Monday 17 June, 2019

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

9:00 AM

Introduction to Open Source Geospatial Stack: QGIS, GeoServer, QGIS Server, Web & Mobile Clients

3 hours, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Available

Virtual Meeting Space - Workshop

Talk

Regie Alam, ASG Mapping Ltd (Participant)

Stefan Simon (Participant)

Adreeta Sarmah, Department of National Defence (Participant)

Jerome St-Louis, Ecere (Participant)

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Participant)

Anthony Mayne, Sparkgeo (Participant)

Gain insights on the possibilities and challenges with leveraging and integrating a complete open source GIS stack into your applications and proje...

1:00 PM

Hands-On Workshop: using, configuring, and managing the Open-Source Geospatial Stack

3 hours, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Available

Virtual Meeting Space - OSGEO Boardroom

Workshop

Regie Alam, ASG Mapping Ltd (Participant)

Jerome St-Louis, Ecere (Participant)

Adreeta Sarmah, Department of National Defence (Participant)

Stefan Simon (Participant)

The second session is a hands-on workshop, with a maximum participation of 12, and is designed more for participants that have a more technical ...

PCI Geomatics User-Group Meeting

3 hours, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Available

Virtual Meeting Space - Workshop

Workshop

Kevin Jones, PCI Geomatics (Participant)

In conjunction with GeoIgnite 2019, PCI Geomatics is hosting a user-group meeting (UGM) on June 17, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada. The UGM is open to...

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)

7:30 AM

Registration, Trade Show

45 minutes, 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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)

8:30 AM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary

Keynote

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...

10:30 AM

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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...

12:45 PM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

Global Grid Systems is pleased to sponsor the first lunch of the conference. GeoIgnite offers our delegates a special me...

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...

3:30 PM

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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)

7:45 AM

GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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...

John Roos - Director Sales - MAXAR, GeoIgnite Tract Welcome

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

John Roos, Maxar Intelligence (Moderator)

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

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...

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University (Participant)

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...

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

Modern Street-level Asset Collection with Mapillary

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Muthu Sampath, Mapillary Inc (Participant)

Asset management is critical for many government agencies to manage their street assets. A.I. and machine learning technology is expanding to autom...

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

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Chris Bowden, NAV CANADA (Participant)

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 ...

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...

City of Brampton GeoHub: Moving Beyond Data Downloads

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Melissa Allin, City of Brampton (Participant)

Yaoyi Mi, City of Brampton (Participant)

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...

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...

10:30 AM

Health Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

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

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

11:00 AM

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...

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...

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,...

11:30 AM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Lesley MacKenzie, Consortech (Participant)

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...

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial One

Talk

Nicolas Martinez, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Elton Cryderman, Statistics Canada (Participant)

Investment in building construction statistics for the residential and non-residential sectors account for approximately 5% of GDP and are us...

12:00 PM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Reginald Maltais, Statistics Canada (Participant)

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Interactive HTML5 Data Visualization: See what was inaccessible with CartoVista

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Dany Bouchard, CartoVista (Participant)

Geographic data is ubiquitous in the landscape of organizations, corporations and governments. CartoVista allows you to profit from it by building ...

1:00 PM

Lunch Break & GeoIgnite 2019 Trade Show

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Space - Exhibition

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

Bilyana Anicic - President - Auroroa Consulting gives GeoIgnite tract welcome

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Bilyana Anicic, Aurora Consulting (Moderator)

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Douglas Estok, OEC (Participant)

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data AggregationTo illustrate and make the case that cooperation between utility stakeholders is long overdue, and ...

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...

2:05 PM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

David Acco, Acosys Consulting Service Inc (Participant)

The purpose of this presentation is to make the case for greater Indigenous participation in the development of geospatial technology and informati...

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 ...

2:30 PM

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

Wade Larson, UrtheCast (Participant)

UrtheDaily will be a 6-satellite constellation to acquire scientific-grade quality, 9-band multispectral imagery, at 5-meter Ground Sampling Distan...

Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Talk

Karl Spencer, CartoVista (Participant)

The internet is an excellent channel for GIS professionals to reach their audiences. However, much of what is being diffused leaves people wanting....

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

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

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

Virtual Meeting Space - GoGeomatics Three

Talk

The City of Hamilton has many service delivery applications for resident addresses. For example, street addresses are solicited in a free form m...

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

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