Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service company HedeDanmark a/s, whose history can be traced back to 1866. According to Jens, measuring wood should be easy and that is why HD LogSystems has focused on developing and selling wood measurement solutions, including LogStackLIDAR and LogStackPRO. Come have a listen on how photographed cells from biopsies through a microscope to automate the detection of round cells led to the HD LogSystems’ first innovation.

By day, Dr. John Lindsay is a geomatics professor at the University of Guelph and the rest of time, he is an entrepreneur working as co-founder of Whitebox Geospatial Inc., which is a company that develops innovative geospatial software built on open-source. Come learn more about the WhiteboxTools Open Core, which is the foundation of the Whitebox platform and comprised of over 460 open-source tools, and how it can be used to process and analyze geospatial data of all kinds.

Formerly with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Dale Fried is the Founder and CEO of 3DEO Inc., which builds upon US Department of Defense investments in Geiger-mode lidar totaling well over $100M spanning more than a decade. The company’s vision is to bring the advanced capabilities of Geiger-mode lidar technology to bear on problems of interest to its commercial and government customers. Fast to 3DEO means 10-30 million 3D measurements per second and thousands of detectors working in parallel. Come listen to what “fast” means in the context of forestry.

We kick off 2023 with Cakey Worthington, VP of Carbon Operations and Zach Pardue, Manager of Forest Information and Geospatial Systems from Anew. With the merger of Element Markets and Bluesource to create Anew, the company introduced "Climate as a Service” – an approach that offers companies and organizations a seamless solution to navigating the increasingly complex landscape of environmental responsibility. Since inception of its legacy companies, Anew has transacted over 150 million tonnes of carbon, has provided more than 240 million diesel gallons equivalent of renewable fuels for transportation, and has developed projects on over 3.5 million acres of forest and farmland.

Dr. Elizabeth Hunter is the COO and Co-Founder of Treeswift, a company that has built a new data and monitoring system for the natural world by pushing the frontier in robotic and machine learning technology. Treeswift has designed high-resolution sensors which can operate underneath the forest canopy and replace traditional forest measurement tools, and when combined with drones and backpacks, can be used to cruise forests for carbon and timber.