Speakers
Brian McClendon
Chief Technology Officer
Niantic Spatial, Inc.
Erik Jorgensen
Chairman & CEO
Vexcel Imaging
Souvik Bhattacharya
Geospatial Services and Strategic Partnerships Leader Americas
Cyient
Dan Smoot
CEO
Vantor
Dean Angelides
Managing Director - International
Esri
Damian Spangrud
Director - Solutions
Esri
Amar Nayegandhi
Global Head of Technology & Geospatial Sector Leader
Woolpert
Patrick Cozzi
Chief Platform Officer
Bentley Systems
Piers Dormeyer
CEO
Eagleview
Motoyuki Arai
Founder & CEO
Synspective
Ananyaa Narain
Vice President
Geospatial World
Theo Agelopoulos
Vice President, AEC Design Strategy
Autodesk
Siva Ravada
Vice President - Development
Oracle
Sanjay Kumar
CEO
Geospatial World
Raviv Turner
Co-Founder & CEO
OmniGeo
Jerry Paffendorf
CEO
Regrid
Ronda Schrenk
CEO
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
Brittany Donald
Director Program Management
Geospatial World LLC
Sean Young
Director, AECO, Geospatial, and AI Solutions Industry Marketing
Nvidia
Mo Sarwat
CEO
Wherobots
Peter Rabley
CEO
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Vaishali Dixit
Vice President - Americas
Geospatial World
Trip Bonds
General Manager
Dynamic Map Platform North America, Inc.
Clint Graumann
CEO & Co-Founder
Nuview
Sukanta Jena
CEO
Inovaantage Inc
Darin Welch
Digital Transformation Solutions Director
HNTB
Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop
Associate Director for Economic Programs
U.S. Census Bureau
Brandy Reitter
Executive Director
Colorado Broadband Office
Matt Piper
Global Director Industry Solutions: Utilities, Telecom, Water, AEC & Infrastructure
Esri
Mark Reichardt
Senior Consultant
Geospatial World
Will Mortenson
Executive Director
Overture Maps Foundation
David Mitlyng
CEO
Xairos
Abhay Swarup Mittal
Founder & CEO
AetoSky
Kumar Navulur
CEO
Synspective LLC
Patrick Gill
Sr. VP & GM - Commercial Imagery & Data
Eagleview
Saurabh Rai
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer (CSGO)
NeoGeoInfo Technologies Limited
Lauren Atkinson
Industry Marketing Communications
Trimble Inc.
Dean Capobianco
CEO
Geoscape
Becci Anderson
Acting Director, National Geospatial Program
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Kris Wagner
Marketing Director
Vexcel Imaging
Marcy Comer
Chief Marketing Officer
Eagleview
Christy Monaco
Chief Operating Officer
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Darin Muncy
Strategy Accounts Manager Transportation Infrastructure
Trimble Inc.
Alan Leidner
Board of Directors Member
New York City Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization
Dawn Zoldi
CEO & Founder
P3 Tech Consulting
Susan Janiszewski
Executive Director
Michigan Tech Research Institute
Dan Colbert
Utilities Industry Specialist
Trimble Inc.
Dawn Blanchard
Director of Data Management
State of Maryland
Rafay Khan
CEO
Moove.Ai
Paul Braun
Senior Vice President - Geospatial Sales
NV5
John Nolte
Director, Enterprise IT
Denver Water
Rama Mulukutla
Assistant Vice President
Cognizant
Adam Freeman
Operations & GIS Delivery Manager - Transportation AI
Bentley
Zachary Jaffe
Founder & CEO
Map I.T.
Chelsea Seiter-Weatherford
Geospatial Supervisor
Denver International Airport
Sara Durgan
Data Science Manager, Technology Services
AECOM
Steve Stautzenbach
Chief Revenue Officer
Regrid
Beau Legeer
Director, Imagery and Remote Sensing
Esri
Laura Krenek
Head of Brand Marketing
Esri
Brian Sowa
Vice President, Business Development & Sales (Government - North America)
Vexcel
Vijay Krishnan
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Skylo Technologies
Jeremiah Karpowicz
Content Director, Transmission & Distribution
Clarion Events, Inc.
Christopher Barlow
Head of Strategic Partnerships
University of Pittsburgh School of Business
Rebecca Lasica
SVP, Commercial Business Lead
NV5
Aaron C. Morris
Innovation Principal, Digital Innovations
Woolpert
Scott Simmons
Chief Standards Officer
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
George Gallagher
Senior Principal - Market Lead: Government & Capital Markets
Cotality
Ron Jarmin
Deputy Director
U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Jones
Assistant Division Chief Business Administration, Geography Division
U.S. Census Bureau
Megan Compton
Senior NSDI Advisor | NGAC Manager
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC)
Jason Stoker
Physical Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
Bryan Chandler
Managing Director & Senior Vice President Technology and Innovation
The Shopping Center Group
He also heads TSCG Intelligence, the firm's external consulting division, where his team delivers advanced geospatial analytics and market intelligence to a diverse portfolio of clients - including domestic and international retailers, restaurants, and asset owners. Bryan oversees a cross-functional Location Data team of 18 GIS Analysts, Data Engineers, and IT Professionals who integrate proprietary market insights with third-party data to produce industry-leading consumer and market analytics. In addition, he manages TSCG's enterprise IT infrastructure, ensuring all systems remain secure, efficient, and aligned with the company's long-term strategic goals.
Since officially joining TSCG in 2014 as GIS Manager - following an initial internship - Bryan has played a pivotal role in shaping the firm's technology and analytics capabilities. He holds a B.S. in Geographic Information Science from Kennesaw State University, an M.S. in Geographic Information Science & Web Map Programming from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics from the University of Chicago.
Vibhor Jain
Co-Founder
VyomIC
Daniel Kruimel
Director of Sales
Woolpert
Darcee Killpack
Deputy Associate Director for Core Science Systems Mission Area
U.S. Geological Survey
Jesse Kallman
Founder and CEO
Danti
Josh Novac
Program Manager; Associate Vice President
Dewberry
Nora Anwar
Director of Community Development
Overture Maps Foundation
Catherine Bohn
Project Manager
Dewberry
Matthew Loomis
Associate Director, Business Development for the Position, Navigation and Timing Division
Iridium
Joseph Villella
Project Manager
Exodigo
Garrett Synnott
Director of Business Process Services
Cognizant
Srinath Ravulaparthy
Senior Director, Geospatial Science
Cotality
Before joining Cotality, Srinath was Director of Data Science at Overair Inc., where he led the company's commercialization strategy for eVTOL aircraft. Previous positions include Director of Supply-Chain Science at Sysco Corporation and Research Scientist role at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Srinath holds a Ph.D. in Geography and an M.A. in Probability and Statistics from UC Santa Barbara, along with an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University.
Anthony Bauer
VP of Business Development
Exodigo
Brian Collins
Executive Director
Earth Fire Alliance
Across his professional career, Brian successfully directed high-profile remote sensing and decision support initiatives within the United States Government and the commercial sector. Prior to joining Earth Fire Alliance, Brian co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member for Intterra, a leading fire and public safety geospatial data intelligence and software company. He previously served as Director for Operational Elements within the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and led the engineering and development of satellite systems for the Boeing Company, Autometric, Adroit Systems, and SRA.
Brian is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He holds an M.S. in Space Systems Operations from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University.
Dana J. Caccamise
Regional Geodetic Advisor, Western & Pacific Regions
Acting Chief, Geodetic Services Branch, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
Myrna James
Marketing Consulting
Sean P. Batir
Global Head of Mission Innovation, National Security Division
Amazon Web Services
Sean P. Batir served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the MAVEN program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Mr. Batir brought a decade of experience in technology innovation from Silicon Valley and academia into the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, including real-world applications of large language models, computer vision, and mu to enhance intelligence-operations workflows for the warfighter.
From October 2021 to April 2023, Mr. Batir served as the Chief Engineer of Project Maven at the Office of the Undersecretary for Defense, Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)). He has also held key roles in cross-functional, stakeholder engagement and pioneered inter-institutional collaboration at the Army Research Lab and the BMW Group. He has driven research and development with both academia and industry partners in previous roles to identify interdisciplinary avenues of collaboration. Highlights include partnering with the University of Waterloo to drive applications of neuromorphic computing for vehicle manufacturing, collaborating with Affectiva to study computer vision applications emotion recognition in vehicles, and experimentation with OneWeb to demonstrate the first 5G-to LEO-satellite hand-off for continuous connectivity experimentation with BMW.
Mr. Batir holds a bachelor's degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master's degree in Bioengineering (focus in Neural engineering) from the Imperial College of London, a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) from the Quantic School of Science and Technology, and certificates in Quantum Computing and Algorithm Design from MIT and Biomedical Entrepreneurship from Oxford University's Said Business School. Mr. Batir is also the author to multiple patents related to energy grid management through the blockchain, as well as the contributing author to a variety of research abstracts that range from studying the reprogramming of neural circuitry for memory, biometric and modular jewelry for remote-sensing, and unconventional therapeutics for Parkinson's disease. His current area of active research includes compositional reasoning for frontier AI models.
Mike McGill
Telecom & Utilities Lead
Looq AI
Rajeev Joshi
Senior Director - Software, Production & IT
Dynamic Map Platform North America, Inc.
Dan Thomasset
Principal Engineer
Google
Dan is Principal Engineer at Google Maps and architect of the AI-driven Street View Insights platform. He specializes in commercializing global imagery and digital twins, bridging the gap between legacy mapping and next-gen enterprise analytics.
Romel Nicholas
Chairman
ERA Government Affairs
John Francis
Founding Partner
Stout Street Capital
Richard Dobson
Research Scientist III
Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)
Kim Mantey
Director
USGS National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC), U.S. Geological Survey
Venkatesh Thota
Director - Business Development
iSpatial Techno Solutions (IST)
*Invited