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Prashant Shukle

Member Board of Directors
buildingSMART Canada
Participates in 2 items

Prashant has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in a variety of roles and sectors.  In the past decade, he provided the vision and worked to establish the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation and then managed all aspects of its operations as its first Director-General.  He also led CCMEO through deep reductions in the early 2010s and then led its renewal and subsequent large scale successes in delivering the highly successful Federal Geospatial Platform (GeoDiscovery); the science and satellite renewal elements of the 2019 Radarsat Constellation Mission; and after two years of consultation and negotiation, the launch of Canada's Flood Hazard Information Mapping Program.    

Since 2019, he has been working with a variety of private sector companies where is an investor and he continues to advise Canadian geospatial and space startups. He is the Board Chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium; a Board Member of Building Smart Canada, and Ottawa's Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre.  
 

Sessions in which Prashant Shukle participates

Tuesday 18 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:40 AM
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | 20 minutes
Challenges and Opportunities: Canadian Geospatial Foundations

Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).NRCan has fostered an enabling policy mechanism and provided a conducive framework for geospatial information infrastructure. In today’s digital age when geospatial is becoming more and more ubiquitous, open and inter-disciplinary policies are the key instruments of harnessing the true value of this wonderful technology...

10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
Geospatial Digital Transformation: AI, 5G, AR/VR, Blockchain, IoT, Big Data Analytics, Open Source, Cloud

What are the ramifications of the current digital transformation globally and what will it mean for Canada and the globe? Our award winning panel of international and Canadian experts disscuss and take questions from delegates.