Program

September 21

For those arriving in Brussels early on Wednesday, join us in the evening starting at 7pm at Café des Halles to catch up on conversations and welcome everyone to Brussels. Café des Halles is located at Place Saint-Géry, 1 1000 Bruxelles.

September 22

We have a jam-packed Summit scheduled on the 22nd. We start early with a welcome and keynote and will end late with a mapathon and reception. Talks will be recorded and circulated. Check out the venue and FAQs page for more details on how to get there and any other logistics questions as you arrive in Brussels.

Time	Events	Location

08:00 - 09:00	Register Reception Desk
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome Address Tanganyika Room Tyler Radford, HOT Executive Director
09:10 - 09:20	Welcome from the Belgium Development Agency Tanganyika Room Carl Michiels, Chair of the Board of Directors of BTC
09:20 - 09:40	Keynote - HOT: Where do we go from here? Tanganyika Room Heather Leson, HOT Board of Directors HOT is 6 years old. This is a testament to the global community and our supporters. What are some of our next steps? How can we help HOT and OSM grow as an organization and community?
9:40 - 10:15	Lightning Talks Tanganyika Room Lessons from building community: worthwhile programs to follow Javier Carranza, GeoCensos Mapping with children and adolescents Felix Delattre, MapaNica Building a customized field mapping tool in 5 minutes Arun Ganesh, Mapbox Mapillary Humanitarian Mapping Kit for Sustainable Development Sandra Uddback, Mapillary Healthsites.io: Building tools and community for health facility data Mark Herringer, Healthsites.io MapAction: A view of In-field Humanitarian Mapping Ian Holt, MapAction
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:30	Case Studies in Tanzania Tanganyika Room Ramani Huria: Mapping Dar es Salaam with high-tech tools and local communities Paul Uithol, HOT Ramani Huria: Building sustainable communities Innocent Maholi, HOT Imagery and Coordination Thac Ba Room Mapbox Commitment to HOT / Imagery Talk Pratik Yadav, Mapbox Middle Ground - between the field and volunteers Sajjad Anwar, Mapbox
11:30 - 12:30	Tools for remote, tools for field Tanganyika Room MapSwipe and Pybossa. Further exploration in the power of crowds Benjamin Herfort Pete Masters, MSF / Disastermappers (Missing Maps) Field Mapping at Scale Emily Eros, American Red Cross, GIS Team Lead, International Services David Luswata, American Red Cross, GIS Supervisor West Africa Case Studies in Health and society Thac Ba Using local and satellite mapping to fight female genital mutilation in Tanzania Egle Marija Ramanauskaite, Crowd2Map Tanzania Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map Tanzania A Collaborative Approach to Data-Driven Malaria Prevention Chad Blevins, USAID Fighting Mosquito-borne diseases Milo van der Linden, Interactive Community Mappers, Jamaica
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 13:45	Community Photo
13:45 - 14:45	HOT Community Cafe + BOF Malawi Hall HOT Community Cafe + BOF is an hour to break from the traditional conference session and meet the various OSM and HOT-related communities around the world. We'll have additional space in the conference rooms and table area for breakout sessions of the HOT Working Groups and Birds of a Feather (BOF) meetings.
14:45 - 15:00	Keynote - Mapping for Resilience Tanganyika Room Carrie Stokes, US Agency for International Development (USAID) The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is beginning to incorporate geospatial information as part of its decision-making. New map data created in OSM is affecting international development programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This presentation will highlight how geodata is being used for USAID projects related to health, post-conflict zones, education, and more.
15:00 - 15:30	Lightning Talks Round II Tanganyika Room The Humanitarian Data Exchange and HOT Javier Teran, UN OCHA The Humanitarian Data Exchange CJ Hendrix, UN OCHA The Humanitarian Data Exchange GeoKM: A GIS system to monitor MSF activities Audrey Lessard-Fontaine, MSF Planning of Rehabilitation of water networks with the support of OSM data Yann Rebois, International Committee of the Red Cross Drones for humanitarian mapping and the role of OSM Martin Noblecourt, CartONG Open Schools Kenya Zach Muindi, Map Kibera Trust
15:30 - 15:45	Break
15:45 - 16:30	University initiatives and engagement Tanganyika YouthMappers: A USAID/University collaboration Chad Blevins, USAID Geocenter Nuala Cowan, GWU Patricia Solis, TTU From Drones to Mapping Parties: The Role of Universities in Disaster Response Noah Ahles, University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Laboratory Case Study in Indonesia Thac Ba Room Building Data Preparedness in Indonesia Yantisa Akhadi, HOT
16:30 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 17:30	Case Studies in Informal Environments Tanganyika Slum mapping as a tool for poverty overcome: Isla de León, from informal to formal neighbourhood Humberto Yances, OSM Colombia Participatory mapping in informal refugee camps Katja Ulbert, Mapfugees/HOT Case Studies in Local government engagement and participation Thac Ba How Mexico OSM community and key disaster prevention authorities are planning the future of Humanitarian mapping in the country Miriam Gonzalez, Telenav and OpenStreetMap MX Rural Accessibility Mapping Steven Ottens, World Bank Creating a Distributed Early Warning System Ben Cessa, Government of Mexico Open Data Team
17:30 - 17:45	Closing Tanganyika
18:00 - 21:00	HOT Summit Mapathon and reception MSF/Handicap Intl Office Join Médecins Sans Frontières and Handicap International for an evening of drinks and mapping. We'll continue the Summit at the MSF and Handicap International office for a HOT Summit mapathon and reception. Come for the drinks or come for the mapping! The MSF/Handicap office is just a short walk from the BTC Conference Center. RSVP here. Anyone who is registered for the Summit is welcome to attend and does not need to RSVP.

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