The objective of the side event on Geospatial Industry: Empowering United Nations’ Programs is to get an overview of United Nations Geospatial Network and priority stakeholders, to discuss and deliberate thegeospatial technology innovations, to broadly understand evolving value chain of geospatial and earth observation in the workflows and the need of private sector participation and support to geo-enable UN programs. The side event will have two dedicated sessions to provide a platform for Members of UN Geospatial Network to interact, engage, understand, and support implementation of geospatial technology and enhance its valuable impact to various priority programs. Such an initiative would evangelize and advocate for greater engagement of UNGGIM PSN with stakeholders of UN Geospatial Entities.
AGENDA
Side Event GI Empowering UN Program | Opening Session
Director Statistics Division United Nations
Chair of the UN Geospatial Network Director at UNEP
Chair of the UN Private Sector Network CEO at Geospatial World
Side Event GI Empowering UN Program | Session 1: Geospatial Network Empowering the One UN system
Chair of the UN Geospatial Network Director at UNEP
Head of Geospatial FAO
Technical Specialist at United Nations Population Fund
Director UNOSAT
Side Event GI Empowering UN Program | Session 2: Workflow Integration and Solutions for Priority Programs of UN
Ter Haar Geoinnovation
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Head of WHO geospatial Centre
Founder & CEO Numer8 Analytics
Deputy Surveyor General Survey of India
Business Applications and Partnerships Engineer European Space Agency – ESA
Side Event GI Empowering UN Program | Session 3: Private Sector’s participation and support to geo-enable UN programs
Chair of the UN Private Sector Network CEO at Geospatial World
Vice President and Executive Director Trimble
Vice President, Geospatial Content Solutions Hexagon
Sr. Director Global Industry Business Development, Maxar Technologies
Account Executive Esri
Side Event GI Empowering UN Program | Concluding Remarks
Chair of the UN Private Sector Network CEO at Geospatial World