Organizing committee

The second edition of the FOSS4G-Europe Conference is organized jointly by Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS. The event organization is leaded by a group of international geospatial experts who are distributed in the following committees.

Local organization committee


Maria Antonia BROVELLI
Maria Antonia BROVELLI
Conference chair
Marco MINGHINI
Marco MINGHINI
Conference secretary

Organizing secretariat

The Fondazione Alessandro Volta is helping the Local Organization Committee to manage all the administrative aspects of the conference organization, and acts as the FOSS4G Europe 2015 PCO and organizing secretariat.


Academic Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Peter BAUMANN Jacobs University
Massimiliano CANNATA SUPSI
Marco BRAMBILLA Politecnico di Milano
Marco CIOLLI Università di Trento
Marco MINGHINI Politecnico di Milano
Dimitris KOTZINOS University of Cergy-Pontoise
Peter MOONEY Maynooth University
Sven SCHADE EC/JRC
Clara TATTONI Università di Trento

General Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Vasile CRĂCIUNESCU Meteo Romania
Stefano CAMPUS GFOSS.it
Giuseppe CONTI Trilogis
Gérald FENOY GeoLabs
Anita GRASER Austrian Institute of Technology
Ionuț IOSIFESCU ETH Zurich
Karine JEAN Centre de geomatique du Quebec
Miguel LUACES University of Coruña
Antoni PEREZ NAVARRO Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Jorge SANZ Prodevelop
Josep SITJAR University of Girona
Lluís VICENS University of Girona

Library Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Peter LOEWE TIB
Claudia ENGEL Stanford University
Katrin MOLCH DLR
Jack REED Stanford University
Fulvio RINAUDO Politecnico di Torino
Marcella SAMAKOVLIJA Politecnico di Milano

Open Data Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Codrina ILIE Technical University of Civil Engineering
Serena COETZEE University of Pretoria
Luca DELUCCHI Fondazione Edmund Mach
Maurizio NAPOLITANO Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Francesco PIROTTI Università di Padova
Jo WALSH Register of Scotlands

Positioning Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Ludovico BIAGI Politecnico di Milano
Theo ARENTZE Eindhoven University of Technology
Giuseppe CONTI Trilogis
Mattia CRESPI Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Water Track committee

First name Last name Organization
Dragan SAVIC University of Exeter
Carolina ARIAS MUÑOZ Politecnico di Milano
Fedor BAART Deltares
Maria Antonia BROVELLI Politecnico di Milano
Massimiliano CANNATA SUPSI
Blagoj DELIPETREV University Goce Delcev
Margherita DI LEO EC/JRC
Gregory GIULIANI University of Geneva
Carlos GRANELL CANUT Universitat Jaume I
Helmut KUDRNOVSKY University of Vienna
Robert SZCZEPANEK Politechnika Krakowska
Gianni TARTARI Water Research Institute (IRSA/CNR)
Peter WELLS Lutra Consulting

Code Sprint committee

First name Last name Organization
Luca DELUCCHI Fondazione Edmund Mach
Jachym CEPICKY OpenGeoLabs s.r.o.
Simone CORTI Politecnico di Milano
Jeff MCKENNA Gateway Geomatics
Marco NEGRETTI Politecnico di Milano
Stefano PIFFER Trilogis

GeoForAll committee

First name Last name Organization
Suchith ANAND University of Nottingham
Maria Antonia BROVELLI Politecnico di Milano
Gregory GIULIANI University of Geneva
Charles SCHWEIK University of Massachussets Amherst

Live USB committee

First name Last name Organization
Angelos TZOTSOS National Technical University of Athens
Simone CORTI Politecnico di Milano
Luca DELUCCHI Fondazione Edmund Mach

Mapping Party committee

First name Last name Organization
Maria Antonia BROVELLI Politecnico di Milano
Laura CARCANO ASF Autolinee
Irene CELINO CEFRIEL
Eleonora CICERI Politecnico di Milano
Luca DELUCCHI Fondazione Edmund Mach
Nicola DORIGATTI Trilogis
Andrea FIANO CEFRIEL
Haosheng HUANG Vienna University of Technology
Marco MINGHINI Politecnico di Milano
Monia MOLINARI Politecnico di Milano
Peter MOONEY Maynooth University
Gerolamo SAIBENE Between
Franco MERCALLI Fondazione Alessandro Volta
Vijay Charan VENKATACHALAM Politecnico di Milano

NASA World Wind Challenge

First name Last name Organization
Patrick HOGAN NASA
Maria Antonia BROVELLI Politecnico di Milano
Giuseppe CONTI Trilogis
Gabor REMETEY HUNAGI
Giorgio ZAMBONI Comune di Como

Social media/Newsletter/Press committee

First name Last name Organization
Marco MINGHINI Politecnico di Milano
Carolina ARIAS MUÑOZ Politecnico di Milano
Maria Antonia BROVELLI Politecnico di Milano
Lidia MARTIN Politecnico di Milano

Web committee

First name Last name Organization
Nicolas BOZON GeoLabs
Gérald FENOY GeoLabs
Marco NEGRETTI Politecnico di Milano

Workshops committee

First name Last name Organization
Zoltan SIKI Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Simone CORTI Politecnico di Milano
Carlos GRANELL Universitat Jaume I
Andrea LINGUA Politecnico di Torino
The members of the committees act on their own. Their opinions, decisions and actions do not reflect those from their organization and/or employer.