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Open Geospatial Consortium Announces New CEO

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Open Geospatial Consortium Announces New CEO

Open Geospatial Consortium has announced Peter Rabley as its new CEO.

Peter has worked in the property rights space for over 25 years as an entrepreneur, business leader, and technologist. He is a successful entrepreneur who has built multiple enterprise software companies leading to multiple exits. He is also the co-founder and managing partner of PLACE a new non-profit US and UK data institute that leverages technology and fund raising to create a self-financing geospatial data trust. Former investment partner at Omidyar Network leading the global property rights initiative.

Peter brings to OGC a wealth of experience from the private, governmental, and not-for-profit sectors, including in venture financing, and in developing and implementing scale-up strategies for international not-for-profits.

“I am excited and honored to be appointed as OGC’s CEO,” said Peter Rabley. “OGC is well positioned to build on the incredible 30 year legacy by responding to the ever-increasing rate of change seen in technology and society alike. Opportunities and challenges have never been more apparent and I see tremendous potential for growth in new markets around the globe. This is the time of geospatial.”

“I am particularly excited to have Peter leading OGC,” commented Prashant Shukle, Chair of the OGC Board of Directors. “Peter has a proven track record in the public, private, and not-for-profit areas of the geospatial industry, and closely aligns with what our key stakeholders and partners were telling us they wanted in a CEO. The OGC Board took the time to get this selection right, and we are very excited about how Peter fits with our plans for a reinvigorated and repositioned OGC.”

Peter’s appointment to CEO is timely, with it coming during OGC’s 30th anniversary year—a time when OGC is taking stock of its successes while modernizing to respond to a global economy that increasingly uses geospatial technologies across so many domains and applications.

Peter added, “Time for Geospatial and location data is more ripe than it is now. Location is embedded in everything we do in our daily lives, from the phone we carry to the searches we do.”

OGC is the home of geospatial innovation, collaboration, and standards. It is an international membership organization that supports a diverse community of 500+ businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, all working together to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

GWF 2024: Empowering Citizens with Geospatial

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Sachin Awana
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GWF 2024: Empowering Citizens with Geospatial

With Mega projects popping up around the world, there has been a continuous push for adopting and disseminating geospatial data to empower the ultimate beneficiaries, the citizens.

On the first day of the Geospatial World Forum 2024, a plenary session was held on Geospatial transition driving economic value for the user industries, wherein, the esteemed panelists discussed various projects and how geospatial is enabling an efficient and holistic ecosystems for development as well as delivery of these projects that are ultimately aimed at transforming the lives of common citizens.

Moderated by Bert Klaassens, VP – Europe, Geospatial World, The Netherlands, the panel kicked off by discussing how geospatial can be sophisticated and tricky to grasp but has the ultimate potential of transforming things for the better.

Digital Nations

Fatma Fahad, Spokesperson & Media consultant, GEOSA, Saudi Arabia reiterated how geospatial is helping in building giga projects in the country.

“Saudi Arabia is building giga projects, which are being enabled by geospatial technologies such as BIM, Digital Twins, IoT, Metaverse, and 3D modelling amongst others. The role of GeoSA in the country’s infrastructure foray is to put in relevant regulation and legislations while being an enabler to support these giga projects.”

GeoSA has created a national geospatial platform for easy access to geospatial information and data for all the relevant authorities that might need the kind of data, according to Fatma.

“One thing we are proud of is the Digital Twin of Riyadh on GeoSA’s national geospatial platform which is something we still are working upon,” she stated.

“Over the last 50 years, JTC has been Singapore’s planner, developer, and operator of industries, real estate, and now fundamentally going forward to build Singapore as a smart nation,” said Tan Boon Khai, CEO, JTC Corporation, Singapore.

“This comes in because of the basis upon which geospatial data lies. It brings all of us together. We at JTC hope to make use of geospatial data the platforms for which you put the data on and put decision-making in the hands of ordinary citizens,” Tan emphasized.

“The future is really for ours to make based on geospatial data, platforms, technology but more importantly based on enthusiasts like all of us,” he stated.

Space Beneficiaries

The increasing number of satellites, variety of EO sensors, and the rise of new analytics techniques drive the growth of the satellite-based EO analytics industry.

“This enhances decision-making and operational processes in wide number of sectors,” said Massimo Claudio Comparini, Deputy CEO & ESVP, Thales Alenia Space, Italy.

He added the geospatial market is rapidly growing with the rise in the supply of information through the evolution of flagship EO programs like Copernicus and raising high revisits constellations.

This results in a global growing interest from institutional and commercial players in buying EO satellites and a democratization of the use of satellite data leading to an increase in demand from the end-user.

Massimo then unveiled an All-in-one satellite constellation that will be powered by optical and radar microsatellites, combining frequency and control for a night and day, all-weather capability.

Customer focus

Public sector customer needs are changing these days. They are living with tighter budgets, and when it comes to data, quality data on tighter budgets is only possible with enabling efficiency in data capturing.

“These efficiencies come through hybrid sensors and distributed measurement devices that require more and better data than we’ve ever seen before,” said Adina Gillespie, VP-Strategic Initiatives – Geospatial Content, Hexagon, USA.

“They have more stakeholders from different domains, many of which are often distrusted geographically, they need flexible licensing models and sometimes fully open data to keep it simple and satisfy their large stakeholder communities,” she added.

Geospatial Data Fueling Multiple Sectors

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Nibedita Mohanta
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Geospatial Data Fueling Multiple Sectors

Geospatial technology has found its place in almost all the sectors, be it finance, construction, space, agriculture, retail, commerce, or defense and security.

The Plenary 1 of Day 1 at Geospatial World Forum 2024 witnessed three different sectors investment, construction and data coming together, to provide a glimpse of one common geospatial technology thread running through it all.

Judith Pryor, First VP & Vice Chair, EXIM Bank gave a glimpse of the investments that EXIM is making and how the trends they observed in the market.

EXIM finances up to 85% of the export contract value associated with satellite infrastructure:

  • Manufactured Systems, Launch Services, Launch & In-Orbit Insurance, Ground Network, On-orbit Servicing, and Manned or Unmanned Flight Mission
  • Associated Software, Services, Ancillary Fees, and Local Costs
  • MMIA: Expansion of Manufacturing, Space Supply Chain Network

For the first time, we are at a place where we can support the full life cycle of an export. We have to facilitate our exports with the intent of job creation in the United States.

To assist in this, we are offering domestic financing to build the manufacturing facilities, and testing lab equipment as long as a certain portion of the manufactured goods in the US is meant for designated export.

The trends that EXIM is witnessing currently are that SpaceX Launches are popular! We see fewer one-off GEOs and an uptick in LEOs and Earth Observation for both large and small constellation. There is a need to track objects in space, because the sky is getting extremely crowded. So we need to address this through situational awareness.

Convergence of hardware, software and data

Ronald Bisio, SVP, Trimble, gave a detailed presentation on the pros and cons of construction industry. He also emphasized how with the convergence of hardware, software and data, global challenges like greenhouse emissions, safety of construction workers can be addressed.

He said, “37% of the greenhouse emissions are connected to the construction industry, if we can make this industry cheaper and faster, we can improve its impact on the global climate. We are only two months away from Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, with some impressive projects under way in France.”

The Grand Paris Express is one of them, to enlarge the capacity of the regional and metropolitan rail of 200 Kilometers, of which 90% is underground.

It is going to require tunnels, convergence of data, hardware and software. The construction workers are under extreme pressure to be on budget, to be on schedule, to make less greenhouse impacts, and to make it safe for the workers.

Convergence of hardware

Total stations and scanners were used alongside tunnel-boring machines to automate precise as-built surveys and measurements, facilitating real-time feedback and adjustments for project quality and efficiency.

And Software and data

Specialized field software enables precise tunnel measurements, analysis, integrating data collection with immediate on-site comparisons to design, thereby improving construction accuracy and decision making through advanced data utilization.

Open data for greater good

Map data is used widely by various organizations, enterprises, businesses, and even by common people. The consumption depends on the quality of data and the users affordability, but with data being made open for all, the usage has only grown exponentially, and innovations have also grown in services.

But why is only certain part of data is made open?

Marc Prioleau, Executive Director, Overture Maps Foundation, While working on Overture Maps foundation we were focusing on three things:

  1. Use the best sources of Open Map Data
  2. Data that is of Market grade quality
  3. Stable, linkable format

If you want to make open source data, you have to use the best sources of open map data that can be crowdsourced, AI-Generated, is of the government and high quality.

Accuracy is key followed by real-time data. When we work with the governments, we can get access to the data that is not open, and build something that can be useful for billions of people. This can help us in developing robust feedback loops. We have not done it yet, but we hope we will get to that someday and the world can take advantage of that data in some manner.

GWF 2024: Strategic Partnerships for Multi-Dimensional Growth

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Aditya Chaturvedi
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GWF 2024: Strategic Partnerships for Multi-Dimensional Growth

Geospatial is at the core of enhancing efficiency, equity, and addressing key global challenges.

The role of collaborations for value-creation, innovation, and market outreach cannot be overstated. By coming together, organisations and nations not just deliver targeted services and impactful solutions, but contribute to robust socio-economic growth. 

At the first plenary of Geospatial World Forum 2024 in Rotterdam, a diverse panel discussed the role of strategic partnerships.

Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial World set the tone by reiterating his commitment towards Sustainability of Everything, which is not just about climate mitigation and energy transition, but focuses on inclusivity, diversity, and participation of everyone in the ecosystem. 

Kernel of Hope

“Sustainability begin by viewing the world as a single ecosystem because everything is inter-linked”, believes Dean Angelides, Corporate Director, Esri.

“We are living beyond our means in many different ways. We have choices to act on how we work and act together”, he muses.

“GIS is a powerful platform for creating, understanding, exploring alternatives, and finding solutions”. Distributed GIS is becoming a system-of-systems, unveiling greater opportunities for everyone. 

Enabling Development

Geospatial knowledge Infrastructure is the evolution of what was earlier called NSDI(National Spatial Data Infrastructure). This posits an opportunity to create an open and innovative ecosystem accessible to all.

Geospatial Information is absolutely critical at the local level and plays an increasing role for the industry in volume, investment, and transition”, says Stefan Schweinfest, Director, United Nations Statistics Division.

“It is a key driver for development. Technology makes all of it possible but we need to remember responsible usage of it”, he adds.

Ron Jermin, Deputy Director, US Census Bureau, shares crucial insights on how geospatial data helps communities in gaining knowledge as well as ensuring connectivity and gaining deep divides. 

Decision Support

Transitioning to a vibrant new-age economy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is extensively focussing on building partnerships in the geospatial domain. A centre for capacity development would soon be hosted in Riyadh.

“We believe in the important role of geospatial information to support decision-making for economic growth”, says Mohammed Yahya Alsayel, President, General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA), Saudi Arabia.

“Our four pillars are agile strategy, sustainable governance, enduring technology, and evolving capacity building”, he adds.

ICAI to Set Up New Office in Rotterdam

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ICAI to Set Up New Office in Rotterdam

At the Geospatial World Forum 2024, ICAI (The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), a large accountant body with a presence in over 80 cities around the world, announced setting up a new representative office in Rotterdam, its second in the Netherlands after Amsterdam, and 12th in Europe.

Over the decades, ICAI has achieved recognition not only in India but also globally, for maintaining high standards in technical, and ethical areas and for sustaining stringent examination and education standards.

“This is a truly momentous occasion”, says Charanjot Singh Nanda, Vice President, ICAI.

“A new office fosters a platform for professional growth and raises the bar higher. A compelling testament to our growth and development”

We are dedicated partners in nation-building. We stand at a crossroads that will define the path forward for India and the world. We can drive economic reforms, and offer valuable counsel,” he adds.

Indo-Dutch Trade

Historically, India and the Netherlands have had strong trade relations dating back 400 years. Recently, the Netherlands became India’s largest trading partner in Europe and the fourth-largest investor in the country, marking a significant milestone in bilateral trade.

“More than 800 companies operate in the India-Netherlands economic corridor. The business is worth $25 billion. Opening a new office in Rotterdam will only add a multiplier effect,” says CA Vikas Chaturvedi.

“Long-standing diplomatic relations between India and the Netherlands serve as a robust foundation,” adds Nanda.

Factors Driving Indo-Europe Geospatial Trade

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Nibedita Mohanta
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Factors Driving Indo-Europe Geospatial Trade

Ananyaa Narain, VP-Consulting, Geospatial World with a very detailed presentation laid emphasis on the factors that are driving the India-Europe Trade.

She said, “From service providers, to data and system integrators, the geospatial industry ecosystem, is evolving at a rapid pace.

She also lays down the factors driving the “Geospatial trade between India and Europe”:

  • India offers affordable and cost-effective geospatial data processing and other geospatial services to foreign companies.
  • The leading Indian services and solutions companies providing geospatial services are establishing their commercial base in Europe and UK.
  • India does not have ‘indigenous’ manufacturing hub of geospatial technology- and provides opportunity for European geospatial and space technology companies to export to India.
  • India’s IT and IT-Enabled Services (ITes) Exports is expected to rise to 2-4% by 2030- with significant proportion to European Markets.

She highlights some of the prominent threats impacting the Indian Geospatial industry currently include Global Economic Downturn, workforce skill-gap, geopolitical uncertainties, national security concerns, Digital vulnerability and cybersecurity, Stifling legislative environment, technology-knowledge gap in users, data security and privacy concerns, disruptive innovations and compliance risks.

She added, “Sectors across India are not just looking at geospatial adoption, but also at services and solutions growth.”

Market Outlook of Indian Geospatial Ecosystem

Indian geospatial industry ecosystem has evolved from just being a service provider or surveying-mapping service provider country to a data- product and system-integration provider country.

She also said that the geospatial industry ecosystem is undergoing evolution and her presentation also emphasized the market changes, its size, challenges faced and opportunities that can be tapped into.

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Indian domestic geospatial market is going to be USD 4 billion by 2028. And the following points are the main causes of its growth:

  • The enhanced impacts of the National Geospatial Policy and the Indian Space Policy
  • The increasing embedment of geospatial across national programs
  • Systematic shift towards solutions industry from a services ecosystem
  • Growth of indigenous companies is what going to cause the market growing

There has been a significant change in the Indian geospatial ecosystem due to conducive policy enablement.

 

Customer-Centric Solutions, Holistic Outlook Key to Sustained Growth

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Customer-Centric Solutions, Holistic Outlook Key to Sustained Growth

The global New Space Economy is growing at a rapid pace, powered by technology convergence, interoperability, and high-resolution data access.

In order to develop durable and resilient space architecture and customizable applications, this alignment is crucial.

At the inaugural day of Geospatial World Forum 2024 in Rotterdam, the session shared light on inextricably link between space Infra and geospatial.

“Space and geospatial are closely interlinked. One cannot conceive space Infra without geospatial data and its user community”, says Massimo Claudio Comparini, Deputy CEO & ESVP, Thales Alenia Space.

Customer Needs

In a competitive market landscape, there’s no shortcut to exceed customer expectations. It makes all the difference in commercial viability as well as innovative product portfolio. This can only happen when companies get a 360-degree view of their customer needs and their sectoral stakeholders.

“The big issue for the satellite industry is they understand their customer, but not their customer’s customer”, believes Sethu Saveda Suvanam, Founder & CEO, ReOrbit.

He adds that there’s a need to take architectures operating beyond what we are looking at and focus on collaboration and relooking at things, instead of re-inventing every time.

Problem Solving

Increasingly, the conventional boundaries in the space and geospatial sector are getting blurred. Space offers targeted solutions to some of the most challenging problems on Earth, and that brings the need to reaffirm a holistic approach towards innovation and delivery.

“There’s a need to bridge the gap between upstream and downstream in space from the philosophy of problem-solving”, says Prateep Basu, Co-founder & CEO SatSure.

He believes that there are missing gaps because everyone focuses on a particular problem.

“Customers today are looking at data that comes from multiple sensors. They expect final, end-to-end solutions”, says Sreeraman GV, CEO, NeoGeo Info Technologies.

Real-time Data Critical for Next-gen Mapping

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Sachin Awana
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Real-time Data Critical for Next-gen Mapping

With globalization becoming key for the growth of world economies, collaboration has come as a boon. As we make partnerships more accessible and open, the gates for innovation and tech advancements open.

An India-Europe Space and Geospatial Business Summit was held on the first day of the Geospatial World Forum 2024 to discuss the opportunities and importance of collaboration between and within the government mapping agencies and private players.

Moderated by Sanjay Kumar, CEO and Founder, Geospatial World, the session discussed how a more interoperable world can be the solution for a plethora of problems we face today in the realms of geopolitical conflicts and economic growth.

Discussing how we are in an age of data abundance, David Henderson, Chief Geospatial Officer, Ordnance Survey, “There is an abundance of data from the different sectors, availability of daily source of imagery and data. However, incorporating this data into the national map is still a challenge.”

“To go from sensor to customer within a matter of hours at scale for national system and to maintain it is still a huge challenge,” David emphasized.

He then reiterated how the foundational geospatial data in Great Britain can be better in terms of enrichment, quality, improvement, and fundamental interoperability, which would be incremental.

Crucial Partnerships

Rudy Cambier, Chief of Innovation and Industrials Partnerships Department (France and International), IGN France said, “Industrial partnerships are crucial for French Mapping Agency in two ways. First to help us and innovate in various activities. To collect and mix different data to provide a holistic view.”

“IGN France now is climate cartographer. We map the climate change and its impact on our territory. It is very important and a new paradigm for us. We also work on automatization process. And on tech mix and satellite imagery, we work with CNES and the private sector.”

“The second way, to work with the private sector through strategic partnership to reuse the data and develop tools and services to help French public policy. It is very important for us given the climate change challenges,” he added.

Continuing on the mix of collaboration and innovation, Anup Jindal, CEO, RMSI said, “We see a mix of innovation and capacity as the dire need currently. We are talking about self-healing world, wherein ideally, the maps around the world would keep on updating themselves as fast the world is changing which is a big challenge for mapping agencies and the private sector.”

“The second we see is interoperability. There are so many organisation and companies that are working on similar things. If there was a way for more standardisation, it would translate into wider availability of resources for innovation and newer applications.”

He added, “The third is the integration of new age technologies. There is a lot of talk about AI, ML, new sensors and different types of data, how do we bring this into the whole production workflow. Broadly these are the big three areas for us.”

Avinash Viswanathan, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing at DSM Softech said, “There has been a shift over the past 2 decades wherein data creation has changed to maintaining the currency of data. As now we see though, there is no dearth of geospatial data, so the amount of data available for processing is humongous.”

“As a company what we see today is we are focusing on data readiness and that is what government and private organisations are looking for from companies like us.”

He then explained that data readiness is a process of converting raw data into a fit-for-use purpose so that the strategic objectives of different organizations are met.

Government’s Role

Focusing on the government’s role in expediting geospatial and space for the benefit of all, Gen Girish Kumar, Former Surveyor General of India said, “There has been a push for Digital India by the government. Geospatial cannot be separated from this initiative.”

He shed light on how in 2018, India did not have a single drone manufacturing company, “but today we have hundreds which are not only supplying locally but exporting drones as well.”

“The government of India has launched many programs, whether it is by the land resources ministry, urban affairs, agriculture, national mapping and the department of science and technology, which are all taking very good initiatives in their capacity.”

“For example, our national mapping agency want to map and measure each and every land parcel to a few centimetre in the country. However, it will not be possible if they do it alone, and here we see the need of a big collaborative approach within the government as well as international partnerships,” he explained.

Conducive Policies and Investments to Boost India-Europe Ties

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Conducive Policies and Investments to Boost India-Europe Ties
India Europe Space and Geospatial Business Summit

Get ready for an exhilarating journey through the world of geospatial at the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) 2024, taking place in the vibrant city of Rotterdam, Netherlands from 13th May to 16th May, with the theme “Geospatial Transition: Powering the World Economy”.

The day 1 of the most awaited GWF 2024 started with India-Europe Space and Geospatial Business Summit, where speakers from both India’s and Europe’s space as well as geospatial industry participated to put forth their points and provide a direction on how both the countries can use each other’s strength to grow.

The summit opened with Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial World’s opening speech where he emphasized the link between geospatial and space marketplaces, and the need to broaden the interaction and engagement between geospatial and space communities.

He said, “The world is going through elasticity of world order. Looking at the geopolitical order, we have to decide who we are going to do business with.”

While the sectors are growing, the applications are folding like a tectonic plate.

“Post 2020, the main question for everyone is ‘who to do business with’. That’s why there’s a need to foster business relations between those who believe in shared values, rules of law, and democratic ethos,” he adds.

Chief Guest of the Summit, Gince Kuruvilla Mattam, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, The Netherlands said, “All the global financial institutions have an extremely positive estimates for the Indian economy. Since independence, Indian political leadership has been betting high on leadership.”

“Technology is directly leading to prosperity in the country. An important element of technology story in India is the readiness of people to embrace technological change. Financial technologies are a big example of this.”

India-Europe’s Space Relation and investments

Indo-Europe Space cooperation goes back to 1960s, with the ties between ISRO and CNES deepening over the years. With India’s new space policy, that opened the doors wide open for private players, the cooperation between both the countries will provide a open field for the private players.

Rajeev Jyoti, Director Technical, IN-SPACe said, “India’s decadal plan outlines roadmap for economic growth and enhancing collaboration in sunrise sectors. There are non-restrictive policies for investments and setting up start-ups.”

GWF 2024

Especially with the recently unveiled India’s FDI policy, the space sector is going to get the much needed investment boost, where the business between countries is going to help each other grow on their strengths.

Pacome Revillon, CEO, Novaspace, said, “Public and private investment in space for strategic reasons coupled with disruptive technologies and innovations is a key factor for growth.

GWF 2024

“We have seen an increase in competition amongst space companies in the last few years. The growth is really supported by two large drivers. One is public investment. Many countries have reinforced there view of space-based activities as strategic investment for countries for various purpose.

The second one is the disruptive innovations in technology as well as transforming the older business models to cater new-age solutions.”

Revillon added, “Private investments peeked in 2020 and now has come down but still has a significant investment of $8 billion last year, thanks to Earth observation type business for infra and services. In terms of policy and regulations, certainly a key driver for the industry. We expect certain level of stability even though we have elections in the region.

“Sovereignty and security are certainly drivers behind the policy-making, making EU working on a space law which could consolidate and give common ground in terms of space regulatory environment across Europe.”

ESG regulation, European Green Deal could also be drivers in the years to the come for the sector.

“In terms of EO in Europe, Copernicus today is now the first program on a global basis that provides free public source and downloads which can further increase. Copernicus has helped in supporting a number of GIS and remote sensing applications in Europe, and majorly Africa,” he said.

Bert Klassens, VP – Europe, Geospatial World, “Business is about mutual trust. This is a message that I would like to reiterate.”

IBM and LTIMindtree Partner for Indian GenAI Center of Excellence

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IBM and LTIMindtree Partner for Indian GenAI Center of Excellence

LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced a collaboration with IBM to establish a global, joint Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in India, a co-innovation centre combining the power of the IBM Watsonx AI and data platform and the engineering skills of LTIMindtree.

Open innovation drives the growth of enterprise AI technology, helping organizations apply AI-infused solutions to solve business challenges. It is this same open innovation that plays a key role in the LTIMindtree and IBM collaboration.

The LTIMindtree and IBM CoE plans to offer a comprehensive suite of services, combining LTIMindtree’s expertise in data and machine learning model customization and full-stack engineering with IBM watsonx technology including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance, and AI assistants. The centre, located in India, will focus on building point solutions to accelerate clients’ generative AI adoption journeys.

Nachiket Deshpande, COO and Whole-time Director, LTIMindtree, commenting on the collaboration, said, “Open innovation is the cornerstone of progress in the digital era. By joining forces with IBM, LTIMindtree aims to be at the forefront of advancing AI technologies and empowering businesses to achieve unparalleled success with governance.”

Kate Woolley, General Manager, of IBM Ecosystem said, “IBM Service Partners such as LTIMindtree play an integral role in helping enterprises maximize the benefits of generative AI technology through all phases of their AI adoption journey. Our collaboration, distinguished by the Center of Excellence, is an opportunity for our companies to work closely together to help funnel the latest AI research and innovations into technologies solving real-world business challenges.

iSpace Sees Possibility in Japan-US Artemis Agreement

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iSpace Sees Possibility in Japan-US Artemis Agreement

ispace, a space robot development company, supports Japan’s participation in the Artemis Agreement. The agreement between Japan and the US for the Artemis mission will benefit the country.

The chief executive of the Takeshi Hakamada ispace says that Japan’s joining the Artemis mission will explore a new potential market, particularly for ispace. This agreement will likely require Japanese-made landers.

Based on the contract agreed between Japan and the US, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will provide the rover robot for the Artemis mission in the early 2030s. There is a possibility that JAXA will need the services of companies like ispace.

Takeshi Hakameda, Chief Executive, iSpace says as quoted from Spacenews:  “We believe that the Japanese-US agreement regarding the Artemis program, created in April of this year, creates a business environment that is quite positive for us to cooperate and contribute to the government,”.

Takeshi believes that NASA, which leads the Artemis mission, will require a small lunar lander robot such as the one where space is developing today.

Therefore, Takeshi strongly supports the agreement between Japan and the US for the Artemis mission.

GWF 2024 Kickstarts Today

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GWF 2024 Kickstarts Today

Get ready for an exhilarating journey through the world of geospatial at the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) 2024, taking place in the vibrant city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 13th May to 16th May, with the theme “Geospatial Transition: Powering the World Economy”.

This must-attend event is the ultimate gathering of the global geospatial community, where you’ll be surrounded by key players in the industry, including government and public sector bodies, academia, and civil society.

This is your chance to connect with like-minded professionals, share knowledge, and gain insights from leading experts in the field.

With a lineup of inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking discussions, the GWF 2024 is set to be an unforgettable experience. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of geospatial technology and shape the future of our planet. Register now to be part of this exciting journey!!

The world is going through a massive technological, sociological, economic, and geopolitical transition. The transition is driven by ‘all-around resilience’ – climate, financial, social, infrastructure resilience, and so on.

Geospatial transition is at the core of the global transition and provides the third dimension to ‘everything we do.’ From a technology providing actionable intelligence to an industry embedding a spatial vision across different sectors and workflows, geospatial is making tremendous strides in its value impact.

Geospatial transition is driven by its growing value in the world economy. An industry estimated to be $512 Billion and a direct socioeconomic impact of $7.5 Trillion has attracted $202 Billion in direct investments in the last three years. Mainstreaming geospatial technology across critical economic sectors, such as energy, defence, telecom, infrastructure, climate & environment, land administration, etc., has been fundamental to this transformative journey and global economy strengthening.

With the theme ‘Geospatial Transition: Powering the World Economy,’ GWF 2024 would showcase various facets of the ongoing transition of the geospatial industry and its existing and potential value in the world economy.

The event is expected to attract over 1200 attendees from 75+ countries, making it a significant gathering for professionals in the geospatial industry.

It will feature more than 300 influential speakers from various National Geospatial Agencies, major brands, and organizations across industries like Esri, Trimble, Kadaster, GEOSA, United States Census Bureau, and Overture Maps. The event will include India Europe Space and Geospatial Business Summit, and high-level plenary panels on 13th and 14th May with C-level executives from top geospatial and end-user organizations.

The forum will offer dedicated user programs covering a range of topics, Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure, National Mapping, Infrastructure, ESG and Climate Resilience, Defence and Intelligence, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Retail and Commerce, Utilities, Special programme on DEI for Greater good, Hydrospatial Infrastructure and Blue Economy, PNT & GNSS, and other technical sessions. The exhibition area will showcase the latest industry products and solutions from more than 50 exhibitors.

Register Here to know more!!

GW Bulletin: Geospatial News of the Day-10th May

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GW Bulletin: Geospatial News of the Day-10th May
GW Bulletin: Geospatial News of the Day-10th May

Today’s news cover, MEA lends support to India AI Mission, geospatial technologies; Spexi Geospatial Announces $1,030,400 Contract With Federal Government of Canada to Enhance Wildfire Preparedness; Airbus’ defence, space arm to launch research centre in S. Korea; Space X’s Falcon 9 launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida; GalaxEye signs MoU with IN-SPACe for co-working and testing facilities; Swedish Space Corporation and Perigee Aerospace to launch satellites from Esrange; EuroGeographics and BKG sign production management agreement for pan-European datasets; and much more.