Georabble Newcastle/Hunter

Lets keep the ball rolling (or the globe spinning 🌏)! Georabble Newcastle/Hunter is back to celebrate GIS Day on 15 November 2023 from 5:30PM-8PM, hosted at the Happy Wombat on Hunter Street. Secure your tickets here – they’re free!

With the food and venue kindly provided by our sponsor Monteath & Powys, join your local geo-aligned crew for an evening of networking and presentations.

We are seeking EOIs for more speakers at the event. Whether it’s a nifty university project, your own geo-journey, or a work triumph, we are keen to hear from you. If you’re interested, reach out to georabblenewcastle@gmail.com with a short overview of your topic. Remember – keep it short, keep it fun, and no sales pitches please!

GEORABBLE TAS #10

After a long hiatus, GeoRabble returns to Tasmania on Wednesday the 15th of November 2023 at Shambles in Hobart, sponsored by Esk Spatial. We’re running from 6.00 to 7.30 pm.

Grab your tickets here and enjoy the night with friends sharing geospatial ideas, free of sales pitches and hidden agendas! Each presentation is light, relevant to geo-something and only 10 minutes long. Can’t wait to see you all again!

Speakers:

  • Tim Bendall, from Esk Spatial, talking about “Helping maintain Tasmania’s high-quality crop standards with the Seed Isolation Tool”
  • Michaela Miller, from IMOS, with a talk called “Where are all the plastics in the Great Barrier Reef?”
  • Jordan Rattle, a student at UTAS, who will discuss his “spatio-temporal analysis of road traffic accidents in Greater Hobart”
  • Jody Bush, from Hydro Tasmania, who’s going to share her thoughts on the “evolution of the spatial professional.”

Sponsors:

GeoRabble Melbourne – World GIS Day Wednesday 15th November

Melbourne GeoRabble Confirmed!

Interested in GeoSpatial, got something to share. What better day than World GIS Day.

What: Open house geo-spatial events / GeoRabble Melbourne evening event.

When: Wednesday 15th November 2023 – day and night (GeoRabble from 5.30pm)

Where: across Melbourne, GeoRabble Melbourne @ The Clyde Hotel, 385 Cardigan St, Carlton VIC 3053 (from 5.30pm)

Tickets: It is all free, jump online to grab tickets here.

GeoRabble Speakers and running order

Damien Saunder: Hey Roger, you’re doing it all wrong.
A behind the scenes look into how geospatial science helped elevate Roger Federer’s tennis game during the 2017/18 tennis season.

Tavis Lavell: As above, So below
Come learn about Aerial Laser scanning and multi channel surface analysis to make informed designs with the help of 3D models.

Alyse Connell: Where the hell are you, nowhere to hide
Using GIS Machine Learning to find Red Fire Ants.

Open house overviews

Non- commercial speakers

Warwick Wilson – deltaVic

Ewen Hill – All of five KM

Career opportunities

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Open house venues

Host: Spatial Vision
Theme: Developing the next generation of spatial
Time: 10am – 11am
Location: Onsite @ Level 8, 575 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Register via email here: Developing the Next Generation of Spatial Analysts

Host: Urbis
Theme: Bringing history into the present using 3D
Speakers: Danielle Cherubin (attendees will also get to meet our whole GIS team).
Time: 11.30am -12pm
Location: Onsite @ Level 10, 477 Collins Street.
Register via email dcherubin@urbis.com.au

Host: Outline Global
Theme: Sensing Australia from the sky
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: Virtual Teams link available here.
Register via email here: hello@outlineglobal.com.au

Host: Vicmap User Reference Group
Theme: Mapping & Spatial Science
Time: 2pm – 3.30pm
Location: Virtual.
Register via email vicmap@delwp.vic.gov.au

Sponsor
Our evening GeoRabble could not be possible without a sponsor. Many thanks to Vicmap!

Head online to get further information about our sponsor:
https://www.land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spatial
https://www.land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spatial/spatial-data/vicmap-catalogue

Georabble becomes EORabble for one night only in Brisbane

We are very excited to announce the countdown to EO Rabble, the same fun, spatial networking event you love, but with a theme around Earth Observation!

Supported and sponsored by the lovely people at the QLD EO Hub

The evening of the 19th October, at the Charming Squire in South Bank – 4 entertaining presentations of success with Earth Observation, lots of networking and a great deal of fun and networking!

Come and enjoy a night out, meet some new people in your industry or catch up with old ones on the night before the GCA QLD conference.

We are on the hunt for guest speakers so please shout out or feel free to nominate someone. Hope to see you there!

New Speakers for GeoRabbble in the Hunter

Local spatial analytics powerhouse Anditi, are sharing with us two presentations.

Tony Campbell will share their story of Route clearance for Wind Turbines.

While Peter Jamieson will also be sharing Detection of road safety attributes and assets using mobile LiDAR and imagery.

Don’t forget to get your tickets here.

This event is supported by Woolpert

First Speakers Announced!

With a week to go the Hunter GeoRabble speaker list is starting to build.

Our first two speakers are;

Tori Murrant from Monteath & Powys presenting on; ‘Building Bridges, Not Walls: Challenges, Use Cases, and the Road Ahead for GeoBIMs’.

Super topical after the Sydney GeoRabble Special Edition on Digital Twins

Andrew Cox from Newcastle City Council will present his talked titled, Advanced Data Wrangling

A lot of the community can relate to the issues of data wrangling.

Remember that speaker submissions are still open just email your topic and who you are to info@georabble.org

Tickets also are open so get your free tickets from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/georabble-in-the-hunter-tickets-698854000127 to help us manage catering.

Tickets for GeoRabble in the Hunter now available!

As always, entry to GeoRabble is free and open to all who are interested in all things Geospatial.

However booking your ticket allows us to cater effectively and not waste food or funds unnecessarily and makes sure everyone gets a slice.

So get you tickets here.

Doors open at 5:00pm and event starts at 6:00pm. Finish time is at 7:00pm.

The venue is: The Hub, Level 6, City Administration Centre, 12 Stewart Avenue, Newcastle West.

Please meet on the ground floor foyer/entrance to be escorted to the rooftop.

Our supporter for this event is Woolpert, so many thanks to them for providing refreshments

Look forward to seeing all the Rabblers from across the Central Coast, Newcastle and the Hunter.

Can’t wait to hear your adventures across all thing geo!

Call for Speakers – GeoRabble in the Hunter

GeoRabble is all about local enthusiast talking about all things Geo, your stories across all aspects of geo data, tech, people and projects.

With a first and hopefully regular event in Newcastle, on Wed, August the 23rd, this is the local communities chance to tell their stories, make connections and increase the reach of their work.

We make it super easy to present, 10 mins is all you need to prepare for.

So, if you have a story to tell about the work that you do, send an email to info@georabble.org and will slot you in.

All you need to do is send through a quick bullet point or two about your topic, who you are and that is it, simple.

Don’t forget to read the GeoRabble guide to help frame your presentation.

We are looking forward to seeing the stories that are out there in the Newcastle and Hunter community.

The GeoRabble Team

Save the Date!

GeoRabble in the Hunter!

We are happy to announce, in collaboration with Newcastle City Council the next GeoRabble will be held on Wednesday, August the 23rd. 4 weeks from today.

Location: Newcastle City Council function room.

Will send out call for speakers, but start spreading the news all of you Rabblers in the Hunter, Newcastle and Central Coast.

More details to follow.

Looking forward to seeing all there.

Georabble Brisbane EOFY Party – Diversity Special

Yes, we are finally back! After a longer than planned gap between events, we are back with a bang. July is the perfect time to get out and celebrate and get out and catch up with old friends and meet some new friends and no better place than at a Georabble in Brisbane. If you haven’t already seen the news, Tuesday 18th is the big event. Tickets are already flying out the door, speakers lined up, food ordered, so what are you waiting for!

We have a special focus for this event on the important topics of Diversity and Inclusion. Georabble has always had this at the heart of its core values and from inception was an event for EVERYONE to enjoy. But challenges remain in the spatial industry. We want to celebrate how we have tackled some of those challenges and highlight what we can all do to continue to ensure the spatial industry is inclusive and embraces and celebrates diversity.

The amazing people from the Australian Spatial Analytics will sponsor the evening allowing some food and snacks for all. Thank you to ASA for supporting the event.

Our guest speakers for the evening are:

Michael Krome – Solving the Geospatial industry skills shortages with neurodiversity.
Harry Mobbs – Navigating neurodiversity.
Gengshuo Hu – The geospatial industry abroad vs Australia – challenges and triumphs entering the industry.

Please register asap so we know numbers and any questions, reach out via any of the normal channels

An open and inclusive forum for GeoGeeks to share, inspire and have fun.