Speakers Plenary Speakers Aida Opoku Mensah Director ICT & S&T UN ECA Ethiopia Dr. Elias T. Ayuk Director United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources in Africa Ghana Dr S. O. Mohammed Director General /CEO Nigeria Space and Research Development Agency Nigeria Dr. Hussein O. Farah Director General Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) Nairobi, Kenya Chris W. Gibson Vice-President Trimble USA Brent A. Jones PE, PLS, Global Marketing Manager, Survey, Engineering, Cadastre Solutions ESRI Industry Solutions USA Steven Ramage Executive Director Marketing and Communications Open Geospatial Consortium Norway Ben Chikamai Director General KEFRI Kenya Julius Kipng’etich Director Kenyan Wildlife Services Kenya Round Table Speakers Dr. Joseph Akinyede Director African Regional Centre for Space Science & Technology Nigeria Prof. Shaukat Abdulrazak Secretary National Council for Science & Technology Kenya Dr Paidamwoyo Mhangara Remote Sensing Specialist South African National Space Agency (SANSA) South Africa John Kimani Lead Scientist Kenya National Space Secretariat Kenya Dr. Ing. Yaw Poku-Gyamfi Geodetic Engineer & Research Scientist CSIR Ghana Harun Makandi GIS in-charge Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology Tanzania Peter Maingi GIS specialist Kenya Agriculture Research Institute Kenya Seminar Speakers Dr. Kitutu Kimono Mary Goretti Environment Information systems Specialist National environment Management Authority Uganda Dr. Musyoka Sammy Mulei Head Department of Geospatial & Space Technology, (GST) University of Nairobi Kenya Angela Emmanuel Malisa GIS Manager National Environment Management Council Tanzania Patrick Tom Odongo Director Planning City Council of Nairobi Kenya Dr. Francis N. Nyangaga Executive Director Kenya Roads Board Kenya Richard Appiah Otoo GIS Manger Ghana Water company Ghana Representative Precision Geospatial Solutions South Africa Carsten Haub Head Landscape Ecology & Land Resource Management Division E F T A S Fernerkundung Germany Grace Iraguha Senior GIS Expert Rwanda Development Board Rwanda Andre Nonguierma Information, Science & Technology Division United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Ethiopia Joseph Matere GIS Head Food and Agriculture Organisation Kenya Athuman J. Msuya (M.Sc in Geo-Information Science, B.Sc in Land Surveying) Senior Cartographer National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Geo-Information Section Tanzania Representative Stesalite India Eyob Teshome President Ethiopian GIS Society Ethiopia Farayi H. T. Ndambakuwa Chief Land Surveyor-GIS Department of Survey Zimbabwe Primoz Kovacic Co-ordinator Map Kibera Kenya Representative from East View Cartographic Jennifer Oduor Property Department Kenya Electricity Generating Co. Ltd. Kenya Athuman J. Msuya Sr. Cartographer National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania Representative Institution of Surveyors of Kenya Kenya Matt Delano Business Area Director – Cadastral Solutions Trimble USA Session Speakers Emma Odhiambo Head- Cartography Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Kenya Morris Mbetsa Chief Executive Office Kenya Innovation Centre Kenya Eric Nyadimo Managing Director Oakar Services Kenya Klaus Mithofer GIS Officer ICIPE kenya Representative Topcon UAE Dr. Eltaib Ganawa Faculty - Geography and Environmental Sciences University of Khartoum Sudan Peter Mwangi GIS Specialist Earthwatch Institute Kenya Albert W. Lyimo Sr. Lecturer University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania Kimuyu, Jacinta S. Lecturer The Kenya Polytechnic University College Kenya Representative Jommo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Kenya