MAP ASIA 2006 TENTATIVE PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Time	Main Hall (Plenary Hall 3)	Parallel 1	Parallel 2	Parallel 3	Parallel 4
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
1630-1800	Conference Inauguration
1800	Inauguration of Exhibition (Plenary Hall 2)
1830	Exhibitors' Reception
1930	Dinner Reception
Wednesday, 30 August 2006
0900 - 1030	Plenary Session 1 Geographic Information Trends: Global Perspectives
Poster Session
1030 – 1200	Tea and Visit to Exhibition Area
1200 – 1330	Lunch (Retro Live Café & Lotus Room)
1330 - 1500	Plenary Session 2 GeoICT for Good Governance
1500 – 1545	Tea Break and Visit to Exhibition Area
1545 – 1715	Plenary Session 3 Enterprise GIS and Infrastructure Development
1530 - 1730	Speck SpatialTech LiDAR workshop (Meeting Hall 1)
1930 - 2200	Gala Dinner (Plenary Hall 3)
Thursday, 31 August 2006
0900 - 1030	Keynote 1 Large Scale Mapping	Positioning and Navigation Services
1030 – 1130	Tea Break
1130 - 1300	Keynote 2 Spatial Data Infrastructure in Asia	Agriculture and Precision Farming
1300 – 1400	Lunch Break (Retro Live Café & Lotus Room)
Parallel Technical Sessions
1400 - 1530	Digital Image Processing	Space Programme and Remote Sensing	Environment and Forestry	Geological Applications I	Student Session - I
1600 – 1730	GeoICT	Modelling in GIS	Health and Human Services	Land Information System and Landuse Planning	Student Session - II
1800	Exhibition Closes
Friday, 1 September 2006
0900 – 1030	Geological Applications - II	Marine and Coastal GIS	Natural Resources Management	Photogrammetry and 3D Visualisation	Disaster Management
1030 – 1230	Microsoft Virtual Earth Workshop (Meeting Hall 1)
1030 – 1100	Tea
1100 – 1230	Surveying, Mapping and Geodesy	Transportation	Urban Planning	WebGIS	Water Resources
1230 – 1300	Valedictory Session
0100	Lunch (Retro Live Cafe)