Neil Thompson
Senior Policy Advisor
Public Safety Canada
Sessions in which Neil Thompson attends
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
- GeoIgnite 2022 Welcome Cold Open
- 9:45 AM EST - 10:00 AM EST | 15 minutes
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keynote: Maxar Powering the Global Shift from 2D to 3D, with Daniel Nord, Chief Product Officer and SVP of MAXAR Technologies
- 10:00 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST | 30 minutes
- In this talk Dan Nord will share key insights on Maxar’s position as a centerpiece in the global tech shift from 2D to 3D. Join us to hear more ...
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- GHG Monitoring from Space – Leveraging Commercial Capabilities with Barbara Ryan, Executive Director of WGIC
- 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST | 30 minutes
- "GHG Monitoring from Space: A mapping of capabilities across public, private and hybrid missions" was a collaborative...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Increasing Canada’s resilience to flooding: Introducing the Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) with Brian Perry, engineering advisor for flood modelling with Natural Resources Canada
- 11:30 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST | 30 minutes
- In Budget 2021, the government tabled a recovery plan for jobs, growth, and resilience. Within the budget were specific investments to promoting...
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- New Applications of Satellite Data for Agriculture with Greg Crutsinger, Customer Success Manager - Agriculture with Planet
- 12:15 PM EST - 12:45 PM EST | 30 minutes
- Planet's constellation of satellites capture the whole of Earth's landmass every day. This unprecedented dataset provides insights to the agricu...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Accurate Geospatial Analysis for a Dynamically Changing World with Briana Brown, Geographer from SafeGraph
- 1:00 PM EST - 1:30 PM EST | 30 minutes
- Abstract: Organizations are increasingly relying on geospatial analysis to power their decision making and business pro...
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Remote Sensing and Analyses to Support Hydrospatial Solutions with Sven Cowan, Canada Program Manager at NV5 Geospatial and Mischa Hey, Practice Lead: Analytics at NV5 Geospatial
- 1:45 PM EST - 2:15 PM EST | 30 minutes
- NV5 Geospatial has been at the forefront of hydrospatial data acquisition and processing for deca...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Remote sensing of permafrost thaw landslides in the Northwest Territories – from Field to Cloud to Field again with Jurjen van der Sluijs, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator with NWT Centre for Geomatics
- 2:30 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST | 30 minutes
- The landscapes in the Northwest Territories (NWT, Canada) are amongst the most rapidly changing in the world due to climate-induced permafrost t...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keynote: Planetary Scale: A Geospatial Lens with Will Cadell, Founder and CEO of Sparkgeo
- 10:00 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST | 30 minutes
- Our planet is in flux: pandemics, climate change, inequality. This talk will explore the ideas of "planetary-sca...
- Keynote
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Building Software Solutions for Climate Change: Closing the communication gap between citizens and trusted authorities before, during, or after a disaster with Nicholas Kellett, Founder and CEO of Deploy Software Solutions, Inc.
- 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST | 30 minutes
- At a time of rising climate change impacts, there is a vital and growing need to prepare for, respond to, and recover...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Dr. Marshall Shepherd & Keith Masback Discuss Climate Change
- 11:30 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST | 30 minutes
Dr. Marshall Shepherd
Speaker
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Combatting IUU Fishing with Crow’s Nest Maritime Monitoring and Security with Bryan Smith, Director of Product Management at Maxar Technologies
- 12:15 PM EST - 12:45 PM EST | 30 minutes
- Maritime regions are vast, vessels of interest operate dark, and the agencies responsible for maritime enforceme...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keynote: State of the Geospatial Industry with Sanjay Kumar, Founder & CEO of Geospatial World
- 10:00 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST | 30 minutes
- Sanjay Kumar is the founder and CEO of Geospatial Media &...
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Detecting Change in Point Cloud Data with David McKittrick, Outreach & Training Manager for Blue Marble Geographics
- 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST | 30 minutes
- The increase in the availability of high-resolution lidar and other point cloud datasets has given rise to the use o...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Diversity Leadership Panel: The importance of diverse perspective to combat Climate Change
- 1:00 PM EST - 1:45 PM EST | 45 minutes
- Climate change affects everybody. Solu...
