Enterprise Geospatial Solutions Summit

About


Roll up your sleeves and join us at the Enterprise Geospatial Solutions Summit as we openly explore how your organisation can best capitalise on your asset management and GIS systems.

Join geospatial practitioners with responsibility for maintaining, operating and protecting infrastructure across water utilities, telecommunications, electric and gas utilities, local government, oil/gas pipeline and many more.

Why Attend?

+ Unbiased Content
Get just the facts in this vendor-neutral event, no-nonsense information about what this amazing technology can do for your enterprise.

+ Keeping Up to Date with Relevant and Timely sessions
Stay updated and take advantage of the emphasis on take-home solutions and actionable strategies

+ One day
Take just one-day out of the office and put yourself in front of seasoned veterans and practitioners

+ Partnerships
Expand your network of peers with participants from organisations like yours and from other industries.

Agenda

Agenda: Day 1

8.30

Registration & Coffee

9.00

Opening Remarks from the Chair

9.10

Demonstrating value and connecting with the user needs

Now more than ever, it is important to show the return on investment for geospatial technology to management, especially where they might have limited understanding of the power of this technology. Although GIS has grown up and is now maturing further there remains an even greater set of obstacles to navigate through. One of largest of these obstacles is establishing a better understanding of the user needs and ensuring we provide customised information that satisfies those need. In this way geospatial professional will ensure the move further up the value chain.
In this session, Bill will discuss:
• The value proposition
• Identifying the real needs of the user
• Building management confidence

Bill Robertson ONZM, Independent Consultant

9.50

Beyond best practice GIS and asset management strategies

The identification and study of best practices is now widespread and has contributed to significant improvements. But research into high-performing organisations shows that while the search for and adoption of best-practice processes is indeed necessary, it is not sufficient. Organisations need to go beyond best practice. Martin will discuss:
• Best Practice & the evolution of information systems over the past 20 years including:
- Independently developed systems
- multiple software platforms
- duplicated data and supporting processes
- fragmented resources
- round pegs & square holes
• The show down – Best Practice meets the future: are they talking the same language?
- Reframing our world view – a new information context, a new game, with new rules
• Developing a geospatial model and asset management strategy that’s right for you

Martin Erasmuson, Data Management Coordinator - Information Management, Nelson City Council

10.40

Morning tea

11.00

Meeting an escalating demand for asset uptime and stringent regulatory compliance

Developing the capability to systematically and regularly measure asset uptime to ensure improvements are tracked and delivered
• Minimising maintenance costs and service-related disruption
• Ensuring field service engineers are effectively armed with all information for efficient maintenance and repairs
• Prioritising scheduling and dispatch optimisation to ensure optimised response times
• Meeting the increasingly rigorous demands of system uptime and availability to ensure the organisation remains leader in the field

Igor Albornett, Integration Team Leader, Powerco

11.45

Utilising GPS based technology to yield improved performance from your assets

Toll NZ has invested heavily over the past 5 years in the development of a GPS based technology which they have evolved to create a predictive environment for their Asset Managers to work within. This has enabled them to extract the maximum utilisation from their assets reducing the number of assets required thereby reducing cost and emissions. Toll NZ are now working through the next phase of this development and are exploring how they can make better use of the data available to them to generate greater business value. This speaker will discuss:
• The Toll NZ asset management environment
• GPS development and evolution - lessons learnt and recommendations for other organisations
• The next phase – selecting and focusing on the right data

Representative from Toll NZ

12.30

Connecting physical and logical networks

Vector Communications have implemented a logical circuit layer across their physical fibre network which integrates their business service and fibre network. They have also looked to link their live device monitoring software, services system and GIS using the circuit layer in their GIS. In this session Ryan will look to discuss the innovative approach they have taken in the way they manage certain aspects of their fibre comms network GIS.

Ryan Clark, Infrastructure Records Manager, Vector Ltd

1.15

Lunch

2.00

Analysing Telecom’s GIS strategies

• Looking at where we were then to where we are now: How we got here
• Managing our spatial information as an asset
• Evaluating the next steps: Seizing the “tools of trade”

Ken McGeady, Solutions Engineer, Telecom NZ; Representative from Chorus

2.45

Using GIS to comprehensively manage water infrastructure and the risk of asset failure

• Achieving a risk management process that all staff and the executive management team understand and approve
• Analysing characteristics of the assets, its performance, known condition, and its impact to the community, environment and cost should they fail
• Bringing together a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) consequence of a failure risk decision model
• Outlining the asset criticality risk model: Focusing on the benefits derived from applying it
• Applying the asset criticality risk model to all of the water supply and sewerage pipelines
• Assessing the quantified risk of failure of these assets

Dr. Stefan Reese, Risk Engineer, NIWA

3.30

Afternoon tea

3.50

It’s just data! Flexible GIS for an online world

Opus works with a wide portfolio of clients in the transport, water and asset management sectors. During this session Hamish will use case studies to highlight difficult problems confronting today’s organisations.
• Understanding what GIS means to different clients and projects
• Open source technologies as an alternative to vendor solutions
• Online services to deal with common GIS tasks
• Avoiding overkill - using ‘what works’

Hamish Campbell, Web Developer, Opus International

4.35

Location Intelligence in your Smart Grid: Are you ready?

Location Intelligence can bring a lot of value for the Smart Grid dashboards. However, as an electric grid is a dynamic machine, fully incorporating the connectivity and continuously varying characteristics and performance of an electric grid can pose some challenges when integrating with Location Intelligence. If properly done, this kind of an electric utility will be an accurate, intuitive and powerful analytical and control tool. While traditional BI methods exploit the dimension of time for the analysis, Location Intelligence (LI) would provide another dimension - space - to the analysis. Using geospatial time series can be a powerful combination. Utility companies must be able to exploit spatial BI to capitalise on the data offered by the Smart Grid.

Matti Seikkula, CIO and Pete Smith, Enterprise Architect

5.20

Chairperson’s recap: Key takeaways and what to do when you get back to the office

5.25

Networking Drinks

Relax, unwind and network with speakers and colleagues over complimentary drinks.

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