Natalie Zabcic
GIS Coordinator
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Sessions in which Natalie Zabcic attends
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
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
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
2:50 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
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
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
- Tim Webster - AGRG - Talk: Seamless Topo-Bathymetric lidar mapping to support multiple coastal applications Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
- The coastal zone is a challenging place to map, techniques for mapping the land elevation do not work under water and echosounding methods for mapp...
- Talk
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
- 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...
- Talk
- 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
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- 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,...
- Talk
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
- Graham Stickler - CMO - SkyWatch, Talk Simplifying the integration of Earth Observation data into Geospatial applications Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes
- An experienced, senior executive, and strategic thinker, with an entrepreneurial attitude and a successful track record of growing Companies in the...
- 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
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...
- 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