Vancouver, BC, May 21, 2007—GeoWeb 2007 organizers are pleased to announce the GeoWeb 2007 program is finalized and posted on the official conference Web site. Registration opened early last week. Space is limited and participants may register online at www.geoweb.org or by calling 1.303.337.0513.

This year’s GeoWeb 2007 program comprises a lineup of industry leading sponsors, keynoters, paper presentations, exhibits, networking events, and workshops. Furthermore, conference organizers are thrilled to announce that Vinton Cerf, a founding father of the Internet, will be the guest speaker.

Target audience for GeoWeb 2007 spans business and technical leaders across any domain where location information is relevant.

The paper presentation portion of the program includes over 50 presentations covering geospatial technologies and applications related to search engines, building information modeling, emergency response, natural resources, government planning, homeland security, database providers, data vendors and much more.

Keynotes include Chairman and CEO of ESRI, Jack Dangermond; Chief Technology Officer for Google Earth and Google Maps, Mike Jones; and Vice President of Engineering for the Platform Solutions and Emerging Business Division of Autodesk, Gary Lang.

Sponsors to date are Google, Autodesk and ESRI, and GeoConnections Canada. Gold and Silver sponsorship opportunities are available but limited in number.

A key feature of the conference program is the 13 technical workshops offered. They are the following:

Putting GML Into Practice (full day)
Creating Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Geospatial Platform (full day)
Community-Collaborative Mashups with Google Maps API (full day)
Geospatial Standards for JPEG 2000
Building GML and Flash-based Mashups Using Flex and Apollo
Building Geo-Mashup Applications Using the Semantic Web and TopBraid Composer
The Use of Ontologies in GML Schema Mapping and Error Handling
Geosocial Networking: Democratic Access to Location-based Content Made Easy
A New Paradigm for Image Solutions – the ArcGIS Image Server
Developing Web 2.0 applications with Oracle WebCenter, MapViewer, and Spatial
Unlocking the Potential of ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online
Building XML Applications with GML
A Detailed Look at the SAML and XACML Standards

Lastly, GeoWeb 2007 offers two networking receptions and a vendors spotlight that enables vendors to showcase their products and services during an non-competitive portion of the program.

For more information about GeoWeb 2007, please visit www.geoweb.org, or e-mail .

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About the GeoWeb Conferences

The GeoWeb conferences are about unleashing the economic potential associated with the convergence of XML, Web services, and geographic information systems, known as the GeoWeb. Organized via partnership between Galdos Systems Inc. (Galdos) and Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA), GeoWeb 2007 welcomes both public and private organizations to meet, discuss, and learn about today’s most innovative geospatial technologies and the possibilities related to this important technological shift. GeoWeb 2007 will include dedicated workshops on Geography Markup Language (GML), KML, MapPoint, LandXML, SVG, ebRIM, and OGC Web Services for GIS. For information, please visit www.geoweb.org.