FIG SESSIONS AND SPECIAL FORUMS

FIG Session

Date

Time

Room

General Assembly – Session 1

2 May 09:00–16:00 Plenary Hall, Horncastle Arena

FIG Regional Capacity Development Network  

3 May 12:45–13:55 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

FIG Director Generals Forum l:
Experiences on 3D Mapping
 

3 May 14:00–15:30 Silk room 2, level 2, Addington Raceway

FIG Director Generals Forum ll:
3D Mapping and Disaster Risk Reduction

3 May  16:00–17:30 Silk room 2, level 2, Addington Raceway

FIG Task Force on Commission Structure

4 May 12:45–13:55 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

FIG Task Force on Scientific Journal

4 May 14:00–15:30 Christian Cullen Lounge 3, level 1, Addington Raceway

Shaping Our Future Network –
FIG Young Surveyors Network

4 May  14:00–15:30 Terror of Love Lounge 2, level 3, Addington Raceway

FIG Corporate Members Meeting 

4 May 14:00–15:30 Silk room 4, level 2, Addington Raceway

FIG Commission Meetings 

4 May 17:30–18:30 Varied. The Commission Meetings are open for all interested.
After the meeting each commission organises a dinner (self-paid).

FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study

5 May 11:00–12:30 Terror of Love Lounge 1, level 3, Addington Raceway

FIG Member Association Forum

5 May 11:00–12:30 Terror of Love Lounge 2, level 3, Addington Raceway

FIG Academic Members Forum joint with FAO

5 May 14:00–15:30 Concourse, Horncastle Arena

FIG Standards Network

5 May 16:00–17:30 Blossom Lady 2, level 3, Addington Raceway

Presidents’ Meeting

6 May 08:30–10:30 Concourse, Horncastle Arena

General Assembly – Session 2

6 May 11:00–15:00 Plenary Hall, Horncastle Arena

General Assembly – Session 1

For all FIG Members - open for observers

FIG Regional Capacity Development Network  

The Regional Capacity Development Network was established at the General Assembly of the FIG Working Week 2015 in Sofia. The Network continues the Work of the African Task Force (2009-14). The meeting will focus on

[handouts]

FIG Director Generals Forum l:
Experiences on 3D Mapping

The Annual FIG Director Generals Forum brings together Chief Executives or Director Generals (or their representatives or nominees) of national (or provincial) agencies and FIG Affiliate Membership that has responsibility over mapping, cadastral, valuation, planning and development, land administration and management from around the world. The Forum allows peer-to-peer engagement to address the challenges and opportunities of the times including the responsibility of national agencies to stay relevant and effective within its jurisdiction.

Following the DG Forum in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2015, we will again focus on 3D mapping in the first session. This is an issue of growing importance, and the objective is to share the latest developments and lessons – not only in technical aspects but maybe more concerning financing, benefits and involvement of stakeholders.

FIG Director Generals Forum ll:
3D Mapping and Disaster Risk Reduction

The UN GGIM initiative has grown in importance, and in involvement of UN member states. A number of Work Groups have been started at global level in the five UN regions. One of these groups concerns Disaster Risk Reduction, where 3D mapping can be a very important tool, e.g. in predicting and monitoring the effects of erosion, floods and other natural disasters. Our intention is to present what this Work Group is doing, and how our organizations can get involved and contribute to this important work.

Keynote speakers:

FIG Task Force on Commission Structure

The Task Force on Commission Structure was established at the General Assembly of the FIG Working Week 2015 in Sofia. At the session the following question is asked: Do the FIG Commissions reflect the technological advances and challenges of today or is there maybe a need to restructure our Commissions to support our surveyors appropriately in the future?

[handouts] [report]

FIG Task Force on Scientific Journal

The Task Force on Scientific Journal was established at the General Assembly of the FIG Working Week 2015 in Sofia. The aim of the Task Force is to evaluate all aspects of establishing a journal under FIG umbrella. Join the session and join the discussion.

Shaping Our Future Network –
FIG Young Surveyors Network

Be part in shaping the FIG Young Surveyors Network - and this in full speed! Get your seatbelt fasten and get to know the work, challenges and vision of our network. In this dynamical Workshop participants have the possibility of presenting and brainstorming their ideas on 'our future network'. So join us to keep on building the FIG Young Surveyors Network: International, Regional and National and more important - be part of the future.

FIG Corporate Members Meeting 

The 2016 FIG Corporate Members Meeting is where the corporate membership within FIG meets the FIG Administration to exchange information, provide feedbacks and discuss on-going and proposed activities.

FIG Commission Meetings 

The FIG Commissions are responsible for pursuing FIG's professional and technical objectives and are the backbone of the professional work in FIG. The Commission meetings are open for everyone who are interested in the work. After the meeting each commission organise a dinner.

Join the meetings in following rooms:

FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study

The Task Force on Real Estate Market Study was established at the General Assembly of the FIG Working Week 2015 in Sofia. The aim is to carry out a study on the real property markets in the UNECE region.

This session offers a chance to get the pulse on the current situation and preliminary re-sults of the Task Force. It offers a great opportunity to bring in new ideas and discuss the questions around the real estate market topic in a wider perspective. We are convinced that we, the Task Force, will gain more insight from these discussions and they will un-doubtedly help us to prepare for the first seminar and along the way towards the final findings. So, join us and help us cast a solid foundation for the work.

Pekka Halme (Finland)
FIG Task Force on Real Estate Market Study
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Vasily Nilipovskiy (Russia):
The Real Estate and Land Market of Russia: Factors of the Sustainable Development (8396)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Chryssy Potsiou (Greece):
Assessment of Legislative Reform on Property Market in Greece (8398)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Orhan Ercan (Turkey):
Turkish Real Estate Market (8446)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Winrich Voss (Germany):
Market Studies and Governmental Activities Concerning Affordable Housing” (8447)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

FIG Member Association Forum

The 2016 FIG Member Association Forum provides national leaders of our Profession the opportunity for peer-to-peer engagement to Exchange, share and discuss current and in-country challenges and opportunities facing the profession. Presidents, chairpersons, Head of Delegation (and their representatives) representing FIG Member Associations at the 39th FIG General Assembly can interact and exchange experiences, initiatives and programmes that aimed at uplifting professional stature and standing, and allowing the Profession to enhance its significance and relevance within its jurisdiction. The president of the host Association, the Nez Zealand Institute of Surveyors, will chair the Forum.

FIG Academic Members Forum joint with FAO

Strengthening land governance in professional surveying curricula and academic research.

FAO and FIG joined forces again and are dedicated to the VGGT with the intention to make a further step in the implementation of the VGGT in our surveying education and research.

The session will focus on

Liza Groenendijk (Netherlands) and Paul Munro-Faure (Italy)
Strengthening land governance in professional surveying curricula and academic research.
[Handouts]

Liza Groenendijk (Netherlands) and David Mitcell (Australia)
GLTN Project Responsible Land Administration Curriculum
[Handouts]

FIG Standards Network

The FIG Standards Network meets regularly to discuss relevant standards in the Survey Profession. The terms of reference of the Network are:

All those interested in standards and their influence on the surveying profession are cordially invited to attend the meeting.

Presidents’ Meeting

This event is convened by the FIG President and is reserved for Presidents or Heads of delegation of Member Associations (or their representatives)

General Assembly – Session 2

SPECIAL SESSIONS, FORUMS AND MEETING

Platinum member: Trimble - The Changing World of the Surveyor

Tuesday, 3 May 14:00–15:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

In today's world the demands for richer, accurate spatial data continue to increase as the Surveyor becomes an integral participant in the broader collaboration process, from recording the past to delivering for new and innovative land development and building construction, to collaborating in emergency and disaster response.

In this session Trimble will:

UAV Surveying and Mapping User Forum

Tuesday, 3 May 14:00–15:30 Terror of Love Lounge 2, Addington Raceway, level 3

Join the session to learn how surveyors are using UAV technologies as part of their surveying and mapping workflows to produce a variety of geospatial services. This forum will be facilitated by users and will cover topics such as the NZ CAA regulations and Airways requirements, market sectors using this technology, project workflows, client deliverables and how users can collaborate. Both existing and potential UAV users are welcome to attend.

FIG YSN, FIG & UN Habitat-GLTN Joint Technical Session: Nepal Building Back Better

Tuesday, 3 May 16:00–17:30 Silk room 1, Addington Raceway, level 2

The objectives of the session are:

Eva Maria Unger (Nepal)
Nepal Building Back Better - introduction
[handouts]

Bishnu B. Bhandari (Nepal)
Impacts of Mega-Earthquake 2015: Nepal’s Efforts on Rebuilding & Recovery
[Handouts]

Ganesh Prasad Bhatta (Nepal)
‘Post 2015 Earthquake’ Land Issues of Nepal
[Handouts]

Padma Sunder Joshi, GLTN UN-Habitat (Nepal)
Revitalizing Bungamatiafter the Earthquake of 2015
[Handouts]

Women in Spatial/Surveying Networking Breakfast

Wednesday, 4 May 07:45–09:00 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

With guest speaker Winnie Shiu, from Hong Kong, this session is open to anyone wanting to network with other professionals. Winnie is a Chartered Land Surveyor and the only female land surveyor in a senior management position in the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She has had a long involvement with FIG and in 2007 was the Congress Director of FIG Working Week 2007 in Hong Kong. She is currently Vice-Chair of FIG Commission 1, Co-chair for the Commission 1 Working Group on Women in Surveying, and a Member of the FIG Task Force Working Group on Commission Structure. She will share her experience of working in the male dominated profession of land surveying.

Platinum member: Esri - Modernizing Land Administration

Wednesday, 4 May 11:00–12:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

Technology for Land Administration - Cadastre, National Mapping and Valuation in the Developed and Developing World
Most countries in the world are working towards modernizing their land administration systems – cadastre, national mapping, and valuation. Ongoing challenges include—keeping authoritative land information current, complete, accurate, and secure while providing access to data across multiple networks to multiple stakeholders. Legacy technology puts up barriers that inhibit access to data across ministries, departments, and municipal and national offices. Complex, highly customized workflows can be cumbersome, inefficient, and costly to maintain. Hard coded, custom systems are very costly to maintain, update, and sustain and are vulnerable to security breaches.

Leveraging the cloud, webGIS, mobile devices, global standards and best practices, this session will provide attendees with an understanding of how to improve and implement new land administration capabilities quickly and easily. All conference attendees are welcome. An interactive discussion is expected.

UN Habitat-GLTN & FIG Joint Technical Session: Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration

Wednesday, 4 May 11:00–12:30 Terror of Love Lounge 2, Addington Raceway, level 3

30 minutes Open discussion facilitated by Kees de Zeeuw, The Netherlands.

Stig Enemark (Denmark), Robin McLaren (United Kingdom) and Christiaan Lemmen (Netherlands):
Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems: Guiding Principles (8323)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Christiaan Lemmen (Netherlands), Stig Enemark (Denmark) and Robin McLaren (United Kingdom):
Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems: Providing Security of Tenure for All (8392)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Robin McLaren (United Kingdom), Stig Enemark (Denmark) and Christiaan Lemmen (Netherlands):
Guiding Principles for Building Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration Systems in Developing Countries: Capacity Development, Change Management and Project Delivery (8315)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

NZAID, UN Habitat-GLTN, FAO & FIG Joint Technical Session: SIDS

Wednesday, 4 May 14:00–15:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

At the session the outcome of the SIDS Workshop will be discussed.

The FIG Small Island Developing States Workshop is held prior to the FIG Working Week from 30 April to 1 May, for more information, please visit www.fig.net/fig2016/sids.htm

David Mitcell (Australia)
FIG Christchurch Declaration: Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States: The Role of Land Professionals
[Hanouts]

Emerging technologies and Careers

Wednesday, 4 May 14:00–16:00 Plenary Hall, Horncastle

The geospatial world is constantly changing. New technologies offer new ways of working and new opportunities for data acquisition, analysis & design. Speakers from education providers and software and hardware suppliers will look at industry trends and explore the technology and work that we might be doing in 5 years’ time, and highlight the career opportunities that will be there.

Christina Hulbe and Richard Hemi (New Zealand)
Emerging Technologies and Careers
[Handouts]

Scott Campbell (New Zealand)
Where is GIS Going?
[Handouts]

Bruce Robinson (New Zealand)
Visions into Reality
[Handouts]

David Poyner (New Zealand)
Unitec Institute of Technology
[Handouts]

Steven Ramage (New Zealand) 
what3words
[Handouts]

Simon Kingham (New Zealand)
[Handouts]

John Taylor (New Zealand)
[Handouts]

Stu Ralston (New Zealand)
[Handouts]

UN Habitat-GLTN & FIG Joint Technical Session: Country Experiences on the Implementation of GLTN Land Tools

Wednesday, 4 May 16:00–17:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

The objectives of the session are:

Cyprian Selebalo, UN-Habitat/GLTN
Presentation on GLTN and its Land Tools
[Handouts]

John Gitau, UN-Habitat/GLTN
GLTN Country Level Engagement
[Handouts]

Charisse Griffith-Charles, University of West Indies
OECS Experience in Piloting the Social Tenure Domain Model
[Handouts]

Christchurch -the 2010 earthquake: Disaster Recovery and Planning and Building Resilient Infrastructure for the Future

Wednesday, 4 May 16:00–17:30 Blossom Lady 1, Addington Raceway, level 3

Christchurch suffered severe earthquake sequences in 2010 and 2011 which caused significant damage to property and infrastructure. In these sessions, professional water and drainage engineers from CIWEM's Network in New Zealand tell their story of disaster recovery in the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes, the strategies which were developed and implemented to deal with the risks inherent in such situations and the significant efforts which have gone into planning, designing and building the infrastructure for the new Christchurch. Richly illustrated with case studies on key infrastructure, this series of presentations demonstrates the appliance of expertise and teamwork, coupled with a whole life costing methodology, used in evaluating and developing resilient installations and systems for the future. The speakers will share experiences in the lessons learnt over the last 5 years, what expertise is transferrable to other disaster sites around the globe and the opportunity to trial new technology - pushing the barriers of experience to develop, design and deliver smart, cost-effective solutions for the city's infrastructure.

Greg Offer, Mark Christison and Ian Billings (New Zealand):
Earthquake Repairs at Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant – Lessons for Resilience (8247)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Ian Billings, Greg Offer and Tim Scott (New Zealand):
Earthquake Repairs at Christchurch Wastewater Treatment Plant (CWTP) – Clarifying the Situation (8248)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

David Heiler and Rod Cameron (New Zealand):
Practitioners Guide to Building Resilience into Infrastructure Networks (8253)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

A Murphy (New Zealand):
Rain Rain Go Away, and Don’t Come Back Some Other Day: Rebuilding Earthquake Damaged Stormwater Infrastructure in Christchurch (8250)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Platinum member: Leica Geosystems - when it has to be right.

Thursday, 5 May 11:00–12:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

Leica Geosystems is a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications. Leica Geosystems' solutions integrate sensors, software, domain knowledge and customer workflows into intelligent information ecosystems that deliver actionable information used in a wide range of vital industries. This presentation will highlight the latest Leica Geosystems geospatial solutions - when it has to be right

FIG & FAO Joint Technical Session: How can Land Professionals support the implementation of VGGTs

Thursday, 5 May 11:00–12:30 Blossom Lady 2 , Addington Raceway, level 3

The objectives of the session are:
Improving governance of tenure requires contributions by all, including ensuring synergies with similar initiatives, as different actors and stakeholder groups can make their own specific contributions. Surveyors, whether in their everyday work or in their contribution to country, regional and global processes play a fundamental role.

This high-level session roundtable discussion will discuss challenges, ideas, solutions and opportunities for surveyors to improve governance of tenure at global, regional and country levels. Tabled for debate the session will provide concrete examples that can be taken by individuals to solutions that require long-term concerted efforts.

Paul Munro-Faure (Italy)
Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure: How can Land Professionals support the Implementation? 
[Handouts]

Diane Dumashie (United Kingdom)
A time to Improve Land Governance: How can Land Professionals support the implementation of the VGGT
[Handouts]

UN Habitat-GLTN & FIG Joint Technical Session: Land Tenure Initiative for Asia Pacific

Thursday, 5 May 14:00–15:30 Terror of Love Lounge 2, Addington Raceway, level 3

The objectives of the session are:

Cheehai Theo, Malaysia
Overview of Tenure Security Challenges in Asia and the Pacific

David Mitchell, Australia
Barriers and Limitations to Improved Tenure Security
[Handouts]

Cyprian Selebalo, UN-Habitat/GLTN
Approaches and Land Tools for Improved Tenure Security
[Handouts]

Regional Partners Meeting/Forum

Thursday, 5 May 16:00–17:30 Silk room 4, Addington Raceway, level 2

A Council of Regional Bodies will meet for the first time in Christchurch. This meeting has following goals:
Discuss the usefulness of the creation of a Regional Council and its organization;
Exchange priorities, trends and best practices (proposal of CLGE: IPMS, ILMS, Marine Cadastre, Code of Professional Qualifications);
Advise FIG about possible strategies (proposal CLGE: Global Surveyors Week).

If you are interested in participating, please contact Jean-Yves Pirlot at Jean-Yves.Pirlot[at]clge.eu

Platinum member: Bentley Systems - Reality modelling for disaster management

Thursday, 5 May 16:00–17:30 Concourse Room, Horncastle Arena

Bentley’s Reality Modelling solutions provide efficient 3D modelling capabilities suited to rapid capture of disaster scenes. From localized sites to complex and widespread sites, reality modelling offers responders and disaster managers rapid access to regular data updates to assess, plan, respond and remediate disaster zones. The session will introduce the concept of reality modelling for disaster management, including considerations for UAV and terrestrial capture, typical uses and a 45 min demonstration of the ConceptCapture technology and reality models.

UN Habitat-GLTN & FIG Joint Technical Session: Valuation of Unregistered Lands

Thursday, 5 May 16:00–17:30 Terror of Love Lounge 1, Addington Raceway, level 3

The objectives of the session are:

Cyprian Selebalo, UN-Habitat/GLTN
Need for Valuation of Unregistered Properties
Progress on the initiative of developing a tool for Valuation of Unregistered Lands
[Handouts]

Mike McDermott, Australia
Draft proposals for valuation of unregistered land methodology

Steven Nystrom, United Kingdom
Property Taxation in Developing Countries

Open Discussion

Steven Nystrom, United States
Next Steps

Way Forward: Synthesis and FIG’s POV