Candace Jones

GIS Coordinator

Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks

Sessions in which Candace Jones attends

Tuesday 1 March, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:45 AM

GHG Monitoring from Space – Leveraging Commercial Capabilities with Barbara Ryan, Executive Director of WGIC

30 minutes, 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST

Barbara Ryan, WGIC (Speaker)

"GHG Monitoring from Space: A mapping of capabilities across public, private and hybrid missions" was a collaborative...

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

30 minutes, 11:30 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST

Brian Perry, NRCan (Speaker)

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

New Applications of Satellite Data for Agriculture with Greg Crutsinger, Customer Success Manager - Agriculture with Planet

30 minutes, 12:15 PM EST - 12:45 PM EST

Greg Crutsinger, Planet (Speaker)

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

Accurate Geospatial Analysis for a Dynamically Changing World with Briana Brown, Geographer from SafeGraph

30 minutes, 1:00 PM EST - 1:30 PM EST

Briana Brown, SafeGraph (Speaker)

Abstract: Organizations are increasingly relying on geospatial analysis to power their decision making and business pro...

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

30 minutes, 1:45 PM EST - 2:15 PM EST

Mischa Hey, NV5 Geospatial (Speaker)

Sven Cowan, NV5 Geospatial (Speaker)

NV5 Geospatial has been at the forefront of hydrospatial data acquisition and processing for deca...

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

30 minutes, 2:30 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST

Mr. Jurjen van der Sluijs, NWT Centre for Geomatics (Speaker)

The landscapes in the Northwest Territories (NWT, Canada) are amongst the most rapidly changing in the world due to climate-induced permafrost t...

3:15 PM

Panel: Using GeoIntelligence & AI to solve real world problems Sponsored by MAXAR

45 minutes, 3:15 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST

Prashant Shukle, Global Geospatial Group (Moderator)

Barbara Ryan, WGIC (Panelist)

Arthur Berrill, Royal Bank of Canada (Panelist)

Dr. Kumar Navulur, Maxar Technologies (Panelist)

Mark Carmichael, MDA (Panelist)

Wednesday 2 March, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

Keynote: Planetary Scale: A Geospatial Lens with Will Cadell, Founder and CEO of Sparkgeo

30 minutes, 10:00 AM EST - 10:30 AM EST

Keynote

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Keynote speaker)

Our planet is in flux: pandemics, climate change, inequality. This talk will explore the ideas of "planetary-sca...

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.

30 minutes, 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST

Nicholas Kellett, Deploy Software Solutions (Speaker)

At a time of rising climate change impacts, there is a vital and growing need to prepare for, respond to, and recover...

1:45 PM

Monitoring the Impacts of Extreme Weather on Canada's Food Supply with Catherine Champagne, Environmental Scientist, National Agroclimate Information Service with Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

30 minutes, 1:45 PM EST - 2:15 PM EST

Catherine Champagne, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Speaker)

Inter-annual variability in agricultural production in Canada is largely determined by weather and climate. Climate-related impacts have caused ...

Thursday 3 March, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:45 AM

Detecting Change in Point Cloud Data with David McKittrick, Outreach & Training Manager for Blue Marble Geographics

30 minutes, 10:45 AM EST - 11:15 AM EST

David McKittrick, Blue Marble Geographics (Speaker)

The increase in the availability of high-resolution lidar and other point cloud datasets has given rise to the use o...

12:15 PM

The OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 - Eyes in the Sky to Feet on the Ground with Trevor Taylor, Senior Director, Member Success and Development at OGC

30 minutes, 12:15 PM EST - 12:45 PM EST

Trevor Taylor, The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Speaker)

By some estimates, 80% of response time during a disater is spent procuring and preparing data, leaving 2...

1:00 PM

Diversity Leadership Panel: The importance of diverse perspective to combat Climate Change

45 minutes, 1:00 PM EST - 1:45 PM EST

Aaron Addison, Geospatial World (Moderator)

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Panelist)

Nicholas Kellett, Deploy Software Solutions (Panelist)

Gerald Kutney, Sixth Element Sustainable Management (Panelist)

Adina Gillespie, GHGSat Inc. (Panelist)

Climate change affects everybody. Solu...