Samard Duangwichitrkul
Deputy Executive Director
Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)
Thailand


Bio
Samard holds a Master of Science in Technology Management from Innovative Education College, Thammasart University, Bangkok and Master of Arts in Geography form Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. His Bachelor of Sciences is in Geography from Burapha University Cholburi. Apart from his position in GISTDA, he is also Vice-President of Thai Intelligent Transportation System Association, Board Member of Geographic Association of Thailand, Board Member of Burapha University Alumni Association and Board Member of College of Innovation Thammasat University Associate.

Dorai Narayana
Head of Department
Planning & Engineering Department
Indah Water Konsortium
Malaysia

Bio
DoraiNarayana is currently Head of Department of the Planning & Engineering Department in Indah Water Konsortium. He joined Indah Water Konsortium in March 1996 as the Regional Planning Manager (North). Before joining Indah Water Konsortium, he served as Senior Sewerage Engineer in MajlisPerbandaranPulau Pinang. His qualifications include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Madras, and a Graduate Certificate in Engineering (Environmental Management) from Melbourne University. He is a registered professional engineer.

Gunjan Sahni
APJ Category Manager, LF Design Printers
Graphics Solutions Business PPS APJ
Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific
Singapore

Bio
GunjanSahni is the Category Manager - Asia Pacific and Japan for HP’s Large Format Printing Design business. He is responsible for managing all product lines and driving business growth in the category. Prior to his current role, Gunjan was Country Category Manager for Laser Printers in India where he was responsible for driving the top & bottom line growth for the laser printers primarily in the mid-market SMB, government and enterprise segments. Gunjan has over 16 years of experience in sales and category business management with large organizations that include Xerox & Ricoh in the printing segment and Airtel in the telecom sector. Gunjan holds an MBA in Marketing from Sri Ram RaiInstittute of Tech & Science –Dehradun – India. He also holds a Masters degree in Commerce from HNB Garhwal University -India.

Ir. Md. Shah Nuri Bin Md. Zain
Undersecretary
Cyber and Space Security Policy Division
National Security Council
Malaysia


Bio
Ir. Md. Shah Nuri is the Undersecretary to the Cyber and Space Security Policy Division of the National Security Council at the Prime Minister's Department. He has served the Government for more than 20 years, first as a Research Fellow with MIMOS Berhad, then as an engineer with the Public Works Department under the Ministry of Works. Ir. Md. Shah Nuri holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Connecticut State University in the United States.

Dato' Ir. Dr.Hasnul Bin Mohamad Salleh
Director General
Water Supply Department
Malaysia


Bio
Dato’ Hasnul was appointed as Director General of Water Supply Department since 2007. He has more than 30 years’ experience in water management, including design, project management, planning and supervision, price negotiation, Non-Revenue Water, Construction of deep tunnels and large dams and laying of submarine pipelines. He holds Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) from Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. And Masters of Science in Civil Engineering (MSc) in Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (PE) and a member of The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (MIEM).

Scott Dunn
Vice President, Director of Development
AECOM
Malaysia


Bio
Scott Dunn is a Vice President at AECOM in Southeast Asia and the Urban Land Institute Singapore Council Chair. Focused on promoting collaborative work across regions, Scott directs multidisciplinary teams on the design of mixed used new communities and high-density master plan developments across Asia. He actively lectures on land development and has given speeches at conferences and events throughout South East Asia, India, Korea and Hong Kong. Currently leading a team of Urban Designers, Planners, Environmentalists and Engineers in customizing a sustainability assessment framework tool that analyses the optimum master plan for Jurong Lake District and the Marina Bay – Greater Southern Waterfront district - both development projects lead by Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore.

Brian Nicholls
Executive Director
AAM
Australia

Bio
Brian Nicholls has been the Executive Director of AAM since October 2003. Before AAM, Brian worked as the General Manager (Australia) for Leica Geosystems, where he was responsible for Australian operation of Swiss based Leica Geosystems with over 50 employees. He completed his Bachelor of Surveying in 1987 prior to completing his Masters (Executive MBA) in 2001 at the Australian Graduate School of Management. Brian has a professional background in land surveying and mapping spanning over 20 years. He is passionate about developing products and services based on geographic and location based technologies, as well as integrating these tools into broader enterprise IT solutions. Brian has highly developed strategic and general management skills involves in combining technology and business skills in order to develop innovative new business approaches for geospatial industry.

Graeme Kernich
Deputy CEO
Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
Australia


Bio
Graeme joined the CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) as its Business Manager/Company Secretary in March 2004. He is responsible for all the operational facets of CRCSI, including management of the CRCSI financial operations and compliance, contractual agreements and corporate governance. Graeme manages CRCSI business development opportunities, CRCSI Intellectual Property and commercialisation activities. Together with the Research Director, he has oversight of research projects operation and reporting, and is responsible for ensuring utilisation of project outcomes. He currently manages the $9M Urban Digital Elevation Modelling in High Priority Regions (UDEM) project that aims to map areas subject to inundation due to the impacts of climate change or storm surge on behalf of the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.Graeme has a PhD and Bachelor of Agricultural Science (1st Class Hons) from University of Melbourne, a Masters of Business Administration from Deakin University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance. He has successfully completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard University.

Abstract
Transforming Global Challenges into Geospatial Opportunities: The Cooperative Research for Spatial Information’s place
The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) is an Australian National Research Centre that aims to address large challenges using the fundamental spatial technologies of global navigation satellite systems, spatial data infrastructures, data fusion and spatial feature extraction. The CRCSI seeks to accelerate the take-up of spatial science in its key end users, spawning major innovation and productivity advances in the key industry sectors of Health, Defence, Energy & Utilities, Sustainable Urban Development and Agriculture, Natural Resources and Climate Change. The presentation will review current global trends that impact Geospatial research decisionmaking, and present CRCSI projects addressing national and international issues. The presentation will cover the impact of research on the national geospatial industry, and the CRCSI's contribution to the development of the geospatial industry in Australia.

Yoshiaki Kinoshita
Director for Environmental Science and Technology
Ministry of Education, Culture
Sports, Science and Technology
Japan

Bio
Yoshiaki Kinoshita is Director for Environmental Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Government of Japan. He received his Bachelor degree in law from Waseda University in 1994 and Master degree in Business Administration from University of Southern California in 2002. He worked for Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) for 1994 - 2013. From 1994 - 2001, he served as JAXA's international coordinator on Japan's space programs. From 2002 - 2005, he served as a project coordinator of JAXA's earth observation research projects. From 2005 - 2012, he worked for Human Resources Division and Legal Affairs Division. From 2012 ? 2013, he served as Director for the Planning Group of the Systems Engineering Office.

Abstract
GEO’s Private Sector Engagement - Ideas of its Vision and Strategy
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is a voluntary partnership of governments and international organizations. GEO was established in February 2005 to coordinate efforts for building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). GEOSS proactively links together existing and planned observing systems around the world, whichallow governments, the United Nations, and other organizations to respond more effectively to the many environmental challenges facing modern civilization. It encompasses the coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information including in-situ monitoring stations, satellites, forecasting models and decision-support information services.GEOSS will contribute to the nine Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs) of disasters, health, energy, climate, water, weather, ecosystems, agriculture and biodiversity. In order to disseminate information necessary for SBAs and analyses directly to users, GEOSS provides a single Internet gateway so called “GEO Portal” which delivers comprehensive and near-real-time data. GEO Portal helps users to identify relevant data, to integrate diverse data sets, and to access models and other decision-support tools.There is an ideathat not only the public sector, but also the private sector benefits from increased data sharing, and from the exploitation of integrated Earth observations for the provision of societal benefits. GEO should define a suitable framework to allow and encourage private sector contributions to develop and grow GEOSS.The aim of the GEO private sector initiative is to engage the private sector by articulating a vision embodying common public and private sector ambitious about the use of Earth Observation data for the benefit of society.

Joseph Arezone
Senior Vice-President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific
FARO Technologies
Singapore

Bio
Joseph Arezone has been Senior Vice President and Managing Director Asia Pacific Region of FARO Technologies Inc. since August 2009. Mr.Arezone served as FARO’s Vice President of Sales for Asia-Pacific from January 2008 to August 2009. Prior to that, Mr.Arezone was FARO Technologies Inc’s Area Vice President of Sales for the Eastern U.S. market from July 2005 to January 2009. From February 2001 to July 2005, Mr.Arezone served as FARO’s Regional Sales Manager. Mr.Arezone holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University.

Michael Jones
Chief Technology Advocate
Google
USA

Bio
Michael Jones is Google’s chief technology advocate, charged with advancing the technology to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Michael travels the globe to meet and speak with governments, businesses, partners and customers in order to advance Google’s mission and technology. He previously was chief technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search——the teams responsible for providing location intelligence and information in global context to users worldwide. Before its acquisition by Google, Michael was CTO of Keyhole Corporation, the company that developed the technology used today in Google Earth. He was also CEO of Intrinsic Graphics, and earlier, was director of advanced graphics at Silicon Graphics. A prolific inventor and computer programmer since the 4th grade, he has developed scientific and interactive computer graphics software, held engineering and business executive roles, and is an avid reader, traveler and amateur photographer using a home-built 4 gigapixel camera made with parts from the U2/SR71.

Gerundio C. Madueno
Undersecretary
Policy, Planning and External Affairs Office
Department of Agrarian Reform
Philippines


Bio
Gerundio C. Madueño is a graduate of Master of Business Administration from Ateneo de Manila University and Master of Public Management from the University of the Philippines. He is the Undersecretary (Vice Minister) of the Philippines’ Department of Agrarian Reform, a government agency responsible for the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. He supervises and manages the policy, planning, legislative, management information systems and external affairs sector. He serves as the Council Secretary of the Presidential Committee on Agrarian Reform Council (PARC), the highest policy making body, and as Ex-Officio Member of the DAR Adjudication Board (DARAB) in concurrent capacity. He represents the DAR Secretary as permanent representative to the Human Development and Poverty Reduction (HDPR) Cabinet Cluster and the National Economic Development Authority – Social Development Committee (NEDA-SDC). He sits as Board Member of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) and in the National Biofuel Board (NBB). As former Undersecretary of DAR Support Services, he was the Project Implementation Officer of the Foreign Assisted Projects financed by WB, ADB, JICA and other multilateral financial institutions. He was elected as Chairman of the Executive Governing Committee of the Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prior to his assignment in DAR, Mr. Madueño was formerly connected with the Office of the President as Executive Director/Project Manager with the rank of Assistant Secretary under Presidential Committee on Flagship Projects handling public-private-partnership projects. His advocacy is to contribute to the rural development, asset reform, and national land use thru the application of information and communications technology.

Abstract
Relevance and Significance of Agrarian Reform in Agriculture, Rural Development and Inclusive Growth This paper argues that agrarian reform has strong relevance in the agriculture sector as the key factor for achieving rural development, poverty reduction and inclusive growth. The Philippines as an agricultural country - of the 12.3 million hectares devoted to agricultural crops, 9 million hectares are covered under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Employment conditions in the Philippines’ agriculture can be characterized as informal and low productivity. The Philippines became the fastest growing economy among Asian countries during the first quarter of CY 2013, with growth rate of 7.8%; agriculture including the agrarian reform sector contributed only 0.4% accounting for almost a third of labour force, but most of our rural poor emanate from this sector. Support for agricultural production should be oriented towards enhancing agricultural productivity and comparative advantage based on the delivery of public goods and associated services such as R&D, irrigation, rural-based infrastructures and credit assistance. Inclusive growth can be achieved by increasing productivity in agriculture and agrarian reform areas – particularly the small farmers. The critical challenge is climate change. Government should push for the national land use to address the effect of climate change, conflicting use of land, indiscriminate and illegal conversion of agricultural lands. Agriculture is considered as the most vulnerable sector to climate change due to high dependence on climate and weather. Mapping of communities and agricultural areas shall be implemented as part of preparedness against disaster occurrence and to minimize impact on agriculture.