11-20, 09:30–09:55 (Pacific/Auckland), WG308 TE IRINGA
This talk will take you on a whirlwind tour of hidden and advanced features of the world's most popular open-source desktop GIS.
Did you know you can use QGIS from the command-line? ... or
Make a map using just expressions? ... or
Perform SQL queries on vector layers? ... or
Create 3D fly-throughs? ..
Come and discover new features and tools you didn't know existed in QGIS and - help you work faster and smarter.
Ujaval is the founder of Spatial Thoughts - a learning platform for modern geospatial technologies. Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is a world-renowned training facilitator and is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is an active QGIS community contributor and a QGIS.org certified training provider.