Featured Speakers
Moderators
Chris Fisher
Founder and Director
The Earth Archive
Professor Colorado State University
Este Geraghty
Chief Medical Officer & Health Solutions Director
Esri
Gavin Schrock
Program Moderator/Consulting Editor
GoGeomatics
Girish Joshi
Board Advisor, Strategic Advisor
The Earth Archive
Stephen Leisz
Co-Director
The Earth Archive
Professor Colorado State University
Grace Ellis
PhD Student in Anthropology / Graduate Student Researcher
Colorado State University / Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior
Plenary Speakers
Nadine Alameh
CEO
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Peter Atalla
Founder and CEO
Voxelmaps, Inc
Tasso Azevedo
General Coordinator
MapBiomas and SEEG
Professor of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Speaker Coach, Speechwriter, Communications Specialist
TED / TEDx
Founder and CEO
GEO1
Graduate Student
Arizona State University
Arlen Chase
Professor of Anthropology
Pomona College
Diane Chase
Vice President for Academic Innovation, Student Success, and Strategic Initiatives
Claremont Graduate University
Steve Coast
Founder
OpenStreetMap
Patrick Cozzi
CEO
Cesium
Research Fellow
French Institute of Asian Studies
Carlos Fausto
Professor of Anthropology
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
MacArthur Curator / Adjunct Professor
Field Museum / University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Katie Fitzsimmons
Business Development Manager
Hexagon
Larry Fox
VP Marketing and Business Development
Bad Elf LLC
André Franco
Research Scientist
Colorado State University
David Gadsden
Director of Conservation Solutions
Esri
Senior Research Scientist and Professor
Colorado State University
Robert Hanson
Senior Vice President / President Elect
WGI / MAPPS
Susanna Hecht
Professor of Urban Planning, Political Ecologist
UCLA
Co-Founder
CompassData
Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Martin Isenburg
The LAStools Guy
rapidlasso GmbH
Brian Killough
Head of CEOS Systems Engineering Office
NASA Langley Research Center
Vijay Krishnan
General Manager
Intel Geospatial
Thomas Lovejoy
Senior Fellow Biodiversity and Environmental Science, United Nations Foundation
Professor George Mason University
Founder
Verses.io and The Spatial Web Foundation
Keith Masback
Principal Consultant
Plum Run LLC
Associate Professor
Colorado State University
Professor of Computer Science
Colorado State University
Keith Peterson
Product Manager
Trimble
Mark Plotkin
President
Amazon Conservation Team
Douglas Preston
Journalist / Best Selling Author
Earth Archive Board Member
Professor of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
José Luis Punzo-Díaz
Archaeologist
National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH
Steven Ramage
Head of External Relations
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Barbara Ryan
Executive Director
World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)
William Sarni
Founder and CEO
Water Foundry
Vernon L. Scarborough
Charles Phelps Taft Professor in Anthropology
University of Cincinnati
Division Manager - Airborne Laser Scanning
RIEGL
Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Chicago
Physical Scientist / President
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Postdoctoral Fellow / Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment
Field Museum / University of Texas at Austin
Ecuador AOI Speakers
Ferrán Cabrero
Professor
Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Florencio Delgado
Professor
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Corey Herrmann
Ph.D. Candidate
Yale University
Juan Jijón
Director
Cerros Hojas-Jaboncillo Research Center
Catherine Lara
Principle Investigator
IRD/Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos
Fernando Mejía
Director, Archaeological Areas of Ecuador
Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (INPC)
J.J. Ortiz-Aguilu
Professor
Universidad Tecnica de Manabi
Estanislao Pazmiño
Ph.D. Candidate
Yale University
Francisco Valdez
Principle Investigator
IRD/Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos
James Zeidler
Emeritus Research Scientist
Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
Colorado State University
Bolivia AOI Speakers
David A. Harrison III Professor of Archaeology
University of Virginia
Carla Jaines Betancourt
Lecturer Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology Department of Ancient American Studies
Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
University of Bonn
Clark Erickson
Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Jose Iriarte
Professor of Archaeology
University of Exeter
Umberto Lombardo
Post-doc Researcher
University of Bern
John Walker
Associate Professor
UCF Department of Anthropology
Brazil AOI Speakers
Eduardo Neves
Professor of Archaeology
Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
University of São Paulo
Senior Researcher and Director of the Earth System Science Centre
National Institute for Space Research (CCST/INPE), Brazil
Guyana / French Guyana / Suriname AOI Speakers
Louisa Daggers
Researcher / Archaeologist
University of Guyana
Irene Meulenberg
Policy Advisor
Archaeological Service Suriname
Mark Plew
Professor / Archaeologist
Boise State University
Research Senior
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Santosh Singh
Independent Researcher
Cheryl White
Senior Lecturer / Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
Anton de Kom University of Suriname
Venezuela AOI Speakers
Rafael Gassón
Assistant Professor / Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
Universidad del Norte
Natalia Lozada Mendieta
Assistant Professor
Universidad de Los Andes
Jose Oliver
Reader Latin American Archaeology
University College London
Peru AOI Speakers
Aldo Bolaños
Archaeologist / Earth Archive Regional Coordinator
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
Colombia AOI Speakers
PhD Student in Anthropology / Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Anthropology - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities