Day 1 Keynote & Important Talks GeoIgnite 2022, March 1 – GoGeomatics

Posted on: February 17, 2022
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Day 1 Keynote & Important Talks GeoIgnite 2022, March 1

Join the Canadian Geospatial Community for two weeks of online engagement. GeoIgnite is a free event for the entire community. Updates from the Canadian private and public sector.

GeoIgnite’ s “Winter Geo” is one video stream with breaks over 3 days. The event is online and free for the entire community. Claim your free ticket to access the stream. A series of free workshops and paid training follow from the 4th until the 10^th.

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GeoIgnite 2022 Welcome Cold Open

Keynote – Maxar Powering the Global Shift from 2D to 3D, with Daniel Nord, Chief Product Officer and SVP of MAXAR Technologies

GHG Monitoring from Space – Leveraging Commercial Capabilities with Barbara Ryan, Executive Director of WGIC

Increasing Canada’s resilience to flooding: Introducing the Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) with Brian Perry, engineering advisor for flood modelling NRCan

New Applications of Satellite Data for Agriculture with Greg Crutsinger, Agriculture with Planet

Accurate Geospatial Analysis for a Dynamically Changing World with Briana Brown, Geographer from SafeGraph

Remote Sensing and Analyses to Support Hydrospatial Solutions with Sven Cowan, Canada Program Manager and Mischa Hey, Practice Lead: Analytics at NV5 Geospatial

Remote sensing of permafrost thaw landslides in the Northwest Territories – from Field to Cloud to Field again with Jurjen van der Sluijs, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator with NWT Centre for Geomatics

Panel: Using GeoIntelligence & AI to solve real world problems

Jon Murphy

Jonathan Murphy is the CEO, President, and Founder of GoGeomatics Canada. He is also the founder and chair of GeoIgnite, Canada's national geospatial leadership conference, and Canada's National Geomatics expo.

Jon has created Canada’s largest professional geospatial network, aiming to strengthen and empower our geospatial ecosystem.

A community builder and connector, he holds a bachelor's degree in Archaeology from the University of Calgary and advanced diplomas in GIS and applied geomatics research from COGS.

Jon is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In 2020, he joined the ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics Technical Committee responsible for the ISO geographic information series of standards. In 2023, Jon joined the board of directors of buildingSMART Canada.

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