XXIV FIG Congress and XXXIII General Assembly in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010

Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity

Picture Gallery 4 - Plenary Sessions and After Lunch Talks

Links to picture galleries of the XXIV FIG Congress and the XXXIII General Assembly in Sydney, Australia

• Picture Gallery 1 - Opening Ceremony - Monday 12 April 2010

• Picture Gallery 2 - General Assembly I - Sunday 11 April 2010

• Picture Gallery 3 - General Assembly II - Friday 16 April 2010

• Picture Gallery 4 - Plenary Sessions and After Lunch Talks

• Picture Gallery 5 - Technical sessions, Director General Forum and Small Islands Development States Workshop

• Picture Gallery 6 - Exhibition

• Picture Gallery 7 - Administrative Meetings - Council, Commissions, partners, members and administration

• Picture Gallery 8 - Social Events - Welcome Reception and Reception at the Government House

• Picture Gallery 9 - Social Events - FIG Foundation Dinner and Gala Dinner

• Picture Gallery 10 - Presidents' Meeting and Closing Ceremony

• Picture Gallery 11 - Images from Sydney
   

• Report of the FIG Congress
• Report of the XXXIII General Assembly
• Proceedings
• Conference web site

Plenary Sessions
Plenary session on FIG achievements was chaired by Robert Foster and the presentation on activities 2007-2010 was made by President Stig Enemark.	Honorary President Robert Foster chairing first plenary session.
Stig Enemark making the keynote presentation on FIG achievements 2007-2010.	Plenary session on spatially enabled society with Warwick Watkins, Santiago Borrero and Abbas Rajabifard as speakers.
Prof. Iain Williamson, FIG Honorary member was chairing the second plenary session.	GSDI President Abbas Rajabifard making his keynote presentation on spatially enabled socities.
Surveyor General Warwick Watkins, NSW making the presentation on the NSW solution for spatially enabled societey.	Warwick Watkins making his presentation on New South Wales case study.
Santiago Borrero, PAIGH, Stig Enemark, FIG and Abbas Rajabifard, GSDI signing the MoU at the second plenary session.	Full hall with 1,000 participants was following all four plenary sessions - here plenary session 2.
President Stig Enemark chairing Plenary Session 3 on the Big Challenges.	Stig Enemark making the introduction in the third plenary session.
Speakers at the third plenary session: Mohamed El-Sioufi, UN-HABITAT, Paul Munro-Faure, FAO and David Fitzpatrick.	David Fitzpatrick making his presentation land policy guidelines after natural disasters.
Dr. Mohamed El-Sioufi from UN-HABITAT making his keynote address in plenary session on the big challenges.	General view to plenary session 3.
Plenary session four on technological futures.	Ed Parsons making a presentation on Google map solutions in plenary session 4 about technological futures.
Mary O'Kane from Australia making her keynote address in the plenary session.	Vice President Matt Higgins making his keynote presentation.
FIG Vice President Dalal S. Alnaggar making her concluding remarks as chair of the last plenary session.
After Lunch Talks
Prof. John McLaughlin, Canada was the first After Lunch speaker in an FIG Congress.	Prof. John McLaughlin spoke about the fourth wave of property reform.
Second after lunch speaker was Brent Jones from ESRI (Platinum sponsor of FIG 2010) who spoke about the geospatial response to natural disaster in Haiti.	Johannes Schwarz from Leica (Titanium sponsor of the congress) was one of the three after lunch speakers. Here with Vice President Matt Higgins, who was chairing the session.