GISCafe is exhibiting at the 2018 GeoINT Symposium at booth #1701 and recording video interviews. The interviews will be published on GISCafe during the week of April 30th.
GISCafe is also doing a sweepstakes drawing for a $100 Amazon Gift Card. To register for the drawing, come by the booth and drop your business card in the sweepstakes jar. The drawing will be held at 3 PM on April 25th. You don’t need to be present to win.
The following companies have booked interviews with GISCafe:
Ursa Space Systems (Ursa)
Earth-i
Textron Systems
Northeastern University
Geo Owl
Presagis
USC – California
BlackSky
Airbus
Rubrik
Mapbox
Diffeo
Please contact Sanjay Gangal at sanjay@giscafe.com to book a time slot for the interview. The interviews are extremely popular and receive thousands of views. Last year’s video interviews are available at:
When the public thinks about landscaping, high tech doesn’t immediately come to mind. After all, this is work involving dirt, manual labor and plants. Mechanical engineering is represented in the form of a backhoe loader, for example, but that’s about as “technological” as the industry gets. Right?
Actually, anyone inside the industry would tell a different story. This is a field characterized by large inventories and a wide range of variables affecting product and service quality, starting with weather and soil. The convergence of these variables creates the need for a great deal of monitoring of growth. As a result, any landscaping company that seeks to be profitable over the long haul without relying on data for botanic maintenance decision-making probably should.
We have recorded 18 video interviews at the Esri User Conference in San Diego this week. The conference was extremely well attended with more than 15,000 attendees, more than 200 exhibitors, and 100’s of great presentations. The weather was perfect in San Diego making the conference even more enjoyable.
The following video interviews will be published in the coming weeks as we complete the editing process:
Eric Gundersen gave this presentation at the Where 2012 Conference in San Francisco last week.
Eric coordinates product development for MapBox, the platform that let anyone make fast and beautiful maps and share them anywhere. He is passionate about open data and building open source data visualization tools that focus on speed and hot design. He’s also the co-founder of Development Seed, a creative data visualization team based in Washington, DC.
Leila Janah gave this inspirational presentation at the Where 2012 Conference in San Francisco last week.
She is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.
Tim O’Reilly and Jon Bruner talk about big data and location at Where 2012.
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. Over the years, Tim has built a culture where sustainable innovation is a key tenet of business philosophy. His active engagement with technology communities both drives the company’s product development and informs its marketing.
Tim graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in classics. His honors thesis explored the tension between mysticism and logic in Plato’s dialogues.
Brady Forrest is Program Chair for O’Reilly’s Where and co-chair for Android Open . Additionally, he co-chaired the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and NYC. Brady writes for O’Reilly Radar tracking changes in technology. He previously worked at Microsoft on Live Search (he came to Microsoft when it acquired MongoMusic). Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds cars for Burning Man and runs Ignite. You can track his web travels at Truffle Honey.
Here is his interview at the Where 2012 Conference held in San Francisco last week:
Mathew Lippincott and Stewart Long gave this presentation at the 2012 Where Conference in San Francisco this week.
Mathew Lippincott and Stewart Long are founding members of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS).
Mathew is an artist and designer who has worked in technology education for eight years. He became involved in Grassroots Mapping through materials testing and the design of low-cost balloons and kites. In addition to developing flying machines, he supervises the production of kits and other materials. He is also a founder of Cloacina, Cewas startup. Cloacina is currently developing educational materials with ReCode:Oregon’s Ecological Sanitation Campaign andPNCA’s Collaborative Design MFA Program.
Ben Milne gave this presentation at the 2012 Where Conference in San Francisco this week.
Ben Milne is a payments outsider and founder of Dwolla, a new payment network based in the heart of the Silicon Prairie. The company continues to disrupt Visa and Mastercard by building useful and innovative online and mobile products on top of its open and low-cost payment network.
Scott Kveton gave this presentation at the 2012 Where Conference in San Francisco this week.
Scott brings 15 years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies like Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and now Urban Airship. Urban Airship works with thousands of brands using their leading mobile messaging and monetization platform. Scott was the co-founder of the Open Source Lab helping open source projects like Mozilla, Linux, Apache, Drupal grow into mainstream usage. Scott was an active supporter of open web standards having co-founded the OpenID and Open Web Foundations. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
