National Mapping Summit Theme: Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure for Global Economy

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.

Prof. Dheeraj Kumar is the Project Director of TexMin Hub (Mining Innovation Hub set up by Govt. of India). He is also Deputy Director at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Prof. Kumar is the founding Director of TEXMiN Foundation and ACIC Foundation (Section 8 Companies set up with support from DST and NITI Aayog, respectively). Prof. Kumar is a Mine Surveying & Geomatics Professor at the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. He completed his M. Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, and PhD from IIT Kharagpur. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching & research at various organizations. His areas of expertise include Surveying, Geomatics, Rock Excavation Engineering, and IT Application in different earth science domains. Dr Kumar has published more than 70 technical research papers in various international/national journals, including seminars/symposiums, and presented several papers at conferences in India and Abroad. Dr Kumar has authored several books and chapters in Advances in Mine Surveying and Application of IT in Mining. He has already completed more than 60 industrial consultancy projects sponsored by various mining & allied industries for solving their real-life mining projects. He has completed six research projects in different areas of Mining and Earth Science. Dr Kumar has conducted several Executive Development Programmes (EDP) and trained over 550 mining executives on various mining and allied disciplines for different organizations. NTPC Ltd., NHPC Ltd., Coal India Ltd., Oil India Ltd., Tata Steel, Atlas Copco, Infosys, Vedanta, IMFA, Indian Oil Corporation. He is a recipient of the National Merit Scholarship; Meritorious Scholar award at IIT Kharagpur in three consecutive years, i.e., 2000- 2001, 2001-2002 and 2002-2003; "CSIR Foreign travel Grant" and "Hindustan Zinc Limited Award" by the Institution of Engineers (INDIA). Dr Kumar has been a recipient of the SBI 2nd Best Researcher award for five consecutive years 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17.

Mark has worked in GIS and mapping since 1984. As Esri's Director of National Mapping Solutions, since 2005, he has a passion for working with National Mapping, Maritime, Aviation and Geospatial Authorities to help them be successful. Mark previously worked with these same organizations for nearly 10 years as a Senior Consultant and Project Manager in Esri's Professional Services. Prior to Esri, Mark was on the management team at NAVTEQ (now HERE), as they were pioneering digital mapping for in-vehicle navigation, web and mobile uses. Mark participates on the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).

Vikrant has over 23 years of rich cross-functional experience in the geospatial industry. He has a proven track record of success in envisaging/designing/delivering enterprise geospatial products/solutions/services (GIS, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Mapping) for the defense and private sector industries.

At the British Geological Survey, Chris currently oversee the full digital transformation of the overall mapping system, coordinating and co-designing the projects that enable systems ready for field deployment and onward data integration.

Chris designs and implements cross-organisational frameworks and workflows to enable efficient, repeatable and transparent data related operations, with over 12 years' experience in the geo-environmental sector. These incorporate the different stages of the environmental data lifecycle, from data capture to data analysis and environmental modelling, through to data product development and delivery.

Bringing together experts from across areas including data architecture, data engineering, data analysis through to those applying systems as direct users, is core to his work. Understanding and orchestrating how these different skills and requirements align to ensure suitable data oriented solutions can be designed is what drives him.

Brenda has accumulated 17 years of experience specializing in the development of specific Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their utilization with georeferenced statistical information at the INEGI. She played a pivotal role in leading the development of the MxSIG institutional platform, a significant accomplishment allowing the creation of Geomatics Solutions for the Web. The software within this platform is a combination of the best open-source or free geographic software and in-house developed software, released under free or open-source software licenses.

Brenda's efforts in this development have facilitated the technological transfer of MxSIG to several countries in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. She also spearheaded the development of web applications under the MxSIG platform, focusing on the publication of geographic and georeferenced statistical information generated by INEGI. In this capacity, Brenda incorporated User Research and Design Thinking methodologies, resulting in applications such as the online Digital Map of Mexico, The System for the Consultation of Census Information 2020, The Gender Atlas, and the Analytical Viewer for COVID-19.

Additionally, Brenda took the lead in developing web applications under the MxSIG platform for the publication and consultation of the Statistical and Geospatial Framework for the Americas (MEGA) in collaboration with UN-GGIM: Americas.

Sallie leads the EuroGeographics Head Office team and reports to the Management Board. She champions our members' data, services and expertise by building constructive partnerships with European and global stakeholders.

Sallie is also responsible for internal management and operational delivery, as well as coordinating membership and communications activities, and the Association's events programme, which includes the General Assembly.

Nicholas Brown is Head of Office at the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence in Bonn, Germany. Nicholas works with Member States and organizations to strengthen their collective impact to enhance investment in the global geodesy supply chain, build capacity, and make geodesy and its benefit more visible and understandable to society.

Dr. Gopika Suresh is an Earth Observation (EO) & Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) scientist with more than 14 years of experience developing algorithms and methods to exploit EO data for land, forest, marine, coastal and disaster response applications. Having discovered the gaps in present EO data & solutions, she co-founded Marble Imaging, which aims at becoming Europe's first provider of VHR data acquired from its small satellite constellation and is CSO and head of products where her Team develops cutting edge EO based analytics & solutions for real-world challenges.

Born in a coastal town in the south of India, she has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Kerala, India, a MSc in Satellite Applications engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany and a PhD in marine Geosciences from the University of Bremen. For her PhD, she developed the first automatic SAR based system to detect marine oil slicks in SAR images and estimate their source hydrocarbon seeps. Since then she has worked as a scientist for the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, as a postgrad lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, a postdoc at the Earth Observatory of Singapore and recently led the team for geospatial solutions at Unique Land use GmbH, where her team developed EO based solution for the forestry and land use sector She was selected as a Geospatial World's 50 rising stars in 2021, a leading woman in ML4EO by the Radiant foundation in 2021 and is the co-organiser of the Sisters of SAR initiative. And she does all this while bringing up a 3 year old toddler and her newborn 2024 baby.

As a regional manager within Kadaster International, the international branch of the Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency of the Netherlands, Haico is responsible for the business development in Eastern-Europe and Central Asia. As a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) expert, he is involved in many national and international SDI implementation projects. He has also been working on the design, implementation and further development of the national geoportal 'PDOK', as part of the Dutch SDI. He has led projects in a number of countries, focusing on developing a fit-for-purpose land administration. Haico has worked for nearly 5 years in France for EuroGeographics, the association of European national mapping and cadastral agencies, as a marketing communications and business manager. Haico is graduated as a Geographer and Cartographer at the University of Utrecht.

Expert, working in different domains of the Geo and Open Data Chain. Ranging from data management, data quality and metadata across services, metadata of services and bulk downloads to geoportal Geopunt, catalogue Datavindplaats and reporting under various regulatory frameworks such as INSPIRE and High-Value Datasets.

A leading lady of Digital Flanders, responsible for the Flemish SDI, has a degree in geography and has worked for more than 15 years in the Flemish government.

Mr Sandy, a licensed surveyor, is the Surveyor-General of Victoria, and Chair of the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria, as such is the primary government authority on surveying and the cadastre.

The Surveyor-General fulfils a range of statutory roles and responsibilities dealing with land and property boundaries.

Mr Sandy is also a member of the following Commissions and Committees:

• Registrar of Geographic Names
• Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission
• Federal Redistribution Committee for Victoria
• Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping - Chair
• Council of Reciprocating Surveyors Board of Australia and New Zealand - former Chair

Mr Sandy has a focus on engaging with the surveying profession to develop strategies for meeting the challenges that the current digital environment is creating.

In 2020, he was awarded the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Spatial Professional of the Year for 2019 for his work in modernisation of the cadastre and in raising awareness for mental health issues in our profession.

Mr Sandy is the former Surveyor-General for the Northern Territory of Australia, the only person to have held this title in more than one Australian jurisdiction.

Andrea is a Senior System Analyst in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radiocommunication Sector.

His current duties encompass software and radio communication engineering activities finalized to the design and implementation of software solutions and systems focused on the application of the provisions of the ITU Radio Regulations and Regional Agreements. He is also the ITU Focal Point for Geospatial Information Management, a Member of the Steering Committee of the UN Geospatial Network and a co-chair in the GeoAI Working Group of the UN Open GIS Initiative.

Since 2021 Andrea coordinates the GeoAI activities at the AI for Good. ?He holds a Ph.D. in Physics (Indiana University, 2000) and an Executive MBA (Geneva University, 2011) with a specialization in International Organizations.

I am an experienced Analyst (20 years) with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization. Skilled in Environmental Awareness, Mining, Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). I am a professional with a post-graduation degree "Master of Technology" focused in Applied Geology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. I have created several user friendly tools for informed decision making on soil and water conservation measures, water budgeting, aquifer mapping, land mapping etc. and ensured uses of the tools and technology by the village community in more than 50K villages with field teams, NGO partners and Government departments in India by providing trainings, handhold supports and monitoring the usefulness of technology for natural resource management.

Jani Kylmaho has been working with geospatial data infrastructures, data production and distribution for 20+ years. He has been involved in national and international collaboration and projects, working both for the public and private sector. Currently Jani is the Chief Digital Officer at National Land Survey of Finland.

Amy Rose is technical director at Overture Maps Foundation. She had dedicated several decades to the geospatial domain designing, building, and deploying geospatial data and technology solutions for human health and security, environmental remediation, logistics, and transportation planning projects. She's worked in the academic and private sector, in government ecosystems, and most recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she worked with interdisciplinary teams to model and map the built environment and highly resolved estimates of human population at global scale.

Amy received her PhD in Geography from The University of Tennessee and an MS in Geography with a graduate minor in Logistics and Transportation.

Emilio Lopez Romero is a computer engineer. He is the Director of the National Centre for Geographic Information of Spain, the National Contact Point for INSPIRE Directive and President of the Spain's Geographical Information Infrastructure Board of Directors. For more than 12 years Emilio Lopez has been working in the field of Spatial Data Infrastructures with main focus on governance and IT architecture both in a national and international context.

I'm economist with MBA. I've been working for 30 years of which the last 10 in mainstreaming the use of Geospatial Information in socioeconomic development planning. The GIS methodology was initially brought to our country and our attention as the methodology used in Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI's) the one for planning the development of Corridors - that's the country areas with huge potential of natural resources that needed infrastructures to unlock them. The SDI's approach emphasizes the simultaneous planning of infrastructures and the productive sectors through identification of anchor projects supported with GI.

The introduction of GI in development planning in Moz. inititated 13 years ago as a Program (Spatial Development Program-SDP) with support of donnor's funds (WB, UK AID and Development Bank of South Africa) and in 2020 the Government created a public institute - The National Development Geo-spatial Agency where I'm still attached.

I also have been assigned the responsibility of preparing the National Coutry Plan for Integrated Management of GI with support of UNGGIM and SDG Alliance.

Piotr Perz is a Manager in the Geoportal Division in the Department of Informatization, Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. Master of Science, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olszyn. Experienced in spatial data management, especially in terms of OGC services and API accessibility. The organization is responsible for the functioning of the national geoportal as a central access point to the national geodetic and cartographic resources.

Clinton Heimann is the Deputy Director-General of Spatial Planning and Land Use Management at South Africa's National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development. His role centres on strategic oversight for implementing key legislative frameworks, including the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, the Planning Professions Act, and the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, crucial for policy development and modernizing South Africa's geospatial frameworks. He also leads the South African delegation to the UN-GGIM and UN-GGIM Africa.

In the past three years, Heimann has driven initiatives to upgrade the country's geospatial infrastructure, fostering collaborative governance and strategic partnerships. His work ensures the alignment of South Africa's National Geospatial Strategies with the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF), aiming to bring socio-economic benefits across the region and enhance South Africa's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa Agenda 2063.