Hyderabad, India: Geospatial Media and Communications is glad to announce the winners of The TechRuptors. The awards recognize young entrepreneurs, who have setup new businesses or are making a substantial difference in the success of their companies and, in many cases, are making immense contributions to the geospatial community. The ceremony took place on the 17th of January, during the Gala Dinner of Geospatial World Forum 2018, in Hyderabad, India.
The Technology Disruptors are:
Will Marshall, Co-Founder and CEO, Planet- Technology Disruptor
Will Marshall revolutionized the entire earth observation industry with satellites as small as a loaf of bread. Launched in 2010 from a garage, the company, earlier known as Planet Labs, today has the largest number of satellites in orbit.
Mark Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO, Descartes Labs- Disruptor in the Making
Mark is known as a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in geospatial space. Under his leadership, Descartes Labs is teaching computers to see the world with deep learning and artificial intelligence. Its machine learning has created the first living atlas of the planet with the use of satellite imagery.
Steve Coast, Founder, OpenStreetMap- Social Disruptor
Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap in 2004 when he was still a student. Although it took a few years for the idea of an open map to catch on, today, OpenStreetMap is considered a prominent example of volunteered geographic information. It is among the most heavily used sources for mapping data for about 2 million registered users and is the de-facto map for large chunks of the world. The project is still going strong, with new and improved data added to it every day by anybody who sees the value in an open map project.
Javier de la Torre, Co-Founder and CEO, CARTO- Technology Disruptor
As a student of Agriculture Engineering and Environmental Science, Javier de la Torre is passionate about data and its potential to improve the way decisions are made. By 2012, Javier discovered the magic of location intelligence, when he moved ahead and founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization.
The TechRuptors Award is a natural extension of Geospatial Hall of Fame Awards, which were presented at Geospatial World Forum 2017.
