India- Europe Space and Geospatial Business Summit

Currently employed as Vice President - Consulting at Geospatial World, Ananyaa Narain, an economist by education, is a leading thought leader in the socio-economic and market research space for geospatial, BIM, and frontier technologies worldwide. She was recognized as a 40U40 geospatial professional for 2020 by xyHt, and a Geospatial Rising Star 2022 by Geospatial World. Over her eight years of experience in the geospatial technology domain, she is recognized for her result-oriented approach to exploring the impact of the cross-linkage of technology, economics, and policy using varied qualitative and quantitative tools and frameworks. Her professional expertise includes working with cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary stakeholders across technology, academia, and government stakeholders for market size and forecast assessment, socio-economic impact evaluation, developing national policy and governance frameworks, and initiating and contributing to global technology and policy dialogue and debates through research reports and articles, and conference convening.

David leads the strategy and roadmap to reinforce and extend Ordnance Survey's position, reputation and contribution as a leader in the national and international geospatial industry.

David joined OS in 2003 and has 25 years of geospatial industry experience across a variety of technical and leadership roles. He has been part of the OS Executive Team since 2015 where he has led both product strategy and customer facing teams.

He leads the UK's delegation to the UN's Committee of Experts on Global Geographic Information Management (UNGGIM) and is a Vice-Chair of the UNGGIM Europe Regional Group. David is a former Chair of the UK's Association for Geographic Information (2015 and 2016), member of the Management Board of Eurogeographics (from 2017) and from 2016-19 was the industry external examiner for the GeoSciences School at Edinburgh University.

In 2019 David was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

An industry veteran with over three decades of experience in the IT industry, Agendra has been promoting the use of geospatial technologies in the country. Under his leadership, Esri India has partnered with numerous government and private organizations to execute critical and transformative projects using Esri's GIS (Geographic Information System) technology.

Before joining Esri India, Agendra held leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Veritas Software, and Symantec.

He has also made significant contributions to the geospatial industry as President, Association of Geospatial Industries (AGI), and Chairman, FICCI Committee on Geospatial Technologies.

Agendra holds M.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and Master of Management Studies (MMS) degrees from BITS, Pilani.

Adina Gillespie is responsible for key strategic initiatives of the Geospatial Content Solutions business unit within Hexagon's Geosystems division. Her priority is establishing collaborative programs and partnerships for delivering large-scale geospatial initiatives. She has nearly 20 years of experience in the space sector, where she delivered innovative programs and strategic advice in the application of small satellite technology, including for governments and commercial users. Adina is a Fellow of the UK Royal Aeronautical Society, has served on various government and corporate committees and is a board member of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC).

Sean Wiid is the CEO of UP42. Sean is a surveyor and computer scientist with over 20 years of experience solving real-world problems with geospatial data across multiple industries and countries. His current focus at UP42 is to build a platform that helps the earth observation industry reach its full downstream socio-economic potential by removing commercial and technical barriers to leveraging geospatial data at scale.

As the leader of a visionary team at Suhora, he has successfully delivered innovative products and services for asset monitoring and management across diverse domains, utilizing space technology, Al, big data, and open-source tools to create sustainable solutions worldwide.

* With prior international roles focused on developing earth observation businesses in Southeast and South Asian countries, he has demonstrated expertise in business development, client management, and revenue growth.

* Holding a DBA in Oracle, PI/SQL, and Linux from SQL Star International and an M.Sc in Remote Sensing & GIS from Vidyasagar University, he is a meticulous technical professional with a strong passion for technology, leveraging his expertise to empower customers and partners with location intelligence and data analytics.