Environment Southland Information Management Conference

Regional councils and government agencies are increasingly under pressure to resolve data questions and discover how best to acquire, manage, collate, analyse, report and disseminate data, while managing  the associated costs. Steering organisations through these complex issues requires a solid understanding of what technologies are available and the information demands of the future *(source).

I had the great opportunity to speak at the Environment Southland Information Management Conference in Invercargill. It was a great event, well organised and very informative. I believe I could contribute my part to the line up and fill a few more gaps in the whole picture.
This was not a business as usual conference, it was obvious that the speakers took it serious to cater their presentations to the needs of the stakeholders. And with 70 attendees from regional and central government, as well as visitors from research and industry.

It was great to see the emerging patterns around NZ and similar approaches to a holistic, comprehensive and modern data strategy. If you are interested, this is a link to programme, and please see below for my slides. Watch the talk on Youtube.