Sponsors/Partners

Strategic Sponsor
Trimble
Trimble is a leading provider of advanced positioning solutions that maximize productivity and enhance profitability. The Company integrates its positioning expertise in GNSS/GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications and services to provide complete commercial solutions. Trimble solutions serve a variety of industries and applications including surveying, construction, land administration, natural resources, agriculture, utilities, asset management, fleet management and wireless communications infrastructure. Trimble has employees in more than 21 countries including offices in Brazil and Chile. A highly capable global network of distribution partners and service centres serve and support Trimble’s customers.
Principal Sponsor
Hexagon
Hexagon (Nordic exchange: HEXA B)is a leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies. Our customers design, measure and position objects, and process and present data, to stay one step ahead of a changing world. Hexagon’s technologies increase productivity, enhance quality and allow for faster, better operational decisions, saving time, money and resources. Hexagon has over 13 000 employees in more than 40 countries and net sales of about 2 200 MEUR. Our products are used in a broad range of industries including surveying, power and energy, aerospace and defence, safety and security, construction and manufacturing.
Silver Sponsors
AMS Kepler
AMS Kepler Systems Engineering is a brazilian company with expertise in software development for remote sensing ground stations with a strong performance in the areas of Digital Cartography, Space Engineering, GIS, Digital Image Processing, Remote Sensing and Information Technology .The company operates as a service provider, integrating imaging technologies and geographic information systems for best practices in software engineering.
Esri
Esri enables organizations to create responsible and sustainable solutions to problems at local and global level. ESRI is trusted by Governments, industry leaders, academics, and nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) for providing the analytic knowledge it needs to make critical decisions that shape the planet. Esri develops geographic information systems (GIS) that function as an integral component in nearly every type of organization. Esri also offers projects consulting and implementation services including knowledge transfer to help users deploy GIS on their own, customization of off-the-shelf GIS technology, and delivery of ready-to-use enterprise systems.
DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defence and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than two and a half billion square kilometres of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, visit www.digitalglobe.com.
Government Partners
Ministry of Transport, Brazil
The Ministry of Transport, Brazil is the body responsible for advising the president on the formulation and implementation of transport policy in the country. Its areas of competence includes: national policy for rail, road and water transport, shipping; participation in coordination of transport, port services, and new aviation; the formulation, coordination and supervision of national policies; participation in strategic planning, establishing guidelines for implementation and prioritization of investment programs, among others.
SPI
SPI's mission is to guarantee the convergence of government action, guide priority setting and assist in promoting sustainable development through the coordination and preparation of medium and long term plans and their respective strategic management. The Secretariat identifies, monitors and analyses the strategic investments by the government and coordinates for technical cooperation activities within the Ministry
SNIT
The SNIT is a permanent institutional coordination mechanism created to optimize the management of the country’s geospatial information. At the international level such initiatives receive the name data geospatial infrastructure (IDE) and in the case of Chile, the SNIT is the national geospatial data infrastructure.
IBEG, Brasil
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE, under the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management was established in 1936 and is governed by Law No. 5878 of May 11, 1973, which defines its status. Its mission is to portray Brazil, with necessary information to the knowledge of its reality and the exercise of citizenship, through the production, analysis, research and dissemination of statistical information - demographic and socio-economic and geoscience - geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environment. The IBGE is responsible for Fundamental Geodetic Plans and Elementary Cartographic, created by Decree-Law No. 243 of February 28, 1967, and the National Statistical System, through the production of information and coordination of technical activities.
Supporting Organizations
PRODAM
PRODAM plays the key role of providing ICT solutions to the city of São Paulo for a modern and efficient administration that benefits the society. The Organization believes in service excellence and in strengthening their management model, prioritizing entrepreneurship and innovation in order to align its guidelines to the global trend in the industry. PRODAM aims at the automation of public management, geoprocessing applications in the areas of education, health, sport, culture etc.
Colombian Space Commission
The CCE is the gateway, through which, Colombia can achieve strengthening of knowledge of the earth and outer space by mean of processes of coordination, agreement, institutional and social participation, including modern technologies and the information provided by missions on communications, earth observation and satellite navigation. This is carried out from the perspective of increasing the productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of economic sectors that demand geospatial information.
INGEOMINAS
The mission of INGEOMINAS is to contribute to economic and social development through the exploration and understanding of soil and subsoil of the country, evaluation and monitoring of geological hazards, promotion and efficient administration of mineral resources, and control the use of radioactive materials, and timely response to the needs and requirements of its users.
Institutional Partners
IGAC
The Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, IGAC, is the entity responsible for producing the official map and the basic cartography of Colombia; developing the national property register; creating the soil characteristics inventory; advancing geographic investigations in support of territorial development; training and educating professionals in geographic information technologies, and coordinating the “Colombian Spatial Data Infrastructure” or ICDE.
IGA
The Institute of Geosciences Applied aims to coordinate and carry out research and scientific-technical works in the areas of geography, cartography and geology, aside from the basic mapping for purposes of economic geology. The mission of the IGA is to keep the information on the political and administrative developments, recommend policies for the systematic mapping of Minas Gerais and perform studies in the context of Geosciences.
The Cartographic and Geographic Institute
The Cartographic and Geographic Institute aims to promote knowledge about the territory of São Paulo. To do this, it is involved in detailed cartography, offering products such as charts and maps of the State of São Paulo, its regions and municipalities. Other services offered also include the demarcation of municipal border.
EACH-USP
The guiding principle of EACH is to promote a strong interaction with the communities of the East zone. Beside the sports and cultural activities, it also proposes to develop several outreach programs, such as training courses and research projects aimed at the solution of local problems, in addition to providing greater access to laboratory facilities in several areas, such as science, arts, computer science, remote sensing and teaching languages.
IGN
The INSTITUTO GEOGRÁFICO NACIONAL is an institution under the Ministry of Defence, with more of 130 years of history.Its main mission is to represent the national territory through the official map and ensure that the maps of the Argentina Republic- created, entered or circulated in the country conform to the official map. Its functions also includes understanding of the national geodetic framework and everything that has to do with geographic information systems, in order to meet the objectives and policies set by the national executive power to contribute to an effective definition and representation of Argentina territorial sovereignty.
Symposia/Seminars Partner
NTU
The National Association of Urban Transport (NTU) represents companies in urban and metropolitan public transportation to the executive, legislative and judicial federal and national authorities of the sector; promotes integration and exchange of experience among companies, trade unions, associations and federations, seeking unity and strengthening of the sector; develops technical studies and proposes measures for the improvement of services of urban and metropolitan public transportation for passengers; and preserves and disseminates the industry's history.
ABEEOLICA
The Brazilian Association of Wind Energy – ABEEólica, legal person of private law, nonprofit brings together companies belonging to the generator of wind power in Brazil. Its goal is to promote the production of electric energy from the force of the winds as supplementary source of national energy matrix; and defend the consolidation and competitiveness of wind power sector, mainly through a government program for the long term.
The National Department of Mineral Production
The National Department of Mineral Production is the government agency responsible for managing the Brazilian mining assets;supervising and carrying out mining activities throughout the country, ensuring that the exploitation of mineral resources is conducted in a rational, controlled and sustainable manner resulting in benefit for the whole society.Its purpose is to promote ,plan and develop mineral exploration and supervise the geological, mineral and mineral technology.
CPRM
The Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM) is a state-owned company that carries out the functions of the Geological Survey of Brazil, under the auspices of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Its mission is to produce and divulge the basic geological and hydrological knowledge required for sustainable development in Brazil. The Geological Survey is responsible for the Geology Program for Brazil drawn up by the government.
The Brazilian Mining Association
The Brazilian Mining Association( IBRAM) is the national entity which represents the companies and institutions that work in the mining industry in Brazil. It is a private, non-profit association, which aims at congregating, representing, promoting and disclosing the Brazilian mining industry, contributing for its national and international competitiveness. In addition to that, the Institute also seeks to foment the sustainable development and the use of better safety and occupational health practices in mining, by means of good practices, supporting studies, researches, development, innovation and the use of the best available technologies.
SIPAM
The Amazon Protection System (SIPAM) falls under the Defence Ministry, managed by the Centre Manager and Protection System operating in the Amazon (Censipam). The SIPAM is a systemic organization involved in the generation and dissemination of technical information. It is also responsible for integrating and generating updated information for the articulation, planning and coordination of the actions of the Government of Amazon with the aim of protection, inclusion and sustainable development of the region.
IBAMA
The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) is a federal agency under the Ministry of Environment. Its mission is to protect the environment and ensure sustainability in the use of natural resources; to promote environmental quality conducive to life. Its vision is to become a reference in building a model of development based on environmental sustainability.
The Department of Geology, Mining & Mineral Processing
The Ministry of Mines and Energy, an agency of direct federal administration, has competence in geology, mineral and energy resources, the use of hydropower, mining and metallurgy, oil, fuel and electricity, including nuclear. The Department of Geology, Mining and Mineral Processing was established in November 9, 2004, by Decree 5,267, who approved the regimental structure and the framework statement of positions in the Commission and of remunerated functions of the Ministry of mines and energy.The responsibility of the secretariat is to implement, direct and coordinate policies for geology, mining and mineral processing; coordinating the study of sectoral planning; proposing actions for the sustainable development of mining and mineral processing; promoting and supporting the articulation of the sectors of geology, mining and mineral processing including collegiate agents, employees and partners, among others.
Strategic Government Partner
The Pereira Passos Institute
The Pereira Passos Institute (IPP-RIO) is the institute of Rio de Janeiro municipality responsible for the production and publication of statistical, geographical and cartographical information and studies. IPP-RIO is the core of GIS in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, giving support to its other departments in their activities in the geospatial field. IPP-RIO has high experience in geospatial analysis, essential for the knowledge, planning and monitoring of public policies.