Debbie Pagurek
Team Lead, Geospatial Services
Environment and Climate Change Canada
I am experienced in designing, testing, implementing and supporting IM/IT solutions used for document management, collaboration, information dissemination, and geospatial applications. I am skilled in applying business analysis techniques to elicit the requirements needed to design solutions. I have also developed and delivered innovative training sessions. I can provide strong leadership to teams of analysts and IM/IT support staff.
Sessions in which Debbie Pagurek attends
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- MAXAR GeoIgnite Pub Night on the ByWard Market
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 2 hours
- Delegates, exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and volunteers are invited to Join GeoIgnite for our Pub Social at Heart & Crown on the ByWard Market...
8:20 AM
8:20 AM
- Jonathan Murphy - Founder - GeoIgnite & GoGeomatics Canada welcomes participants Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM | 10 minutes
- Keynote
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Jim Watson - Mayor - City of Ottawa, Talk: Welcome to Ottawa Canada's Tech City Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | 10 minutes
- Keynote
8:40 AM
8:40 AM
- Keith Masback - Chair - National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Talk: Geospatial 20/20: Envisioning Our Path to the Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM | 20 minutes
- There's never been a more exciting time to be a part of the geospatial profession. From mapping the infrastructure beneath our cities to indoor way...
- Keynote
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Nadine Alameh - CEO - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Talk: A changing world: Impacts on location standards and innovation Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes
- Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-d...
- Keynote
9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- Prashant Shukle - Director General - Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan) Talk: The Future of National Mapping Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | 20 minutes
- Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resourc...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- What are the ramifications of the current digital transformation globally and what will it mean for Canada and the globe? Our award winning panel o...
- Panel
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | 45 minutes
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Amina Deiab - Senior Director Economic Policy, Economic Development and Trade - Government of Alberta, Talk: Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial Sector Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM | 20 minutes
- Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial SectorLocation technologies are changing the way we live, wor...
- Talk
11:35 AM
11:35 AM
- Christiane Saad - Lawyer - Univ Of Ottawa, Talk: The Future of Geospatial "Big Data" legal issues and challenges Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM | 20 minutes
- The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial tech...
- Talk
11:55 AM
11:55 AM
- Arnold Hougham - Vice President PCI Geomatics -Talk: Data Cubes & opportunities to leverage hyper temporal image archives to support climate change studies Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM | 20 minutes
- Several key trends in the geospatial industry over the last few years have created the conditions needed to truly leverage remote sensing as a tech...
- Talk
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- SDG's & GeoSpatial In Action: Saving the world's Oceans, one Hope Spot at a time Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM | 20 minutes
- Hope Spots are special places that are critical to the health of the ocean — Earth’s blue heart. Some Hope Spots are already formally protec...
- Talk
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Mediterranean Lunch Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show: Lunch Sponsored by: Global Grid Systems Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Global Grid Systems is pleased to sponsor the first lunch of the conference. GeoIgnite offers our delegates a special me...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Bilyana Anicic - Enterprise Architect - Talk: Digital Transformations: Mapping our Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Today, geospatial technologies are embedded in many of the workflows that support the Fourth Industrial Revolution and therefore invaluable to user...
- Keynote
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Walter Knitl - CEO - Praxiem, Talk: Geospatial: Internet of Things – the Cornerstone of Digital Disruption Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | 20 minutes
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Whether applied to industrial automation, wearables, connected transportation and logistics, drones or smart ...
- Talk
2:50 PM
2:50 PM
- Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | 20 minutes
- The UK Government as part of its building information modeling (BIM) initiative has said repeatedly that it expects the big payoff of a digital mod...
- Talk
3:10 PM
3:10 PM
- Faramarz Samavati - Professor - Univ Calgary, Talk: Discrete Global Grid System, a disruptive method for implementing Digital Earth Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | 20 minutes
- The Earth is immense, and abundant with interesting information. Recent advancements in geospatial sensors (e.g. satellites, smart phones, meteorol...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo: Talk: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Science. What happened to my GIS? A forecast for modern geospatial Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes
- Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the pla...
- Talk
4:20 PM
4:20 PM
- Anthony Calamito - Director, Government Programs - Mapbox, Talk: How to Access and Analyze Your Sensitive Geospatial Data On and Off Network Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | 20 minutes
- The Mapbox live location platform was designed to serve all levels of government and the critical services they support. Develop custom mapping and...
- Talk
4:40 PM
4:40 PM
- Calvin Klatt - Director & Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Talk: Advances in Geodesy: Precise Global Positioning on a Dynamic Planet Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | 20 minutes
- We are entering a new era of positioning, navigation and timing. Global, instantaneous, and easily accessible positioning at better than 10cm is co...
- Talk
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Mapbox Reception for GeoIgnite 2019 Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Please join fellow conference attendees for an amazing networking reception in the exhibitor hall sponsored by Mapbox. The event will featur...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Megan Beange - National BIM Lead - Digital Built Government of Canada Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Megan works with national players in the Construction Industry, balancing high-level strategic direction and thinking with operational needs and te...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Andrew M. Davidson - Associate Director - Agriculture Canada's AgroClimate, Geomatics and EO, Talk: Space for Agriculture: Challenges & Opportunities to supporting a Competitive Agricultural sector in Canada. Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Remote sensing is the most cost-effective means for gathering timely detailed and reliable information over large areas with high revisit frequency...
- Talk
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Lesley MacKenzie - Senior Business Analyst - Consortech, Talk: Should you move your data processes to the Cloud? Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes
- As we worked with multiple government organizations this past year, we faced this same question along the way: Should we move our data processes to...
- Talk
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- The Government of Canada purchases on average $22 billion in goods and services each year to help deliver programs and services to Canadians. Many ...
- Talk
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Jason Duffe - Geomatics Research Manager - Environment & Climate Change Canada, Talk: Earth Observation Data Cube Analytics for Environmental Conservation Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | 30 minutes
- The value of geospatial big data and how to efficiently convert it to useful information is an important cross disciplinary question. There has bee...
- Talk
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Lunch Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- For the second day of the conference executive Chef Derek Ragnitz and his award winning culinary team offer a Mexican themed selection for del...
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
- Alessandro Alasia - Chief - Statistics Canada, Talk:The Linkable Open Data Environment Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 30 minutes
- Over the last few years, the Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) at Statistics Canada has conducted an increasing amount of work with open ...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Update on NRCan’s Flood Mapping Initiatives in support of Flood Mitigation Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Natural Resources Canada provides mapping and engineering advice and expertise to Public Safety Canada in support of the National Disaster Mit...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | 15 minutes
- Talk