Introduction & Opening Plenary
Esri UK
Charles Kennelly, Chief Technology Officer
Richard Mumford, GIS Developer
Addy Pope, Higher Education Manager
Dave Tong, GIS Consultant
The importance of Geospatial in our changed world, and the impact of Covid19
Esri Inc.
Dr Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer - Keynote Speaker
The Internet of Things - embracing a connected future to drive change and support our communities
CENSIS - Stephen Milne, Business Development Manager
Stirling Council - Jonathan McDougall, Data Architect
The Role of Geospatial in Data Science
- The Data Lab - Gillian Docherty OBE, Chief Executive Officer
- Glasgow City Council - Kimberley Hose, Head of Business Intelligence
- The Scottish Government - Shona Nicol, Head of Data Standards
Finding Study Space - using Data to help users make Informed Decisions
EDINA
Guy McGarva, Geospatial Expert
Chief Medical Officer, Esri Inc. - Keynote Speaker
Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, CPH, GISP
Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, CPH, GISP is the Chief Medical Officer at Esri Global. She leads Esri's worldwide health and human services practice and is passionate about transforming health organisations through a geographic approach. Dr Geraghty is the author of numerous health and GIS peer reviewed papers and book chapters. She has lectured extensively around the world on a broad range of topics that include social determinants of health, open data, climate change, homelessness, access to care, opioid addiction, privacy issues and public health preparedness. She received her medical degree, master's degree in health informatics, and master's degree in public health from UC Davis. She is board certified in public health (CPH) and is also a geographic information system professional (GISP).
Business Development Manager, CENSIS
Stephen Milne
Stephen Milne is the Innovation Lead for Internet of Things (IoT) and Healthcare Technologies within CENSIS, the Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Stephen is experienced in designing, managing, and implementing projects for commercial product ideas with both a hardware and software focus.
Data Architect, Stirling Council
Jonathan McDougall
Jonathan McDougall is a Data Architect within the Data, Research, and Innovation team at Stirling Council. Jonathan's background is within GIS and Asset-Based systems.
Chief Executive Officer, The Data Lab
Gillian Docherty OBE
The Data Lab is an innovation centre with a mission of maximising the value for Scotland from data, facilitating partnerships between industry and academia, supporting data science and artificial intelligence projects as well as funding and running first class, ground-breaking education programmes. Gillian is passionate about the opportunity for using Data to drive economic and social benefits. Formerly of IBM, Gillian is a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University, a TED speaker and was named Digital Leader 2018 for the UK. Gillian was named CEO of the year at the Digital Technology Awards 2017 and was also in the UK’s top ten most influential people in data according to DataIQ. Gillian is on the Board of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of Beyonder Involve Charity and an Industry advisor to Previse. Gillian has a degree in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow, an Honorary Doctorate from Robert Gordon University and is married with a daughter.
Head of Business Intelligence, Glasgow City Council
Kimberley Hose
Kimberley leads a broad range of innovative data analytics projects for GCC that provide opportunities for informing policy, transforming services, and delivering better outcomes for the people of Glasgow. She is a member of the Digital Glasgow Board that is responsible for overseeing the development of the Digital Glasgow Strategy, and is actively involved in developing data analytics capabilities across Scottish Local Government in collaboration with the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government. Kimberley has 25 years valuable experience of programme and project management, including 14 years in local government implementing major IT change programmes.
Head of Data Standards, The Scottish Government
Shona Nicol
Shona Nicol is the Head of Technical Data Policy Team in the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate. Her main role is to drive the implementation of Data Standards, ensuring Scotland’s public sector data assets can be accessed and reused to support improvement and innovation in our public services. The team also covers Open Data and Data Innovation. Her previous role was Head of the Geographical Information Science and Analysis Team (GI-SAT) in the Scottish Government.
Geospatial Expert, EDINA
Guy McGarva
Guy McGarva is a geospatial expert with EDINA at the University of Edinburgh. Guy is a member of the team delivering EDINA's flagship Digimap service. Guy is responsible for developing innovative geospatial solutions covering diverse areas including green infrastructure mapping, indoor building navigation and 3d building modelling. Guy is an expert in the full Esri product stack.
Product Engineer, Esri Inc.
Heather Smith
Heather is a cartographer and artist who mixes both practices to express and understand landscapes. She writes and edits lessons for the Learn ArcGIS website. View more of her work at www.heathergabrielsmith.ca