With us today is one of our Locate20 plenary keynote presenters, Nyall Dawson. Nyall has been a developer with the QGIS project since 2013. During this time he has contributed over 5000 additions to the project, and today is one of the most active developers on the project. Nyall’s contributions cover a wide range of areas – from improvements to the map rendering and symbology engines, enhancements to labelling and print layout functionality, right through to optimisations of the underlying spatial processing algorithms utilised by QGIS. Nyall is also the proprietor of North Road Consulting, an Australian based spatial development consultancy which predominantly utilises international co-funding and crowdfunding campaigns to finance development into open source GIS applications.

We’ll speak with Nyall about why open data is important for the future of the industry, what the future of the industry could look like, and more!

Join us next time to speak with Dr Karen Joyce from SheMaps, as we delve into rethinking the way we measure success, diversity and inclusion in the industry, and the ways in which we can come together as industry to support academia and the future of our industry.