November, 12-14, 2008
Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein, Potsdam, Germany

The summit will be organized by the Society for Geoinformatics (GfGI) and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) together with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The Summit will bring together leading scientists from Geoinformatics and Global Change research and will foster the exchange of ideas, cooperation between so-far disjoint scientific fields and provide time for in-depth discussion. Invited key note speakers will cover relevant topics in Geoinformatics, Global Change research, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Digital Earth initiatives, and Earth Observation activities as well as the interaction between these fields.

Key Speakers
Alessandro Annoni (Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability , European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy)
Gabriel del Barrio (Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Almeria, Spain) Michael F. Goodchild (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
Joachim Hill (Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier, GER)
Mojib Latif (Maritime Meteorology, IFM-Geomar, University of Kiel, GER)
Mark Mulligan (Department of Geography, King's College London, UK)
Ndegwa Ndiang'ui (United Nations, Committee on Science and Technology)
Siegfried Schubert (Global Modeling & Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA)
Detlef Stammer (Center for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, GER)

Conference Format
The conference will be comprised of invited talks, panel discussions, series of oral sessions, poster presentations and public lectures. Moreover, it offers an industry exhibition and a social program. Rooms for separate working groups will be available.

General topics of the conference
Scientists are invited to submit papers in the following topics:

Data exchange models
Earth observation programs, services, and applications
Environmental, socio-economic and political impacts of global change
Extreme events
Geospatial data integration
Global, regional, cross-country and local case studies
Natural hazards
Simulation and modeling techniques
Spatial data infrastructure developments
Supercomputers for global change research
Urbanization and impact analysis
Visualization
Water resources
3D modeling

Expression of Interest and Call for papers
Please send your expression of interest by an informal email to the contact addressees and your name will be included in the conference list for all future communications.

We are now open to receive titles of potential papers for the conference.

If you are interested in presenting a paper or poster please send your abstract via email to the conference secretary
isde-summit@gfz-potsdam.de

Abstracts should be prepared of not more than 400 words and formatted as .doc file.

Important dates

15 March 2008: Deadline for abstract submission (max. 400 words)
01 May 2008: Letter of Acceptance
01 July 2008: Deadline for early registration
30 July 2008: Full paper submission