Keynote Speakers

Kenneth Field

Dr Kenneth Field joined Esri as Senior Cartographic Researcher in 2011. He was formerly Principal Lecturer at Kingston University London where he was Course Director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Centre for GIS. A graduate of Oxford Polytechnic's cartography degree programme, he has spent his career to date enthusing on cartographic design and production, increasingly through the use of GIS technologies. He has presented papers, keynotes and workshops at over 100 conferences worldwide, published about 50 papers and book chapters and is the current Editor of The Cartographic Journal, Chair of the ICA Commission on Map Design and a member of the ICA Publications Committee and the UK Cartographic Committee. He is a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society, Higher Education Academy and Royal Geographic Society and a Chartered Geographer (GIS). His original cartographic work includes a number of large format special purpose maps, interactive and web-maps which have received over a dozen international awards and he has also tutored award winning student work. Ken's work at Esri is focused on developing techniques to support the creation and use of high quality mapping through the use of GIS technologies, to develop new cartographic approaches that respond to the potential afforded by new and emerging technologies and to evangelize the importance of cartography as a fundamental component of information communication.

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Georg Gartner

Georg Gartner is Full Professor of Cartography at the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation of the Vienna University of Technology. He is responsible organizer of the International Symposia on Location Based Services and Editor of the Book Series "Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography" by Springer and Editor of the Journal on LBS by Taylor & Francis. He served as Dean of Academic Affairs at TU Vienna from 2007 to 2013. He serves as President of the International Cartographic Association. His current research interest lies in Location Based Services, Navigation Systems and applying methods of crowdsourcing and VGI on subjective mapping. His main research direction is guided by the idea of contemporary cartography, which deals scientifically with communicating spatial information through means of cartographic design and modern technology. His research experience is based on various activities, including scientific publications, a large number of primarily invited presentations, talks, workshops or research visits and funded projects. He worked as project leader of various research projects which deal with fundamental and applied questions of Cartography and LBS .

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Will van den Hoonaard

Dr Will C. van den Hoonaard is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick and Research Associate at the Atlantic Centre for Qualitative Research and Analysis at St. Thomas University (Fredericton). His nine books express a wide range of interests: social histories, ethnographies, and textbooks in sociology. Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography (2013/2014), Essentials of Thinking Ethically in Qualitative Research (with D.K. van den Hoonaard, 2013), and The Seduction of Ethics: The Transformation of the Social Sciences (2011) constitute his most recent works. He is internationally renowned for his work on ethical collaboration with research participants. The Health Improvement Institute (Bethesda, MD) presented him the Award for Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in Human Research Protection. National Geographic featured his latest book, Map Worlds, in Daily Digital News. He obtained a PhD (Sociology) at the University of Manchester.

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Kristoffer Kristiansen

Kristoffer J. Kristiansen was graduated (MSc) from the Department of Physical Geography, University of Oslo in 1985. The subject for the dissertation was surveying and mapping quaternary geology and geomorphology in part of northern Norway. He worked at the same department as a research assistant until 1989, mainly with quaternary geology surveying in several counties and in Spitzbergen. He started his career at the Norwegian Mapping Authority in Honefoss 1989. During his 25 years at the Mapping Authority he has worked within the core area of cartography with map data in different scales, topographic and thematic maps. He also gives lectures on several conferences and has been teaching students at Norwegian universities, with themes mainly on map production, cartography, visual communication and design. In collaboration with the Norwegian Defence Forces he managed a project in developing a common specification for screen cartography which has become a de facto standard in Norway. Since 2012 he has participated as an cartographic expert in an EEA mission in Romania. Main tasks are LIDAR scanning, production of orthophotos and map data both for urban and rural areas, covering a quarter of Romania. He is the Norwegian delegate to the International Cartographic Assosiation (ICA) and responsible for the Norwegian map exhibition at the conference. Kristoffer is currently the head of Cartography section at Norwegian Mapping Authority, with 25 employees.

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Granville Allen Mawer

Granville Allen Mawer is an independent historian based in Canberra who has written widely on matters involving cartography, specifically maritime history and exploration. His earliest works were on clippers (Fast Company, Plainwords Press 1994) and convict ships (Most Perfectly Safe, Allen & Unwin 1997). Ahab's Trade (Allen & Unwin 1999), his history of South Sea whaling, was shortlisted for both the NSW and Queensland Premiers' history prizes. South by Northwest (Wakefield 2006), a history of the search for the magnetic poles, was runner-up for the Frank Broeze maritime history prize. His most recent work, Incognita: The Invention and Discovery of Terra Australis was released by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2013. Other works include a biography of bushranger Jack Doolan, the Wild Colonial Boy of the song, and Canberry Tales, a local history of the Australian capital that last year was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Regional and Community History Prize.

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