This interview illustrates a next-gen innovative approach to business modeling that leverages GIS and enterprise system assets for improved enterprise search and decision support.

Location-aware social networks have a huge potential for enabling people in a community to help themselves during a crisis. Spatial analysis makes crowdsourced data actionable.

GeoAlberta is Canada’s pre-eminent geospatial conference, which will be held May 30-June 1, 2011 in Edmonton, Alberta. By consolidating the efforts and budgets of four regional geospatial organizations, GeoAlberta attracts approximately 300 geospatial professionals every year.

Executive level officers within an organization —CEO, CFO, CMO, CTO, CIO, COO—all bring specific skills to operate a business. These skills include at a minimum organizational management, budgeting and finance, technology, sales and marketing, and industry knowledge, as well as the ability to leverage operational, customer, and marketing data. Most successful executives are good at knowing how to extract, analyze and act upon that data; after all, these executives learned it either in business school or on the job.

Priszm Income Fund owns one of the largest operators of quick service restaurants in the world. The Fund holds approximately a 60 percent interest in Priszm Limited Partnership, which owns and operates more than 400 KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurants in seven provinces across Canada. Priszm is Canada’s largest independent restaurant operator and the world’s largest KFC franchisee.

In 2003, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku declared that time travel, “…once confined to fantasy and science fiction… is now simply an engineering problem.” Today, from the standpoint of operations improvement and top-line growth, it’s an engineering problem that’s been solved.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) have become woven into the fabric of most businesses and pushed into the psyches of our organizations. In an effort to better understand and manage our businesses …

Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, floods and terrorism – the catastrophic disasters that remind us of the fragility of life and the uncertainty of investments in the future are subject to sophisticated risk modeling. Risk management is both an actuarial and a spatial problem, and the ability to diversify risk is critical to a healthy insurance industry.

This summit is an opportunity for the cable companies to share their experiences, best practices, and lessons learned on their GIS initiatives and in particular focus on the business objectives, requirements, and needs with geospatial providers that have been serving the cable industry in the US and Canada.