By Anthony Wallace
The first big names of the Locate Conference and Digital Earth Symposium have been announced, with an impressive collection of global thought leaders and local authorities set to grace the stage.
Among the names listed in the preliminary list of speakers are Australia’s first female Surveyor General, Narelle Underwood, the founder and CTO of satellite imagery powerhouse DigitalGlobe, Dr Walter S. Scott and Professor GUO Huadong the President of the International Society for Digital Earth.
Locate Conference (Locate17) will for the first time join with the International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) over four days between 3-6 April 2017. The conference and exhibition will be held at newly re-opened Sydney International Conference Centre, and is expected to attract a huge number of attendees.
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