Will Cadell, Founder & CEO of Sparkgeo Consulting, Inc.
Will is a 25-year geospatial professional and technology executive. He started Sparkgeo in 2010 to serve the growing technology sector with cloud-centric location technology. Now, with both North American and UK operations, the Sparkgeo team serves a global customer base seeking geospatial modernization within the context of enterprise digital transformation. In addition to founding Sparkgeo, Will is an advisor for Cultivation Capital’s Geospatial venture fund, and supports enterprise companies and financial institutions on the uses and value of geospatial technology, especially within the context of climate and space. He has acted as a Teaching Fellow for Oxford MBA’s Smart Space Elective, discussing the unsettled nature of the geospatial analytics market, and supports the Taylor Geospatial Engine as an Industry Fellow. Will is a regular speaker on the international geospatial circuit and is a co-host of North America’s only geospatial thought leadership event, North51.
Sessions in which Will Cadell participates
Wednesday 2 March, 2022
Our planet is in flux: pandemics, climate change, inequality. This talk will explore the ideas of "planetary-scale" as it pertains to the geospatial community’s work. We will be looking at how we need planetary-scale thinking to address the planetary-scale problems we are now being challenged with. We don’t have a “Planet B", so how can geospatial technology be used to ethically approach some of the most pressing issues our species have collectively faced? &...