Announcing GeoIgnite 2020 Keynote Steven Ramage
Today GeoIgnite announces Steven Ramage as one of our featured Keynotes and joins us for our popular keynote panel discussion.
Join Steven and the Canadian geospatial and location technology sector as we explore the global digital transformation. www.geoignite.ca
Steven will bring his global GEO perspective to Canada. We look forward to discussions on SDG’s and how we respond to global challenges with national governmental and provincial support. As well we will explore opportunities for industry to support these efforts.
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Continuing the tradition of our inaugural event, GeoIgnite will host a keynote panel and open up the conference for a Q&A with our distinguished keynote speakers.
Biography: Since 2016 Steven Ramage has been leading global stakeholder engagement and external relations for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental partnership promoting the value and usefulness of Earth observations (EO) for research, policy, decisions and action. GEO works on behalf of more than 100 UN Member States to highlight the role of EO to provide insights and actionable information for the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement and the UN 2030 Agenda; with a focus on open data access, sharing, policies and use.
Steven worked in the private sector for 20 years before he started consulting to the World Bank and the United Nations in 2012. He was an owner/director of 1Spatial before taking on a role as Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and then more recently, Managing Director of Ordnance Survey International. Steven is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and SASNet Fellow at the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He’s also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) in Switzerland, a Member of the OGC Global Advisory Council and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He tweets as @steven_ramage.
