Dallas Rathbone

Entrepreneur & Innovator

Global Grid Systems

Participates in 2 items

Dallas is a professional engineer with a background in electrical, instrumentation, and software engineering. He has delivered major projects with the largest independent oil producer in Canada and transformational technology initiatives for the third largest telecommunications provider in Canada. His passion for energy, technology, and business have brought him into the geospatial industry to transform traditional businesses with integrated solutions and effective platforms.

Sessions in which Dallas Rathbone participates

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:30 AM

Panel discussion: Consumerization of Geospatial Knowledge Platform and Products

1 hour, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Panel

David Gachuche, RiverCross Technologies (Moderator)

Dallas Rathbone, Global Grid Systems (Participant)

Anthony Calamito, Mapbox (Participant)

Sergey Samsonov, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (NRCan) (Participant)

Christiane Saad, University of Ottawa (Participant)

Mainstreaming of the geospatial market has created a big demand for geospatial content and solutions across governments, businesses and consumers...

10:00 AM

Dallas Rathbone - Talk: The Future of Discrete Global Grid Systems

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Dallas Rathbone, Global Grid Systems (Participant)

Global Grid Systems is on the leading edge of DGGS technology and is applying it in many exciting applications. A Discrete Global Grid...

Sessions in which Dallas Rathbone attends

Monday 17 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

7:00 PM

MAXAR GeoIgnite Pub Night on the ByWard Market

2 hours, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Delegates, exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and volunteers are invited to Join GeoIgnite for our Pub Social at Heart & Crown on the ByWard Market...

Tuesday 18 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:20 AM

Jonathan Murphy - Founder - GeoIgnite & GoGeomatics Canada welcomes participants

10 minutes, 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

Jonathan Murphy, GoGeomatics Canada (Participant)

8:40 AM

Keith Masback - Chair - National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Talk: Geospatial 20/20: Envisioning Our Path to the Future

20 minutes, 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

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...

9:00 AM

Nadine Alameh - CEO - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Talk: A changing world: Impacts on location standards and innovation

20 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-d...

9:40 AM

Prashant Shukle - Director General - Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan) Talk: The Future of National Mapping

20 minutes, 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Prashant Shukle, Global Geospatial Group (Participant)

Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resourc...

10:00 AM

Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Panel

Jonathan Murphy, GoGeomatics Canada (Moderator)

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

Prashant Shukle, Global Geospatial Group (Participant)

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...

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

20 minutes, 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial SectorLocation technologies are changing the way we live, wor...

11:35 AM

Christiane Saad - Lawyer - Univ Of Ottawa, Talk: The Future of Geospatial "Big Data" legal issues and challenges

20 minutes, 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Christiane Saad, University of Ottawa (Participant)

The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial tech...

11:55 AM

Arnold Hougham - Vice President PCI Geomatics -Talk: Data Cubes & opportunities to leverage hyper temporal image archives to support climate change studies

20 minutes, 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Arnold Hougham (Participant)

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...

12:15 PM

SDG's & GeoSpatial In Action: Saving the world's Oceans, one Hope Spot at a time

20 minutes, 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Graham Stickler, SkyWatch (Participant)

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...

2:00 PM

Bilyana Anicic - Enterprise Architect - Talk: Digital Transformations: Mapping our Future

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Participant)

Today, geospatial technologies are embedded in many of the workflows that support the Fourth Industrial Revolution and therefore invaluable to user...

2:30 PM

Walter Knitl - CEO - Praxiem, Talk: Geospatial: Internet of Things – the Cornerstone of Digital Disruption

20 minutes, 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Walter Knitl, Praxiem (Participant)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Whether applied to industrial automation, wearables, connected transportation and logistics, drones or smart ...

2:50 PM

Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction

20 minutes, 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Geoff Zeiss, Between the Poles (Participant)

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...

3:10 PM

Faramarz Samavati - Professor - Univ Calgary, Talk: Discrete Global Grid System, a disruptive method for implementing Digital Earth

20 minutes, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Faramarz Samavati, University of Calgary (Participant)

The Earth is immense, and abundant with interesting information. Recent advancements in geospatial sensors (e.g. satellites, smart phones, meteorol...

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

20 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Participant)

Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the pla...

4:20 PM

Anthony Calamito - Director, Government Programs - Mapbox, Talk: How to Access and Analyze Your Sensitive Geospatial Data On and Off Network

20 minutes, 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Anthony Calamito, Mapbox (Participant)

The Mapbox live location platform was designed to serve all levels of government and the critical services they support. Develop custom mapping and...

4:40 PM

Calvin Klatt - Director & Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Talk: Advances in Geodesy: Precise Global Positioning on a Dynamic Planet

20 minutes, 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Talk

Calvin Klatt PhD (Participant)

We are entering a new era of positioning, navigation and timing. Global, instantaneous, and easily accessible positioning at better than 10cm is co...

5:00 PM

Mapbox Reception for GeoIgnite 2019

1 hour 30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

Please join fellow conference attendees for an amazing networking reception in the exhibitor hall sponsored by Mapbox. The event will featur...

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:20 AM

David Gachuche - CEO - RiverCross Technologies, Talk: Weclomes Delegates

10 minutes, 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

David Gachuche, RiverCross Technologies (Moderator)

David is a Geomatics Engineer (University of Calgary) and technology entrepreneur specializing in location based solutions such as spatial tra...

Marikka Williams - Group Leader Peterborough - GoGeomatics Canada gives GeoIgnite Tract Welcome

10 minutes, 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Marikka Williams, Fleming College (Moderator)

Marikka Williams, MSc, GISP and Professor, Fleming College Geographic Information Systems welcomes delegates to the morning and will be master of c...

8:30 AM

Tim Webster - AGRG - Talk: Seamless Topo-Bathymetric lidar mapping to support multiple coastal applications

30 minutes, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Dr. Tim Webster, Applied Geomatics Research Group NSCC (Participant)

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...

9:00 AM

Military Terrestrial LiDAR Applications

30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Mark Pikul, Mapping and Charting Est. - DND (Participant)

Hugh Rogerson, Mapping and Charting Est. - DND (Participant)

This Canadian military presentation will show various datasets of survey grade terrestrial LiDAR, discuss collection methods to achieve the best re...

9:30 AM

Brandon Palin- Public Sector Specialist- Ecopia, Talk: Making Better Decisions using Ecopia's Feature Extractions

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Ecopia.ai will present how its semi-automated approach of combining deep neural networks with scalable crowd map annotators can be combined to crea...

Megan Beange - National BIM Lead - Digital Built Government of Canada

30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Megan Beange, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

Megan works with national players in the Construction Industry, balancing high-level strategic direction and thinking with operational needs and te...

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.

30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Andrew Davidson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Participant)

Remote sensing is the most cost-effective means for gathering timely detailed and reliable information over large areas with high revisit frequency...

11:00 AM

Sergey Samsonov - Canada Centre Remote Sensing (NRCan), Talk: RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Are you ready?

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Sergey Samsonov, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (NRCan) (Participant)

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites image the Earth in all weather conditions, day or night. Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite, launched in 2007,...

Avenza: Mapping for the Masses

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Creating maps has traditionally been a one-way process in which GIS professionals and cartographers translate spatial data into for use by maps use...

Diversity in Leadership Summit

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Panel

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Moderator)

Amina Deiab OLD, QED Inc. (Participant)

David Acco, Acosys Consulting Service Inc (Participant)

Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Participant)

The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the inaugural Diversity in Leadership Summit (DILS). It is o...

12:00 PM

Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Stephane Champagne, Public Services and Procurement Canada (Participant)

The Government of Canada purchases on average $22 billion in goods and services each year to help deliver programs and services to Canadians. Many ...

Graham Stickler - CMO - SkyWatch, Talk Simplifying the integration of Earth Observation data into Geospatial applications

30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Graham Stickler, SkyWatch (Participant)

An experienced, senior executive, and strategic thinker, with an entrepreneurial attitude and a successful track record of growing Companies in the...

12:30 PM

Jason Duffe - Geomatics Research Manager - Environment & Climate Change Canada, Talk: Earth Observation Data Cube Analytics for Environmental Conservation

30 minutes, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Jason Duffe, Enivoronment and Climate Change Canada (Participant)

The value of geospatial big data and how to efficiently convert it to useful information is an important cross disciplinary question. There has bee...

2:00 PM

Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo, Talk: Building a Small Canadian Geospatial Company with Global Influence

15 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

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...

2:15 PM

Alessandro Alasia - Chief - Statistics Canada, Talk:The Linkable Open Data Environment

30 minutes, 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Alessandro Alasia, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Over the last few years, the Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) at Statistics Canada has conducted an increasing amount of work with open ...

2:45 PM

Roya Olyazadeh - Postdoc - Univ Calgary, Talk: Conventional GIS vs DGGS for Natural Hazard Risk Management

15 minutes, 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Roya Olyazadeh, University of Calgary (Participant)

Due to climate change, natural hazards are happening more in recent days. Analyzing these changes and prediction of future hazards have been always...

3:00 PM

Update on NRCan’s Flood Mapping Initiatives in support of Flood Mitigation

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Michelle Poirier, NRCan (Participant)

Natural Resources Canada provides mapping and engineering advice and expertise to Public Safety Canada in support of the National Disaster Mit...

Benjamin Ulmer - M.Sc. student - Univ Calgary, Talk: Volumetric Discrete Global Grid Systems

15 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Benjamin Ulmer, University of Calgary (Participant)

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...

3:30 PM

GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks

15 minutes, 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

Talk