Trevor Taylor
Trevor Taylor, currently accountable for global member success and development at OGC, has over thirty years of experience in the international geospatial community. With a background in Geography, Mr. Taylor has worked on a wide variety of applications such as Marine, Land Information, Disasters Management, Agriculture, Mapping, Forestry and Environment.
Mr. Taylor has substantial global experience in a wide variety of technical, client services, project, business and strategic planning activities. Prior to joining OGC staff, Mr. Taylor was a member representative for a commercial company to OGC, supporting OGC interests at the voting, principal, and strategic member levels, particularly in Asia, South America, India, and Europe.
Sessions in which Trevor Taylor attends
Wednesday 21 April, 2021
Over the past year, Minerva Intelligence, a Vancouver-based cognitive AI company, has been awarded two contracts with Natural Resources Canada to design schemas at a national level: the National Flood Hazard Data Layer (NFHDL) and the National Hydro Network V2 (NHNv2). You might be asking yourself why an AI company is designing and building these important database structures. Minerva's cognitive AI system makes use of semantically inoperable data in knowledge graphs and has designed syste...
Title: Advancing Space Based Observation in Canada:The GeoIgnite 2021 Directors General Geospatial Panel, part of Canada's National Geospatial Conference.Title: Advancing Space Based Observation in CanadaThis is a must attend panel for anyone interested in learning the direction Canada's Federal government geospatial leadership is taking.Join our panelists for an exploration of Canada's geospatial priorities and mission in this exciting discuss...
Thursday 22 April, 2021
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 Calgary and Dr. Nadine Alameh the OGC’s Chief Executive Office (CEO).Steve's goal is to disrupt the silos of the Internet of Things by creating, using, and implementing open and interoperable standards and products for device-cloud communications and cloud-cloud communications. Steve is chairing and the editor of several key IoT enabling...
Friday 23 April, 2021
The global geospatial industry is estimated at US$ 500 Billion and delivers an even more significant impact on society, with derived economic benefits estimated to be multifold. These benefits, however, are still not fully understood by key stakeholders and policy and decision-makers, ultimately hindering the global uptake of geospatial information. With decades of national spatial data infrastructure efforts around the world, how can this be? Focusing on the importance of...
Join GeoIgnite for this inaugural panel of provincial and territorial geospatial and location technology leaders.We will be discussing issues surrounding: What are main priorities and challenges across jurisdictions? What types of geospatial tools we use to monitor and respond to key challenges like emergency response? How are jurisdictions aligning geospatial tools, data, and people to address climate change? What are some current data...
Tuesday 27 April, 2021
Google Chrome is the preferred browser for this session.Tickets for this workshop must be claimed in advance.This session is intended to provide opportunities for those in the geomatics community to engage with the national mirror committee for ISO/TC 211, to learn about Canada's involvement, and to answer questions related to membership in the national committee.