FOSS4G NA 2024

Aaron M Laver
  • Modernizing Data Automation: Introducing RESTerville
Adeel Hassan
  • Embed all the things: the promise of geospatial vector embeddings
Alex Mandel
  • Big EO-data Visualization in Browser Notebooks
  • Stac and EO Data Birds of a Feather
  • Your API is not enough: delivering data the last mile
Andrea Aime
  • OGC APIs, an introduction with GeoServer
  • Vector tiles with GeoServer
  • State of GeoServer
  • Demystifing OGC APIs with GeoServer: introduction and status of implementation
  • Earth observation data with GeoServer: COG, STAC, OpenSearch and more...
  • Raster Attribute Tables in GeoServer
  • MapML, maps in HTML, with GeoServer support
  • Vector mosaicking with GeoServer
Andrew Vinson
  • Intro to GIS using R
Atma Mani
  • Lean and scalable raster lookup service built using COGs
Ben Conklin
  • Transforming Janes: Military Intelligence via OpenGIS Standards and Knowledge Graphs
Bob Basques

Bob Basques - SharedGeo, Technical Director - 30 plus years of experience with management of geo-data online services and systems integration. Retired from the City of Saint Paul, Mn. Public Works after 37 years. Founding member of the GeoMoose project. Presented in the past at numerous Geo related conferences and events, including Minnesota GIS/LIS, MEA, FOSS4G(NA). Like to build and understand the limits of build materials.

  • FuzionView - Sharing 811 (call before you dig) data.
Brandon Krumwiede
  • Benthic Mapping Efforts Using Open Data and Open Software
Carina Hoyer
  • Fast, Organized Interactive Web Maps with R Shiny
  • Scraping GeoSpatial Data from Web Maps
Christopher Tucker
  • Open Source Implementations of the OGC API - Connected Systems Standard
Chuck Daniels
  • On-the-fly raster visualizations leveraging STAC metadata standards
  • Big EO-data Visualization in Browser Notebooks
Corey White
  • Developing web-application with GRASS GIS
  • OpenPlains Inc.: A First-Year Retrospective
  • GRASS GIS as Geocomputational Engine
  • State of GRASS GIS
Dan "Ducky" Little
  • Structures in 3D: Opening up Construction
  • Deploy a WebGIS with no code and no server
Dan Baston
  • Speeding up raster/vector zonal analysis with exactextract
Dan Mahr
  • Harmonizing datums and tectonic epochs in drone data using PROJ
Dan Pilone
  • Build vs Buy ... vs Open Source?
Daniel Dufour
  • State of GeoBlaze
Daniel J. Dufour
  • Introduction to Data Engineering
Danielle Stollak
  • The Road to 10 Million Downloads: Building Open Source Community
Danny Im
  • Fridge - providing access to crysophere data with open source tools
Dariya Draganova
  • Making California’s 30x30 Data Happen with GeoPandas
Dave Cook
  • Building Lean AI/ML: Open Approaches to Optimal Training Data
David Miller
  • Web-based National Weather Service Guidance Data Displays Using FOSS4G
David Siamon
  • Image Metadata Generation with FOSS LLMs
Deepak Cherian
  • Vector Data Cubes in Python with Xarray and Zarr
Edoardo Neerhut
  • Mapillary: An open platform for street-level imagery
Elizabeth Christensen
  • Postgres and PostGIS Ops Management
  • Web Maps from PostGIS with pg_featureserv and pg_tileserv
Emanuele Tajariol
  • Introduction to GeoNode, the Open Source geospatial CMS
  • State of GeoNode
Emily Vratarich
  • Open Source in U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Update Applications
Fredrick Bunt
  • Introducing Raster Tools
Garrett Tate
  • Leveraging ArcGIS Investments Alongside FOSS4G & Open-Source Data
Ghermay Araya
  • Leveraging ArcGIS Investments Alongside FOSS4G & Open-Source Data
Giovanni Allegri

GIS specialist and software architect at GeoSolutions, where I lead the Python and Django team.

I've started my career as a GIS/EO data scientist and Spatial Data Infrastructures specialist, based for the most part on open source technologies and business models. In this context, I've worked for several public institutions and private companies, as a consultant, developer and solutions provider.

I've had the opportunity to contribute to and lead the development of several projects, ranging from mobile apps and web platforms to data infrastructures and distributed data processing pipelines.
Whatever the kind of product it is, I enjoy translating a customer idea into an effective solution.
My current main technical focus is software design and product management.

Hobbies? Sound design, music technologies, and programming.

  • Introduction to GeoNode, the Open Source geospatial CMS
  • State of GeoNode
Hanbyul Jo
  • On-the-fly raster visualizations leveraging STAC metadata standards
Henry Rodman
  • Using eoAPI to find land for natural capital projects
Howard Butler
  • Point Cloud Processing and Analysis with PDAL
  • Building the GDAL Sponsorship Program
  • Business of Open Source Birds of a Feather
Huidae Cho
  • Evolution of GRASS GIS
  • An OpenMP Algorithm for Delineating a Large Number of Watersheds
Isaac Brodsky
  • Blazing fast geospatial SQL in DuckDB
Jason Gilman
  • Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to Geospatial Search and Analysis
Jayita Bhojwani
  • Park equity for California - Producing open data from opensource software
Jeff Thompson
  • EASE-DGGS - A scalable framework for spatial analytics
Jeff Wang
  • Tracking detected vessels at sea from unmanned surface vehicles
Jenna Dolecek

Jenna Dolecek is a seasoned Open Source Analyst and Investigator with over a decade of in-country and desk-based research experience, specializing in human rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal investigations. Renowned for her prowess in open source investigation, geospatial intelligence, and data analysis, she also actively contributes to the development of her peers by imparting valuable skills and expertise through mentoring and consulting. Possessing an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Essex, Jenna uses her human rights and humanitarian law background and technical open source skills to help advance international accountability efforts. Jenna currently provides human rights open source training courses for the Global Human Rights Group, is a rostered Open Source Investigation and Geospatial Analysis Expert with Justice Rapid Response, is an Investigator with OSINT For Ukraine, and is an Investigator at the Centre for Information Resilience working on the Myanmar Witness and Eyes on Russia programs. She was previously with the United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.

  • How GIS Takes Down Bad Guys and Preserves Truth
Jennings Anderson

Software Engineer at Meta working on Overture Maps

  • Overture Map Data – what, why, & how
Jian Wu
  • Tracking detected vessels at sea from unmanned surface vehicles
Jinha Jung
  • Open Source Pipeline to Integrate Drone and Satellite Data
Joe Burkinshaw
  • Building a React Component Library for Geospatial Web Applications
John Hogland
  • Environment setup and predictive modeling
  • Transforming data into useful information for natural resource decision making
Jonathan Mason
  • Tracking detected vessels at sea from unmanned surface vehicles
Joseph Miller
  • Vector mosaicking with GeoServer
Joseph Svrcek
  • Geospatial Workflows with Large Language Models
Josh Paul
  • Rasdaman: Hypercubes for Climate Data Science
Joshua Carlson
  • Your Very Own OSM! Create A Regional Extract of OpenStreetMap
Katherine Moore Powell
  • Tethys Platform Simplifies Open-Source GIS Decision Support Web Applications
Kyle Redilla
  • Rasdaman: Hypercubes for Climate Data Science
Lauren Frederick
  • Geospatial Radar Report 2024: Evolution and evaluation of emerging trends
Leo Hsu
  • Using PostGIS
  • pgRouting: An introduction
Maria Panaccione
  • Open Source in U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Update Applications
Mariana Curdoglo
  • Importance of Public Remote Sensing Data for Companies Like Planet
Mark Mathis
  • AI Wrangling in the Early 21st Century
Martin Davis
  • Faster, Better Spatial Relationship Evaluation with RelateNG
Matthew Graber
  • NASA GIBS and Worldview: Enabling Open Exploration of our World
Matthew Hanson
  • STAC for Public EO Data
  • The Sensor Tasking API (STAPI) Specification
Matthew Rocklin
  • Pangeo History: A Tale of Large Scale Computational Infrastructure
Matthew Whitehead
  • Leveraging FOSS to develop an OSINT visualization/analytics framework
Michael Smith
  • Point Cloud Processing and Analysis with PDAL
Michele Tobias
  • Cartography for Professional Quality Maps in QGIS
  • My Talk is Just Beach (Remote Sensing).
Nathan McEachen
  • Bringing Geospatial Awareness to LLMs Using Open-Source Software
  • KnowSTAC: Framework for Creating Dynamic and Knowledge-Interoperable STAC Indexes
Nathan Smail
  • QGIS and QField Uses for Environmental Remediation
Nicholas Harvey
  • Image Metadata Generation with FOSS LLMs
Nicholas Knize, PhD
  • Optimized Geospatial Indexing for Hybrid Search and GeoAI
Nick Doiron
  • Redistricting New York City with Districtr
Nicola Kitumetsi Chiware
  • Harnessing technologies in effective Monitoring and Evaluation-Water hyacinth
Nicole Hunt
  • Lifelines Data Series. Accessibility and Interpretability- EO Data for Humanitarians
Omar Kawach

Omar is a biotechnologist, geographer and computer scientist who works at Esri as an Engineer on the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript and Arcade expression language. Omar's main focus is to help develop and integrate modern web components.

  • Map as Web Components: How to Include Map Applications Anywhere
Patrick Hoefler
  • Geoscience at Massive Scale
Per Thyselius
  • Using FOSS4G to process and visualize METOC data
Pete Gadomski

Pete Gadomski is a geospatial software developer based out of Longmont, CO. His focus areas include lidar, the STAC specification and its software ecosystem, writing geospatial software in Rust, and snow and ice research. In his spare time he likes to run trails and ski snow.

  • stac-rs: high-performance, reliable STAC tooling with Rust
Peter Herman
  • Fast, Organized Interactive Web Maps with R Shiny
  • Scraping GeoSpatial Data from Web Maps
Peter Rushforth
  • MapML, maps in HTML, with GeoServer support
Qiusheng Wu
  • Open Source Pipeline to Integrate Drone and Satellite Data
  • Interactive Analysis and Visualization of Geospatial Data with Leafmap
Rajat Shinde
  • Big EO-data Visualization in Browser Notebooks
Randal Hale
  • QGIS Model Designer
  • QGIS Birds of a Feather
  • The Curious Case of the Geopackage
Regina Obe
  • Using PostGIS
  • PostGIS Unleashed
  • Spatial SQL Birds of a Feather
Rekha Khandhadia
  • Geospatial Analytics with GeoParquet and Parquet
Robert Hanna
  • Continental Scale Flood Inundation Mapping Software for Flood Prediction
Rory Johnson
  • Fridge - providing access to crysophere data with open source tools
Ryan Abernathey
  • Vector Data Cubes in Python with Xarray and Zarr
Samuel Affare
  • Intro to GIS using R
Shawn Crawley
  • Tethys Platform Simplifies Open-Source GIS Decision Support Web Applications
ShogoHirasawa
  • 3D Geospatial Visualization Unleashed: A No-Code Re:Earth Workshop
  • Re:Earth Visualizes El Niño Floods in South America"
Stefano Bovio
  • Building and Consuming Urban Digital Twins with Open-Source Tools
  • Navigate urban scenarios with MapStore 3D tools
Stephen Mather
  • OpenDroneMap: State of the Project
Steve Pousty
  • Vector DBs and why should geospatial people care
  • Quick intro to AI/ML vector data for geospatial folks
  • Overture Map Data – what, why, & how
Tracy Homer
  • Maps as Art using FOSS
Tyler Matteo
  • Building on Full Stack FOSS4G in the Public Sector
Vaclav (Vashek) Petras
  • Developing web-application with GRASS GIS
  • GRASS GIS as Geocomputational Engine
  • State of GRASS GIS
Vicky Vergara
  • pgRouting for city network routing
  • pgRouting, state of the project
Wallace Tapiwa Gara
  • Contributing electricity infrastructure on osm data
Wes Richardet
  • Searching the Spatial Data Lake: Bringing GeoParquet to Apache Lucene
Will Field

Will Field is a Senior Application Developer at the City University of New York (CUNY) Mapping Service where he works with his team to develop web maps dealing with various civic issues. He enjoys applying his animation and computer graphics background to solve the unique technical and creative challenges of web mapping.

  • How to Make FLOSS Look Good
William Lyon
  • Cloud Native Geospatial Analytics With Apache Sedona
  • Cloud-Native Spatial Intelligence With Apache Sedona
Yixuan 'Emily' Hu
  • Map as Web Components: How to Include Map Applications Anywhere
Yunzhi Lin
  • Building Map Ready Pedestrian Data