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Geoff Zeiss

Principal
Between the Poles
Participates in 2 items

Geoff has been tracking the contribution of geospatial technology to the digitization of construction, operation and maintenance of energy, building and transportation infrastructure - primarily in his blog “Between The Poles”, on LinkedIn and Geospatial World. From 2014 to 2016 Geoff was Editor for Energy and Building with Geospatial Media. Prior to that Geoff was responsible for thought leadership, evangelization, and industry messaging for the utility industry program at Autodesk. Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial IT industry working with utilities, communications, and public works in enterprise IT around the world. In his early career, he was responsible for some of the largest successful implementations of location-aware enterprise design and records management software in the utility and telecommunications sectors. In 2004, he received a global technology award from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. In recognition of his efforts to increase the awareness of geospatial data and technologies in utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland. He actively supports open standards as a director of the Open Geospatial Consortium and contributed to the founding of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation in 2005/2006.

Sessions in which Geoff Zeiss participates

Thursday 29 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Friday 30 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:35 PM
2:35 PM

Sessions in which Geoff Zeiss attends

Wednesday 21 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Minda Suchan
Keynote speaker
MDA
Vice President of Geoint...
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
  • Optimizing and Accelerating the Globe in 3D
  • 2:45 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT  | 30 minutes
  • Maxar is building the highest resolution and most accurate 3D map of the planet and this talk will provide an overview of the products and capab...

Thursday 22 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Luc Brûlé
Keynote speaker
CSA
Vice-President, Science ...
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Dr. Steve Liang
Speaker
University of Calgary, S...
Founder & CTO & Professor
Nadine Alameh
Speaker
Open Geospatial Consorti...
CEO
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
June McAlarey
Panelist
PCI Geomatics
President & CEO
Will Cadell
Moderator
Sparkgeo
Founder & CEO
Bill Greer
Panelist
Maxar
Product Manager
Florian Thaler
Panelist
OilX
CEO and Co-Founder
Joe Morrison
Panelist
Umbra
Head of Product Success ...

Friday 23 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Barbara Ryan
Keynote speaker
WGIC
Executive Director
12:10 PM
12:10 PM
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
  • Metadata, the ties that bind
  • 1:15 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT  | 30 minutes
  • The Government of Canada and organizations such as the UN recognize the critical role of standards in geographic information and geomatics to su...
  • Talk