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Martin Isenburg: “May the FOSS be with LAZ”

Martin Isenburg Martin Isenburg received his MSc in 1999 from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, and his PhD in 2004 from UNC in Chapel Hill, USA -- both in Computer Science. Currently he is an independent...

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Ann Johnson: “I’m never gonna be as cool as Eric Gundersen”

Ann Johnson Ann Johnson is a technology industry veteran with close to 30 years of progressively responsible experience in all sectors of the industry. With a long career spanning many companies...

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Marc Pfister: “I enjoy that I can see my work get turned into large physical...

Marc Pfister Reading his bio, one might get the impression that Marc Pfister is the prototypical geohipster. After studying mechanical engineering, he was a bicycle designer by day, and DJ by night. He...

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Eric Gundersen & Alex Barth: “Working in the open lets us meet really cool...

Eric Gundersen (top) and Alex Barth As CEO of Mapbox, Eric Gundersen coordinates product and business development. Eric has been with the team since the start, and splits his time working on projects...

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Nathan Woodrow: “Having non-programming hobbies is super important to your...

Nathan Woodrow Nathan Woodrow is a QGIS developer, blogger, father, and reborn Warhammer 40K lover. He has been an active developer and member of the QGIS project for the last five years. His QGIS/GIS...

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Jenny Allen: “Build applications and services that delight the geo-nervous or...

Jenny Allen Jenny Allen is a Product Manager in the Search Team at HERE. She's worked in and out of the geo-industry for many years and lives happily in Berlin, Germany. You can follow her on twitter...

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Javier de la Torre: “There are a ton of European geo-startups trying to...

Javier de la Torre Javier de la Torre is the CEO of CartoDB, a global startup democratizing data analysis and visualization on maps. He is a former scientist with a research focus on biodiversity...

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Maziyar Boustani: “GISCube is unique because it offers geoprocessing on the web”

Maziyar Boustani Maziyar Boustani received his bachelor’s degree in Iran, then moved to US to receive his master's degree in GIS. After finishing his school in 2012, he started working at NASA Jet...

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Peter Batty: “I really dislike the whole attitude that GIS is this...

Peter Batty Peter Batty is a co-founder and CTO of the geospatial division at Ubisense. He has worked in the geospatial industry for 29 years, and has served as CTO for two leading companies in the...

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Coleman McCormick: “We have enough tools out there that look great and don’t...

Coleman McCormick Coleman McCormick is the VP of Products at Spatial Networks where he leads the product team for Fulcrum, a mobile mapping platform for field collection. He has a degree in geography,...

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Matthew Baker: “Breaking free from a traditional set of tools is a relief and...

Matthew Baker Matthew Baker has been in the geospatial industry for 10 years, having studied in Windsor, Ontario and Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia Canada before working at an Urban Planning firm in...

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Alex Leith: “A picture tells a thousand words, a map tells a million”

Alex Leith Alex is currently employed as a Spatial Information Analyst at TasNetworks and is a director at the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute. Alex graduated with a degree in Surveying and...

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Raf Roset: “If it weren’t for old maps, we would have been lost long ago”

Raf Roset Rafael Roset has been working at the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) for the last 28 years in different positions related to information technologies and geospatial...

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Lakshmanan Venkatesan: “When my wife texts me “Where are you?”, I respond...

Lakshmanan Venkatesan Lakshmanan (@iamlaksh1) is a domain consultant, GIS enthusiast, developer, and a blogger.   Q: Thank you for agreeing to talk with GeoHipster. Let’s start by discussing your...

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Keith Masback: “You are where you are because someone extended you a hand...

Keith Masback CEO, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation *Member of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote...

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Machiko Yasuda: “You’d be surprised how much spatial thinking is involved in...

Machiko Yasuda Machiko Yasuda (machiko.co) is a journalist-turned-web developer, who especially likes writing Ruby. She loves to teach and organize. She has taught bike safety, web development at...

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Shoreh Elhami: “GISCorps is nothing without its volunteers”

Shoreh Elhami Shoreh Elhami is the founder of GISCorps, a URISA program that coordinates the deployment of volunteers to communities in need around the world. GISCorps was endorsed as a program by the...

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John Reiser: “The best work often occurs once you move outside of your...

John Reiser John Reiser is a Business Intelligence Analyst at Rowan University. He previously worked in state government and in a private planning firm. John is active in several professional...

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Jan Erik Solem: “Only start something if you are willing to spend at least...

  Jan Erik Solem Jan Erik Solem is the CEO of Mapillary and is passionate about all things computer vision-related. Prior to co-founding Mapillary in 2013, he founded Polar Rose -- a face recognition...

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Will Cadell: “People talk about ‘thinking outside the box’; I don’t think...

Will Cadell Will Cadell is the founder and CEO of Sparkgeo.com, a Prince George-based business which builds geospatial technology for some of the biggest companies on Earth. Since starting Sparkgeo, he...

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