Annual Winter Conference will be organized by January 22-26, 2012 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. This conference aims to emphasize on education programs, networking to build business-to-business relationships, and ways to better manage a surveying, mapping or geospatial company.
Topics on the conference program will include:
- The Business Opportunity in Cloud Computing; Is FAA Shutting Down LiDAR?
- NGA’s GeoInt Data Services Contract
- A National Enhanced Elevation Program
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- A National Geodetic Survey (NGS) National Gravity Program
- The NERC Market for Geospatial Data; Spatial Information in Support of Renewable Energy
- State Government Outsourcing & Privatization of Geospatial Activities
- Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business Procurement
- State GIS Councils: Agents of Change or Defenders of the Status Quo?
- Vegetative Mapping; Creating a Government Relations Program in Your Firm
- State Licensing of Photogrammetrists: What’s the Status, What’s Working and What’s Not?
The Executive Director of MAPPS, John Palatiello, said, “In addition to these timely and important sessions, MAPPS meetings are known for the opportunity to network with the leaders of the geospatial community — the key decisions makers, the principals, owners, partners and senior professional executives of the top firms in the market.
MAPPS is conducting a special membership promotion for firms which are not current members. The association invites principals of firms to attend winter conference at the non-member rate but if the firm joins MAPPS prior to the end of the conference on January 26, 2012, the firm will be credited with the difference between the member and non-member rate. That is a 56% savings. The reimbursement will be credited toward the firm’s 2012 membership dues in MAPPS.
About MAPPS
Incorporated in the year 1982, MAPPS is the only national association exclusively comprised of private firms in the spatial data, remote sensing, and geographic information systems field in the United States. MAPPS offers its more than 180 member firms opportunities for networking and developing business-to-business relationships, information sharing, education, public policy advocacy, market growth, and professional development and image enhancement.
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