, as Chief of the Processing Data Section and as Chief of Study, Research and Development Branch.

On December 1994 he was assigned to the Defence General Staff, Policy Division, as Chief of Cartography, Oceanography and Meteorology Section.

From 1982 to 1998 he attended selected geographic courses, to include G.I.S. and MC&G Courses by Defense Mapping School in Fort Belvoir and first Geographic Officer Course at NATO school in Oberammergau (Germany).

Since 1989 he has been involved as Italian representative on International Bodies as UNGEGN and many Multinational Groups as DLMS, DGIWG, VaCWG and MGCP. In the NATO Geospatial Community he is a senior member and holds the position of Italian representative in the NATO Geospatial Conference and other relevant working groups. From 1999 to 2001 he acted as Chairman of the NATO Interservice Geospatial Working Group.

Since September 1, 2005, Lt.Col. Rainone holds the position of Chief, Geospatial Section of the Italian Defence General Staff-Intelligence Division, to manage all policy matters concerning geospatial information at Joint, NATO, International level