Toru Mori
Toru Mori is a geospatial industry leader and long-time advocate of FOSS4G in Japan.
He is the founder of Orkney, Inc., which helped introduce open source geospatial technologies to the Japanese market, and worked with Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan on the early internationalization of GRASS GIS and MapServer.
In 2006, he founded the OSGeo Japan Chapter and served as its first representative, helping launch FOSS4G conferences in Japan.
He is also an OSGeo Charter Member.
Today, he serves as a board director of MIERUNE, where he continues to promote open geospatial technologies and support the broader OSGeo community.
Sessions
This session will focus on the very early days of the open source geospatial community, including GRASS, UMN MapServer, the first FOSS4G conference in Bangkok, and the establishment of OSGeo.
The session will be featuring the three keynote speakers together with OSGeo President Jeroen Ticheler and several current OSGeo leaders and contributors.