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This podcast will interview the visionaries, the entrepreneurs, the investors, the corporate leaders, and the newsmakers that have contributed to the explosive growth of location and geospatial technology applications that are providing enormous competitive advantages for today’s businesses. Location technology is now indispensable for businesses that are leveraging the power of place and a more mobile society.
Josef Strobl is a professor of geomatics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science, a member of the European academy of arts and sciences and a member of the executive committee for the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI).
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I will speak with Mike Liebhold a Distinguished Fellow, and Sr. Researcher at the Institute for the Future. If you’re not familiar with the institute, it’s a non profit that helps organizations shape their business strategy for the future based on today’s technological innovations and to exploit these technologies by anticipating the future that they want, not for the future that happens, according to Mike. As the IFTF is located in Palo Alto, Mike has a long history of providing direction to Bay area technology firms like Google and Apple as well as LucasFilm. We are at the cusp of a dramatic new era for geospatial technology so you want to miss this episode of OnPoint.
In this OnPoint with Korem, you’ll hear from Jack Levis, the former senior director of process management at UPS. His job was setting the direction for UPS' planning, execution, and control systems including corporate pickup, delivery, and transportation systems. UPS engaged in a digital transformation and modernization effort well before it become a common tech buzzword. And as a transportation company, it relied heavily on UPS’s ability to create a highly accurate framework of road and address data as well as the array of sensors on each delivery vehicle all integrated into a solution that was well ahead of its time. To learn more about the UPS’s journey into location intelligence and Jack’s vision, stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem
ARTHUR BERRILL is the Head of Location Intelligence at the Royal Bank of Canada, a multinational financial services company that is the largest bank in Canada. Mr. Berrill’s distinguished career in geospatial as the president of DMTI Spatial, and Vice President at Pitney Bowes and MapInfo. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Mr. Berrill is carrying a vision for location intelligence that bridges, big data, digital twins and how location data can be used to understand the impacts of climate change to a major financial institution like RBC. Stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, Gregory Brodski, the CEO of Traffic Information Consolidation or TICON, discusses how his company is bringing a new level of data driven opportunities for traffic analysis, transportation planning and Intelligent Transportation Systems using high-resolution traffic data and artificial intelligence especially for retail modelling and site selection. Mr. Brodski has a warning for convenience store and fuel retailers in the new era of electric vehicles. They need to make them more attractive to keep customers there longer or risk losing them to other locations like malls or hotels where consumers naturally spend a longer time. Mr. Brodski has a PhD in mechanical engineering and has spent the majority of his career in transportation planning and analysis. So stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.
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Lior Ron is the head of Uber Freight, the logistics support app that works to help carriers and shippers with real-time freight management to book and track primarily long haul loads and reduce time wasted waiting for the next load. Lior and Joe connected around 2007 when he was the Product Lead for Google Maps. He’s worked for Motorola Mobility, but is best known for co-founding, Otto, the company behind self-driving trucks that was acquired by Uber for $600 million in 2016. Lior was well ahead of the curve in understanding the power of location intelligence, so you won’t want to miss this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
Today we receive Ed Parsons of Google. His job is to evangelize location-based solutions and look at beyond the current status quo of geospatial technology and into the practical applications of what’s next in Geotech. Ed’s career is incredibly broad. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and a professional member of the British Computer Society. Ed was the UK Ordnance survey’s first chief technology officer where he worked from 2001 to 2006. He has an honorary Ph.D from Kingston University in recogniztion to his many contributions in the field of GIS.
Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.
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Karl Doenges is the EV Charging Industry Liaison for the National Association of Convenience Stores or NACS. If you are at all interested in the market for electric vehicles, the need for more raw materials for batteries, for manufacturing facilities of vehicles, for the energy infrastructure you’ll need to listen further. And where does of location intelligence come in. Who’s going to win? Will it be existing fuel retailers other types of convenience stores or places like hotels or malls where charging for longer periods of time is a necessary factor. This will be a tutorial on the ev market so stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.
Asif Khan is the founder of the Location Based Marketing Association. There’s no better individual than Asif to understand how retailers and consumer product good manufacturers are leveraging location-based marketing. He’s watched the industry mature over his more than 20-year career and he currently hosts the Location Weekly podcast, now in its 12th year of production. In addition, he is the CEO of Ground Level, a startup turning location-based data into insights.
Gary Menger is President and Founder of Applied Geographic Solutions, one of only a handful of companies that provides demographic data products to organizations. And as you will hear, there are some interesting findings in the 2020 Census and AGS knows better than most of the errors that are introduced into the Census because of how the data was both collected, processed and then released for public consumption. Stay tuned for this episode of Onpoint with Korem to hear more about the good bad and ugly of the 2020 Census.
Shell, the multinational energy company, is in a huge transitionary period between servicing drivers of cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE) as well as those buying new electric vehicles (eV). Each require an entirely different set of servicing needs. Drivers of each vehicle type will be assessing how they “fill up” or “top up” their ICE or eVs, respectively, and when and where they do so. It’s an challenge that will be addressed in this episode of On Point with Korem as we interview Tammy Gasan-Dzhalalova, Head of North Americas eMobility at Shell.
Caroline Arnouk is CEO of OPA Technologies, a Montreal-based startup that is meeting the needs of both city transportation managers and citizens alike with publishing near-real time traffic congestion information directly. The sources of data related to road closures, construction sites or other assets under repair come directly from city engineers using an interface developed by OPA. OPA is using geospatial technology to gather and publish these data so that vehicle traffic can flow more smoothly and citizens become a little more friendly on the highway.
Matt Sheehan is the host of the Geospatial Next podcast and strategist for Locana, a Denver based location technology services company. Matt and I take on the notion that geospatial technology is now indispensable to most government or private industry organizations. We challenge the notion that geospatial is just about maps and for that matter, it can’t be only about visualization if it is to become an indispensable part of mainstream enterprise computing solution that everyday knowledge workers will adopt as the differentiating technology for continuous business innovation.
This is Nigel Clifford, the former Chief Executive of the UK Ordnance Survey and now the President of the Royal Geographic Society as well as the current Deputy Commissioner of the UK’s Geospatial Commission. Those experiences illustrate the extent to which Mr. Clifford exerts enormous influence in the development of geospatial innovation and leadership within the UK and globally. Note one very key comment where he says that geospatial technology is now a “general purpose” software solution, meaning that it is as significant and important in everyday use as a word processor or a spreadsheet. Stay tuned for more of our conversation in this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
Robert B. Murrett is a Professor of Practice on the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law at the University. He is also on the adjunct staff of the RAND Corporation and the Institute for Defense Analyses. He serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at SU, the Board of the National Intelligence University Foundation, and is responsible for a series of ongoing research projects between the University and the Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center. Previously, Murrett was a career intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, serving in assignments throughout the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East through his thirty-four years of duty, retiring in the grade of Vice Admiral. His duty stations included service as Operational Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Assistant Naval Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, senior intelligence officer for the U.S. Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic, and Director for Intelligence, U.S. Joint Forces Command. For his last ten years on active duty, he served as Vice Director for Intelligence, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of Naval Intelligence, and Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Javier de la Torre is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CARTO. CARTO’s emergence as one of the key geospatial companies leading innovation in cloud native technologies has transformed the company from being known as only an easy-to-use visualization tool. In fact, CARTO’s focus on bringing analytics to cloud data platforms has it well positioned to take advantage of the inflection point we are seeing in the adoption of location intelligence.
This is Barbara Ryan, the former associate director for geography at the U.S. Geological Survey and former Secretariat director of the Group on Earth Observations and now the executive director of the World Geospatial Industry Council. Having seen the geospatial industry develop from a number of perspectives both in government and non-profit organizations, Ms. Ryan has an extraordinary sense of where the geospatial industry his headed in the next decade and now leads an organization supporting public-private partnerships. I hope you enjoy this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, Kevin Wang, the Vice President of Advanced Analytics for Prologis, the real estate company that supplies warehouse space, speaks about the critical use of geospatial technology. Today, warehouse space is at a premium and a vital element in the supply chain for moving goods across the country and around the world. Hear how Mr. Wang’s team is leveraging a key geospatial application developed by Korem to keep the supply chain running efficiently.
Gil Castle, whose career spans the time when GIS was first utilized by businesses for planning, analysis and in particular for a competitive advantage. As a keen observer of the technology, he then published one of the first books that detailed the many applications of GIS for businesses and how to capitalize on the technology: the book "Profiting from a Geographic Information System" was published in 1993 and opened up a new chapter in how GIS was adopted beyond traditional applications like government. Gil worked in several start up companies, most all with a focus on real estate. Enjoy this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, Christophe Charpentier, the director for transportation networks and delivery at Wayfair, the online retailer, discusses the challenges faced by organizations capturing immense amounts of data and in particular for retailers like Wayfair who are facing major obstacles with supply chain bottlenecks. Mr. Charpentier has also had an interesting career with stops at Esri and Amazon, so you won’t want to miss this episode of OnPoint.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I sat down with Jeff Jonas, an entrepreneur and a former distinguished engineer with IBM who is now the founder and CEO of Senzing. Senzing is a company that does Entity Resolution. What’s entity resolution? Let’s say your favorite hotel chain has three different loyalty club account numbers for you. How do they know all three are just one person? Or the government is trying to prevent a known terrorist into the country and the watch list has a slight name variation that should resolve whether it’s the same person or not. Entity resolution then is recognizing when two observations relate to the same entity. So, how much of this uses geospatial technology…all of it. Does this sound a little boring…maybe, but Jeff is anything but boring. I promise you’ll learn something so let’s hear from Jeff in this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
In this episode of OnPoint, I sat down with Ben Edelman, the vice president of Syndicated Telecom for Kantar, a worldwide media agency focused on providing data insights and strategy for brand development. Ben faces the challenge that many companies are facing today with dealing with the barrage of data and being able to geospatially analyze it faster for both marketing and competitive intelligence, specifically in his world to understand the potential of 5G and wireless internet access. And as you can tell, he’s right in the thick of it. Hear more in this episode of OnPoint with Korem.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I spoke with Dennis Crowley, the founder and former CEO of Foursquare. Dennis discussed the company’s evolution from the days when Foursquare was known as the “check-in” app until today as one of the leading providers of hyper-local mobile movement and points of interest data. We also discussed the direction of Foursquare and consolidation of the mobile data industry and perhaps where it’s headed next. Stay tuned for another episode of OnPoint.
For many years, Ryerson University has been known as one of the best schools in which to study retail location theory. And today, I’ll be speaking with Dr. Joe Aversa, an Assistant Professor at Ryerson Ted Rogers School of Retail Management in Toronto, Canada. His current research interests and teaching responsibilities include retail location decision-making, big data analytics, retail planning and location strategy. All the topics related to the focus of our podcast series... where geospatial technology meets business. Stay tuned.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Bryan Mistele, CEO and founder of INRIX. We discussed the nature of how the collection of traffic and other mobility data is impacting everything from connected and autonomous vehicles to how this might impact the urban environment. Bryan discussed how cities will be transformed with more dynamic information, like optimizing traffic signal timing but also using location information arbitrage that hedge funds are leveraging to predict stocks prices. He thinks that whether its traffic lights, tolls, or sending messages to trucks and vehicles already on the road to avoid delays of even your latest amazon order, more dynamic data will lead to benefits for consumers.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I had the opportunity to speak with Andy Dearing, the former CEO of Boundless Geo and now General Partner and Geospatial Project Lead at GeoFutures STL, an organization leading the economic development of geospatial technology in the St. Louis area. We spoke about a breadth of topics including the changing nature of deploying both open source as well as commercial geospatial solutions and the tradeoffs of both and how this has impacted the ability to find qualified technologists that are skilled in both programming and location analytics.
In this episode of On Point with Korem I sat down with Kevin Pomfret, a lawyer with Williams Mullen but also the director of the Center for spatial law and policy. Kevin is one of the few people in the legal profession that has studied the implications of geospatial technology with respect to licensing, data privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory issues. We cover a tremendous amount of ground during this conversation so if you’ve had questions about the legal constraints around data use as well as personally identifiable information, drones and even the impact of Apple’s iOS14 release, you won’t want to miss this podcast.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I spoke with Dr. Sarah Battersby, a principal research scientist at Tableau, a Salesforce company and a former associate professor of geography at the university of South Carolina. Dr. Battersby spoke to the issue regarding the overlap of functionality between GIS and business intelligence and how much functionality should be developed within BI tools vs. how much is actually used and needed. She talked about how location analytics has become a true differentiator in the BI space. As a former university professor she advocated for the need to insert geospatial technology into curriculums designed for the business professionals.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Alan Smart. He’s the chairman of the Tasmanian Spatial Industry Council in Australia. We looked back a few years to a study that Alan was involved with sponsored by ACIL Tasman, a consulting firm, that attempted to value geospatial technology to a country’s individual gross domestic product (GDP). The results were absolutely fascinating because what was found was that between 0.6% and 1.2% of GDP was because of the productivity offered by geospatial technology.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, Jan Kestle, the CEO and Founder of Environics Analytics discusses how geography is the secret sauce inside of data and analytics as well as the overall importance of space in data. Jan noted that there are more solutions to leverage spatial analytics and that certainly the technology is available to more people. As such, Jan discussed promoting how universities need to take an interdisciplinary approach to educating students about the use of geospatial technology and also about how this new era of mobile movement data provides exception insights.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I’ll be speaking with Matt O’Connell, he’s the former CEO of GEOEYE and an operating partner at Data Collective Venture Capital. Matt, long ago saw the value in satellite imagery as a play in the data market and is now looking at the value of geospatial technology and imagery data in both the transportation and logistics industry as a form of information arbitrage. It’s a great discussion with someone who is looking at the geospatial industry from a financial perspective. Stay tuned.
In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I’ll be speaking to Lynne Schneider, an analyst with the market research firm, IDC. Lynne focuses her research specifically on the location intelligence market and speaks regularly with both companies utilizing the technology as well as vendors. We discuss the rise of data marketplaces, how providers of cloud-native technology are supporting geospatial data and the impact this is having on users of business intelligence solutions. I think you’ll find this a very informative discussion who takes an analytical and agnostic view of location intelligence market.
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Dean Stoecker, Founder, former CEO and now executive chairman of the board of Alteryx. Dean founded the company in 1997 first as Spatial Re-Engineering Consultants or SRC and changed its name to Alteryx in 2010. Dean spoke about how his platform evolved and how he coined the phrase “Data is the rocket fuel of GIS…the elixir of life”. We started our conversation on the evolution of the technology and growth of geospatial as a part of analytics. Dean shared that “if we could nail geospatial and make it easy, all the other analytics as part of the analytic continuum would be ‘drop dead’ easy…”. Enjoy this discussion with one of the premier CEOs in the field of digital transformation!
In this episode of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Charity Rumery, the General Manager of HERE Technologies North America. Charity comes from the automotive side of HERE where she discussed what we can expect for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In addition, we talked about the rise of data marketplaces and where HERE sees growth in reaching new consumer of geospatial data and technology.
In 2020, Forrester, the market research company, named only two leaders in their study of location intelligence platforms. And today, in the first episode of this new podcast On Point with Korem, I’ll be speaking with the CEO of one of those companies, Josh Rogers of Precisely. Josh has taken Precisely through enormous transition over the past two years; first uniting Syncsort with Pitney Bowes Software and more recently with acquisitions of Infogix and Winshuttle to create one of the few global companies capable of tackling the deluge of data that many companies face as they undergo their transformation to digital, but in particular as they leverage location technology. Please join me for this inaugural episode of On Point with Korem.
This podcast will interview the visionaries, the entrepreneurs, the investors, the corporate leaders, and the newsmakers that have contributed to the explosive growth of location and geospatial technology applications that are providing enormous competitive advantages for today’s businesses. Location technology is now indispensable for businesses that are leveraging the power of place and a more mobile society.