Meet our Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tracey P. LauriaultAssociate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data Dr. Lauriault is a critical data studies scholar who works on open data, big data, smart cities, open government, data sovereignty, data preservation and data governance. Her ongoing research includes disaggregated equity data, digital twins, intersectional approaches to data governance, data invisibilities and the history of the census. |
BeInspired Presentations Spotlight:
Institute for Data Science Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault School of Journalism and Communication, Carlton University PLENARY: Presentation Zen for Everyone Bryan McIntosh Grand River Conservation Authority
Innovation Up High: How Jakarto Tech Helped Capture the Stratosphere Felix Laroche Jakarto Spatial AI For Sustaining GIS Innovation: Gaussian Splats with AI-Enabled GIS Workflows Matthew Chiu ; Yasmin Khan Almond Research Ltd Mapping Canopy Change: LiDAR‑Enabled Tree Inventory for Kitchener’s Urban Forest Hajnal Kovacs and Mieszko Fydrych; Susan Muleme Kasumba City of Kitchener & Airborne Imaging Inc. UrbanDT™: A Digital Twin Platform for Intelligent Urban Planning Meisam Amani; Hamed Alizadeh Remote Digital Twin Inc.
Increasing Efficiencies Through Parcel Mapping Nicole Ferguson; Heather Page City of Sarnia, Esri Canada Beyond the Property: Modern Address Intelligence Ryan Poyntz Teranet Inc. The City of North Bay and Eagleview: A Case Study Stacie White; Tim Price Eagleview; City of North Bay Building a Sovereign GIS - Inside the Architecture of JMap Cloud Jean-Robert Desbiens-Haddad ; Eliot Jacquin K2 Geospatial POWER SKILLS: Digital Delivery: Going Paperless Without Breaking the Bank Alec Pestov vGIS Inc. Service Request Management (SRM) program Modernization at the Town of Stouffville Paul Lefevre Town of Stouffville A Small Fish in a Big Pond, A Young Professional’s Journey to Expand GIS Services Victoria Tousaw LEA Consulting Ltd Bringing GIS to the Front Line: Powering Location-Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Municipalities Sabrina Tang Qwhery Inc. |