The organisers of Locate16 last week announced the conference’s opening plenary will be provided by the Honourable Angus Taylor MP, Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, Federal Member for Hume.
With this confirmation, earlybird pricing will remain available until 18 March for the national geospatial event of the year, Locate 16, held over three days from 12-14 April in Melbourne.
Angus Taylor was elected to Federal parliament in September 2013 and was appointed to parliamentary committees including the Coalition’s Backbench Employment Committee, the Joint Committee on Trade and Investment Growth, the Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit and in late 2015 was appointed Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
After two years on the backbench, Angus was made an Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister with special responsibility for Cities and Digital Transformation.
Prior to entering parliament in 2013 Angus was a Director at Port Jackson Partners where he was a strategy and business advisor to a number of global and Australian companies and public sector organisations. He provided advice at a CEO and board level in the resources, agriculture, energy and infrastructure sectors. Prior to this he was a partner at global consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
In his private capacity Angus has founded or advised a number of small, fast growing start-up businesses.
The Locate Conference is now in its 3rd year as the leading surveying and spatial industries event and is hosted by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) and Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA).
For more information on the Locate16 Conference, please visit www.locateconference.com.
Innovate@Locate Hackfest Locations Announced
Also kicking off this week, is the Innovate@Locate Hackfest, which looks to bring together key datasets, which are essential to our prosperity, protection, sustainability and ability to grow.
The Hackfest Showcase will run ahead of the Conference on Thursday 17 March 2016 through webinar registrations. There will also be a number of events held around Australia on 18th March to officially launch the competition.
Further details here: http://spatialsource.com.au/2016/03/09/locate16-launches-innovationlocate-hackfest/
