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President Magel making his address on the FIG Agenda. |
The Danish Association of Chartered
Surveyors (DdL) organised its Annual Conference in Nyborg, Denmark 30
January – 1 February 2004. The conference, which takes place every year
at the last weekend in January, has been organised in the same hotel 56
times without interruption. The central location and programme, which
combines professional presentations, exhibition and social activities,
attracts every year more than half of the Danish surveyors to Nyborg for
three days. This year there were 520 participants in the conference,
which was an all time record. Even the gala dinner attracted more than
250 participants. At the dinner the VIP guests are traditionally
students that have graduated during the past year. This is an excellent
way to build team spirit among young surveyors.
This year’s keynote speaker was Prof. Holger Magel, President
of FIG, who made presentation about FIG and its future plan of action at
the opening plenary. This was Prof. Magel's first presentation to the
members of DdL, which also hosts the FIG permanent office. He further
made a keynote address “Land Policy and Land Management – A Challenge
for Surveyors, German Experiences” at the main professional plenary
on the second day of the conference. The other keynote speaker was Mr.
Jesper Jarmbæk, the new Director General of KMS, whose
presentation about the future Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (the Danish
mapping and cadastre authority) interested all participants. The
Conference was hosted for the first time by Prof. Stig Enemark,
who was appointed as the President of DdL in September 2003.
At the technical conference the topics covered actual issues like
nature protection, 3-D visualisation, digital management, e-governance
and IT-infrastructures. A roundtable was organised on the new structure
of local and regional government that is a hot political issue in
Denmark right now.
There is also a tradition that representatives of other Nordic
countries are invited to each other’s annual conferences. This time
these were Svante Astermo, President of SLF (Sweden), Leiv
Bjarte Mjøs, President of NJKF/NIF and Erik Lönnfeld from
Finland who invited all participants to the Nordic Surveying Conference
to be held in Finland in June 2004. |
