With just over five weeks to go to the summit, I feel like the list of speakers and sponsors is becoming more like a list of who’s who in the Digital Earth community.

Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist of Google, the Prime Minster's Chief Science Advisor Sir Dr Peter Gluckman, ISDE President and award winning scholar Prof John Richards - it’s going to be a fascinating three days.

The abstract review team have been working through in excess of 100 submissions over the past week, and in the words of the review committee chair they are “amongst the very best he has seen." I’m confident that these outstanding papers, combined with the rest of the fantastic keynote line-up, will ensure that this conference will be talked about for a long time.

There are only 38 days to go till registration closes, so I strongly suggest you register as soon as possible so you can be part of it.

And if you need a little bit more encouragement – we’re working hard to get a full version of our action packed programme live by the end of the week.

See you all in Wellington in September!