Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
Sessions
8:20
8:20
- Jonathan Murphy - Founder - GeoIgnite & GoGeomatics Canada welcomes participants Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:20 - 8:30 | 10 minutos
- Keynote
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8:30
8:30
- Jim Watson - Mayor - City of Ottawa, Talk: Welcome to Ottawa Canada's Tech City Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:30 - 8:40 | 10 minutos
- Keynote
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8:40
8:40
- Keith Masback - Chair - National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Talk: Geospatial 20/20: Envisioning Our Path to the Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 8:40 - 9:00 | 20 minutos
- 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 way...
- Keynote
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9:00
9:00
- Nadine Alameh - CEO - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Talk: A changing world: Impacts on location standards and innovation Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:00 - 9:20 | 20 minutos
- Let’s admit it! We live in exciting times with technology, social interactions and business models changing before our eyes: Flying taxis, self-d...
- Keynote
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9:40
9:40
- Prashant Shukle - Director General - Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (NRCan) Talk: The Future of National Mapping Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 9:40 - 10:00 | 20 minutos
- Prashant Shukle is the Director General for the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Branch, Earth Sciences Sector, at Natural Resourc...
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10:00
10:00
- Keynote Panel Discussion on Digital Transformation: Global & Canadian Impacts Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 10:00 - 10:30 | 30 minutos
- What are the ramifications of the current digital transformation globally and what will it mean for Canada and the globe? Our award winning panel o...
- Panel
11:15
11:15
- Amina Deiab - Senior Director Economic Policy, Economic Development and Trade - Government of Alberta, Talk: Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial Sector Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:15 - 11:35 | 20 minutos
- Alberta View: Economic impacts and Opportunities of the Geospatial SectorLocation technologies are changing the way we live, wor...
- Talk
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11:35
11:35
- Christiane Saad - Lawyer - Univ Of Ottawa, Talk: The Future of Geospatial "Big Data" legal issues and challenges Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:35 - 11:55 | 20 minutos
- The future is digital. Big data is an integral part of the digital transformation of a private or public organization. Location and geospatial tech...
- Talk
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11:55
11:55
- Arnold Hougham - Vice President PCI Geomatics -Talk: Data Cubes & opportunities to leverage hyper temporal image archives to support climate change studies Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 11:55 - 12:15 | 20 minutos
- Several key trends in the geospatial industry over the last few years have created the conditions needed to truly leverage remote sensing as a tech...
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12:15
12:15
- SDG's & GeoSpatial In Action: Saving the world's Oceans, one Hope Spot at a time Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 12:15 - 12:35 | 20 minutos
- Hope Spots are special places that are critical to the health of the ocean — Earth’s blue heart. Some Hope Spots are already formally protec...
- Talk
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14:00
14:00
- Bilyana Anicic - Enterprise Architect - Talk: Digital Transformations: Mapping our Future Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 14:00 - 14:30 | 30 minutos
- Today, geospatial technologies are embedded in many of the workflows that support the Fourth Industrial Revolution and therefore invaluable to user...
- Keynote
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14:30
14:30
- Walter Knitl - CEO - Praxiem, Talk: Geospatial: Internet of Things – the Cornerstone of Digital Disruption Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 14:30 - 14:50 | 20 minutos
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Whether applied to industrial automation, wearables, connected transportation and logistics, drones or smart ...
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14:50
14:50
- Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 14:50 - 15:10 | 20 minutos
- The UK Government as part of its building information modeling (BIM) initiative has said repeatedly that it expects the big payoff of a digital mod...
- Talk
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15:10
15:10
- Faramarz Samavati - Professor - Univ Calgary, Talk: Discrete Global Grid System, a disruptive method for implementing Digital Earth Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 15:10 - 15:30 | 20 minutos
- The Earth is immense, and abundant with interesting information. Recent advancements in geospatial sensors (e.g. satellites, smart phones, meteorol...
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16:00
16:00
- Will Cadell - CEO - Sparkgeo: Talk: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Science. What happened to my GIS? A forecast for modern geospatial Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 16:00 - 16:20 | 20 minutos
- Cloudy with a chance of data science.Sparkgeo had been building cloud first geospatial applications, from day 1. But that was not the pla...
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16:20
16:20
- Anthony Calamito - Director, Government Programs - Mapbox, Talk: How to Access and Analyze Your Sensitive Geospatial Data On and Off Network Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 16:20 - 16:40 | 20 minutos
- The Mapbox live location platform was designed to serve all levels of government and the critical services they support. Develop custom mapping and...
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16:40
16:40
- Calvin Klatt - Director & Chief Geodesist for the Canadian Geodetic Survey, Talk: Advances in Geodesy: Precise Global Positioning on a Dynamic Planet Virtual Meeting Space - Plenary
- 16:40 - 17:00 | 20 minutos
- We are entering a new era of positioning, navigation and timing. Global, instantaneous, and easily accessible positioning at better than 10cm is co...
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