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Wednesday, May 1
 

7:45am

Registration and Wake-up Breakfast Ballroom 1 & 2

8:30am

Annual General Meeting Ballroom 1 & 2Dianne Adams • Catherine Fitzgerald

8:45am

Lightening Round - Sponsors and Exhibitors Ballroom 1 & 2Catherine Fitzgerald

9:00am

Keynote - Visualizing SMART Transportation Planning Ballroom 1 & 2Catherine Fitzgerald • Nicholas Day

9:45am

Exhibit Open - Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

10:00am

Innovation and Analytics Approach in integrating and using an Enterprise GIS system Ballroom 2Caner Akin • Ian Williams A Look Behind the Awards - Canada Smart Cities Assessment Criteria and KPIs FairwayMarc Baila • Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault Benchmarking Big Data management platforms for processing Geospatial data Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Juan Carrillo • Jaydeep Mistry

10:30am

Exhibit Visits with mid-morning refreshments break Exhibit Hall

10:40am

Dynamic Customer Mapping - Recreation and Culture Programs (CLASS/Environics/GIS Integration) Ballroom 2Hanna Sjostrom • Ellen Burrow • Darryl McWilliam Stay Fire Smart - Enhancing Fire-Readiness in Newmarket and Aurora Through GIS FairwayMarc Baila • Nick Koopman • Ryan Schell Keeping a Common Address Database “Common” using FME Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Heather Howe • Lesley MacKenzie

11:10am

Exhibit Visits with Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

11:20am

Power Your Basemap with the Community Map of Canada Ballroom 2Irene Rubinstein • Paul Heersink • Barry Kelly GIS Maturity: A Reality Check and a Roadmap FairwayMarc Baila • Paul Giroux • Paul Postiglione Streamlining Zoning at Haldimand County Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Haleigh Buck

11:50am

Lunch, Exhibit Visits and Awards Ceremony Exhibit HallDianne Adams • Catherine Fitzgerald

1:00pm

Sponsor Keynote -Thoughts on Navigating the Open Source and Commercial Software Ecosystem Ballroom 1 & 2Catherine Fitzgerald • Chris North

1:45pm

Exhibit Visits with Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

1:55pm

Using data to help residents live an active and healthy life Ballroom 2Ronald Jaros • Hugh Hibbert • Bryce Meertens Open Source GIS Software in the Ontario Public Service FairwayMarc Baila • Christopher Eckstein Redesign and Implementation of GIS data model for Water, Wastewater, Storm Water and Transportation with an associated Detailed Gaps Assessment Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Chris Sambol

2:25pm

Exhibit Visits with Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

2:35pm

Business Decision-Making with QGIS? Developing an Open-Source Location Analytics Toolkit Ballroom 2Andrew Lyszkiewicz • Claus Rinner • Stephen Swales The TH!NKBike: A New Approach to Data Acquisition & Analysis FairwayMarc Baila • Anthony De Crescenzo Taking advantage of online data Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Lesley MacKenzie

3:05pm

Exhibit Visits with Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

3:20pm

Seeing the Old with the New: The Advancing World of GIS, History, and Archaeology Ballroom 2Ronald Jaros • Alan D.K. Armstrong SMART: Sustainable Management with Augmented Reality Technologies FairwayJuan Carrillo • Jaydeep Mistry Distributed Collaboration: Interconnecting Systems in York Region Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Cory MacNeil • Carolynne Saxton • Brendan  Coles

3:50pm

Exhibit Visits with Networking and Transition Break Exhibit Hall

4:00pm

Using Lidar to Detect Potential Vernal Pools and Low/Wet Areas for Wetland Restoration Ballroom 2Caner Akin • Christopher Menary MapCast 2.0 FairwayMarc Baila • Peter Hettstedt Teranet 2019 – Change & Collaboration Ballroom 1Nicole Schleifer • Michael Franschman

4:30pm

Closing Ceremonies, Draws and BeSocial Networking Ballroom 1Catherine Fitzgerald
 
Thursday, May 2
 

7:45am

Registration and Wake-up Breakfast (Refreshments available in Exhibit Hall throughout the day) Ballroom 1 & 2

8:15am

Welcome to BeSpatial / BeSmart'19 - President Ballroom 1 & 2Catherine Fitzgerald

8:30am

Opening Insights - geography is the secret sauce in making big data usable! Ballroom 1 & 2Jan Kestle

9:00am

Panel 1. Data Analytics, Open Data and Smart Business Decisions Ballroom 1 & 2Jury Konga • Ian Williams • Ed Rubinstein • Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault • Jan Kestle Introduction to FME FairwayCindy Sardena • Lesley MacKenzie

10:00am

Political and Legal Challenges - Video Lead-in Ballroom 1 & 2Andrew Lyszkiewicz • Dr. Ann Cavoukian

10:15am

Panel 2. Legal and Political Challenges in Data Collection and Access Ballroom 1 & 2Mary Ellen Bench • Campbell Patterson • Roy Wiseman • Juliet Slemming • Fraser Mann

11:00am

Panel 3. Community Broadband and Economic Development Ballroom 1 & 2Lou Milrad • Toby Lennox • Dr. Helen Hambly • Dan Mathieson • Doug Lindeblom • John Henry

12:15pm

Lunch and Exhibit Visits Ballroom 1 & 2

1:00pm

Panel 4. Public-Private Partnership (P3), Challenges and Opportunities Ballroom 1 & 2Lou Milrad • Josh Van Deurzen • Jonathan M. Erling, P. Eng. • David Fell How to leverage FME server technology to Integrate, Validate and Automate your data processes FairwayLesley MacKenzie

2:00pm

Panel 5. Benchmarking Leading Practices, Canadian Smart Cities Challenge Ballroom 1 & 2Roy Wiseman • Dr. Patricia McCarney • Alan Mitchell • Laura Bradley • Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault

3:00pm

Networking break Exhibit Hall

3:30pm

Panel 6. Building Smart Cities and Communities of the Future Ballroom 1 & 2Alan Mitchell • Dan Mathers • Campbell Patterson • Dr. Sara Diamond • Andrea McKinney • Chris Moore

5:00pm

Executive Forum Networking Social Ballroom 1 & 2Sandra Crutcher • Roy Wiseman • Andrew Lyszkiewicz • Lou Milrad • Catherine Fitzgerald