The seminar entitled “Review of 2007 in the Geospatial Industry” was held on December 20, 2007 at Auberge Saint-Antoine, in Québec City. The event attracted almost 50 participants from the academic, private and public sectors. Among the topics that were discussed, we can mention the major trends in the industry, convergence, and the adoption of geolocation based products and services by the consumer market.

BALIZ invites you to a seminar entitled "Une heure ICI : BILAN 2007 de l’industrie du géospatial", that will highlight and summarize the events that have marked the geospatial industry during the past year (Mapping, Geomatics, GPS, Interactive Web Mapping, Business Intelligence, etc.).

Following the previous blog entry entitled: "Are you LinkedIn ?", and our announcement that a special group had been created in LinkedIn so that French Speaking Geospatial Experts can identify themselves.

If you are a member of the popular networking site named LinkedIn, you might be interested in joining a new group that probably meets your interests and characteristics, i.e. you can speak French and you are involved in the geospatial industry.

Today, October 24, Directions Magazine français just sent its first weekly newsletter to thousands of GPS, GIS and geospatial industry professionals. The Magazine and the newsletter are edited by BALIZ, for Directions Media. You can register here to receive the upcoming weekly newsletters. If you want to take a look at the first edition of the newsletter, it is now available online in Directions Media’s Archives section.

The VETIQ (Voix des Entrepreneurs en T.I. de Québec) represents the interests of the IT business of the Quebec City region and serves as a united voice to support the development of its members. The VETIQ clearly expresses the industry needs and works to communicate the needs and issues to the local, provincial and federal economical development agencies.