Graham Stickler

Graham has been involved in the geospatial industry for more than 30 years, having worked around the world in the public and private sectors designing, building and implementing geospatial platforms and associated business applications. Beginning his career as a research scientist examining land and water vegetation mapping from space across Southern Africa, Graham’s career has spanned many industries and countries giving him a wide and varied industry perspective with specific knowledge of the Environmental, Agriculture, Government, Utilities, Telco, Security Forces, Maritime and Transportation Industries with a specialisation in geospatial / location -based applications and Asset Management.

Graham possesses extensive technical knowledge of GIS, geospatial databases and data management, linear referencing, satellite and airborne remote sensing, data quality management and engineering, enterprise architectures including 'Big Data' technologies and the Cloud. As a qualified DBA he gained experience in the development of core geospatial databases technology with ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, SqlServer Spatial and more recently with ‘big data’ technologies such as Hadoop and Greenplum and cloud technologies such as AWS. Graham has had a long and close association with the development and adoption of Open Standards and was the inaugural Chair of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Working Group on Data Quality.

Graham has published many papers on Satellite Remote Sensing, geospatial databases, business intelligence and GIS, and Linear Asset Management.

Graham is President of Beyond180, a specialist geospatial services company, based in Ontario, Canada. During his career, Graham has held senior positions at Esri, Unisys, Exor, 1Spatial, and Rolta, in the UK and USA, with exactEarth and SkyWatch in Canada, and more recently was Product Champion for Soar.Earth.