MAPPS 2009 Summer Conference
Landsat Image Courtesy of USGS Eros Data Center
June 25-29, 2009
Ocean Edge Resort & Club Cape Cod
Brewster, Massachusetts
Sponsorship Opportunities
Conference Registration Open
Hotel Reservation Information: There are no on-line reservations for the Ocean Edge Resort. To reserve your room call the reservation desk at 1-800-343-6074, Monday-Friday. Although the cut-off date for the special MAPPS room rate of $249 (plus $12.00 per night resort fee) has expired, the Ocean Edge Resort is willing to accommodate MAPPS and continue to offer this rate on a first come, first served basis. When you call to make reservations, let the reservationist know that you are part of MAPPS and confirm that you will receive the MAPPS rate. If you have any difficulties, please call Sally Palatiello, MAPPS Meeting Planner at 703-787-6996 or email sally@mapps.org and she will make every attempt to reserve the room at the MAPPS rate on your behalf.
Ocean Edge Resort & Club's Individual Hotel Cancellation Policy: Cancellation will result in full refund of deposit if cancellation is made 14 or more days prior to arrival (30 for Bay Pines Villas). Cancellations received 8-14 days prior to arrival will result in forfeiture of the deposit made at the time of booking. Cancellations received 0-7 days prior to arrival are responsible for 100% of room, tax and resort fee for the full stay reserved. Considerations will be made for individual emergencies.
Final Agenda - Updated June 17, 2009
| Thursday, June 25 |
| 1:00 PM | MAPPS Office Opens Captain Biddle Room
Registration packets can be picked up starting at 1:00 PM.
| | 4:00 PM | Keynote Address- Ken Spratlin, Director for Strategy and Business Development, Trimble
Keynote Sponsored by Cardinal Systems
Navigating through sinkholes on the way to potholes - an exchange of management best practices.
To motivate an exchange of management best practices during the conference between attendees, Ken will discuss some of Trimble's key management practices - warts and all - for strategy and business development, organization, personnel development, R&D, and sales. A critical question for us all is which best practices that worked prior to September 15, 2008 (Black Monday, 2008) are still valid or need to be changed in this environment. And he will discuss how Trimble looks for business opportunities in problems as mundane as potholes. |
| 5:30 PM | Welcome Reception |
Friday, June 26
Friday's General Session Sponsored by GeoCue Corporation |
| 8:30 AM | Technology Commercialization
The Regional Technology Development Corporation (RTDC), located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is a not-for-profit "virtual incubator" with the mission to facilitate technology transfer and technology commercialization from affiliated local research institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). Mr. Curtis will discuss the business opportunities available to the commercial market through license agreements, cooperative research, funding agreements and partnership with technology companies and new company spin-offs.
Robert Curtis, Chief Executive Officer, Regional Technology Development Corporation
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| 9:15 AM | Surviving A Disaster
What happens when a natural disaster destroys your office facilities, displacing staff and production equipment? Would you be able to keep the business up and running? The panel will discuss disaster planning and response issues through their first hand experiences.
Liz Nielsen, Harris Corporation
Jeff Lower, 3001, a Northrop Grumman Company
Mike Tully, Aerial Services, Inc.
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| 9:00 AM | Morning Spouse/Guest/Child Continental Breakfast
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| 10:00AM | Morning Spouse/Guest/Child Program: The Mayflower Experience
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| 10:30AM | Ownership Transition
The presenters will detail how two different companies, Bohannan Huston Inc. and ROWE Professional Services Company have developed ownership transition plans. Both companies have transitioned from single proprietorships to ownership by a group of partners and junior partners. The focus of the presentation will be on the similarities and differences in how the plans are set up and provide attendees with items to consider as they look at their own plans or the possibility of creating a plan.
John Matonich, Rowe, Professional Services Company
Brad Adams, Bohannan Huston, Inc.
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| 11:15AM | UAS Operations in the National Airspace System
Randy Willis, a Senior Analyst for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Office, FAA Headquarters, in Washington, DC will describe his office's role in authorizing UAS flights within the National Airspace System (NAS), who is currently flying, types of operations being conducted, the number of operations, the level of coordination required for approval to fly in the NAS and will also touch briefly on Small UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee efforts.
Randy Willis, Senior Analyst, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, FAA |
| 12:00PM | MAPPS Annual Meeting & Lunch (Members Only)
Lunch Sponsored by Riegl USA
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| 2:00PM | Committee and Task Force Chairmen's Meeting with MAPPS President
| | 2:30PM | Committee Meetings
Networking Activities |
| 5:00PM | New England Clam Bake
Sponsored by Microsoft |
| 7:00PM | Beach Bonfire
Sponsored by Intergraph |
Saturday, June 27
Saturday's General Session Sponsored by Optimal Geomatics |
| 8:30AM | Rebuilding Wealth
We've all heard the punch line about a 401(k) now being a 201(k). The market collapse has affected the wealth virtually everyone has been building. In this session, an experienced investment and retirement professional will provide strategies on what to do to reconstruct your portfolio's value.
Vincent F. Barbetta, AXA Equitbale
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| 9:15AM | Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?- MAPPS version
How much do MAPPS members really know about the basics of our profession? Are we teaching the next generation of photogrammetrists and surveyors all they need to succeed? In this exciting takeoff of the popular TV game show, MAPPS members and their children will test their knowledge to show who really is Smarter Than a 5th Grader.
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| 10:45AM | Emerging Technologies
This panel discussion will cover emerging technologies such as display technology, where acquisition may be going (UAV's, Mobile LiDAR) and/or modular systems. We will also discuss where our limitations are currently with technology in both hardware and software. Have acquisition technologies outpaced our processing capabilities or vice-versa? Where might solutions be forthcoming? Panelists will include Drew Fisher with BAE Systems, Ron Roth with LeicaGeosystems, Inc., and Erez Shor with VisionMap, Inc. The panel will be moderated by Eric Andelin with ADS, and Lewis Graham with GeoCue Corporation.
Panelists
Drew Fisher, BAE Systems
Ron Roth, Leica Geosystems, Inc.
Erez Shor, VisionMap, Inc.
Moderators
Eric Andelin, ADS, Inc.
Lewis Graham, GeoCue Corporation
Networking Activities |
| 12:00PM | Hyannis & Provincetown Acitvity and Tours
Sponsored by Leica Geosystems, Inc. and Michael Baker Jr., Inc. |
Sunday, June 28
Sunday's General Session Sponsored by Air Photographics, Inc. |
| 8:30AM | Moving from "Project Management " to "Instrumented Processes"
Why are projects so notoriously difficult to bring in on time and budget? Perhaps it is because we are locked in to a paradigm of considering everything we do a "project." In this presentation we explore the ideas of applying "process management" at the micro level and "project management" at the macro level, logically tied together by the precepts of Earned Value Management. In these challenging economic conditions, this new approach to managing engagements could spell the difference between success and failure.
Lewis Graham, GeoCue Corporation
Mark Baker, ESRI
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| 9:45AM | Staying Small Successfully
This session will include a panel of small firm principals who will discuss their strategy and how they have succeeded in implementing a plan to fill a technical, market or geographic niche while remaining a small business, rather than pursuing a strategy of high growth and rapid expansion.
Moderator:
John Palatiello, MAPPS Executive Director
Panelists:
Justin Lahman, Axis GeoSpatial Companies, LLC
Len Johnson, Golden Aerial Surveys, Inc.
Al Bolivar, Triangle Aerial Surveys, Inc.
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| 10:30AM | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Qualifications Based Selection (QBS)* (*MAPPS Members Are Never Afraid to Ask)
New people and firms enter the market and the MAPPS membership. Policies and laws change. This session will provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of qualifications based selection (QBS), how it works and what the rules are.
John Palatiello, MAPPS Executive Director & COFPAES Administrator
Networking Activities |
| 12:00PM | MAPPS Golf Scramble
Sponsored by BAE Systems |
| 7:00PM | MAPPS Banquet Reception
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| 7:30PM | MAPPS Banquet
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Monday, June 29
Monday's General Session Sponsored by Continental Mapping Consultants, Inc. |
| 8:00AM | MAPPS Economic Survey Results-An Analysis for and by the Private Geospatial Profession
MAPPS is conducting a second economic survey of the membership. This survey similar to the one conducted prior to the Winter meeting in January, asks each member firm to report on whether their revenues are increasing or declining, and whether they have seen growth or a down-turn in the geospatial market and if they have been a part of any projects using stimulus funding. In this session, Dr. Steven Cox, Professor of Marketing at McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte, NC will report on the results of the survey and provide an opportunity for MAPPS member firm principals to benchmark their own experience and assessment with those of the larger MAPPS community since January.
Dr. Steven Cox, Professor of Marketing at McColl School of Business, Queens Univerity of Charlotte, NC |
| 8:30AM | New Vertical Markets
The Insurance Industry's Demand for Geospatial Data
This session will focus on the use of GIS applications, knowing the business, developing winning applications for data-and-processing-intensive industries and the market for high-quality information.
Dr. Bill Raichle, Vice President, Risk Decision Information, Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO)
Risk MAP: A FEMA View on Elevation Data to Support Flood Mapping
Mr. Rooney will speak on the importance of elevation data in support of flood mapping through recommendations in the National Academies' recent studies and the public expectations. He will discuss FEMA's elevation requirements and the impact these changes are having on flood mapping.
Paul Rooney, FEMA
Land Use/Land Cover for Change Detection to Stimulate the Demand for Mapping
A new initiative for nationwide change detection for the lower 48 states can have the effect of creating much greater demand for high resolution and large-scale geospatial data in specific areas. This presentation will highlight how this will open new markets for MAPPS member firms' services, data and products.
Roger Mitchell, MDA Federal Inc.
Lidar for the Nation & Biological Carbon Sequestration
Greg Snyder of USGS will discuss the LiDAR for the Nation initiative, the biological carbon sequestration requirement in Section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that LiDAR can satisfy, and related upcoming LiDAR opportunities from USGS.
Greg Snyder, USGS
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| 10:00AM | Are You Stimulated: An ARRA Status Report
Karen Siderelis, Acting Chairman of the Federal Geographic Data Committee and Chief Geospatial Information Officer of the Department of the Interior, will provide MAPPS members a special status report on implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), more commonly known as the Stimulus bill. MAPPS has identified some $73 billion in ARRA programs and projects that require geospatial data. Ms. Siderelis will update on Federal agency plans for implementation, agency allocations, and grants and contracts from the economic recovery legislation. This is a special presentation for MAPPS member firms to learn the latest on how to access Stimulus funds.
Karen Siderelis, FGDC & DOI |
| 11:00AM | Conference Adjourns |
Car Rental Discount From Avis
MAPPS has a limited time offer with AVIS car rental for the 2009 MAPPS Summer Conference in Brewster (Cape Cod), Massachusetts. This discounted rate is valid at any AVIS location in the continental United States, seven days prior to and following the conference (June 18-July 6, 2009). To make your car reservation, click here.
Airport and Taxi Information
Major Airports
Logan Airport (Boston, MA)
T.F. Green Airport (Providence, RI)
The only main airport on Cape Cod is Barnstable Municipal Airport located in Hyannis, MA. Cape Air, US Airways and Jet Blue fly from Boston. This airport is about 18 miles or a 30 minute drive to the Ocean Edge Resort. The resort does not offer shuttle service to/from the airport. Taxi service is available at the airport. Before departing the conference arrange airport taxi service through the hotel concierge.
Taxi Services Available on Cape Cod:
Airport Taxi 508-367-7070
Cape Taxi 508-776-8294
Town Taxi 508-771-5555
Conference Sponsors
Sponsorship Opportunities
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