Kent Jacobs
Sessions in which Kent Jacobs attends
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
- Registration, Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM | 45 minutes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7:45 AM
7:45 AM
- GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM | 45 minutes
8:20 AM
8:20 AM
- David Gachuche - CEO - RiverCross Technologies, Talk: Weclomes Delegates Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM | 10 minutes
- David is a Geomatics Engineer (University of Calgary) and technology entrepreneur specializing in location based solutions such as spatial tra...
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- John Roos - Director Sales - MAXAR, GeoIgnite Tract Welcome Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM | 10 minutes
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8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Panel discussion: Consumerization of Geospatial Knowledge Platform and Products Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour
- Mainstreaming of the geospatial market has created a big demand for geospatial content and solutions across governments, businesses and consumers...
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- Tracey P. Lauriault - Assistant Professor, Critical Media and Big Data - Talk, GeoSpatial: Open Smart Cities Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Lauriault’s work on open data, big data, open smart cities, is international, transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral. She is one of the founders of c...
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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Modern Street-level Asset Collection with Mapillary Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Asset management is critical for many government agencies to manage their street assets. A.I. and machine learning technology is expanding to autom...
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9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Chris Bowden - Manager- NAV CANADA, Talk: How Geospatial Data supports Aeronautical Information Services Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- NAV CANADA is a privately run, not-for-profit organization that is the Air Navigation Service Provider for Canada. With an airspace that spans all ...
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- 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...
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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...
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- Dallas Rathbone - Talk: The Future of Discrete Global Grid Systems Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Global Grid Systems is on the leading edge of DGGS technology and is applying it in many exciting applications. A Discrete Global Grid...
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10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Diversity in Leadership Summit Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the inaugural Diversity in Leadership Summit (DILS). It is o...
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- Sergey Samsonov - Canada Centre Remote Sensing (NRCan), Talk: RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Are you ready? Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites image the Earth in all weather conditions, day or night. Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite, launched in 2007,...
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11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Nicolas Martinez - Statistics Canada, Talk: Earth Observation Data & Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Construction Starts Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Investment in building construction statistics for the residential and non-residential sectors account for approximately 5% of GDP and are us...
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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 ...
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- Reginald Maltais - Unit Head- Statistics Canada, Talk: Road network analysis: now and in the future” Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Canada has at least four federal level road network products. Knowing the differences, and when to use which one, is not as straight forward as it ...
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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...
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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...
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2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo, Talk: Building a Small Canadian Geospatial Company with Global Influence Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 15 minutes
- It takes village to raise a business, but there is no reason it shouldn’t be a global village. Sparkgeo started with the simple idea that it woul...
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- Bilyana Anicic - President - Auroroa Consulting gives GeoIgnite tract welcome Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 2:00 PM - 2:05 PM | 5 minutes
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2:05 PM
2:05 PM
- David Acco - President - Acosys, Talk, Indigenous Participation in Geospatial Technology Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 2:05 PM - 2:30 PM | 25 minutes
- The purpose of this presentation is to make the case for greater Indigenous participation in the development of geospatial technology and informati...
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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 ...
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2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Wade Larson - Founder & VP - UrtheCast, Talk:The UrtheDaily Mission: Daily Geoanalytics on a Global Scale Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes
- UrtheDaily will be a 6-satellite constellation to acquire scientific-grade quality, 9-band multispectral imagery, at 5-meter Ground Sampling Distan...
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2:45 PM
2:45 PM
- Roya Olyazadeh - Postdoc - Univ Calgary, Talk: Conventional GIS vs DGGS for Natural Hazard Risk Management Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | 15 minutes
- Due to climate change, natural hazards are happening more in recent days. Analyzing these changes and prediction of future hazards have been always...
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3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Marc Curtis - Angus GeoSolutions - Talk: Establishing a single valid address database for City of Hamilton Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes
- The City of Hamilton has many service delivery applications for resident addresses. For example, street addresses are solicited in a free form m...
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- Benjamin Ulmer - M.Sc. student - Univ Calgary, Talk: Volumetric Discrete Global Grid Systems Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 15 minutes
- While much of the data available about the Earth pertains to the surface, there also exists a large amount of data available about the atmosphere a...
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3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition
- 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | 15 minutes
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