Architect Challenge
Participants: Hal Lockhart, BEA; Andreas Matheus, University-Federal Armed Forces Munich; Michael Mendoca, Galdos Systems Inc.

Four industry gurus will work together in designing an architect solution based on an initial schema. The session will take up 30 minutes, wherein each individual will have five minutes to plan and add to the design (one at a time). Afterwards, the audience will participate in helping the team reach the best solution. The audience participation time will max out at 10 minutes.

Debate—Resolved: Separating 3-D Presentation and Content Is a Bad Idea
Participants: Remi Arnaud, Sony;  Eddie Curtis, Snowflake Software; Frank Kuehnel, NASA;  Rita Turkowski, Web3D Consortium; Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk

The debate will be conducted as follows: a statement will be presented and two groups will have to state their assigned position (for or against said topic). They will have five minutes to prepare their position and then five minutes to deliver their view/defense. The remaining time will include questions from the audience. Winners will be selected by a show of applause from the audience.

Discussion Panel—Future Shock: The GeoWeb Forecast for 2012
Participants: Ron Lake, Galdos Systems Inc.; Michael Jones, Google; Carl Reed, OGC; Vincent Tao, Microsoft

This closing panel session features senior visionaries who provide a synthetic take of GeoWeb 2007 and use this as a basis for forecasting the growth, evolution, and direction of the GeoWeb. Specifically, discussants will address:

• What will it look like in 2012?
• What device(s) will predominate?
• What will be the greatest innovation?
• What will be the largest impediment?
• What market segments will it dominate?
• What market segments will it fail to impact?

Each discussant will provide a five- to seven-minute statement touching on each of the questions above. A 30-minute question-and-answer session will follow. Answers will be limited to two minutes; each discussant has the opportunity to respond to each question.