Marc Carolus is a Senior Vice President within Mastercard's Data & Services division, responsible for Location Insights Product Management globally. In this role Marc owns the product strategy, roadmaps and commercial success of Mastercard's location solutions. His focus on product innovation as well as global scaling to 20+ markets have advanced the business amongst key customers and stakeholders.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Marc was a senior project manager at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Europe, focused on the telecom and financial services practice, where he was responsible for developing growth and market strategies for a range of clients in the private and retail banking, loyalty and mobile payments industries.

An agroecological researcher with an innovative mindset, Sim strategized the implementation of Precision Agriculture in Sime Darby Plantation. His role in leading the change management within the organization gave him the opportunity to introduce automation applications in the plantation lifecycle and facilitate the new integration with the existing platform.

Sim strongly believes in digital technology capabilities in transforming the plantation sector. In his present position he draws on more than fifteen years of experience in oil palm agronomy, to identify gaps Upstream Operation - all by utilizing the adopted technology. By doing so, he has succeeded in upskilling the company's human resources and upgrading the digital infrastructure. He is now looking into deploying the SMART eco-system into Sime Darby Plantation's group that expands across different continents - whilst driving the company's transition from a static to a dynamic, real-time GIS database.

A seasoned strategy and business professional with experience in revenue management, commercial strategy, pricing and portfolio management with diverse international assignments. Passionate about executional excellence, capability building and leading organizational change.

Specialties: Revenue Growth Management, E-Commerce, Pricing, Digital transformation, Account management, Portfolio design, Route to Market, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Excellence, Cost Optimization

Judith Ampomah Owusu is a Senior Geoscientist working with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation(GNPC). She has a particular expertise in Petroleum Geochemistry and has been working in the Oil and Gas industry for 12 years. Judith served as one of the consultants to the International Seabed Authority on the Africa Deep Seabed Resources project, working on the Deepmarine data and resource estimation. She is actively involved in all the western (Tano) basin projects, Offshore Ghana. She is currently the president of the Petroleum Ladies Association (PELA) in her institution.

Martin Salzmann is strategy lead with the Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster).

Martin has a background in academia as a researcher in navigation systems. At Kadaster he has held various advisory and management positions in the field of reference systems, cadastral surveying and mapping, quality assurance, marketing, policy and strategy. Currently he is actively involved in shaping the Netherlands' SDI, digitalisation of the public sector and strategic planning for Kadaster. In the European arena Martin is member of management board of Eurogeographics (representing Europe's National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities) and is a past president of EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research that focusses on applied research in spatial data by NMCA's, research institutes and academia).

Jagdish Narayanan is the CIO of Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services. With an experience of nearly 3 decades in BFSI and FinTech, he has led technology at digital fintechs such as Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services and Aditya Birla Payments Bank, as well as been a senior technology leader with large multi-national financial institutions such as Citi, Barclays, Bank of America. He has deep knowledge of global businesses in the domains of digital wallets, digital payments, paperless and friction-free e-commerce, Cash Management, Payments, Liquidity Management, Trade Finance, by virtue of experience in heading large global technology portfolios across regions such as North America, EMEA, and Africa.

Erik Josefsson, CEO of R-evolution, is tasked with leveraging technologies from Hexagon and R-evolution's partner ecosystem to accelerate the world's transition to a sustainable economy while delivering shareholder returns. Prior to joining the Hexagon, Josefsson was Head of Advanced Industries at Ericsson, where he led the delivery of global Industrial IoT and 5G solutions for the manufacturing and process industries. He has a passion for global tech, has worked and studied in Sweden, Malaysia, China, and the USA, and has experience driving many smart initiatives like 5G factories, Connected Cars, and Smart Sustainable Cities.

Saurabh is an industry-recognized professional & a thought leader in Geospatial Technology, Process Initiatives, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, User Experience, Data-driven businesses, and Consumer Insights.

He possesses strong entrepreneurial, digital, analytical, and cross-industry skills and has led some of the largest Geospatial surveys & systems deployment across the globe. The projects have won multiple awards including the first Edison award in India.

A career built on a passion for Startups and Innovation; he has incubated Greenfield businesses, set up practices, and seen them through growth. Saurabh is passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and related technologies in solving problems and bringing automation and efficiency to complex workflows.

Saurabh is the global leader for GIS, Analytics & AI Verticals for Tech Mahindra BPS.

Babatunde built and self-financed The Geospatial Hub, a platform for learning GIS skills, with the aim to bridge the knowledge gap encountered by geospatial students in Africa. The Hub started from YouTube videos to free webinars and now to highly-affordable online courses. The Hub has reached over 1,000 learners worldwide from beginner, intermediate to professional levels. Currently, Babatunde is in Spain for a Master's Degree program on geospatial technologies.

Ms. Yasmeen is the director of the Spatial Data Division (SDD) in the Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT). She is leading a team of specialists in Spatial information, managing the spatial data from the DMT and its affiliates. She is leading the team in creating the Abu Dhabi Digital Twin as part of the Smart Makani system and the 3D model of the Abu Dhabi Emirate. She has been awarded several awards for advancing Spatial Information in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates.

Cristian began working in Geomarketing 15 years ago, within the Mapcity company, finally the company was bought by the Equifax Corporation, thanks to the growth that Cristian gave him in geography and mapping. Now, Cristian opened his own company to continue growing with location intelligence, not only in Chile, but also in Latin America. previously, he had already opened mapcity in other countries and after finishing his stint in the private world, he was elected Executive Secretary of the National Territorial Information System of Chile.

Ewa is in her activities, combining cutting-edge academic research with popularization and promotion of knowledge about remote sensing and earth observation. In Academia, Ewa is conducting work on implementing machine learning in satellite images analysis. She has managed to conduct the first national-scale classification of tree species with the use of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, which has been already presented at scientific conferences and distribution and dissemination of which is being undertaken right now. During her various classes with students, Ewa introduces a lot of coding and machine learning exercises, promoting the use of such tools among the non-technical students, such as geographers. In parallel to her research and teaching work, Ewa is leading two most widely read fan pages on the topic of remote sensing and earth observation in Poland, named "Polska z Sentinela" (Poland from Sentinel) and "Z orbity" (From the orbit). On those websites, she presents the beauty of polish and global landscapes, seen from space, combining it with description and explanation of the observed phenomena and facilitating discussion on important environmental topics.

Since 2021 I am the director of Operations, Services and Registration at Kadaster Nederland (COO). Before I started to work for Kadaster I have worked at several government agencies, such as social services and the tax office. As the COO I am responsible for the primary process of the Dutch Kadaster, that is land registry, cadastral surveying, topographic mapping and land consolidation as well as (e)services.