In January 2018, I went to Ecuador for two talks.
The first one was given as invited speaker in the ICITS conference held in Santa Elena
and the second at the University of Guayaquil.

See slides in Spanish.

Key-note address given at  the Chinese conference "Virtual Geographic Environment"
held in Chengdu in November 2017, followed by a seminar at the Nanjing Normal University, both
entitled "Geographic Knowledge Modeling for Territorial Intelligece".

See slides.


During the 2nd International Conference "Smart Cities, Smart Data", held in Puebla, Mexico on October 2017 and organized by UDMS.
R. Laurini was chairing the best paper annoucement and also giving a 4 hour workshop on "Geographic
Knowledge Infrastructure: Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities".

Key-note address given at Moroccan MORGEO conference
held in Casablanca, May 2017, entitled "Introduction à l’infrastructure des connaissances géographiques"

See slides.



Key-note address given at  GEOProcessing 2017, Nice, April 2017, The Ninth IARIA International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services: "Towards Smart Urban Planning through Knowledge Infrastructure" .

See full text.

New book on "Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure: Application to
Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities" .

See flyer.

Course of Excellence about "Geographic Knowledge Infrastructure: Application to
Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities" given at the Polytechnic University of Turin,
Italy in February/March 2017 in 15 hours.

See Announcement.
President of the First International Conference "Smart Data, Smart Cities"

September 7-9, 2016, University of Split, Croatia

See SDSC Web Site.
Moderator of the panel
"What kinds of ICT to Tools to Plan a Smart City?"
2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Managemen
26-27 April 2016, Roma, Italy
With Wolfgang Kainz, University of Vienna, Austria and Barbara Koch, University Freiburg, Germany .
See preliminary slides.
Various presentations made in Spanish August 2015, in Mexico
(UNAM-Morelia, Tec de Monterrey-Puebla, BUAP Puebla)
and October 2015 in Colombia (Universidad Distrital de Bogota),
entitled "Conocimientos geográficos para la Inteligencia Territorial"
See Slides.
Regular publisher paper
LAURINI R. (2015) "Geographic Ontologies, Gazetteers and Multilingualism",
Journal  Future Internet, 2015, 7, 1-23; doi:10.3390/fi7010001,
See Paper.



Keynote speaker at
1st International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management
GISTAM 2015, 28 - 30 April 2015, Barcelona, Spain
"Geographic Knowledge for Territorial Intelligence"
Keynote speaker at
The 19th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems
DMS 2013,  August 8 - August 10, 2013, Brighton, United Kingdom
Received Fellow of the Knowledge Systems Insitute
"A Conceptual Framework for Geographic Knowledge for Territorial Intelligence"
See Slides, See Paper

Regular paper at
29th URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM
 UDMS 2013, May 29th – 31st 2013, University College London, London, United Kingdom
"Chorems: a New Tool for Territorial Intelligence"
See Paper