Expert Reviews

"The Defence Geospatial Intelligence Conference has evolved over the last seven years to now become a leading global event. It has provided a platform for a community that touches every area of Defence and each year provides a different focus, allowing practitioners and industry to demonstrate both best practice and recent developments. The use of different tracks and themes allows attendees to better understand their areas of interest or gain a broader understanding in others. The introduction of an Advisory Panel for the 2011 has only helped enhance the quality of speakers and the event as a whole."

Lt. Col. Neil Marks, National Expert, Council of the European Union

"DGI has provided us with a concrete opportunity to further develop our collaborative approach with defense and security users aimed at demonstrating innovative monitoring services in response to needs of specific pilot cases selected by the users".

Marcello Maranesi, CEO, e-GEOS

“DGI is the most important and fruitful conference in GEOINT ; the latest developments and the conclusions can instantly take effect on the field”

Lt. Col. Babis Paraschou, Chief Geospatial Officer, European Union Force

"DGI continues as the premier geospatial intelligence conference in Europe providing great opportunities to learn more about the issues, opportunities and technology facing providers and consumers of GEOINT. The balance of formal presentations and focus days, combined with great networking among leading government, academic and industry executives, makes this a compelling event. 2011 was the best yet. WBR provided a world class event."

John Day, Director of Defence Business Development, Esri

"Initially I wasn't sure about investing our time and energy in DGI 2011 because there are so many industry events and they can be very similar.However, the level of focus and attention to detail from DGI 2011 organisers made the event very successful from our perspective and if you are involved in Defence & Intelligence anywhere around the world, I would thoroughly recommend you attend and participate in this event. I know the OGC will be back at DGI 2012!"

Steven Ramage, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

"The speaker line-up is so impressive it's nearly impossible to decide which parallel stream to attend--I wish I'd brought a colleague along with me"

Pekka Nurhonen, Field Applications Team Leader, IT Management Agency, Finnish Police Force

"The mix of defence and government agency case studies is excellent--a comprehensive and fully rounded review of the critical geospatial issues we face"

Steve Erskine, UK Home Office

"The selection of case studies is perfect and delivers a valuable review of the critical geo-information challenges we all face"

Lt. Col. Richard Nicklin, EU Military Staff, National Military Expert (Geospatial)

"Enlightening and educational--a huge Bravo Zulu to the organisers and industry who make this happen"

William Lingsch, Director, Littoral & Riverine Department, US Navy Oceanographic Office

"The range of case studies from different types of organisations across the globe is phenomenal--you don't get that anywhere else"

Dr. John Peaty, Special Projects, Defence Geographic Centre, Intelligence Collection Group, UK Ministry of Defence

"Excellent speakers & participants. Great for information and networking!"

Guiseppe Conti, Senior Scientist, GraphiTech

"If we didn’t attend DGI every year we would be missing out on a very big opportunity. All the decision-makers gather at DGI."

Rick Mort, Technical Sales Manager, BAE Systems

"An extraordinary forum to showcase our products and capabilities, with a fantastic blend of industry and users."

Jill Smith, President & CEO, DigitalGlobe

"...great forum for networking and for finding out about innovation in GIS."

Brian Routledge, Head of Operations Support, EU Satellite Centre

"DGI is the key part of our calendar every year. Exclusive environment to meet senior decision-makers."

John Day, Director, Defence Business Development, ESRI UK

"I have attended DGI for 5 years, and each year I get a lot of new strategies from users and new technologies from vendors."

Geoff Twentyman, Capability Advisor Geospatial Intelligence, DSTL, UK MoD

"Excellent networking, top quality presentations. We are definitely coming back!"

Simon Chesworth, Senior Account Manager, Navteq

"...definitely the most focused event in geospatial intelligence in the whole of Europe."

John Allan, Director of European Sales For Defence & Intelligence, DigitalGlobe

"Remarkable keynote speakers, dynamic panel discussions and noteworthy technology demonstrations – very relevant to our target market."

Matthew M. O’Connell, CEO, President and Director, GeoEye