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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- Marikka Williams - Group Leader Peterborough - GoGeomatics Canada gives GeoIgnite Tract Welcome Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM | 10 minutes
- Marikka Williams, MSc, GISP and Professor, Fleming College Geographic Information Systems welcomes delegates to the morning and will be master of c...
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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...
- Panel
- 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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- 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
9:00 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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- Military Terrestrial LiDAR Applications Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- This Canadian military presentation will show various datasets of survey grade terrestrial LiDAR, discuss collection methods to achieve the best re...
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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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- Brandon Palin- Public Sector Specialist- Ecopia, Talk: Making Better Decisions using Ecopia's Feature Extractions Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Ecopia.ai will present how its semi-automated approach of combining deep neural networks with scalable crowd map annotators can be combined to crea...
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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...
- Talk
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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- City of Brampton GeoHub: Moving Beyond Data Downloads Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Brampton built a hub for the City’s Open Data and made it available to Staff, Citizens, Businesses and Students. The GeoHub makes discovering and u...
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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...
- Talk
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...
- Panel
- Avenza: Mapping for the Masses Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Creating maps has traditionally been a one-way process in which GIS professionals and cartographers translate spatial data into for use by maps use...
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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,...
- 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...
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- 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...
- Talk
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- 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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- 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...
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- 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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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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- Interactive HTML5 Data Visualization: See what was inaccessible with CartoVista Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Geographic data is ubiquitous in the landscape of organizations, corporations and governments. CartoVista allows you to profit from it by building ...
- Talk
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...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 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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- Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data AggregationTo illustrate and make the case that cooperation between utility stakeholders is long overdue, and ...
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- 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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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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- Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes
- The internet is an excellent channel for GIS professionals to reach their audiences. However, much of what is being diffused leaves people wanting....
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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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- 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...
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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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