Nadine Alameh is the Executive Director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a position she assumed in September 2023. A world-renowned geospatial expert, Nadine was previously the CEO and president of the Open Geospatial Consortium. She is also an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Interior’s National Geospatial Advisory Committee and a board member of the United Nations Geospatial Global Information Management Private Sector Network. Before taking the helm at OGC, Nadine held various roles in industry, from the chief architect for innovation in Northrop Grumman’s Civil Solutions Unit, to CEO of an aviation data exchange startup, to senior technical advisor to NASA’s Applied Science Program. In the early 2000s, she launched and led several successful startups. Nadine has received numerous honors during her career, including the 2019 Geomatics Canada Leadership in Diversity Award, the 2022 Geospatial World Diversity Champion of the Year Award, and the 2023 Women in Technology Leadership Award in the nonprofit and academia category. Nadine earned a doctorate in computer and information systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also earned master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering and city planning. She earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the American University of Beirut.

Marc Bosch is a Computer Vision lead and Managing Director at Accenture. He is currently serving as a principal investigator in several IARPA and DARPA programs. Dr. Bosch’s research interest include image/video processing, computer vision, machine learning, and computational photography. In 2012 he joined Texas Instruments as a computer vision/computational photography engineer. From 2013-16 he was a senior video engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. From 2016-19 he was at Johns Hopkins University APL. He received a degree in Telecommunications engineering from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2007 and a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN in 2009 and 2012 respectively.

Chris Andrews is COO and Head of Product at Rendered.ai, helping customers overcome the costs and limitations of using real-world data to train AI and ML systems. Chris previously led a team at Esri responsible for 3D, Defense, Urban Planning, and AEC products. Prior to Esri, Chris was the lead product manager for Autodesk’s InfraWorks.

Dr. Daniela Moody is the Chief Technology Officer at Geosite. Previously, Daniela served as the VP of Artificial Intelligence at Arturo, and as the Chief Technology Officer/VPE at Ursa Space Systems (Ursa), focusing on analytic solutions to derive business intelligence from multimodal aerial and satellite data. Daniela also worked at Descartes Labs as technical project lead for broad area food security monitoring efforts. She was at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 9 years prior to joining Descartes Labs, working on remote sensing and machine learning applications in various research areas, including space systems, astronomy, on orbit RF and radar systems, and nuclear non-proliferation. She received her M.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park with a focus in signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning. Daniela is a Senior IEEE member, an active member of the Forbes Technology Council and a National Academy of Engineers/Frontiers of Engineering Alumna.