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
Talk
James Ashton, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Speaker)
Sessions in which James Ashton attends
Talk
Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Speaker)
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Jake McGregor, Minerva Intelligence Inc (Speaker)
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Dr. Steve Liang, University of Calgary, SensorUp (Speaker)
Nadine Alameh, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (Speaker)
Panel
June McAlarey, PCI Geomatics (Panelist)
Will Cadell, Sparkgeo (Moderator)
Bill Greer, Maxar (Panelist)
Florian Thaler, OilX (Panelist)
Joe Morrison, Umbra (Panelist)