Wednesday 21 April, 2021

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10:00 AM

GeoIgnite Welcome & Keynote: MDA and the Future of SAR - Dr. Minda Suchan, VP of Geointelligence
10:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Keynote

Minda Suchan

Keynote speaker

MDA

Vice President of Geoint...

10:45 AM

Talk: "The Geospatial Product Trap," SparkGeo's CEO - Will Cadell
10:45 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

11:15 AM

Break
11:15 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT | 15 minutes

11:30 AM

Canada's DEM: The National Canadian Elevation Data Strategy Update from NRCan
11:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

12:00 PM

Lunch Break
12:00 PM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

12:30 PM

Talk: "Why is an AI company designing Canada's hydro database?" Minerva Intelligence's COO - Jake McGregor
12:30 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

1:00 PM

Break
1:00 PM EDT - 1:15 PM EDT | 15 minutes

1:15 PM

Talk: "Beneath the Surface: A closer look at the 2020 aerial topobathymetric lidar survey of Montreal" NV5 Geospatial & CMM
1:15 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

1:45 PM

Break
1:45 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:00 PM

Talk: "Making Corporate Decisions using Geospatial Data and the Power of Location Intelligence!" Agriculture Agri-Food Canada's Agri-Geomatics Manager - James Ashton
2:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

2:30 PM

Break
2:30 PM EDT - 2:45 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:45 PM

Optimizing and Accelerating the Globe in 3D
2:45 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 30 minutes

3:15 PM

Break
3:15 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 15 minutes

3:30 PM

Title: Advancing Space Based Observation in Canada: The Federal Government of Canada Geospatial Directors General Panel
3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour

Panel

Éric Loubier

Panelist

Canada Centre for Mappin...

Director General

Jonathan Murphy

Moderator

GoGeomatics Canada

Managing Director

Eric Laliberté

Panelist

CSA

Director General, Space ...

David Harper

Panelist

Environment and Climate ...

Director General

Thursday 22 April, 2021

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

10:00 AM

Keynote: Address by Vice-President of the Canadian Space Agency - Luc Brulé
10:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Keynote

Luc Brûlé

Keynote speaker

CSA

Vice-President, Science ...

10:45 AM

Talk: "Building Software Solutions for Climate Change: Closing the communication gap between citizens & trusted authorities before, during, or after a disaster," Deploy Solutions's CEO - Nick Kellett
10:45 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

11:15 AM

Break
11:15 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT | 15 minutes

11:30 AM

Special Event: Fire Side Chat with Dr. Steve Liang, Founder & CTO of SensorUp & Dr. Nadine Alameh the OGC’s CEO
11:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

Steve Liang

Speaker

SensorUp

Founder & CTO

Nadine Alameh

Speaker

Open Geospatial Consorti...

CEO

12:00 PM

Lunch Keynote: "Why it Takes a Legion" MAXAR's Executive Vice President & CTO Dr. Walter Scott
12:00 PM EDT - 12:45 PM EDT | 45 minutes

Keynote

Walter Scott

Keynote speaker

Maxar

Executive Vice President...

12:45 PM

Break
12:45 PM EDT - 1:15 PM EDT | 30 minutes

1:15 PM

Talk: "Analyzing Canadian Communities with POI Data" Tabulae Spatial Services Principal -Juliana McMillan-Wilhoit
1:15 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

1:45 PM

Break
1:45 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:00 PM

Talk: Canadian Council on Geomatics - Fostering collaboration across jurisdictions
2:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

2:30 PM

Break
2:30 PM EDT - 2:45 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:45 PM

Canadian Geodetic Survey – Supporting Accurate Geospatial Positioning in Canada
2:45 PM EDT - 3:15 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

3:15 PM

Break
3:15 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 15 minutes

3:30 PM

Spatial Finance, New Markets For Earth Observation
3:30 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT | 1 hour

Panel

June McAlarey

Panelist

PCI Geomatics

President & CEO

Will Cadell

Moderator

Sparkgeo

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

Keynote: Barbara Ryan - Supporting Decision Makers: Challenges and Opportunities for the Earth Observation and Geospatial Communities
10:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Keynote

Barbara Ryan

Keynote speaker

WGIC

Executive Director

10:45 AM

A Tale of Two Cities - Quality cartographic output for your data with Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher
10:45 AM EDT - 11:15 AM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

11:15 AM

Break
11:15 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT | 15 minutes

11:30 AM

GIS & beyond – smart software solutions made in Poland
11:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

12:00 PM

Break
12:00 PM EDT - 12:10 PM EDT | 10 minutes

12:10 PM

Lunch Break, Awards and Announcements
12:10 PM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 20 minutes

12:30 PM

Advances in Earth Observation & Analytics Technologies + Deployment in Forest & Climate Solutions - Tara O'Shea, Planet
12:30 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

1:00 PM

Break
1:00 PM EDT - 1:15 PM EDT | 15 minutes

1:15 PM

Metadata, the ties that bind
1:15 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

1:45 PM

Break
1:45 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:00 PM

Talk: "Locating the Blockchain"- Bilyana Anicic CEO, Aurora Consulting
2:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 30 minutes

Talk

2:30 PM

Break
2:30 PM EDT - 2:45 PM EDT | 15 minutes

2:45 PM

Canada’s Provincial & Territorial Geospatial Leadership Panel
2:45 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT | 1 hour

Panel

Trevor Taylor

Moderator

OGC

Director, Member Service...

Melanie Desjardins

Panelist

NWT Centre for Geomatics

Chair, Canadian Council ...

James Britton

Panelist

Ontario Ministry of Natu...

Manager Mapping and Geom...

Colin Macdonald

Panelist

Province of Nova Scotia

Director, Geographic Inf...

Monday 26 April, 2021

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12:00 PM

MAXAR Workshop: Delivering geospatial intelligence to entire organizations with SecureWatch
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12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

John Roos

Speaker

Maxar

Sales Director

Jake Dickinson

Presenter

Maxar

Product Manager

1:00 PM

GoGeomatics Canada Workshop: Create Interactive Maps with Leaflet (JavaScript library)
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1:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

Morgan Ostrander

Presenter

Benevity

Data Analyst

2:00 PM

Got a Drone - Now What? Mapping with your UAV using Global Mapper
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2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

David McKittrick

Speaker

Blue Marble

Outreach & Training Manager

Tuesday 27 April, 2021

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10:00 AM

Let's Talk Automation
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10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

11:00 AM

ISO/TC 211 - Q&A and membership opportunities in the Canadian national Mirror Committee
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11:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

1:00 PM

Introduction to SAR/EO Products Workshop, Hosted by MDA
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1:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

Edward Lau

Presenter

MDA

Director, Government Pro...

3:30 PM

Re-Imaging Remote Sensing with ERDAS IMAGINE - workshops for AI, Spatial Modeling, Python Integration
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3:30 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes

Workshop

Michael Ann Lane

Presenter

Hexagon Geospatial

Global Education and Sal...

Wednesday 28 April, 2021

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10:00 AM

Using software to prepare for Climate Change impacts and natural disaster: Deep Dive on our research findings and software prototype
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10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

Nicholas Kellett

Presenter

Deploy Software Solution...

Founder & CEO

1:00 PM

Drone-derived data and geomatics quality and accuracy standards
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1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT | 3 hours

Workshop

Clément CHARRÉ

Speaker

ASG Mapping Ltd. | GeoIg...

GIS Speciaist and Projec...

Mozhdeh Shahbazi

Speaker

Centre de géomatique du ...

Applied science manager

Jordan Glavina

Speaker

McElhanney

RPAS Coordinator

Thomas Hoppe

Speaker

43 Degrees North

Owner/Manager

Mike Venables

Speaker

Aero-Photos

President

Regie Alam

Speaker

ASG Mapping Ltd

President

Canadian Perspectives: The Power of Geospatial Literacy for Space, Earth Observation, and Education
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1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT | 3 hours

Seminar

Lynn Moorman

Speaker

Mount Royal University

Professor & Governor of ...

Thursday 29 April, 2021

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10:00 AM

Canadian Underground Forum Day 1 of 2
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10:00 AM EDT - 3:20 PM EDT | 5 hours 20 minutes

12:00 PM

The 2021 Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) Workshop
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12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

1:00 PM

From Imagery Purchasing to Final Product Workshop
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1:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes

Workshop

2:00 PM

Avenza Maps: A mobile solution for offline mapping, data collection and navigation in the field
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2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

Felipe Gonzalez-Macqueen

Speaker

Avenza

Map Store Business Devel...

Spencer Elford

Speaker

Avenza

Product Marketing Coordi...

Justin Baradi

Speaker

Avenza Systems Inc.

QA Specialist, Mobile

Alex Videka

Speaker

Avenza

Associate Product Manage...

Friday 30 April, 2021

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10:00 AM

Canadian Underground Forum Day 2 of 2
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10:00 AM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 5 hours

11:00 AM

GIS Project Management Practices
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11:00 AM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 3 hours 30 minutes

Workshop

Peter Croswell

Speaker

Croswell-Schulte IT Cons...

President/Lead Consultant

1:00 PM

World Geospatial Industry Council: Leading global geospatial policy Advocacy
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1:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 2 hours

Workshop

Barbara Ryan

Speaker

WGIC

Executive Director

Prashant Shukle

Speaker

Global Geospatial Group

President

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