
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
Monday 17 June, 2019
Gain insights on the possibilities and challenges with leveraging and integrating a complete open source GIS stack into your applications and projects. Sessions will be led by members of OSGEO-Ottawa.The first session involves high level presentations showcasing use case scenarios and highlighting strengths and limitations of each tools. This session is designed for managers, analysts, and non-technical individuals to discover and learn about what open source GIS tools are available, ...
Tuesday 18 June, 2019
Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the plan. The plan was to make more maps for more people, using the internet.Sitting at the intersection of software development and GIS we see how these two communities can benefit from each other. But, to do so, we will have to step out of our comfort zones.Let me tell you the story of a lowly GIS tech's journey through the technol...