-- Main.TrevorTaylor - 20 Jun 2018

Canada Forum Meeting (Soft-Launch)

Fort Collins, Colorado and On-line

June 7th, 2018, 1200-1300

Draft Notes

Attendance

In person

• CRIM (Tom Landry)
• Pyxis Global Grid Systems (Perry Peterson)
• IDON (Doug O’Brien))
• Ecere (Jerome Jacovella-St-Louis)
• Teledyne Caris (Andy) Esri Canada (Gordon Plunkett)
• Newfoundview (Robert Thomas )
• Compusult (Barry O’Rourke)
• NRCan (Cameron Wilson and Peter Rushford)
• Various OGC reps
• CAE, (David Graham )

Observers

• NOAA office of coast survey, ( Meredith Westington)
• Geosciences Australia, (Matthew Purss)

Online

• Alberta Geospatial Centre , (Jordon Erker)
• Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, (Bradford Dean)
• UNB, (Emmanuel Stefanakis )
• NRCan, (Eric Wright )
• Presagis, (Hermann Brassard)
• Compusult (Mark Lawrence, Jason Macdonald)
• PCI Geomatics ,(Steven Keens)
• NRCan (Yanmei Wu )

Main themes of the forum

• To support the creation of a platform for Canadian organizations
• To meet and make progress on Canadian issues

Actions

1) Recruit active co-chairs

Confirmed and elected volunteers for co-chairs/other volunteer positions

• Tom Landry (CRIM).
• Aurelian Constaninescu (CAE)
• Bradford Dean (other volunteer position) GIS manager Mohawk Council of Kahnawake ope
• Cameron Wilson (NRCan)

** Andy Hoggarth ( Teledyne CARIS), Considering volunteering for chair. TBC

Discussion of Focal areas

- Formal Forum Launch ( Face to Face) scheduled to coincide with existing events

Options discussed;

• CCOG -(Oct) Gordon pointed out the CCOG is a somewhat closed environment
• Two or three coast launch:
• Geomatics Atlantic - Nov 14-16
• Geomatics Alberta - Oct 29-31
• The North ?

- Consensus for quarterly meetings (3 remote, 1 in person ?)

- Focus on outcomes/Value for each sector (e.g. indigenous, Academia, private sector, govt)

- The intent is to figure out what is relevant to each member and how to collaborate for efficiency to lead to a multiplier effect for greater success.

- Work plan need to be issue-based and relevant to current issues/requirements

- Google Drive agreed upon tool for collaboration

Research/Gov’t Sector Ideas

- Tom: Floods and climate seasons, Smart Cities challenge (runoff in urban areas)

Private Sector Ideas

• Export aspect - capability demonstrators
• Creation of a cloud-based business.
• Innovation for export. Brand ourselves. If we work together, may affect business plans.

- Build interesting stories around smart cities, AI, etc.

- If we could identify the challenges and opportunities within Canada and then the export potential. And plan activities accordingly

University Sector Ideas

- Capacity building materials with universities and smaller communities.

General

- Canadian General Standards Board process broken ( Doug( and ISO TC211, the Canada Forum could act as representatives to fix the problem

Next Step (s) :

Schedule Co-chair kick-off meeting (Taylor).