Conference Day One: 25 February 2009

9.00 Welcoming Remarks from IQPC

9.10 Opening Address from Conference Chair

9.20 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Creating a Reliable Response System to Meet Demands and Compliance of the Utilities Industry

• Interrogating your own mapping systems to ensure you are utilising it correctly
  • Is your turn around to an interference of your asset/s sufficient?
  • What are the strategies to improve your process and ensure you are
  abiding by industry regulations?
• Automating the process and integrating the systems: What is new in the market to assist you?
• Promoting the use of automated responses using GIS in the utilities industry
  • Cutting out the human cost of responding to enquiries
  • Providing a consistent approach every time
• Understanding the importance of effective asset mapping for third parties and the implications that arise when not correctly mapped
• Analysing the latest tools to better manage your assets: The DBYD perspective
• Understanding the requirements of being a member of Dial Before You Dig

Mark Binks
Victorian Manager
DIAL BEFORE YOU DIG

10.10 A Federated Approach to DBYD Using Open Geospatial Standards

• Discussing DBYD as a federation of independent spatial information suppliers
• Examining open geospatial standards in a federated spatial data infrastructure
• Accessing control management, data fusing and interoperability via a DBYD portal
• Highlighting DBYD portal becoming a window to many other publicly available geospatial resources
• Investigating challenges yet to be addressed to enable a Federated Infrastructure for DBYD

Brad Spenser
Director
AUSTRALIAN SPATIAL INFORMATION BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

10.50 Morning Tea Break

11.20 CASE STUDY: Clarifying Responsibilities and Arrangements of Safety and Protocols between Construction and Utility Companies

• Achieving a common understanding and acceptance of the safety procedures at the interface
• Establishing consistent and uniform interface safety procedural arrangements across Victoria
• Highlighting ways that this is being encouraged to get all stakeholders involved
• Eliminating unproductive and unnecessary time spent in sorting out difficulties at the interface

John Papamichael
Network Safety Manager
CITIPOWER

12.00 CASE STUDY: Analysing Spatial Systems and Infrastructure Applications at Thiess

• Analysing the benefits of the Thiess spatial system: Improving organisation integration of GIS
• Increasing project communication via data interoperability and accessibility
• Saving via streamlined workflow: Avoiding duplicate pickups
• Accessing accurate and timely information for productivity improvements
• Automating data validation: Integrating other project systems

Jason Clarke
GIS Manager, Survey and Technology Applications Group
THIESS

12.40 Lunch

1.40 CASE STUDY: Creating Efficiencies: Speeding up the Process of Gathering and Updating Geospatial Information at ActewAGL

• Increasing productivity, dropping costs, reducing assessment times, and gaining a significant return on investment
• Enabling field service staff to constantly update electronic information on GIS systems
• Creating efficiencies: Speeding up the process of gathering and updating geospatial information
• Replacing the manual process to automated: Significantly seeding up information deliver
• Assessing the links between risk management and development of operational strategies
• Knowing what and how to best extract information to put into GIS

Sven Wittchen
Manager Business Support
ACTEWAGL

2.20 CASE STUDY: Analysing Best Practice GIS and Asset Management Strategies at Barwon Water Since 1987

• Initiating accurate asset capture and cadastral maintenance at Barwon Water - Locating and mapping within a 100mm position: How has this been achieved? - Looking at the strategies for successful asset location: What has Barwon done differently?
• Integrating corporate systems including asset management, billing, works allocation and water modelling integration: Highlighting challenges and benefits
• Combining a full internal property view of Barwon Water’s ownership data and network: Discussing how this leads to an accurate reporting of affected owners and how it links back to the works’ allocation system
• Analysing the possibility of SCADA integration, and data model extensions

Andy McKoy
GIS Administrator
BARWON WATER

3.00 Afternoon Tea Break

3.30 CASE STUDY: Improving Operational Performance at ETSA - Utilities, and Effectively Accessing GIS Tools

• Increasing productivity, dropping costs, reducing assessment times, and gaining a significant return on investment
• Evaluating exactly where customers could be connected to ETSA’s fibre optic cable and networks
• Replacing the manual process with an automated approach: Highlighting how this significantly speeds up information delivery
• Integrating the benefits of Dial Before You Dig into your system

Richard Twisk
GM Demand and Network Management
ETSA UTILITIES

4.10 CASE STUDY: Developing Automated CAD & GIS Integration for Better Asset Data Management at Ergon

• Migrating from CAD to GIS: Generation of schematics
• Analysing the core systems for data management based on integration of the proprietary GIS
• Implementing a geospatial system as your asset management base: Analysing the process of combining the two
• Improving and auditing supporting processes for data maintenance
• Basing your asset management system around your GIS: Analysing the benefits and complications
• Analysing the direct, measurable impacts and issues with integrating assets with GIS

Mark Volz
CAD Manager
ERGON ENERGY

4.50 Close of Conference Day One

5.00 Build your Industry Pipeline at IQPC’s Hour of Networking Drinks

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