2009 Lead Sponsor

DigitalGlobe Delighted To Announce Lead Sponsorship Of Europe’s Biggest Geospatial Intelligence Conference

Jill Smith, President & CEO of DigitalGlobe, today announced that her company will take the prestigious lead sponsorship role at DGI 2009. DigitalGlobe will work closely with conference organiser WBR to develop the programme for the 2009 event, and will open the conference on the morning of the 28th of January 2009 to an expected audience of over 500 geospatial information and remote sensing executives from around the world.

Jill is a veteran corporate leader with a long history of strategic management and successful brand building. She was President and Chief Executive Officer of eDial, a collaboration software company that she successfully turned around and sold to Alcatel.  Prior to leading eDial, she was Chief Operating Officer of Micron Electronics, Inc., a $1.5 billion direct PC manufacturer and marketer.  While at Micron, Jill drove the PC business to profitability, and grew HostPro, Micron’s award-winning web hosting division, into the third-largest web and application hosting company, and a candidate for an IPO. Prior to Micron, Jill co-founded and led Treacy & Company, LLC, a successful boutique consulting and investment business that was merged with an Internet consulting firm, and was Chief Executive Officer of SRDS, L.P., a private publishing and printing company that she successfully repositioned and established as an electronic publishing leader. Her earlier experience includes executive positions at Sara Lee Corporation and Bain & Company, where she was a Vice President. Jill holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

“DGI is an extraordinary forum to showcase our products and capabilities, with a fantastic blend of industry and users,” explained Jill Smith. “The 2008 event brought together the world’s leading experts on the subject from both defence and other government agencies, and we look forward to meeting an even broader spectrum of geospatial information users in 2009.”

DigitalGlobe has a passion for using its technology and information to reveal the world around us, providing opportunities for change, education and advancement.  When professionals around the world look to create solutions to benefit their communities, DigitalGlobe is there with Earth imagery to plan and enable success.

The company was founded in 1992 as an earth imaging and information company and was the first company to ever receive a high-resolution commercial remote sensing license from the U.S. Government under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act.  The company currently operates the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite constellation with QuickBird and the first of two next-generation satellites, WorldView-1.  The company plans to complete construction of its second next-generation satellite, WorldView-2 in late 2008. 

DigitalGlobe has established itself as the leader in earth imagery and geospatial information products.  It is the first and only company operating a constellation of sub-meter commercial imaging satellites and is leading the industry into the next generation of commercial satellite imaging.  The company offers the most complete and accurate library of satellite and aerial imagery, and provides easy to use solutions for imagery discovery, viewing and integration.  DigitalGlobe collects more than 1 million km2 of satellite and aerial imagery per day; and is made available as quickly and as easily as possible, in whatever form that is required. 

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