Chairs/Speakers

Plenary I - Mainstreaming Geospatial Information for National Development
Chair and Lead Speaker
Prof Dang Hung Vo
President
Association of Geodesy
Cartography and
Remote Sensing
Vietnam		 Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu
Vice Minister
Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development
Vietnam
Kaushik Chakraborty
Vice President
Geospatial Applications Asia Pacific
Intergraph
India
Atty. Ernesto D. Adobo, Jr.
Undersecretary for Field Operations
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Philippines
Matt Delano
Business Area Director
Trimble
USA


Plenary II - Strengthening Technology Capacity towards Geo-Governance
Prof. Duong Ngoc Hai
Vice President
Vietnam Academy for Science and Technology
Vietnam
Kapil Chaudhery
Director
Spatial Decisions
India
 Lim Ser Chin
Regional Sales Director
Digital Globe
Singapore
Yeong-Deok Park
Executive Director of Planning
Korea National Park Service
South Korea 		Dr. Anond Snidvongs
Executive Director
GISTDA
Thailand


Exchange Forum: Land Administration for Economic Development
Chair and Keynote Speech
Kees De Zeeuw
Director
Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency
The Netherlands
Haji Rahmad Bin Haji Japar
Acting Commissioner of Lands
Ministry of Development
Brunei 		Amanda Poh
Principal GeoSpatial Executive
Singapore Land Authority
Singapore 		Prabhu Dayal Meena, IAS
Additional Secretary
Department of Land Resources
India
Matt Delano
Business Area Director
Cadastral Solutions
Trimble
USA
Ton De Vries
Solutions Executive for Government
Bentley Systems
USA
Abhay Mittal
Senior Director
Global Business Development
Digital Globe
Singapore
Brent A. Jones
Global Manager - Cadastre/Land Records
Esri
USA		 Irawan Sumarto
Director of Base Mapping
National Land Agency
Indonesia 		Suon Sopha
Director of Land Administration
General Department of Cadastral and Geography
Cambodia
Mahesh Reddy
Regional Technical Manager
Intergraph
India

Exchange Forum: Engaging SMEs in Nation Building
Panelists
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Do Tu Lan
Secretary General / Deputy Director General
Urban Development Agency
Vietnam 		Dr. Tran Hung
Managing Director
GeoViet Consulting
Vietnam 		Super Wang
Chief Executive Officer
SuperGeo Technologies
Taiwan
Do Minh Phuong
GIS & Remote Sensing Specialist
National Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projection (NIAPP)
Vietnam 		David Jonas
Spatial Solutions Consultant
AAM
Australia
Kapil Chaudhery
Director
Spatial Decisions
India
Le Phuoc Thanh*
General Director
VidaGIS
Vietnam


Seminar: Utilities & Transportation
Junit Hj. Zakaria
Head of Geomatics Services
Brunei Shell Petroleum Company
Brunei 		John Taylor
 Industry Solutions Director
Bentley Systems
Australia		Luu Dinh Hiep
Director of GIS Centre
HCMC University of
Technology
Vietnam
Mika Salolahti
Business Development Manager
Terrasolid
Finland
Nor bazlan Mohd Yusof
Head
Database Management Department PLUS Berhad
Malaysia
Vikram Singh
Superintending Engineer
Delhi Jal Board
India
Nelson Philip Fernandes
Assistant General Manager
PSI InControl
Malaysia 		Rajesh Kumar Bethi
Sr. Consultant
Infotech Enterprises
India 		Ronald van Coevorden
Asia-Pacific Sales Manager
Trimble Survey Division
Thailand


Seminar: Forest Management
Dr. Nguyen Phu Hung
Deputy Director General
Forest Inventory and
Planning Institute
Vietnam
Dr. Pham Manh Cuong
Director
REDD+ Program
Vietnam
 Dr. Do Xuan Lan
Deputy Head
Dept. of Sc., Tech
& Env., Min of Agr &
Rural Development
Vietnam
Ha Hai Nam
Local ICT Expert
FORMIS Project
Vietnam
 Dr. Khali Aziz B. Hamzah
Senior Research Officer
Forest Research Institute of Malaysia
Malaysia 		Dr. Ulrike Streicher
Primate Programme Manager
Fauna and Flora International
Vietnam
Prayoto Sikumbang
Section Head
Riau Forestry Service
Indonesia 		Ranjan Kumar Mallick
GIS Specialist
Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project
India 		Hoang Kim Quang
General Manager
ANTHI Vietnam Co Ltd


Seminar: Mekong River – Integrated River Basin Management
Chair and Lead Speaker
Prof. Chih Hong Sun
Chairman
Taiwan GIS Center
Taiwan
Dr. Tran Vinh Phuoc
Vice Rector
HCMC University of Information Technology
Vietnam
Florian Moder
Integrated Expert
WISDOM Project
Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Hieu Trung
Deputy Director - DRAGON Institute-Mekong
Can Tho University
Vietnam
Thanh BAO*
Director
Sub-Institute of Hydrometeorology and Environment of South Vietnam (SIHYMETE)
Vietnam		Tran Tuan Ngoc
Deputy Director General
National Remote Sensing Centre
Vietnam 		K.K. Mohapatra
Executive Director (Natural Resource Management)
JPS Associates
India


Seminar: Disaster Management & Public Safety
Dr. Nguyen Kim Loi
Associate Professor
Nong Lam University
Vietnam		Dang Quang Minh
Deputy Director
Disaster Management
Center
Vietnam
Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi
Associate Dean Professor & Field Coordinator
School of Engineering and Technology
Asian Institute of Technology
Thailand
Nathan Sage
Southeast Asia Program Advisor
Pacific Disaster Center
United States 		Ir. Rozinah Anas
Project Director - MERS999
Telekom Malaysia
Malaysia 		Hu Gaoxiang
Asia-Pacific Customer Support Manager
EADS
China
Nguyen Ngoc Thach
Professor
University of Science
Vietnam National University
Vietnam 		Ilya Farutin
Head of Integrated Projects Division
SCANEX R&D Center
Russia 		Manoj Pant
GIS Specialist
Spatial Decisions
Vietnam
Susumu Takagishi
General Manager
Satellite Business Division
PASCO Corporation
Japan


Special Session: VAST – Building R&D Capacity in Vietnam
Chair and Lead Speaker
Dr. Doan Minh Chung
Director, Space
Technology Institute
Vietnam		 Dr. Le Huy Minh
Deputy Director
Institute of Geophysics
Vietnam		 Prof. Thai Quang Vinh
Director Institute of
Information Technology
Vietnam
Dr. Lam Dao Nguyen
Director - GIS and
Remote Sensing
Research Center
HCMC Institute of
Resources Geography
Vietnam
Dr. Do Huy Cuong
Deputy Director
Institute of Marine
Geology and
Geophysics
Vietnam


Technology Session: Cloud Computing
Thomas Yip
Regional Senior Manager
Strategic Marketing
Canon
Singapore 		Michael Quin
Defence Business Development Manager, Asia Pacific
Esri
Singapore
Kailash Agarwal
Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific
GIS Business
NIIT Technologies
Singapore
Robert Clout
Business Development Manager
AAM
Australia


Technology Session: GNSS Infrastructure Development
Chair
Dr. Pham Hoang Lan
 Professor
Hanoi University of Mining and Geology
Vietnam
 Tan Siew Siong
Regional Manager
GNSS Infrastructure Division
Trimble Singapore
Agamon Chantaraklom
Manager - Plan and Operation Division
Provincial Electricity Authority
Thailand 		Neil Ashcroft
Engineering Segment Manager
Leica Geosystems Technologies
Singapore


Technology Session: Laser Scanning &LiDAR
Chair and Lead Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Dinh Van Trung
LiDAR Group Leader
Institute of Physics
Vietnam		Jonathan Lee
Senior Technical Sales, ASEAN Korea
Intergraph
Singapore 		Mak Poh Fatt
Product Marketing Manager
FARO
Singapore
Rolf Schaeppi
Director
Geospatial Solutions - APAC / India
Leica Geosystems Technologies
Singapore
David Collison
Regional Sales Manager
Optech Incorporated
Canada 		Chris Cromarty
Lidar Manager
PT McElhanney
Indonesia


Technology Session: Open Source
Chair and Lead Speaker
Nguyen Huu Chinh
General Director
Department of Information Technology
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Vietnam
Shin Sanghee
OSGeo Charter Member
Gaia3D
South Korea
Quach Dong Thang
Head of Technical Division
HoChiMinh City GIS Center Vietnam
Tran Kiem Dung
Senior Consultant – GIS, System Architect and Business Analyst
DTT Technology Group
Vietnam


Technology Session: 3D Modeling
Alexander Wiechert
Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft / Vexcel Imaging GmbH
Austria
Dr. Philippe Simard
President
SimActiveInc
Canada
Raghunath Babu Guduru
Vice President (Geospatial Technologies)
Surbana International Consultants
Singapore


Technology Session: Enabling Geospatial in Mining and Exploration
Chair and Lead Speaker
Dr. Nguyen Quang Minh
Head of International Cooperation Office
Hanoi University of Mining and Geology
Vietnam
Dr. Magnus Wettle
Regional Director Asia Pacific
EOMAP GmbH & Co.KG
Germany
Faheem Khan
Regional Director, Asia Pacific, GIS and HDS
Leica Geosystems Technologies
Singapore
Andy Stephenson
Senior Director Regional Sales – Asia
GeoEye
Singapore 		Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long
Acting Chief of Remote sensing and Geomatics Department
Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources
Vietnam


Technical Session: Satellite Technologies and Emerging Trends
Hwang Chulsue
Professor
Department of Geography
Kyunghee University
South Korea

M.L. SaksiriKridakorn
Founder and Chairman
MappointAsia
Thailand

Dr. Duong Van Phong
Head of Geodesy Department
Hanoi University of Mining and Geology
Vietnam
Bui TrongTuyen
Deputy Director
Space Technology Institute
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Vietnam 		Bob Noack
Executive Vice President, International
5CI
USA 		Dinesh Sathyamoorthy
Research Officer
Science & Technology Research Institute for Defence (STRIDE)
Ministry of Defence
Malaysia


Technical Session: Climate, Energy and Natural Resources Management
Chair
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Van Cu
Director of International
Centre for Advanced Research on Global Change
Vietnam National University – Hanoi
Vietnam
VenkataRavibabuMandla
Associate Professor
VIT University
India
Dr. Le Canh Dinh
Deputy Head
Sub-National Institute of Agricultural Planning and Projection
Vietnam
Mageshwari a/p Valachamy*
IT Officer
GIS Application Section
MaCGDI
Malaysia
Matt Addison
Energy and Climate Services
Vietnam 		Sarah Remmei
Senior Technical Specialist
Spatial Decisions
Vietnam
Nguyen DuyLiem
Department of Applied Geomatics
Nong Lam University
Vietnam


Technical Session: Geoportals and Web GIS
Chungweon Oh
Associate Professor
Department of GIS
Namseoul University
South Korea
Abdul Jamil Bin Arshad
Director
Department of Town and Country Planning Melaka
Malaysia
Pengiran Aliuddin bin Pengiran Ibrahim
Surveyor
Brunei Survey Department
Brunei
Bui Ngoc Quy
Deputy Head of Cartography Department
Hanoi University of Mining and Geology
Vietnam
Jumadi
Junior Lecturer
Geography Faculty
Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta
Indonesia
* Tentative