Hey Rabblers and welcooooome to 2024! Georabble Newcastle is coming back on 11 April 2024 from 5:30PM-8PM, hosted at the Happy Wombat on Hunter Street. Secure your tickets here – they’re free!

Thank you to legends ✨Jacobs✨ for sponsoring our event so we can provide the goods (beer, food).

We are seeking EOIs for speakers at the event. If you’ve got something to share, reach out to us at newcastlegeorabble@gmail.com with a short overview of your topic. The vibes are fun, casual, and non-judgemental – we welcome speakers on anything geo-adjacent.

This GIS day come and celebrate with your fellow geophiliacs and hear from the community about their adventures, frustrations and success’.

With Pizzas provided by Australian Spatial Analytics walk out with nourishment for your mind, body and soul. Take a look at this fantastic line up and don’t forget to get your tickets here, to ensure there are enough pizzas to go around.

Craig Woolf
Neurodiversity solving the industry skills shortages

Stephen Lead
All the buildings in New York
How I built a map-centric website for an artist

Hugh Saalmans
Telematics, Insurance and all that jazz
Hear about Australia’s first phone based telematics insurance for vehicles (and what on earth that actually means); as well as diving into the millions of rows of data that it’s generating.

Maryse Fantin
So you think you’re so special?
Drawing insights from another industry, its skills and its maturity, we’ll challenge the position of your geoworld. We’ll also touch upon agile skills you could consider.
Warning: Chaos Monkey aboard!

Chris Counsell
GDA and Web GIS explained like you’re 5
Lost on null island? Or maybe things are feeling a bit off?… By about 1.7m? Join us on a crayon-filled expedition to demystify coordinate systems in a way that everyone can understand.

As always, GeoRabble is free and open, but to help us manage catering and event logistics registration really helps.

So get your tickets at https://ti.to/georabble/georabble-sydney

Thanks to Australia Spatial Analytics for sponsoring the Pizzas and make sure you join us to share and celebrate GIS Day.

Speakers already announce include

Neurodiversity solving the industry skills shortages – Craig Woolf

All the Buildings in New York – Stephen Lead
How I built a map-centric website for an artist

Keep an eye out on our socials for more speaker announcements.

🎤 We are excited to announce our final line-up of speakers for Georabble Newcastle, next Wednesday 15 November at the Happy Wombat.

Peter Jamieson, Anditi: Designing urban heat bank planting while minimising impacts on road safety

Scott Thomas, Monteath & Powys:

Thomas Levick, CSIRO: Caring for Country with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy

Tori Murrant, Monteath & Powys: Connecting community through mapping family friendly facilities

We have a handful of speakers from varied backgrounds in the spatial industry. Get your tickets here so that we can make sure there’s enough beer and food for everyone. 🍻

This World GIS Day is your chance to share your geo journey and stories with your fellow geo colleagues. With 4 simultaneous events across three states, it will be a real celebration of the community.

So send your ideas to info@georabble.org and the team will get back to you.

Welcome stories for any of our events so don’t hesitate if you are from Sydney, Newcastle/Hunter, Melbourne or Hobart.

Details for these events below or on our LinkedIn page for these events, but lock in Wednesday Nov. the 15^th, to share, celebrate, commiserate and have fun.

This Sydney event is kindly sponsored by ASA. https://www.asanalytics.com.au/our-story

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