Featured Speakers Announced for the 2013 Blue Marble User Conference

Hallowell, Maine - August 20, 2013 - Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the featured speakers for the 2013 Blue Marble User Conference (BMUC) to be held on October 30th, 2013 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, Texas. The event will be free to attend. Blue Marble is celebrating its 20th year in business and would like to thank its loyal user community for their continued support throughout the years. Blue Marble's geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology companies, as well as governmental and university organizations.

The 2013 Blue Marble User Conference will be held in conjunction with GITA's Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference & Exhibition providing conference attendees with the opportunity to network and learn new practices from a variety of industry professionals. Featured speakers include industry leaders from IHS Inc., LMKR Inc., Geoscience Earth & Marine Services Inc., and BSP Engineers Inc. The topics of discussion will range from data analysis and pipeline planning, to LiDAR data processing. The Blue Marble Team will also demonstrate the latest features and functionality found within Global Mapper v15 and the Geographic Calculator 2013. The Blue Marble User Conference is a great opportunity to join the Blue Marble Team to learn how to best maximize your investment when using Blue Marble Software, or to come and see why so many consider Blue Marble software essential to their work.

"We are once again looking forward to meeting with our users and prospective users," stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. "They deserve an exciting and educational event and we are happy to bring that to them once again at no cost."

Attendees are asked to pre-register to guarantee a spot at this complimentary event. For more information or to register please visit Blue Marble at www.bluemarblegeo.com/bmuc. You can also learn more about GITA's Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference & Exhibition and obtain information on Global Mapper Software Training, which is being offered at the Homewood Suites Hotel in Houston, TX on October 28th & 29th, 2013.

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About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, Maine is a leading developer and provider of software products and services for highly accurate geospatial data conversion solutions. Blue Marble is known for their coordinate conversion and file format expertise and is the developer of The Geographic Calculator, GeoCalc SDK, Global Mapper, Global Energy Mapper, and Global Mapper SDK. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over twenty years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

Contact Information:
Heather Poirier
Marketing Manager
Blue Marble Geographics
Hallowell, ME, USA
marketing@bluemarblegeo.com
800-616-2725
+1(207) 622-4622