To move from accidental convergence to intentional leadership by creating a world class collaboration forum where geospatial, robotics, autonomy, and AI grow together.
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Moderator
Mark Reichardt
Senior Consultant
Geospatial World LLC
Chief Executive Officer
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Woolpert
Director, Imagery and Remote Sensing Global Business Development
Esri
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Lovelace AI
Managing Partner
Balanced Engineering LLC
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Moderator
T. Thomas Nicoletti
Clinical Assistant Professor
Katz GSB, School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Chief Safety Officer
Edge Case
Chairman
GeoRobotix
CEO & Founder
Lunate AI
Dr. Nadine Alameh is an award-winning globally recognized thought leader in geospatial technologies and their intersection with some of today's most pressing global challenges, including climate resilience, sustainability, intelligent infrastructure, and AI transformation. She is the founder & CEO of LunateAI, guiding enterprises and governments through rapid disruption driven by AI, the explosion of geospatial/earth observation data, and emerging computing paradigms. She's known for championing interoperability, partnerships, and bridging technology and policy. She has successfully exercised these skills as CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, as a board member of the UN Geospatial Experts Private Sector Network, as an appointed advisor to the US National Geospatial Advisory Committee, as a senior technical advisor to NASA, and most recently as a strategic advisor to the World Geospatial Industry Council and the International Society for Digital Earth. Nadine holds a Ph.D. and 2 MS. Degrees from MIT. You can find her podcasts, articles, and more at http://medium.com/@nalameh.
Chief Strategy Officer
Sanborn
Head of Physical AI & Integrated Solutions
Synopsys
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Moderator
Courtney Ehrlichman
Founder & CEO
The Ehrlichman Group
President
Quantum Policy Group
President
ERA Government Affairs
Managing Director, Pittsburgh Office
Accenture
Albrecht is transformational leader and business strategist whose passion is helping organizations transform through new strategies, enhanced operating models, process reengineering, and advanced technology solutions. He is a Data & AI Evangelist helping organizations drive disruptive value from their data, AI, and advanced analytics solutions in a responsible and ethical manner. He is a Managing Director with Accenture and has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 organizations reinvent to be more successful. He leads Accenture's Pittsburgh office and has held numerous practice, P&L, and client account leadership roles.
Albrecht spends much of his time inspiring the next generation of executives and leaders through teaching and lecturing as Adjunct Faculty of AI & Data at the University of Pittsburgh, and at Accenture's global learning campus. He is on the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Business School board, a board member for the Pitt Center for Responsible Data Science, and is on the executive board for CEO's for Sustainability helping drive environmental, social, and sustainability equity with the region's top CEO’s.
Albrecht is also an adventurer and passionate about the community and can regularly be found volunteering his time and raising money for various organizations doing crazy things like climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro (in a Kilt!) to raise money for education for African students and riding a bicycle 500 miles across Alaska (in 6 days!) for vaccine research!
Partner
Pierson Ferdinand
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Moderator
Bobby del Rosario
Consultant
Geospatial World
CPO & Co-Founder
Duality
Director of Economic Development
Office of the Mayor
Executive Director
Pennsylvania State Geospatial Coordinating Board
Scott Drzyzga, Ph.D., GISP, is the Executive Director of Pennsylvania's State Geospatial Coordinating Board ('GeoBoard'), which is a collaborative non-regulatory board working to improve the quality, sharing, and governance of Pennsylvania's authoritative geospatial datasets so they can support better decision-making across all sectors and levels of government. The efforts are called the PA Basemap and 3DPA initiatives. Dr. Drzyzga is a certified GIS Professional with 30 years of experience across the private and public sectors and academia, who earned his Ph.D. in Geography/GIS from Michigan State University. Scott is also an outdoor enthusiast, a photographer, and a remote pilot who has collaborated on geoscience projects.
Senior Manager of Applications & GIS
City of Pittsburgh, Department of Innovation & Performance