Moderators
Consultant, Climatebase
Pravin Mathur is an Independent Consultant . He is a Past President of Chesapeake URISA and serves on the Advisory Board of Virginia's Geographic Information Network (VGIN).Till recently he was leading as the Senior Program Manager for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level...
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SRP GIS Coordinator, Idaho Army National Guard
Keith specializes in GIS applications in military lands management and range safety operations. He currently serves as the GIS Coordinator for the Sustainable Range Program with the Idaho Army National Guard and previously as a Lead GIS Developer for Colorado State University at the...
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GIS Consultant and Owner, Dynamic Visions GIS
GIS Consultant and owner of Dynamic Visions GIS. With over 10 years of experience in GIS, I have worked with local, state, and federal government entities, as well as the nonprofit and private sectors. I spent the last five years building and coordinating a County-level GIS program...
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Speakers
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Systems and Planning
Joe Ferreira is Professor (Post-tenure) of Urban Information Systems at MIT. His undergraduate degree (in electrical engineering) and his PhD (in operations research) are from MIT where he has been on the Department of Urban Studies and Planning faculty ever since. He uses GIS and...
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Response Coordination Lead, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Katie Picchione is a socio-technical systems engineer working at the intersection of emergency management and geographic data. Katie has been a volunteer with URISA’s GISCorps since 2021, where she helps lead the PhotoMappers program. Currently serving as Response Coordination Lead...
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URISA Past President/PAC Chair, Retired
Michael Glenn O’Grady was the founding chair of URISA’s PAC and is currently serving as chairman again, in addition to being on the URISA Board. He has been a member of URISA since 1979 and is a former URISA President. O’Grady retired from local government in 2006 after spending...
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