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March 1-10th, 2022
Theme: Climate Change
WinterGeo | Canada's National Geospatial Conference

Join the Canadian Geospatial Community for two weeks of online engagement. GeoIgnite is a free event for the entire community. Updates from the Canadian private and public sector.

GeoIgnite’s “Winter Geo” is one video stream with breaks over 3 days. The event is online and free for the entire community. Claim your free ticket to access the stream. A series of free workshops and paid training follow from the 4th until the 10th.

Highlights from Government & NGOS:

  • Federal Government of Canada Geospatial Leaders Panel. 3 DGs “Discussing Canada’s recent investments in EO”
  • Agriculture Canada: “Monitoring the Impacts of Extreme Weather on Canada's Food Supply”
  • NRCan: “Increasing Canada’s resilience to flooding”
  • Northwest Territories: “Remote sensing of permafrost thaw landslides in the Northwest Territories”
  • World Geospatial Industry Council: “Discussing the first systematic mapping of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) capabilities from space”
  • The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): “Unpackaging the results of the OGC disaster response study”

Highlights & Panels from the main conference:

  • Diversity Leadership Panel: The importance of diverse perspective to combat Climate Change
  • Earth Observation Panel: Future Trends as they apply to real world problems
  • Keynote: Daniel Nord, Chief Product Officer and SVP of MAXAR Technologies
  • Keynote: Planetary scale: Our planet is in flux: pandemics, climate change, inequality with Will Cadell CEO Sparkgeo
  • Keynote: State of the Geospatial Industry, Sanjay Kumar, Founder & CEO of Geospatial World
  • MAXAR, Talk: Combatting IUU Fishing with Crow’s Nest Maritime Monitoring and Security
  • Planet, Talk: New Applications of Satellite Data for Agriculture
  • Nv5, Talk Remote Sensing and Analyses to Support Hydrospatial Solutions
  • Deploy Solutions, Nick Kellet, Building Software Solutions for Climate Change

Registration is free. The workshops are free too. We will have a slack channel for online networking and discussion
[Get tickets here: https://wintergeo.com/](https://wintergeo.com/)

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