Dear students, we are glad to announce that the first Meeting of GIEWorks will be held in March, 29th, from 12:45 to 13:45 in Room S1.3. We will meet Dr. Eng. Simone Dalmasso, from JRC, and Dr. Massimo Zotti, from Planetek Italia.

Simone Dalmasso will give the speech From zero to Geoinformatics, the story of a new and beautiful profession.

Simone Dalmasso works at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) as technical coordinator of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping, which provides geospatial information in support of emergency management activities immediately following a disaster at a global scale. Simone Dalmasso has a Ph.D. in Geomatics with focus on Geospatial Open Source Software development and he’s been very active in contributing to international projects in that field. Thanks to that and the university studies in remote sensing and geospatial information management he was appointed in the current role in 2016.

Massimo Zotti will give the speech titled Present and Future of Earth Observation.

Massimo Zotti is the head of the Strategic Business Unit “Government & Security” of Planetek Italia s.r.l., he is responsible for the marketing of application solutions and services for public entities and Defence at national and international level. Massimo Zotti is a passionate promoter of issues related to Geo-ICT and Earth observation. In 20 years of professional experience, he gained a good expertise in Geography, Geomatics, Remote Sensing, client-server and web oriented architectures, geospatial standards for data interoperability and open policies, notably in Earth observation

The meeting will be chaired by Ludovico Biagi, head of the MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering.