snippet-of-presenters.yml

# http://2009.foss4g.org/presenters.yml
presenters:
  presenter_01:
    name: Thierry Badard 
    address: 'Quebec City, QC, Canada'
    location_wkt: SRID=4326;POINT(-71.270199 46.782536)
    biography: Dr. Thierry Badard is professor in geoinformatics at the Department of geomatics sciences of Laval University in Quebec City (Canada). He heads the GeoSOA research group and is a full time researcher and a member of the steering committee of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG). He is also a regular researcher of the GEOIDE Network of Centres of Excellence in geomatics. He has more than 13 years of experience and he has been involved and has led national and international R & D projects of importance. His research interest deals with geospatial (Web) Services Oriented Architectures (SOA), location-based and context-aware web services, geospatial Business Intelligence and geo-analytical tools and the design of intelligent mobile applications for better decision support. Dr. Thierry Badard is also involved in the geospatial free and open source community. He is administrator and project coordinator of the GeOxygene, GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and Spatialytics open source projects. He is an OSGeo charter member and acts as a member of the OSGeo conference committee. He is in charge of the free software commission in the OSGeo Francophone local chapter and he co-chairs the OSGeo Quebec local chapter. He is also a co-chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) working group on open source geospatial technologies.
    sessions: 
      1: workshop_01 # Geospatial BI with FOSS: an introduction to GeoMondrian and Spatialytics

  presenter_02:
    name: Etienne Dubé
    address: 'Quebec City, QC, Canada' 
    location_wkt: SRID=4326;POINT(-71.270199 46.782536)
    biography: "Etienne works at the Department of Geomatic Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada and has contributed to a number of open source projects"
    sessions: 
      1: workshop_01 # Geospatial BI with FOSS: an introduction to GeoMondrian and Spatialytics

  presenter_03:
    name: Jeff McKenna
    address: 'Ottawa, ON, Canada'
    location_wkt: SRID=4326;POINT(-75.700644 45.411879)
    biography:
      'In 2008 Jeff started his own consulting company based around FOSS4G, Gateway Geomatics, and is actively contributing to OSGeo.
      Founding and Charter member of OSGeo
      Maintainer for Maptools.org
      Developer for MS4W
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