PLENARIES
- Geospatial empowerment to IT-enabled services and optimizing engineering workflows and business processes
- Newer business models fostering greater ubiquity of geospatial information
- Greater ubiquity of geospatial information taking its benefits from select few to all sections of society to improve quality of their lives
Speakers
Executive Secretary
National System of Territorial Information (SNIT)
Chile
Head of External Relations
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Scientific Coordinator
National Fund for Tourism Promotion (FONATUR)
Mexico
Chief Scientist
Climate and Land Use Change
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
General Director of National Coordinator of Civil Protection (CENAPRED) Mexico
Under Secretary
Department of Urban Development and Public Works Administration of the State of Querétaro (SDUOP)
Mexico
- Location and geospatial technologies at the heart of digital transformation and core of all development activities
- The current pace of Digital transformation to foster unprecedented innovation with the advent of fourth revolution
- Geospatial technology driving the much needed digital transformation for the Americas to realise their growth and development plans
Speakers
Chief Geography Division
U.S. Census Bureau
Secretary General IPGH
Uruguay
Managing Director of GeoTechVision and Executive Chairman of Marlie Technology Park Ltd.
Senior Director of Americas
MAXAR
USA
Vicepresident Development
Oracle Corporation
Mobility Secretary (SEMOVI) Mexico City
- Leveraging geospatial data for policy making, programming and project operations to realize the SDGs and its associated targets.
- Geospatial technologies and services, strengthening data production and the use of better data in policymaking and monitoring, becoming increasingly recognized as fundamental means for global development
- Innovations in technologies such as UAVs, sensors, satellites, big data, etc. in enabling the use of geospatial towards achieving the agenda and measuring, monitoring and reporting the progress
Speakers
Vicepresident
INEGI
Mexico
General Director of the National Committee for Sustainable Development of Sugar Cane (CONADESUCA) Mexico
Technical director
National Administrative Department of Statistics - DANE
Colombia
Director of the Statistics Division
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Coordinator of the 2030 Agenda
Innovation Analysis Sub-Office, Office of the President of the Republic
Mexico
Executive Secretary
GEO EO4SDG Initiative