Final Report Intergeo 2008

For three days, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen became the focal point of the international geo community. Over 15,000 experts from all five continents attended the world's biggest congress trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management at the Bremen Exhibition Centre. A total of 24,000 square metres of exhibition space was taken up by around 500 companies who dazzled visitors with the quality and range of their products and technologies.

75 percent of visitors who attended the event with the intention of making a purchase had deliberately waited until Intergeo before deciding where to place their investment. An impressive 25 percent of visitors who had not intended to make any acquisitions were so impressed by what they found that they made spontaneous purchases at the fair. During initial canvassing, exhibiting companies were united in their praise for the high quality of the contacts they made at this unique event.

"Having boosted the number of visitors attending from outside Germany to around 20 percent and the number of non-German exhibitors to almost 30 percent, we have succeeded in further increasing the international appeal of the event after Leipzig in 2007," explains Olaf Freier, Project Manager of Intergeo and CEO of HINTE GmbH, which is responsible for organising the trade fair.

Organiser of Intergeo, Hagen Graeff, President of the German Association of Surveying - Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management (DVW), is extremely positive about the success of this year's event: "Intergeo 2008 has shown how strongly the industry is currently developing. It is incorporating all kinds of different areas in order to be able to tackle the challenges faced by society." Graeff pointed in particular to this year's key topics: environment, geo-caching, satellite systems, flood protection, polar research and the creation of geodata infrastructures such as INSPIRE and GDI.DE.

Intergeo 2009 will be taking place from 22nd to 24th September 2009 in Karlsruhe, Germany.