Keynote Speakers
Diane DUMASHIE FIG President Elect 2023-2026 |
Renowned as a client lead, Diane is an adaptive multi—skilled land economist specialising in negotiating and delivering complex, multi stakeholder projects. She is focused, dynamic, independent and inspirational in the way she helps clients to hold difficult conversations and is adept at enabling, facilitating and bringing people and resources together to achieve organisational objectives. Stakeholder smart her project delivery seeks a customer focused approach to broker collaborative working between key partners to achieve shared objectives. She leads and innovates to manage change, energises and resolves complex issues in the areas of land management, land administration, gender rights, land and coastal property regeneration to deliver successful outcomes. As a professional with a Royal chartered status, operating in the land economy her aim is to improve people’s livelihoods. Diane has helped government’s donor agency private sector professionals working across the commonwealth countries this is evidenced by key areas of specialism... "My origins lie in land economics and principles of good governance working for the public and private sector; specifically, across the Commonwealth." |
Mr. Michalis Kalogiannakis VICE PRESIDENT - International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) |
Mr. Michalis Kalogiannakis is Vice President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) 2025 – 2028. He is a freelance surveyor based in Athens, Greece, specializing in surveying, geodesy, photogrammetry, valuation, renovations, real estate and project management.
Mr. Kalogiannakis is also the CEO of GREEN Estate, overseeing two distinct branches: a pure technical sector (topo-ges.gr), which handles surveying applications, renovations, cadastral work, and land management, and a real estate sector (green-estate.gr), focused on property sales, real estate consulting, and comprehensive transaction support. From 2016 until recently, he was the President of the HARSE, being the youngest president of a scientific association of engineers in Greece. Within Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) Mr. Kalogiannakis had two major roles: Vice President for two terms (2018-2022) and Secretary General (2022-2024). Beyond his professional and association work, Mr. Kalogiannakis actively contribute to the public discourse by writing and speaking on engineering topics in major Greek media outlets. His commitment to public service started early, as he served as Deputy Mayor of his hometown at the age of 26. |
 Ionut SAVOIU Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure |
Mr. Ionut Savoiu is State Secretary at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure since January 2022. Between 2012 and 2016 Mr. Savoiu was member of The Romanian Parliament – Vice-president of IT&C Commission. From 2005 to 2012, he was country managing director of Blom Romania and international consultant in Blom International. During the Blom Romania period, Ionut Savoiu was in charge of business development, sales and projects in Romania and countries in East Europe. Further Ionut was responsible of mapping and GIS production for Blom Group. In 2004, he was appointed as Deputy General Manager of National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (NACLR), Romania. He is honorary advisor to the Board of the Romanian Surveyors Association. Ionut Savoiu graduated from Faculty of Geodesy – Technical University for Construction Bucharest, Romania. His diploma was prepared at Institute for Photogrammetry – Hannover University, Germany. He holds an MBA at IEDC - School of management Bled, Slovenia. Between December 2018 and January 2022 Ionut Savoiu was the President of UGR. |
 Dr. Dimo Todorovski Chair of FIG Commission 2 |
Dr.Dimo Todorovski is FIG Chair, Commission 2 Professional Education for the term 2023-2026.
He works as a M-GEO Master's Specialisation Coordinator for Urban and Land Futures and senior lecturer, at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, since 2011. He holds a Master of Science degree in Geo-Information Management (2006) and defended his PhD in 2016.. Since 2012 he is a secretary of the School for Land Administration Studies (joint venture between the Netherlands Kadaster and Faculty ITC/UT. At the moment he is also involved in the MLUMSE Erasmus+ project and GeoConnect MATRA project. |
Mr. Dr. Kwabena Obeng Asiama Chair FIG Commission 8 |
Dr. Kwabena Obeng Asiama is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Land Economy, KNUST, and a consultant at the Centre for Property Investment, a property and estate services firm. Prior to this, he was assistant professor at the Chair of Land and Real Estate Management at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He received his PhD. (2019) and MSc. (2015) in Land Administration from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
In 2018, Kwabena received the FIG-Survey Review Prize at the XXVI FIG Congress and named one of the 40 under 40 Motivated and Accomplished Young Surveying Professionals by the xyHt magazine in 2020. He was also named one of the 23 Young Geospatial Professionals to watch in 2023. Kwabena is currently the Chair of the FIG Commission 8 on Spatial Planning and Development and a past Chair of the FIG Young Surveyors Network (FIG-YSN). He is also a member of the German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation, and Land Management (DVW). |
Mr. Nicolae Andrei Crișan |
Dr. Ing. Nicolae Andrei CRIȘAN is a specialist in digital built environments, affiliated with the Politehnica University of Timișoara and the Center for Innovation and Technological Transfer (CITT). His current focus is on BIM and Digital Twin development of the built environment at building and city scale. Over the past decade, he has coordinated multiple EU and national projects on digitization and BIM and has lectured widely on openBIM standards and digital infrastructure. He regularly contributes to Romanian industry standards, collaborates with public agencies on building information modelling implementation strategies and mentors emerging professionals within the buildingSmart certification program and other national wide BIM courses. |
Mr. Dalton Luiz Lemos II |
Dr. Dalton Luiz Lemos II, is a Titular Professor (since 2006) - Surveying and Geoprocessing, at Campus Florianópolis of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Brazil. (www.ifsc.edu.br) Holds a Ph.D. (2010) in Civil Engineering – “Cadastre” and a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering “Cadastre”. Civil Engineer and Surveyor since 2000. Researcher in the fields: Surveying, BIM, Laser Scanning, Geodesy, GNSS, Multipurpose Technical Cadastre, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, Protected Areas, Geographic Information Systems, Distance Education (Distance Learning), Learning Management Systems and Information and Communication Technology. |