Carley has more than 15 years experience in the geosciences and specializes in emergency management. She leads the management of a county-wide enterprise GIS system, providing crucial support during emergencies such as Hurricane Dorian (2019), the COVID-19 pandemic, Hurricane Ian (2022), Hurricane Nicole (2022), and most recently Hurricane Milton. Carley facilitates important information dissemination to her county using GIS, creating dashboards and using tools like Survey123 to capture citizen damage assessments after storm events. She is a strong advocate for direct GIS involvement in emergency management as a mitigation to data gaps and information silos. Carley is a GISP and has a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Florida Atlantic University.

Kat James is the founder of Four Hundred Feet, a social enterprise that helps individuals and organizations leverage drone technology to amplify impact in the global health,

Previously, Kat was a GIS specialist working on global health projects, which ranged from designing a maternal health data dashboard for the Ministry of Health in Ghana to mapping thousands of villages in Liberia and Zambia to see how far women must travel to access reproductive healthcare services.

Kat has a Bachelors of Art in Geography and Global Health from Middlebury College and a Masters in Public Health and Information Science from the University of Michigan. Kat is also a Kenya Civil Aviation Authority Certified Remote Pilot and Certified Part 107 Remote Pilot, and serves on the advisory boards of the Commercial UAV Expo’s Path the Leadership Scholarship Program and DroneDeploy’s Resilient Futures Grant Program.

Jazzmen is an experienced GIS Technician and geospatial

Swati is a professor, consultant, founder, and leader

Brandi is a Senior Product Engineer at ESRI, where she has worked for the last nearly 3 years on developing robust solutions for stormwater and other customers. Prior, Brandi spent over 2 decades as a public servant working in local government in the Denver Metro area helping the organizations improve service development and streamline processes with GIS.  Brandi most recently worked on the GIS Request Management Solution with a group of end users to tackle the challenge of tracking GIS tasks and project management activities natively within the ESRI ecosystem. The solution was released at this year’s UC in July. Brandi lives in Colorado and has a Bachelor of Science in Earth and Geographic Sciences from University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Danielle is the Director at the Center for Geospatial

Eva Reid is the Senior IT Program Manager for DC Health

Wanmei Liang is a Science Data Visualizer at NASA Earth Observatory. Her expertise lies in GIS, remote sensing, data visualization, and cartography. Wanmei holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and GIS from UCLA. She actively engages in the GIS industry and makes valuable contributions to communities such as the Women in GIS, #30DayMapChallenge, #GISChat, and serves as a mentor, providing guidance and support to professionals in the GIS industry.

Maggie Cawley is a geospatial professional focusing on sustainability and urban planning. Maggie began in the urban planning world and started her company, Boomerang Geospatial, a geospatial consulting company specializing in education and conservation in 2013. This is where her journey with open geospatial started, including QGIS and Open Street Maps (OSM). With her company she led mapping education programs in places like Botswana and the United States, focusing on open source GIS. In 2019 Maggie was asked to join the board of OSM as Executive Director, and also serves as vice chair of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Maggie has a Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor in International Studies from the University of Richmond.

Michelle Williams, also known as the Survey123 Jedi, is a