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GIS Speaks the Same Language

Khatib & Alami (K&A) sponsors
ESRI Middle East and North
Africa User Conference 2016 and
shares “Highlights on National
and Local Government Geospatial
Implementations in MENA”

K&A Executive Vice-President Mr. Faisal Alami with Mr. Jack Dangermond

The Middle East and North was the Gold sponsor of this brings. Esri president Mr. Jack
African geospatial communities event, and had a booth installed Dangermond presented Esri's
came together 8-10 November to interact with ESRI conference vision for how GIS is becoming
2016 at the Kempinski Hotel visitors. Our Senior Manager of a fundamental language for
Ishtar, Dead Sea, Jordan, Government and Commercial understanding and managing
to learn, understand, and MENA, Dr. Mohamed Misbah, our world. Other highlights
share their GIS technology presented “Highlights on included the total unveiling
experiences at this year’s ESRI National and Local Government of ArcGIS 10.5 and the new
Middle East and North Africa Geospatial Implementations ESRI insights for ArcGIS and
User Conference 2016. in MENA” during the plenary Geoanalytics.
The conference offered more sessions.
than 650 attendees a wide During the event, GIS solutions
range of industry related and from the MENA region were
technical sessions, and included celebrated across industries
plenary sessions, technical and it was clear that Web GIS,
seminars, user presentations, Big Data, and Internet of Things
and an exhibition. technologies are becoming
Given our reputation for increasingly prevalent with
innovative GIS solutions, K&A more organizations awakening
to the value collaborative GIS

The Promise of Growth

K&A sponsors Esri East Africa population. This year. the city of Kisumu hosted
User Conference 2016 and the Esri East Africa User Conference 2016. The
presents “The Paperless 11th edition of this important conference was
Census”. inaugurated by Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi, Cabinet
Secretary, Ministry of Lands and Physical
The Eastern African community’s long-term Planning, Kenya. A keen supporter of progress
growth prospect appears to be solid and and professional interaction, K&A was a Bronze
the main pillars for this are its increasingly sponsor for this event and had a booth that
broadband based economy and the youthful came to life with a lot of interesting discussions
and exchanges. We also presented a paper titled
“The Paperless Census”.
The event was attended by hundreds of Esri
GIS users from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,
Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and the rest of
the world. It was an ideal platform to learn,
network and share their experiences while
discovering all the new developments related
to Esri and GIS technologies. The conference
featured an outstanding composition of
plenary sessions, training classes, exhibition,
seminars, and meetings. Paper and technical
sessions all centered on leveraging geospatial
technology and innovative solutions for business,
government and society.

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