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Once again the GEOINT Symposium broke new boundaries. The Foundation just announced that GEOINT 2011 attracting 4,451 attendees and exhibitors from the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities. For those who attended, it was a rare opportunity to explore the latest technologies from 252 exhibitors as well as hear from and meet with key Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security Community leadership.

With a theme of “Forging Integrated Intelligence,” GEOINT 2011 offered a pre-symposium science and technology forum, 10 keynote speakers, three panel discussions, two lunchtime workshops and nine afternoon breakout sessions showcasing the importance of a multi-INT national security strategy. Discussions concentrated on human geography and socio-cultural dynamics, open source GEOINT, crowd-sourced intelligence, international commercial satellite imagery, cloud computing, the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise, integrating intelligence, the implementation of NGA’s vision, homeland security applications, forging collaboration in the coalition environment and much more.

As always, the event allowed attendees to hear directly from top government and defense leaders about current and future challenges. And, for those of you who want to re-live the glory of the GEOINT 2011, be sure to check out GEOINTv here, which has videos of all of the keynote addresses and much, much more.

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