XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany
8-13 October 2006

Shaping the Change

Picture Gallery 6 - Plenary Sessions, Technical Programme and Exhibition

Links to documents and reports of the FIG Congress in Munich

• Report of the Conference

• Picture Gallery 1 - Opening Ceremony - 10 October 2006

• Picture Gallery 2 - General Assembly I - Sunday 8 October 2006

• Picture Gallery 3 - General Assembly II - Friday 13 October 2006

• Picture Gallery 4 - Administrative Meetings (President's meeting 10 October, Council and ACCO  meetings)

• Picture Gallery 5 - Pictures of new members

• Picture Gallery 6 - Plenary Sessions, Technical Programme and Exhibition

• Picture Gallery 7 - Closing Ceremony

• Picture Gallery 8 - Social Events - Welcome Reception, City Reception, State Reception and other receptions

• Picture Gallery 9 - Social Events - Intergeo-treff and FIG Foundation Dinner, Farewell Dinner and FIG 2010 Party

• Picture Gallery 10 - Venues, pictures of Munich and impressions

• List of participants

Main addresses

• Shaping the Change 2002-2006 – The German Period of FIG. FIG President’s Address by Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President at the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 10 October 2006.
  • in English
  • in German
• Eröffnungsansprache des Bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Dr. Edmund Stoiber anlässlich des 23. Internationalen FIG Kongresses am 10. Oktober 2006 in München
  • in German
• For a More Just World – the Surveyors’ Role for Achieving Sustainable Development. Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony by Dr. Klaus Töpfer
  • to follow
• Shaping the Change - Congress Summary. Closing Address by Prof. Holger Magel, FIG President at the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich on 13 October 2006.
  • slides of the presentation
• Conference proceedings

Plenary sessions
The first plenary session focussed on Urban and Rural Inter-relationship in Land Administration. This session was chaired by President Magel with András Osskó as rapporteur and Maximilian Geierhos and Rob Mahoney as speakers together with Lars Reutersward from UN-Habitat.	President Magel and Rob Mahoney.
Lars Reutersward.	The plenary sessions were well attended even though there were concurring events.
The second plenary session on disaster and risk management was chaired by Peter Creutzer, WPLA while Andreas Drees was the rapporteur.	Speakers included David B. Zilkoski from NOAA and Prof. Jochen Zschau, GFZ...
... and Dr. Lutz Cleemann, Allianz Zentrum für Technik GmbH
Technical Sessions
Technical sessions were very well attended even though there were most of the time ten concurrent sessions running parallel - commission 5 session.	Technical sessions followed different concepts - Commission 5 panel at the RTK / CORs Providers and Users Forum with Matt Higgins, Chair of Commission 5, Ruth Neilan, International GNSS Service, Joël van Cranenbroeck, Leica and Prof. Chris Rizos,  President of IAG Commission 4 Positioning and Applications.
Commission 5 technical session ...	... with case studies all over the world.
Exhibition
The exhbition was combined with INTERGEO 2006 which had more than 500 exhibitors covering more than 30,000 sqm and attracting more than 19,000 during the three days.	© INTERGEO and FIG 2006. DVW booth at the INTERGEO 2006.
© INTERGEO and FIG 2006. FIG booth at the INTERGEO 2006.	Impressions from the exhibition.
Leica Geosystems was both one of the main sponsors of the congress and one of the biggest exhibtiors:	Joint Australian stand to promote FIG 2010 and tell about surveying in Australia.
One of main attractions: take a picture with a koala	... also for Scandinavians.