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More than 270 innovators, practitioners, and thought leaders from the global geospatial community gathered to discuss how location data is disrupting business, governments, and society. Want to check out a session again or get ready for Locations 2019?

The New LI Stack
Javier de la Torre

Keynote: AI, Geospatial, and the Future of Work
George Mathew

Location in the Era of Privacy
Andrew Hill

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization
Jeff Kaplan

Designing LI apps for User Experience
Ariana Escobar

The CARTO Product Roadmap
Jorge Sancha Gómez

Sector Focus: LI for Social Good
Tyler Bird

Profiting in Commercial Real Estate using Location Intelligence
Tim Kiely

When Data Science Met LI: A Love Story
Michelle Ho

15 Million Miles of Burritos Later: Vizualizing How On-demand is Transforming Commerce & Communities
Enu Herzberg

Black Belt in Spatial Analytics
Stuart Lynn

Dialysis, Disaster, and Distance: Three Stories in One Map
Madhury Ray

Customer Breakout - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Anthony Lopez

The Predictive Power of Geospatial for Retailers
Rodrigo Sarmiento

Leveraging Serverless Infrastructure to Bring LI to the NFPA
David Breeding

Cartography Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
Mamata Akella

From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake
Hannah Curtis and Wenfei Xu

Spatial Innovations in Commercial Planning and Logistics
Matt Forrest

Technology Trends in the LI World
Raúl Ochoa

Special Closing Keynote
Javier de la Torre

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities
Jeff Ferzoco, William Matt Gardner, Madhury Ray & Chad Misiuk

Re-thinking Mobility in Cities
Maksim Pecherskiy

Enigma: Ice Cream Saves Lives
Angel Nguyen Swift

Building a Spatial Stack for NYC Planning
Chris Whong
2018 Speakers

George Mathew
CEO & Chairman, Kespry

Angel Nguyen Swift
VP of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma

Madhury Ray
Senior Analyst, Risk & Analytics at NYC DOHMH

David Weis
Vice President, Location Intelligence at Mastercard

Maksim Pecherskiy
Chief Data Officer of San Diego

Kerry Lagueux
Geoanalytics Lead at BCG

Enu Herzberg
Data & Analytics Lead at Postmates

Andrew Hill
Co-founder & CEO at Textile.io

Françoise Pickart
Director, Risk + Analytics OEPR at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Chris Whong
Director of NYC Planning Lab

Craig Mills
CEO at Vizzuality

David Breeding
Head of Geoanalytics at AppGeo

Ana Sofia Reis
Global Insights Lead at Waze

Anthony Lopez
Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at NREL

Paul Ramsey
Solutions Architect at CARTO

Rodrigo Sarmiento
Data Scientist & Co-Founder at Descifra

Hannah Curtis
Product Manager of CARTO’s Data Observatory

Raúl Ochoa
Head of Technology at CARTO
Dillon Massey
Product Designer at Citizen Housing and Planning Council

Tim Kiely
Head of Research & Lead Data Scientist at Hodges Ward Elliott

Wenfei Xu
Data Scientist at CARTO

Matt Forrest
Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO

Jeff Ferzoco
Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO

Jeff Kaplan
Customer Success Director at CARTO

Jorge Gómez Sancha
CDO at CARTO

Tyler Bird
Community Strategist at CARTO

Stuart Lynn
Head of Research at CARTO

Ariana Escobar
UX Designer at CARTO

Michelle Ho
Data Scientist at CARTO

Mamata Akella
Head of Cartography at CARTO

Chad Misiuk
Urban Planner at SEMCOG

Javier de la Torre
CSO at CARTO
George Mathew is the CEO & Chairman of Kespry, the leading aerial intelligence platform provider. George brings 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups to the company. Prior to Kespry, George held senior leadership positions at Alteryx, salesforce.com and SAP.
May 23, 09:45 - Mercator Area
Keynote: Kespry
Angel Nguyen Swift is VP of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma, an Operational Data Management and Intelligence company. Enigma puts data in the context of the real world and makes it connected, open, and actionable for the Fortune 500. Angel joined Enigma from American Express, where she served as the VP of the Global Financial Crimes Compliance – Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Prior to American Express, Angel served as a New York County Assistant District Attorney.
May 24, 09:00 - Mercator Area
Keynote: Enigma
David Weis is the Location Intelligence product manager for MasterCard Advisors who partners with financial institutions and merchants to help solve business problems using location as a primary ingredient. Having spent over 15 years working with big data, David understand the power and complexities of location based services. Before joining MasterCard, David spent 10 years helping to build online interactive experiences. He is also an avid motorcycle enthusiast, professional photographer and baseball player.
May 23, 13:15 - Mercator Area
Keynote: Adventures in Applied LI: How MasterCard Creates Insights with Location Information
Previous to his role as CDO for the City of San Diego, Maksim spent nearly a decade solving complex problems with technology. He spent 2014 working as a Code For America fellow in Puerto Rico with a focus on economic development, and before that he was a Solutions Architect.
May 24, 11:00 - Mercator Area
Re-thinking Mobility in Cities
Enu Herzberg is the chief architect and head of Data @ Postmates, the nation’s largest app-enabled on-demand delivery network. With a diverse team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers, Postmates leverages real time insights, advanced analysis, and dynamic growth tools to fuel the delivery of ~3 million orders per month, from over 100,000 local businesses, in over 250 cities across the US, and Mexico. Enu lives in New York where he spends much of his downtime analyzing the explosive growth in avocado toast & is most proud of his perfect 5.0 Postmate rating.
May 23, 15:45 - Mercator Area
15 Million Miles of Burritos Later: Visualizing How On-demand Is Transforming Commerce & Communities
Andrew is the CEO and co-founder at Textile.io, where he is working on personal data technologies that enhance privacy and decentralization.
May 23, 11:00 - Robinson Area
Location in the Era of Privacy
Chris Whong is an urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie, and full-stack web developer. As Founder and Director of the progressive technology team NYC Planning Labs, he is promoting open technology, open source software, and open data at the NYC Department of City Planning.
May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area
Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities
May 24, 11:30 - Mercator Area
Building a Spatial Stack for NYC Planning
May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area
Sector Focus: LI for Social Good
David has been with AppGeo since 2012 as Senior Project Manager and GIS analyst on the Services Delivery Team, working on strategic engagements with state and local government as well as corporate customers.
May 24, 09:45 - Robinson Area
Leveraging Serverless Infrastructure to Bring LI to the NFPA
Ana Sofia joined Waze in 2015 and is responsible for creating insights-driven stories and uncovering business opportunities for advertisers using Waze’s unique data. Prior to joining Waze, Ana Sofia worked at Google as an Online Media Expert in Dublin.
May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area
Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization
Anthony is a senior geospatial data scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with a decade of experience and domain expertise in techno-economic analysis of renewable energy, solar resource assessment, and spatiotemporal modeling.
May 23, 16:45 - Mercator Area
Customer Breakout: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Paul has been working with geospatial software for over 15 years: consulting to government and industry; building a geospatial software company; and programming on open source software. He co-founded the PostGIS spatial database project in 2001, and is currently an active developer and member of the project steering committee.
May 23, 11:00 - Mercator Area
A Political Junkie's Journey into the Dark Soul of Data Science
Rodrigo has a BA in Economics and an MS in Data Science, both from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Rodrigo is on a permanent quest to design Artificial Intelligence algorithms that can help decision makers leverage the possibilities that geographic data can bring.
May 23, 16:45 - Robinson Area
The Predictive Power of Geospatial for Retailers
Prior to joining CARTO she was the Director of Data Discovery at Keyrus. She comes from a background of data analysis and integration, then as a consultant and across a range of industries.
May 24, 09:45 - Mercator Area
From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake
Raul is Head of Technology at CARTO, he takes care of leading and aligning everything technology-wise at CARTO. He joined the company in 2014 to develop and improve the tools, services, and APIs running it. He's a software engineer, with a background in computer science and several years of experience creating applications.
May 24, 11:30 - Robinson Area
Technology Trends in the LI World
Dillon is an accomplished designer and cartographer, having worked with the US Agency for International Development in Lima, Peru, where he led an online-mapping pilot program for USAID’s GeoCenter in Washington, DC.
May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area
Sector Focus: LI for Social Good
Hodges Ward Elliott is a commercial real estate investment advisory firm. One of the world’s top Hotel brokerages for over 40 years, HWE recently expanded into all classes of commercial real estate with the opening of the NYC office in 2015. Tim joined Hodges Ward Elliott in 2015 to build the Research Team from the ground up, with a focus on bringing the practices of Data Science to the commercial real estate investment world in a way the industry had not seen before.
May 23, 14:45 - Mercator Area
Profiting in Commercial Real Estate using Location Intelligence
Wenfei has a background in urban planning, economics, and design and is very excited to be combining those skills at CARTO. Previously, Wenfei worked the Civic Data Design Lab and Senseable Cities Lab at MIT.
May 24, 09:45 - Mercator Area
From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake
Matt is the Senior Customer Success Manager for CARTO's strategic projects and use cases. Matt's work focuses on implementing high value geospatial solutions for customers across a wide range of industries and use cases.
May 24, 11:00 - Robinson Area
Spatial Innovations in Commercial Planning and Logistics
Jeff Ferzoco is the Customer Success Manager for Public Sector and Urban Design. In his role, he uses his experience in design, workflow, and strategy to help CARTO customers make the best use of location to meet their goals.
May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area
Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities
Jeff Kaplan is the Director of Global Customer Success at CARTO. Jeff and the CS Team of experts work with our enterprise customers to ensure that together their location data and CARTO's technologies help them answer questions that have business impact.
May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area
Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization
Jorge started building Digital Products back when Netscape was still the hottest browser. With a background in Software Engineering, he pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers.
May 23, 14:00 - Mercator Area
The CARTO Product Roadmap
Tyler Bird is the Community Team Lead at CARTO. In this capacity he engages with non-profits, multilateral development institutions, the public sector, data science communities, and academia through Location Intelligence projects.
May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area
Sector Focus: LI for Social Good
Stuart initially studied mathematical physics at Edinburgh University before deciding astronomy was prettier and easier to explain in bars and obtained a Ph.D. in astrophysics.
May 23, 16:05 - Mercator Area
Black Belt in Spatial Analytics
Ariana is a venezuelan audiovisual communicator and awarded designer based in Madrid, with years of experience in the Web, Product, and Game Design industries. At CARTO, she juggles between working on product design and web/graphic design for all our marketing projects.
May 23, 11:30 - Robinson Area
Designing LI apps for User Experience
At CARTO, Michelle uses code, data, and maps to help others better understand their environmental context and make decisions in business and life. Michelle is a graduate of NYU's Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) program and previously worked as an analyst for the Manhattan District Attorney.
May 23, 14:45 - Robinson Area
When Data Science Met LI: A Love Story
Mamata Akella is Head of Cartography at CARTO. She has been a professional web cartographer since 2008 and has a passion for pushing the limits of cartographic design with current web technologies to build beautiful, well thought out maps.
May 23, 17:00 - Mercator Area
Cartography Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world
May 23, 09:00 - Mercator Area
The New LI Stack
May 24, 12:00 - Mercator Area




