Schedule

Jonathan Murphy - Founder - GeoIgnite & GoGeomatics Canada welcomes participants

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

Jonathan Murphy (Participant)

Jim Watson - Mayor - City of Ottawa, Talk: Welcome to Ottawa Canada's Tech City

8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | 10 minutes

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

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

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

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes

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

Nadine Alameh (Participant)

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

Prashant Shukle (Participant)

Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | 45 minutes

Amina Deiab - Senior Director Economic Policy, Economic Development and Trade - Government of Alberta, Talk: Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial Sector

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

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

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

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

Christiane Saad (Participant)

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

Arnold Hougham (Participant)

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

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

Graham Stickler (Participant)

Mediterranean Lunch Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show: Lunch Sponsored by: Global Grid Systems

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes

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

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes

Bilyana Anicic (Participant)

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

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

Walter Knitl (Participant)

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

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

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

Geoff Zeiss (Participant)

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

Faramarz Samavati (Participant)

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes

Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo: Talk: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Science. What happened to my GIS? A forecast for modern geospatial

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes

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

Will Cadell (Participant)

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | 20 minutes

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

Anthony Calamito (Participant)

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

Calvin Klatt PhD (Participant)

Mapbox Reception for GeoIgnite 2019

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

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

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

GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM | 45 minutes

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

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

David Gachuche (Moderator)

John Roos - Director Sales - MAXAR, GeoIgnite Tract Welcome

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

John Roos (Moderator)

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

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

Marikka Williams (Moderator)

Panel discussion: Consumerization of Geospatial Knowledge Platform and Products

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

Tracey P. Lauriault - Assistant Professor, Critical Media and Big Data - Talk, GeoSpatial: Open Smart Cities

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

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Participant)

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

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

Dr. Tim Webster (Participant)

Modern Street-level Asset Collection with Mapillary

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes

Muthu Sampath (Participant)

Military Terrestrial LiDAR Applications

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes

Chris Bowden - Manager- NAV CANADA, Talk: How Geospatial Data supports Aeronautical Information Services

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

Chris Bowden (Participant)

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

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

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

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

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.

Megan Beange (Participant)

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes

Andrew Davidson (Participant)

City of Brampton GeoHub: Moving Beyond Data Downloads

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes

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

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes

Dallas Rathbone (Participant)

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes

Diversity in Leadership Summit

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

Avenza: Mapping for the Masses

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes

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

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes

Sergey Samsonov (Participant)

Lesley MacKenzie - Senior Business Analyst - Consortech, Talk: Should you move your data processes to the Cloud?

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes

Lesley MacKenzie (Participant)

Nicolas Martinez - Statistics Canada, Talk: Earth Observation Data & Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Construction Starts

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 30 minutes

Reginald Maltais - Unit Head- Statistics Canada, Talk: Road network analysis: now and in the future”

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes

Reginald Maltais (Participant)

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

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | 30 minutes

Graham Stickler (Participant)

Doing "Geospatial" business with the Government of Canada

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour

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

Stephane Champagne (Participant)

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

Jason Duffe (Participant)

Interactive HTML5 Data Visualization: See what was inaccessible with CartoVista

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

Dany Bouchard (Participant)

Lunch Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour

Bilyana Anicic - President - Auroroa Consulting gives GeoIgnite tract welcome

2:00 PM - 2:05 PM | 5 minutes

Bilyana Anicic (Moderator)

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes

Douglas Estok (Participant)

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

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | 15 minutes

David Acco - President - Acosys, Talk, Indigenous Participation in Geospatial Technology

2:05 PM - 2:30 PM | 25 minutes

David Acco (Participant)

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

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

Alessandro Alasia (Participant)

Wade Larson - Founder & VP - UrtheCast, Talk:The UrtheDaily Mission: Daily Geoanalytics on a Global Scale

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes

Wade Larson (Participant)

Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes

Karl Spencer (Participant)

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

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

Roya Olyazadeh (Participant)

Marc Curtis - Angus GeoSolutions - Talk: Establishing a single valid address database for City of Hamilton

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes

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

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes

Michelle Poirier (Participant)

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

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | 15 minutes

Benjamin Ulmer (Participant)

GeoIgnite 2019 Closing Remarks

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