News in 2015
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Ensuring the Rapid Response to Change, Ensuring the Surveyor
of Tomorrow, FIG Kick-Off Event
24 January 2015, Athens Greece
Chryssy Potsiou at the Kick Off Event. Photo by Kenneth Swindaman
At the FIG Congress 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the new FIG
President, Vice Presidents and Commission Chairs were elected for the period
2015 – 2018. FIG celebrated this transition on 24 January 2015 in Athens
with a Kick-Off Event and seminar. The main theme of the seminar was
“Ensuring the Rapid Response to Change, Ensuring the Surveyor of Tomorrow”,
which is also the theme for the current FIG Council 2015-2018. Invited
speakers addressed the theme. The Kick Off event also celebrated the change
in leadership of FIG.
Around 60 International participants and more than 100 Greek surveyors
attended the event. Because of the Greek election that was scheduled to take
place on the following day, the General Secretary of the Ministry of
Environment, energy and Climate Change was not able to attend, nor the
President of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) Christos Spirtzis, but
the rest of the programme was carried through as planned. The presentation
by Dr. Vanessa Laurence Co-Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts
of Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), took place by Skype.
The event was organised by the Technical Chamber of Greece together with
FIG.
Special thanks to the Gold Sponsors of the event: Attica Bank and
Eurobank, as well as the Silver Sponsor: Marathon Daa Systems, and the
Bronze Sponsors: Gaia SA, Geosystems Hellas, and the Association of
Geoinformatics and Cadastre Companies.
The day started with the traditional FIG Fanfare where after FIG Past
President CheeHai Teo (2011-14) handed over the FIG chain to President
Chryssy Potsiou. At the end of the day there were certificates to mark the
outgoing Commission Chairs who have served as Chair for the past 4 years,
and the new Commission Chairs were all given the special FIG Bronze pin to
mark their new positions as Chair.
The FIG Council 2015-2018, from left VP Rudolf Staiger, President
Chryssy Potsiou, VP Diane Dumashie and VP Pengfei Cheng. VP Bruno
Razza is not present in the picture. Photo by John Hohol |
The wonderful view to Acropolis from the center of Athens. Photo by
John Hohol
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After the event FIG Council will use all input from the day to adjust and
finalise the FIG Work Plan 2015-18 with the good and relevant information
and knowledge provided during the day.
FIG Council and Commission Chairs also held meetings during the event in
Athens.
(More to follow)
The programme in pdf
Programme and handouts
| MORNING SESSIONS |
Chair: Robin McLaren, Know Edge Ltd, RICS |
| Welcome address by Greek hosts |
Christos Spirtzis, President of TCG
Chronis Akritidis General Secretary of TCG
Speech
Giannis Machikas President of HARSE
Socrates Alexiadis, General Secretary of the Ministry of
Environment, Energy and Climate Change
Prof Angelos Siolas, Vice Rector of National Technical
University of Athens (NTUA)
Prof Marinos Kavouras, Dean of the School of Rural and
Surveying Engineers, NTUA
Handouts
Gikas Manalis, CEO, Attica Bank, (Gold sponsor)
Dimitris Andritsos, MSc MRICS Chief Executive Officer,
Eurobank Property Services SA, (Gold sponsor)
Handouts |
| Looking ahead |
Prof Chryssy A. Potsiou, Associate
Professor, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA FIG
President
Ensuring the Rapid Response to Change, Ensuring the Surveyor of
Tomorrow
Handouts
Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Co-Chair of the United Nations
Committee of Experts of Global Geospatial Information Management
(UN-GGIM), formerly Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance
Survey (Skype presentation)
The importance of surveying: looking to the future
Handouts -
extra |
| Economic Developments |
Prof Nicolas P. Retsinas, Harvard Business
School Boston
Opening Doors to Private Investment |
| Land Management Developments |
Paul Munro-Faure, Deputy Director of the
Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
Global FAO guidelines on governance of tenure of land, fisheries and
forests
Handouts
Gavin Adlington, Lead Land Administration Specialist, The World
Bank
Cadastral Survey in the 21st century, and why the 19th Century
matters
Handouts |
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John Kontos, Marathon Data Systems (Silver sponsor)
Handouts |
| AFTERNOON SESSIONS |
| Technological Developments |
Prof Pengfei Cheng Director General,
National Quality Inspection and Testing Center for Surveying and
Mapping Products of China, and FIG Vice President
Developing Emergency Mapping, Meeting the Surveyor of Tomorrow
SpeechSeeLian Ong,
KMN Property Developer and Consultant, formerly Global President of
RICS, Chair of FIG Commission 10
Building Information Modeling (BIM)-Global Maturity in Adopting BIM
Handouts |
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Chair: Diane Dumashie, RICS, FIG Vice
President |
| Professional and Institutional
Developments |
Kees de Zeeuw, Director, Kadaster
International, The Netherlands
A new era: Dynamic Information Management
Handouts
Robin McLaren, Know Edge Ltd
Tomorrow’s Surveyor Today – Member Associations' Responsibilities
Handouts
Brent A. Jones PE, PLS Global Manager, Cadastre/Land
Records Esri
The Changing Value of Professional Associations
Handouts
Malcolm Lelliott, General Secretary of EGoS
The Private Sector and its Response to Change. Mobility of
Professionals within Europe
Handouts
Artemis Valani, Surveying Engineer, Consultant
The experience of a Greek Young Surveyor
Handouts |
| FIG Response to Change |
Robert W Foster, PE,PLS FIG Honorary
President, past ASCM President
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Handouts
CheeHai TEO, Licensed/Chartered Surveyor, Malaysia Former FIG
President
FIG: 2011 – 2014
Handouts
Prof Rudolf Staiger, Professor, Dept. of Surveying
Engineering and Geoinformatics, University of Applied Sciences
Bochum FIG Vice President
ACCO-Achievements and future Goals
Handouts
John Hohol, President of FIG Foundation
The FIG Foundation - Building A Sustainable Future. Activities and
Accomplishments During The Past Four Years
Handouts
Marc Vanderschueren, Director/Surveyor in Charge of the
International Relations for the General Administration of
Patrimonial Documentation of Belgium
Technical and Political Support of FIG and FGF (Federation of French
Speaking Surveyors) for the African Associations of Surveyors
Handouts
Prof Chryssy A. Potsiou Associate Professor, School of Rural
and Surveying Engineering, NTUA
FIG President
The FIG Work Plan 2015-2018
Handouts (2nd
part) |
| Closing of Inauguration ceremony |
Louise Friis-Hansen
FIG Manager
Copenhagen, 28 January 2015
28 January 2015
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