Koji Annoura
Koji Annoura is a Japan-based knowledge infrastructure and graph researcher with over four decades of experience in software engineering and long-standing leadership in open-source communities. He co-founded the Neo4j Users Group Tokyo and later established the Apache Hop User Group Japan, organizing more than 50 technical events. He speaks internationally on graph technologies and knowledge design, focusing on durable knowledge infrastructures. He is the author of A Technical Guidebook to Cloud Native Databases and The Practical Guide to macOS X Server, and served as technical reviewer for Graph Data Processing with Cypher.
Session
Open-source GIS tools such as QGIS and PostGIS excel at spatial analysis, but in earthquake-prone regions like Japan, layered maps alone are often insufficient. This talk introduces a practical extension that adds relational modeling to existing workflows, improving transparency and decision support in complex disaster scenarios.