Galileo applications to be focus of pan-EU summit

20/01/2012

GNSS and geo-positioning experts from across Europe will convene in Prague next week for the Galileo Application Congress Prague 2012.

The aim of the summit is to analyse and discuss the uses and applications that will become available when Europe’s own GPS system, Galileo, comes into use. The system is expected to have a very wide range of effects, from aiding with GNSS-reliant surveying and monitoring equipment, to helping improve mapping and navigation services and providing further satellite positioning capabilities for military and defence organisations.

The Congress has previously been held in Brussels but is this year being moved to Prague, where the European GNSS Agency is relocating its seat to in mid-2012. The event will take place at the Prague Marriott Hotel on January 26-27.

Delegates attending the summit will include policy makers and stakeholders in Galileo. A wide programme of seminars, addresses and networking events will give them the opportunity to meet with experts and industry representatives from all across the EU and the European satellite navigation community, to discuss the development of the applications of Galileo.

The congress will feature keynote speeches by Mr Petr Nečas, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and Mr Antonio Tajani, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for Enterprise and Industry.