SPAR International 2011

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Sunday, March 20

8:00 - 5:00

ASCE Executive Committee Meeting
Conroe Room

Monday, March 21

8:00 - 5:00	ASCE Workshop The Woodlands Room
1:00 - 2:45	kubit User Meeting (1:00 - 2:45) Waterway Ballroom 2	Esri User Meeting (1:15 - 2:45) Waterway Ballroom 1
3:00 - 4:00	Primer: 3D Imaging Overview Waterway Ballroom 5		Primer: Mobile Surveying (3:00 - 5:00) Montgomery Ballroom
4:00 - 5:00	Primer Breakout: Industrial Plant Waterway Ballroom 5	Primer Breakout: Infrastructure/Building Waterway Ballroom 7 & 8
5:00 - 6:00	Happy Hour Town Center Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, March 22

8:00 - 11:30	Opening & Keynotes Waterway Ballroom--Tom Greaves, Managing Director, Spar Point Group, Diversified Communications --Brian Mathews, Vice President, Autodesk Labs --Robert L. Green, PLS, Geodetic Consultant, Vectors Inc. and Shawn Binion, PLS, Bookcliff Survey Services, Inc. --Ruth Parsons, Chief Executive, Historic Scotland –David Lafferty, Chief Technology Office, Information Technology & Services, BP
11:30 - 1:30	Lunch, Networking and Exhibits Town Center Exhibit Hall				Technical Seminars
1:30 - 3:00	Industrial Facilities Waterway 4–Lau Jensen, M.Sc., Chartered Surveyor, 3D Scanning & Survey, Ramboll Oil & Gas --Travis Reinke, Vice President, SmartGeoMetrics –Jason Hosch, Facility Layout Coordinator, Intel, and Dale Stenning, Hoffman Construction	New Ideas, Applications, and Technologies Waterway Ballroom 6, 7, & 8 Moderator: Paul Banks, President, Tetravue–Amadeus Burger, President & CEO, CSA, Inc. –Elmer Bol, Co-Founder,Alice Labs, B.V. –Aaron Morris, CEO, Allpoint System	Mobile Surveying Waterway 5 Tom Yarbrough, Texas Department of Transportation, and Raymond Mandli, President, Mandli Communications –Kent Stewart, and Jerry Allen, Woolpert, Inc.	Security Planning and Law Enforcement Waterway 1 & 2 Moderator: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, IAFSM–Ken Fowle, PhD, Department of Mines & Petroleum, Investigation & Enforcement Branch, and Sgt. Steve Marks, Western Australia Police Service –Capt. Laurent Chartier and Capt. Christophe Lambert, Forensic Sciences Institute of French Gendamerie	Montgomery Ballroom 12:00 - 1:00 Trimble 1:00 - 2:00 Optech 2:00 - 3:00 Esri
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee, Networking and Exhibits
3:30 - 5:00	Industrial Facilities Waterway 4 –James Beaman, Jacobs Group, NASA-JSC –Mohsen Hashemi, President, IQA Solutions, Inc. –Masahiro Motohashi, Plant Design Group, Plant Design & Engineering Dept, Toshiba Corporation	New Ideas, Applications, and Technologies Waterway Ballroom 6, 7, & 8 Moderator: Paul Banks, President, Tetravue –Helmut Kungl, President, XYZ RGB – Marek Sekowski, President, and Dr. Donald J. Meagher, The Voxal Group – Lionel White, University of Texas at Dallas	Mobile Surveying – Waterway 5 Jim Brainard, PLS, Vice President, REY Engineers, Inc. –Nikolaus Studnicka, Manager, International Sales, Riegl Laser Measurement Systems GmbH –Kourosh Langari, Civil Engineer, GISP, URS and Michael Frecks, PLS, President, Terrametrix, LLC	Security Planning and Law Enforcement Waterway 1 & 2 Moderator: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, IAFSM --Eugene Liscio, AI2-3D Animations --John W. Bramblet, Newton Labs	Technical Seminars Montgomery Ballroom 4:00 - 5:00 Topcon 5:00 - 6:00 Bentley

5:00 - 6:00	Service Provider Pecha Kucha Waterway 5				Digital Historic Preservation Roundtable Waterway 4
6:00 - 7:00	Industry Reception Town Center Exhibit Hall

Wednesday, March 23

8:00 - 10:00	3D Imaging as a Risk Management Tool Waterway Ballroom 6, 7 & 8 (8:00-9:00) Chair: Tim Rennie, Executive Vice President, Engineering and Construction, ENGlobal Systems Inc.____________ (9:00-10:00) Laser Scanning Significant Historic Sites –Chris Tucker, P.Eng., A.L.S., President, Point Geomatics Ltd. –Russell Gibb, Geometria Ltd.	New Ideas, Applications and Technologies Waterway Ballroom 4 –Sam Billingsley IV, PLS, Managing Partner, Geophysical Data Management --Jason L. Matsumoto, Online Interactive, Inc. --Mark Wynne, 3D Business Unit Director, MWH --Michael Klug, Chief Technology Officer, Zebra Imaging, Inc.	Scan to BIM Waterway Ballroom 5 Track Chair: Birgitta Foster, A/E Partnership Lead, Facilities, BIM Champion, Sandia National Lab –Joseph Chumbley, Engineering Visualization Services, Lockheed Martin Space Systems --Vaughn J. Mantor, 3D Scanning Division, Darling Environmental & Surveying –Kelly Cone, Director of Innovation, Beck Group --Larry Kleinkemper, AIA, Owner, Lanmar Services	Security Planning and Law Enforcement Waterway Ballroom 1 & 2 Moderator: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, IAFSM –Robert L. Green, PLS, Geodetic Consultant, Vectors Incorporated and Shawn Binion, PLS, Bookcliff Survey Services, Inc.	Technical Seminars Montgomery Ballroom 8:00 – 9:00 Applanix 9:00 – 10:00 Leica
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee, Networking and Exhibits Town Center Exhibit Hall
10:30 - Noon	Historic Architectural Building Surveys (HABS) Revisited Waterway Ballroom 6, 7 & 8 Track Chairs: Ben Kacyra, Founder, and Elizabeth Lee, Director of Projects, CyArk Foundation –John M. Russo, AIA, ARC --Michael R. Frecks, Terrametrix	Creating National Standards for Infrastructure Surveying Waterway Ballroom 4 Track Chair: Robert Dingess, President, Mercer Strategic Alliance, Inc. Panelists: --Raymond Mandli, President, Mandli Communications –Lincoln Cobb, Technology Facilitator, Federal Highway Adminstration	Scan to BIM (cont’d) –Digby Christian, Senior Project Manager, Sutter Medical Center, & Samir Emdanat, Director, VDC Consulting, Ghafari –Larry J. Hlavacek, AIA, SE, Project Manager, and Jennifer Taylor, PSA-Dewberry, Inc., and Eric Hoffman, Founder, QuantaPoint	Security Planning and Law Enforcement Waterway Ballroom 1 & 2 Moderator: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, IAFSM –Damian Schofield, PhD, Human Computer Interaction, SUNY-Oswego –Nicole Miller, US Secret Service	Technical Seminars Montgomery Ballroom 10:30 – 11:30 FARO 11:30 – 12:30 AVEVA
Noon - 1:30	Lunch, Networking and Exhibits
1:30 - 3:00	Underwater Measurement Waterway Ballroom 6, 7 & 8 --John W. Bramblet, President, Newton Labs --Jason Gillham, Director of Operations, 2G Robotics Inc. --Steve Chapman, Vice President, BlueView Technologies, Inc. --Stéphane Loeul and Ed Cheesman, IXSEA	Civil Infrastructure Waterway Ballroom 4 –Jody Lounsbury, PLS, Associate, Section Manager, 3D Laser Scanning, CHA –Pingbo Tang, PhD, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Western Michigan University	Scan to BIM (cont’d) Panel Discussion, “BIM Lessons Learned” Moderated by Birgitta Foster. Panelists include: --Ken Smerz, President, Precision 3D Scanning --Kyle Bernhardt, Autodesk --–Jason Hosch, Facility Layout Coordinator, Intel, and Dale Stenning, Hoffman Construction --Digby Christian, Senior Project Manager, Sutter Medical Center --Larry Kleinkemper, AIA, Owner, Lanmar Services	Security Planning and Law Enforcement Waterway Ballroom 1 & 2 Moderator: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, IAFSM –Capt. Laurent Chartier, Forensic Sciences Institute of French Gendamerie –Carl Adrian, FBI, and Carl Schultheisz, Materials Research Engineer, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)	Technical Seminars Montgomery Ballroom 1:00 – 2:00 Z+F 2:00 – 3:00 Riegl 3 3:00 – 4:00 GeoDigital 4:00 -- 5:00 Fuji Technical Research Inc.
3:00 - 3:30	Coffee, Networking and Exhibits
3:30 - 5:00	Roundtable: Owner-Operators & EPCs Discussion Waterway Ballroom 6, 7 & 8 Moderator: Sam Pfeifle, Editor, Spar Point Group, Diversified Business Communications	3D as a Marketing & Recruitment Tool Waterway Ballroom 4 Moderator: Tom Greaves, Managing Director, Spar Point Group, Diversified Communications–John M. Russo, AIA, President & CEO, ARC –Carlos Velazquez, CEO, Epic Scan –Angus Stocking	Digital Preservation of Historic Assets Waterway Ballroom 5 --Gina Haney, Coordinator, Future of Babylon Project, World Monuments Fund --Zhong Chen, PE, PLS, Dynasty Group	Security Planning and Law Enforcement IAFSM Working Groups/ Subcommittees Meetings Waterway Ballroom 1 & 2
3:30 - 5:00

Thursday, March 24

8:00 - 9:30	Standardizing Data Formats Waterway Ballroom 3 Track Chair: Kamel Saidi, PhD, NIST	New Ideas, Applications, and Technologies Montgomery B&C–Lee Caswell, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Pivot3 --Aldo De La Haza, and Zhong Chen, PE, PLS, Dynasty Group --Dr. Nicolas Vandapel, National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute	Indoor Mobile Mapping Demo Waterway Ballroom 7 & 8 Moderator: Tom Greaves, Managing Director, Spar Point Group, Diversified Communications--Louis Nastro, Applanix	IAFSM Annual Board Meeting Montgomery A Chair: Daniel Livecchi, US Secret Service; President, International Association of Forensic & Security Metrology
9:30 - 10:00	Coffee, Networking and Exhibits
10:00 - 11:30	Vendor Panel Discussion: Data Integration Waterway Ballroom 3 Moderator: Tom Greaves, Managing Director, Spar Point Group, Diversified Communications	Special Interest Groups: Service Provider Association Montgomery B&C 10:00 - 10:10 Ken Smerz, President, Precision 3D Scanning 10:15 - 11:30 Building Surveyors Chair: John M. Russo, AIA, President & CEO, ARC	Engaging Youth Waterway Ballroom 7 & 8 Track Chair: Georgia Fotopolous, PhD, P.Eng, Associate Professor, The University of Texas, Dallas Participants: –Michael J. Olsen,Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University –H. Scott Halliday, Navajo Technical College –Craig Glennie,Assistant Professor, University of Houston –Chris Tucker, P.Eng., A.L.S., President, Point Geomatics Ltd.
11:30	Main Conference Concludes
2:00 - 5:30	ASTM E-57 Committee Meeting College Park Room
1:00 - 2:30	StreetMapper Round Table Discussion Waterway Ballroom 6
1:00 - 6:00	Z&F User Meeting Montgomery Ballroom C
1:00 - 7:00	FARO User Meeting Waterway Ballroom 8

Friday, March 25

8:00 - 5:30

8:30 - 4:00

ASTM E-57 Committee Meeting College Park Room

LFM User Group Meeting Waterway Ballroom 4

Saturday, March 26

8:0 am - Noon

ASTM E-57 Committee Meeting College Park Room

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