MUSCAT -- The 2007 ESRI Middle East & North Africa Users Conference will be held at Shangri-La's Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa on Monday, October 29, under the patronage of Ahmed bin Abdulnabi Macki, Minister of National Economy and Deputy Chairman of Financial Affairs and Energy Council. Also due to attend are Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, the market leader in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and Roger Tomlinson, hailed as the Father of GIS.
ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organisations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically.
"This is the first time that a major event for GIS has been offered here and will provide an ideal opportunity for the Omani GIS community to highlight its achievements to the rest of the region," said Faisal Alami, Director of Finance Administration/GIS Division, Khatib and Alami and Chairman ESRI Holding Lebanon. The event will host GIS professionals and end users from around the Middle East and North Africa, as well as hardware vendors, GIS solution providers, and local government agencies all keen on demonstrating their products and solutions.
The user paper presentations provide a forum for attendees to share their experiences, problems, solutions, and methodologies with users who share similar requirements. Users will be invited to present their best map products/posters produced using GIS over the past twelve months in a dedicated display area at the conference. Several technical workshops are scheduled to provide users with a more in-depth review of the software product range and new functionality, in parallel with user presentations. A series of pre-conference seminars and training sessions by GIS experts have been scheduled to allow users to participate in focused knowledge transfer on a specific range of GIS topics.
"With all of these learning and stimulating activities in the foreground, one can surmise the excitement and the synergy that will be stimulated by the expertise and experience among people with different perspectives, but with a common goal to be better in what they do. We strongly believe that the road to success is found in seeing the possibilities, learning the methods, using the tools, embarking on the path, focusing on the targets, and always looking ahead," Alami added.
By A Staff Reporter
© Oman Daily Observer 2007
