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James Ashton

Technology Manager
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Participates in 1 Session

James Ashton completed his undergraduate degree in Geography at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, and has a post graduate certificate as a Geographic Information Systems Applications Specialist, from Sir Sanford Fleming College in Lindsay Ontario. James has spent most of his 20 year GIS career working for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan.  James has work experience with Land Information Ontario (LIO) in the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and has worked as a Geospatial Consultant on Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) enterprise geospatial implementations in Egypt and Ethiopia. James also worked closely with Natural Resources Canada and other federal Departments on the implementation of a Federal Geospatial Platform.

James is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and also has accreditations IT service management, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Sessions in which James Ashton participates

Wednesday 21 April, 2021

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

Talk

James Ashton, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Speaker)

Explore the structure of an enterprise location intelligence platform at Agriculture Agri-food Canada and how they created a strategic road map to ...

Sessions in which James Ashton attends

Wednesday 21 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:45 AM
10:45 AM

Talk

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Speaker)

Do you know what the geospatial product trap is? We fall in love with the technology, not the problem. I am a lucky person....
12:30 PM
12:30 PM

Talk

Jake McGregor, Minerva Intelligence Inc (Speaker)

Over the past year, Minerva Intelligence, a Vancouver-based cognitive AI company, has been awarded two contracts with Natural Resources Canada t...

Thursday 22 April, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

Talk

Dr. Steve Liang, University of Calgary, SensorUp (Speaker)

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

Join us April 22nd for a Fireside Chat with Dr. Steve Liang, Founder and CTO of SensorUp. Professor and Rogers IoT Research Chair at University of ...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Spatial Finance, New Markets For Earth Observation
1 hour, 3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Panel

June McAlarey, PCI Geomatics (Panelist)

Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Moderator)

Bill Greer, Maxar (Panelist)

Florian Thaler, OilX (Panelist)

Joe Morrison, Umbra (Panelist)

With PetaBytes of data flowing out of Low Earth Orbit everyday, the opportunity afforded by Earth Observation seems to be greater than ever. But is...