In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I’ll be speaking with Matt O’Connell, he’s the former CEO of GEOEYE and an operating partner at Data Collective Venture Capital. Matt, long ago saw the value in satellite imagery as a play in the data market and is now looking at the value of geospatial technology and imagery data in both the transportation and logistics industry as a form of information arbitrage. It’s a great discussion with someone who is looking at the geospatial industry from a financial perspective. Stay tuned.

In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I’ll be speaking to Lynne Schneider, an analyst with the market research firm, IDC. Lynne focuses her research specifically on the location intelligence market and speaks regularly with both companies utilizing the technology as well as vendors. We discuss the rise of data marketplaces, how providers of cloud-native technology are supporting geospatial data and the impact this is having on users of business intelligence solutions. I think you’ll find this a very informative discussion who takes an analytical and agnostic view of location intelligence market.

In this episod­­e of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Dean Stoecker, Founder, former CEO and now executive chairman of the board of Alteryx. Dean founded the company in 1997 first as Spatial Re-Engineering Consultants or SRC and changed its name to Alteryx in 2010. Dean spoke about how his platform evolved and how he coined the phrase “Data is the rocket fuel of GIS…the elixir of life”. We started our conversation on the evolution of the technology and growth of geospatial as a part of analytics. Dean shared that “if we could nail geospatial and make it easy, all the other analytics as part of the analytic continuum would be ‘drop dead’ easy…”. Enjoy this discussion with one of the premier CEOs in the field of digital transformation!

In this episode of On Point with Korem, I sat down with Charity Rumery, the General Manager of HERE Technologies North America. Charity comes from the automotive side of HERE where she discussed what we can expect for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In addition, we talked about the rise of data marketplaces and where HERE sees growth in reaching new consumer of geospatial data and technology.

In 2020, Forrester, the market research company, named only two leaders in their study of location intelligence platforms. And today, in the first episode of this new podcast On Point with Korem, I’ll be speaking with the CEO of one of those companies, Josh Rogers of Precisely. Josh has taken Precisely through enormous transition over the past two years; first uniting Syncsort with Pitney Bowes Software and more recently with acquisitions of Infogix and Winshuttle to create one of the few global companies capable of tackling the deluge of data that many companies face as they undergo their transformation to digital, but in particular as they leverage location technology. Please join me for this inaugural episode of On Point with Korem.

This podcast will interview the visionaries, the entrepreneurs, the investors, the corporate leaders, and the newsmakers that have contributed to the explosive growth of location and geospatial technology applications that are providing enormous competitive advantages for today’s businesses. Location technology is now indispensable for businesses that are leveraging the power of place and a more mobile society.