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Alice Gadney

Founder & President, Silver7 Mapping & Mini Map-Makers Bedford, England “Captain Alice” Gadney’s mission underscores much of the geospatial work done globally: “To help people understand the world around them and their need for a great communications tool—the map.” She applies this mission to her work with industries and organizations through her cartography company, Silver7...

Elena Buenrostro

Founder & CEO, Women Who Drone New York, USA By the summer of 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. had already reached the 100,000 mark for part 107 small UAS operator registrations. The number of units for non-military UAS is expected to triple to over three million units by 2022—or more. Elana Buenrosto...

Rebecca Aguilar

Support Specialist, Topcon Positioning Systems California, USA Even the savviest users of the increasingly powerful geomatics/geospatial hardware and software sometimes need a helping hand. With great power can come great conundrums that, without excellent support resources, can be difficult to solve—especially with deadlines and spiraling costs on the line. Rebecca Aguilar has already proven to...

Justin Barton

Product Manager, Laser Scanning Systems, Leica Geosystems California, USA An early adopter and long-time practitioner of laser scanning, Justin Barton comes from an archeology background and spent nearly a decade with the world-renowned team of CyArk, a non-profit that creates digital records of sites and works of historic significance. Barton studied anthropology at UC Berkeley,...

Bronwyn Denton

Project Manager, AllTerra Land Surveying Ltd Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada While it is estimated that fewer than 10% of surveyors in British Columbia, Canada, are women, the numbers are rising, as is interest in the profession from young career seekers. This increase is reflected in more surveying lead and management positions for women in the...

Jacky C.K. Chow

President, Vusion Technologies Calgary, Canada Jacky Chow is a passionate and talented researcher in the fields of sensor fusion, robotics, machine learning, calibration, biomedical imaging, and numerical optimization. His work covers a broad scope of applications, from calibrating omnidirectional cameras for robot vision to using photogrammetric techniques for monitoring of burns patients. Although he has...