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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Monday, 19/Mar/2018
	00-21: Disclaimer Please note that this a draft program. The sessions below are still subject to changes in time and location at the discretion of the conference organizers.	Posters on display all day Location: MC Atrium
9:30am - 10:30am	00-01: Improving generation & access to land related data from different sources Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Tim Fella, ESRI, United States of America Using high resolution imagery to reliably generate building footprints at scale: Current technology and potential applications Jeremy Hale DigitalGlobe, United States of America Linking building footprints with cadastral and tax data in Lusaka: Implications for Zambia and beyond Kelvin Chibangula², Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Trevor Kaunda², Klaus Deininger¹ 1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Zambia Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform - Supporting Sustainable Urban Development with Big Data from Space Christoph Aubrecht European Space Agency (ESA) & The World Bank, United States of America New Opportunities for Using the Cloud to Improve Data Access and Analysis Michael Lokshin World Bank, United States of America
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee Break: Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge
11:00am - 12:30pm	00-02: Combining data from different sources to quantify benefits from land interventions Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya Integrating Mapping into Household Surveys Michael Lokshin World Bank, United States of America Fiscal and Productivity Losses from Inaccurate Land Rights in Malawi Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Daniel Ali World Bank, United States of America Monitoring Performance and Impact of Sustainable Land Management projects in Ethiopia Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk World Bank, United States of America Assessing the size of informal land cultivation and shadow market for agricultural commodities in Ukraine Denys Nizalov¹, Denis Bashlyk² 1: University of Kent/ KEI at KSE, United Kingdom; 2: Stategeocadastre, Ukraine
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch: Lunch Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge
2:00pm - 3:30pm	00-03: Using land use data to predict differences in poverty: New evidence and implications for policy Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Roy Van der Weide, The World Bank, United States of America Using spatial data to generate small area estimates of poverty and population: Initial lessons David Locke Newhouse The World Bank, United States of America Generating a Global Map of Sub-national Poverty Estimates Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo The World Bank, United States of America	00-04: Can block chains strengthen tenure security and facilitate service delivery? Location: MC 2-800 Chair: Sigrid Johannisse, Embassy of the Netherlands, United States of America webex Block Chains and Smart Contracts Josephus van Erp Maastricht University, Netherlands, The Block chains in the Netherlands Jacob Vos Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster), Netherlands, The Development of cadastral system in Ukraine: blockchain initiatives Denis Bashlyk, Oleksandr Kolotilin Stategeocadastre, Ukraine	00-05: Review white paper land administration data standardization Location: MC 13-121 Chair: Cornelis de Zeeuw, Kadaster, Netherlands, The Opening remarks Trevor Taylor OGC, United States of America Open Geospatial Consortium Draft White Paper on Land Administration Christiaan Lemmen¹, Peter Van Oosterom², Mohsen Kalantari³, Eva-Maria Unger⁴, Cornelis De Zeeuw⁴ 1: Kadaster and University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 3: University of Melbourne, Australia; 4: Kadaster, The Netherlands
3:30pm - 4:15pm	Coffee Break Location: Front Lobby and Preston Lounge
4:30pm - 6:00pm	00-11: Conference Opening: Cities, Land Use and Property Rights Location: Preston Auditorium Chair: Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, The World Bank, United States of America Cities, Land Use and Property Rights Edward Glaeser Harvard University, United States of America Discussant Anacláudia Rossbach Cities Alliance, Brazil Discussant Robert Lewis-Lettington UN-HABITAT, Kenya
4:35pm - 6:00pm	Overflow Room Location: Overflow rooms: Preston Lounge; MC13-121