Jonathan Murphy the Founder of GeoIgnite and GoGeomatics welcome participants to the conference

Mayor Watson welcomes delegates, exhibitors and VIPS to the inaugural National Geospatial event in Canada.

There's never been a more exciting time to be a part of the geospatial profession. From mapping the infrastructure beneath our cities to indoor wayfinding, to plentiful and powerful remote sensing capabilities in air and space which we could hardly have imagined just a few years ago, the opportunities - and the expectations - for geospatial professionals are immense. Technology is evolving at a pace which outstrips the ability of academics, governments, and industries to keep pace. How will w...

Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-driving cars, commercial Space missions, smart cities, SmallSats and Internet Of Things (IOT) to name just a few innovations! Our kids are growing up in a world of on-demand TV, GPS availability, all around virtual assistants, and mobile devices that pretty much can do anything! Each and every one of these innovations has a location element to i...

Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).NRCan has fostered an enabling policy mechanism and provided a conducive framework for geospatial information infrastructure. In today’s digital age when geospatial is becoming more and more ubiquitous, open and inter-disciplinary policies are the key instruments of harnessing the true value of this wonderful technology...

The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial technologies are at the heart of the digital transformation as enablers, game changers and contribute to the success of big data in many ways. Combined with emerging geospatial artificial intelligence, the possibilities are limitless. Smart cities and autonomous vehicles are examples of this potential. However, this big data revolution raises many lega...

Several key trends in the geospatial industry over the last few years have created the conditions needed to truly leverage remote sensing as a technology that has the potential to provide tremendous benefit to civil society. These include changes in data policy, most notably with USGS's decision in 2008 to make all Landsat archives free and open, a policy which led the European Space Agency to also implement free and open access to the Copernicus constellation. The volume of data that is incr...

Lauriault’s work on open data, big data, open smart cities, is international, transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral. She is one of the founders of critical data studies and of open data in Canada and founded Open Smart Cities with OpenNorth a data and technology governance approach to shape how Canadian cities roll out their ‘smart’ programs. She has expertise in data infrastructures, spatial media and smart cities, and is especially interested in the assemblage of social and technological pro...

Asset management is critical for many government agencies to manage their street assets. A.I. and machine learning technology is expanding to automate government work-flows which have traditionally required significant investments in field work, manual intervention, and data analysis. This session will showcase real-world examples of the benefits of street-level imagery and the power of A.I. in scaling up data collection and extraction for asset inventory, site surveys, property appraisals an...

NAV CANADA is a privately run, not-for-profit organization that is the Air Navigation Service Provider for Canada. With an airspace that spans all three coastlines of the country, from the west coast of British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean in the North to the east coast of Newfoundland, NAV CANADA covers a lot of territory. The Aeronautical Information Management group is responsible for creating instrument flight procedure designs (airways, instrument approach procedures, departure procedure...

As we worked with multiple government organizations this past year, we faced this same question along the way: Should we move our data processes to the cloud? Now as much as we would like to give you a yes or no answer, there are different paths or options you need to explore inside your organization before taking this decision. In this presentation, you will hear about the latest trends and some ways to use the Cloud as a platform for geo data processes. You will also learn different conside...

Geographic data is ubiquitous in the landscape of organizations, corporations and governments. CartoVista allows you to profit from it by building interactive web maps. Leveraging the best of HTML5, CartoVista delivers a rich, immersive mapping experience that can even surpass desktop GIS! Discover how you can tell a story in your web browser and make your GIS data shine! This presentation will highlight concrete examples of web mapping cartography involving advanced styles and rich data visu...