9.00 Opening Remarks From Conference Chair

9.10 Overcoming System Integration Issues Through Central Data Warehousing

• Assessing the capabilities and future needs of your GIS in order to select effective strategies
• The advantages of a single central location of data for GIS Managers to resolve interoperability issues
• Discovering the ease of data maintenance through a modern GIS platform
• Evaluating the effectiveness of your newly implemented strategies and software to establish value

Danny Haipola
Asset Information Manager
ACTEWAGL

9.55 Using GIS To Promote Interdepartmental Co-Operation And Make More Educated Decisions In Asset Management

• The role of GIS in asset management and the expanding expectations
• The importance of not becoming an ‘information silo’ – sharing your data across departments.
• The critical nature of up to date information – keeping your data set ‘alive’.
• Recognizing the effect of your asset on it’s surroundings and how others can benefit from your knowledge
• Establishing and maintaining comprehensive data to minimise risk and enhance asset management strategic planning

John Thompson
Director
GEOSPATIAL DATA SOLUTIONS

11.10 Aligning GIS Operations With Business Requirements

• Improving the interoperability of the GIS platform
• Implementing best practice processes to manage volumes of data
• Identifying business and stakeholder requirements
• Discovering ways to further utilise commonly available data through predictive modelling

Otre Moussa
Team Leader – Network Integrity
TELSTRA

11.40 PANEL DISCUSSION: Overcoming Interoperability Challenges For GIS Managers

• Discovering the factors that will help or inhibit data interoperability before you even begin
• Integrating your GIS data with enterprise-wide data to ensure consistency and effective interoperability
• Exploring application interoperability: what it takes to develop and evaluate interoperable desktop and Web applications from the GIS perspective
• Review specific implementation problems and selected solutions Ensuring a Seamless GIS Data Input and Management System
• Identifying the pros and cons of real time data monitoring and other reporting systems
• Outlining the optimal conditions for seamless data monitoring and assessing this against your current standard data collection practices
• Improving operational performance and effectively accessing GIS tools
• Analysing the tools available to better manage your data and protect integrity

Panellists include:

12.20 GIS And Asset Management: A Contractors Perspective

Taking a closer look at the impact and approach to GIS and asset management in utilities from a contracting perspective, this is your chance to hear from the other side. Working closely and carefully to avoid assets is a difficult task with far reaching consequences. Therefore, it is important for contractors to sustain an up-to-date and knowledgable 'toolbox' of the best strategies to keep assets safe and maintain integrity.

David Cocking
Civil Engineer
LEIGHTON CONTRACTORS

2.00 The Changing Scope And Capabilities Of GIS And The Essentiality Of Integration

• Establishing the cost/benefit of integration of asset and GIS data and the tools to get you there
• Coordinating short and long term strategies for the effective development, updating and dissemination of your geospatial data to all relevant parties
• GIS application development with immediate needs, future considerations and enterprise projects and expectations
• The key factors to the successful execution of GIS integration into your business process

Chris Buck
Asset and Maintenance Planner
WESTERNPORT WATER

2.45 Implementing And Managing A Stormwater Drainage Program Utilising GIS

A ‘Data’ Standard for Supply of Digital WAE (Works as Executed) Spatial & Data Components and the Automation of Extraction

• History of WAE & its consequences
• Collaboration
• Existing standards
• What our systems needed
• Customisation
• What we have done so Far
• Where to now

Alex Schulz
GIS Co-ordinator
QUEANBEYAN COUNCIL

3.30 EVENT WRAP UP: The Future Of GIS In Utilities: What To Expect From Utilities, Whole Of Enterprise Approaches, Technology And More

This wrap up is your final chance to ask lingering questions, define and hear expectations for the future and understand those areas, like building a business case for your manager, that will help you implement the strategies that you have learnt

• Building a business case to help justify GIS software implementation
• Leveraging web-based solutions to optimise your GIS
• Upgrading your processes to deliver more data with increased accuracy
• Discovering the biggest objections that you face and identifying ways to overcome these
• Developing a robust reporting/recording system that will track system and process improvement and ensure management satisfaction

4.00 Close Of Conference

4.15 Start Of (Separately Bookable) Workshop B: Integrating Your GIS Systems Accurately And Efficiently