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Peter BattyBiography
Peter is widely seen as an industry leader in the rapidly growing field of geospatial and location technologies. He is currently Founder and President of Spatial Networking, a startup which is developing a new infrastructure for calendaring and scheduling, combining social networking with future location . Previously he has served as CTO at two of the industry's leading companies as well as a cutting edge startup:
He has been a member of the GeoWorld magazine Editorial Advisory Board since 1996, has published many articles and spoken at many conferences around the world, and has received a record nine speaker awards from GITA (the Geospatial Information and Technology Association), for presentations at their North American and Australian conferences. He has been involved with industry standards efforts including the Open GIS Consortium and IEC TC57 Working Group 14, and is currently a member of the Board of GITA. Peter also worked in the geospatial field with IBM. He has a Masters degree in computer science from Oxford University, finishing top of his year, and a BA in Mathematics, also from Oxford. PressBatty’s insight about sentient computing and other
technologies clearly impressed conference attendees. "He
looked at GIS in a completely different light," said Mike
Goggin, business analyst with electric and gas utility
Exelon Corporation. "He looks at things well in advance to
open our eyes." Peter
Batty of Ten Sails has won six Speaker Awards at GITA. That
was not lost on attendees as the room was packed and
included many people sitting on the floor to hear about
"Technology Trends in the Spatial Industry." Intergraph "has hired one of
the most respected geospatial visionaries in Peter Batty,
now on board as CTO". Batty's
entrepreneurial experience and vision on technological
developments should serve to invigorate the software
development team at the company ... But perhaps, Batty's
greatest asset will be to act as the "Bill Gates" (in the
CTO sense, of course) of Intergraph to see well beyond the
cotton fields surrounding the company headquarters. Chris Stoltz, general manager for GITA Australia
and New Zealand, compares him to Bill Gates. "He's the sort
of person who has an understanding of spatial data and
location-aware technologies that goes beyond what most of us
would dream of having", Stoltz says. "And because of this he
has very valuable insights to share with us". I've just interviewed
one of the real Gurus of the world-wide geospatial
information industry; You know – one of those people
acknowledged by his peers as an industry expert and who is
expected to say something profound or visionary virtually
every time he opens his mouth. Peter Batty doesn't claim the
role but he certainly qualifies – he is globally recognized
by his peers as an industry leader on spatial information
management and location-aware technology. Peter Batty started the session off with a "short
history of GIS moving to the mainstream", which I found
particularly fascinating for folks in the geospatial
industry because it provided a historical perspective from
someone who comes at this subject with a broader, I would
say, non-traditional GIS perspective ... he has been
involved in a lot of this and knows from first hand
experience whereof he speaks. |
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