Dr. Sapana Lohani is a geospatial data scientist at the Institute for Integrative Conservation at the College of William and Mary. Sapana started her work in Nepal, helping to publish The Earth Preservation, and supported the Asia Pacific Mountain Network through engaging content generation. Sapana’s current endeavors have led her to connect with local elementary schools to help young students and women reconnect with nature and explore interdisciplinary careers centered around the environment. Her program is exclusively taught by women, and while she manages and facilitates, she is also responsible for the geospatial portion. Sapana is passionate about conservation and using geospatial technologies to illustrate the need for support as well as to illustrate successful changes made. Sapana has Bachelor and Master Degrees in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University, a Masters Degree in Natural Resource Management from Asian Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Arizona.

Claire is an OG photogrammetrist, passionate about geospatial technology and digital mapping. She founded KAPPA Mapping in 2003, and currently leads CornerstoneEnergy Services to new markets with her expertise and breadth of knowledge and skills. Claire is an American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing certified photogrammetrist, which is taking photographs and very precise measurements to create 3D models of objects and environments. Claire started in surveying and engineering and will talk about her journey as the technology advances came faster and faster since her beginning. Claire has a Bachelor of Science in Surveying Engineering from the University of Maine and currently resides in Bangor, ME.

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.

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