Like thousands of Microsoft employees, Tom Edwards and his team spend their days ensuring that the company's products are bug-free -- but the bugs they find aren't the kind that can crash software or create security issues.

Keynote Address: "Geographies of Trust and Risk - Managing Global Perceptions of Microsoft" Tom Edwards, Senior Geopolitical Strategist, Geopolitical Strategy, Microsoft Corporation .

Where: Edmonds Community College, Snohomish Hall, Room 304 (see map below)

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2003, 10:00 – 3:00

Registration: $5.00 includes lunch

Agenda:

9:30 AM Registration and Coffee

Tom Edwards, Geopolitical Strategist

Microsoft

10:00 AM Welcome by the President

10:10 AM Presentations and discussion:

· State of geography at the Community Colleges in Washington, Chip Dodd, Bellingham Community College

· Brief Reports by Geography Programs at two and four year schools

· Jobs in Geography Jubal Harpster, GIS Web Developer, City of Bellevue

· State of Professional Geography and its relationship to geographic education including GIS Gordon Kennedy, Information Resource Manager, Washington State Department of Transportation

12:00 Lunch and AWG Business Meeting and Elections

· Discussion on proposed Bylaw revisions

· Election of officers and board members

1:30 PM Keynote Address

2:30 PM Inauguration of new AWG President

Fall Board Meeting will follow General Meeting