The event will put together the whole latinamerican geocommunity, in Sao Paulo, on may 29th until 31st

Sao Paulo, 8th december - The biggest event of geotechnology of Latin America, MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012, is already set with date and place: 29-31 of May at the Frei Caneca Convention Center, in Sao Paulo (SP).

The approval of format and the forums’ topics, seminars, workshops, courses and coinciding events were accepted from the evaluation of those who participated in this year’s MundoGEO#Connect, and also with an online survey in which visitors of the MundoGEO portal could give their opinion and suggest topics.

Check out the preliminary program with topics to be discussed during the MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012:

05/29

• Opening and International Forum: GeoTendencies
• Workshop: Geocommunities
• Courses: GIS for City Halls; Remote Sensing; Geomarketing; Georeferencing of Rural Properties

05/30

• Forums: Security and Defense, Research & Development
• Seminars: UAV & Aerial photographs; New Challenges of GIS, GNSS & Topographic Automation
• Simultaneous Events: Urban Subsoil, City Halls, Agribusiness, Forestry
• Course: Spatial Data Infrastructure

05/31

• Forum: Electronic Government
• Seminars: Satellite Images, Geospatial Data Quality; Registration of Rural Property
• Workshop: OGC Standards
• Simultaneous Events: Mining, Oil & Gas, the Metropolitan Area; Free Software
• Course: Google Enterprise Solutions

Reaffirming the success of the first edition, which was held on 14, 15 and 16 of June this year, MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012 will bring together over 10,000 attendees, including participants’ technical activities, fair’s activities and people connected via social networks and online workshops, which will broadcast about 10% of the event. Yet, the number of auditoriums for the activities of the event was expanded by 100% in relation to the 2011 event.

MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica emerged from the perception of its founders on issues that had the biggest influence in major social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Thus, an objective of the event is to connect, either in person or online, users of geotechnologies, so there is an exchange of ideas on the current view of the industry. Geocommunities Workshop, for example, will be a space for participants of any group who can meet and exchange ideas and information.

You can follow all the news of the event at the official website MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica.

Agenda:
MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012
Date: May 29th until 31st.
Where: Frei Caneca Convention Center, in Sao Paulo (SP). Click here to see the location on the map.
More informations: http://mundogeoconnect.com/2012/en/

MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012

With the theme “Sharing information for a better world”, MundoGEO#LatinAmerica Connect 2012 will emphasize the current challenge of producing geospatial data, following the standards that make their full use simple by the information system users.

In this edition, the spots available at the MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica products and services exhibit were increased by 50%. Besides, the number of auditoriums for the activities of the event was expanded by 100% in relation to the 2011 event.

About MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica

The MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2012 is the largest geotechnology industry event in Latin America and will take place between May 29 and 31, at the Frei Caneca Convention Center, in Sao Paulo (SP). With the theme “Sharing information for a better world”, the expectation is to bring together 10,000 people in the field, including participants in the workshops and mini-courses, the exhibit visitors and people connected via webinar and social networks. The event is achieved by MundoGEO with the release of MundoGEO and InfoGPS portals, InfoGEO, InfoGNSS and Mira magazines, as well as international support from OGC, ISPRS and Gita, and dissemination by Directions Magazine, GIM International, V1 Magazine, Professional Surveyor and Geo Connexion. The first edition of MundoGEO#Connect took place between the 14 and 16 of June of 2011 in Sao Paulo (SP), bringing together over 7500 people.

On MundoGEO

MundoGEO, which promotes MundoGEO#Connect, has worked on the production of contents for printed and online media, fairs, seminars, courses and webinars on the geo-information area since 1998. It publishes two important magazines addressed to the sector: InfoGEO, on satellite images and Systems of Geographical Information (GIS); and InfoGNSS, which focus on surveying and cartography. In this area the company counts on MundoGEO Portal, which is updated daily and which provides content in Portuguese, Spanish and English, being the leader of visits in Latin America. Having content partnership with UOL, it works on the geo-location area along with InfoGPS Portal that, along with MundoGEO Portal, has more than 50 thousand registered professionals and more than 5 thousand followers in the social nets. Concerning the sustainability area, it maintains Atitude Sustentável (Maintainable Attitude)Portal, also in partnership with UOL.



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