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FedGeoDay 2025 Program

FedGeoDay is on
April 22, 2025

Events will be held at the Department of the Interior and the American Red Cross buildings in Washington, DC.

*FedGeoDay Workshops will take place on April 23, 2025 at the American Red Cross Building

April 22 - FedGeoDay

8:00 AM

American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room

Networking Breakfast

Kick off the day and meet fellow attendees at our exclusive Networking Breakfast.

8:30 AM

American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room

Opening Talks

Opening talks at the American Red Cross Building will be from 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM.

9:00 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Registration Opens at DOI Yates Auditorium

Check in and registration will begins at 9:00 AM.

9:30 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Welcome Remarks by Monica Mardel

Monica Mardel

Monica Mardel
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson

Program Manager, Geography Division

U.S. Census Bureau

9:35 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Demonstrations: Open Source Geospatial Applications for Resilience

Moderator:

Ryan Burley

Director of Sales and Business Development

GeoSolutions

Presentations:

“Chattanooga FOSS: How We Built a Real-Time Map of Reported Flooding and Road Closures for Hurricane Helene”

Daniel J. Dufour

Director of Performance Management and Open Data

City of Chattanooga

“USGS Geospatial Information Response Team: Resources for Resilience”

Xan Fredericks

Xan Fredericks

Emergency Response Coordinator
Chair, Geospatial Information Response Team

USGS National Geospatial Program

“HURREVAC: The decision support tool of the National Hurricane Program, Administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center”

Karen Townsend

President and CEO

Sea Island Software (HURREVAC)

“eoAPI: A Cloud Native Framework for Earth Observation Data Access and Analysis”

Henry Rodman

Cloud Engineer

Development Seed

10:35 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Keynote Address: "Expanding the “What”, “So What”, and “Now What”: Using Open Earth Observations in Disaster Response”

Ms. Katie Picchione

Response Coordination Lead

NASA Disasters Program

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

11:20 AM

15-minute Break

11:35 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Presentation: Chief Data Officer / GIO: Survey and Results

Jaymes Cloninger

CEO

Motivf

11:50 AM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Lightning Talks

Moderator:

Intro and Welcome

11:50 AM

Wayne Hawkins

VP - Intel Programs

RGi

Talks:

“Classifying Point Clouds with 2D Computer Vision”

11:50 AM

Shane Brennan

Software Engineer

RGi

“Transforming Disparate Data into Actionable Intelligence”

11:55 AM

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Clay hicks

Mission Director

Zignal Labs

“All Latitudes, Longitudes, and Heights will be changing. What does this mean for you and your data?”

12:00 PM

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Galen Scott

NGS Constituent Manager, NSRS Modernization Engagement Team

NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, Geodetic Services Division

12:05 PM

American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room

Lunch Break

Lunch will be provided for a $20 charge.

1:20 PM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Lightning Talks

Moderator:

1:20 PM

Wayne Hawkins

VP - Intel Programs

RGi

Intro and Welcome

Talks:

“Unlocking Data for Resilience Using Parquet and Iceberg”

1:25 PM

Adam Timm

Field CTO - Public Sector

Crunchy Data

“Data Discovery at Scale: Spatial Aggregations of STAC Metadata”

1:30 PM

Emma Paz

Application Developer

Development Seed

“Mapping Features with Layer Cake”

1:40 PM

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Quincy Morgan

Technical Lead

OSM US

“GeoSolutions In Action: Real World Applications Leveraging GeoServer, GeoNode, and MapStore”

1:45 PM

Ryan Burley

Director of Sales and Business Development

GeoSolutions

“Address Management: The Hidden Spatial Data Infrastructure Behind Emergency Response and Economic Operations”

1:55 PM

Ghermay Araya

CEO

New Light Technologies

“Reliability in Geospatial AI”

2:00 PM

Jason Gilman

AI/ML Applications Lead

Element 84

2:05 PM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Panel: Open Data for Resilience

Moderator:

Eddie Pickle
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson

Senior Vice President

Crunchy Data

Panelists:

Maggie Cawley

Executive Director

OpenStreetMap US

John Crowley

Head of Partnerships

MapAction

Jed Sundwall

Jed Sundwall

Executive Director

Radiant Earth

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Angelina Calderon

Business Development, Reality Labs Technologies

Meta

2:55 PM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Fireside Chat: Achieving Resilience in the Cyber War

Moderator:

Ashley Fairman

Founder & CEO

DICE Cyber LLC

Panelists:

Jennifer Bisceglie

Founder & Executive Vice Chair

Interos Inc.

Damian R. Taylor, MSc.

Chief Information Security Officer

Office of Inspector General - USPS

3:40 PM

20-minute Break

4:00 PM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Panel: Demystifying AI

Moderator:

Bill Dollins
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson

Founder and President

Cercana Systems LLC

Panelists:

Brian Maddox

Owner

Digital Maddox, LLC

Emily Kalda

Product Manager

RGi

Jason Gilman

AI/ML Applications Lead

Element 84

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Ran Goldblatt

Chief Scientist

New Light Technologies

Jackie Kazil

Director, GIS Solutions

Bana Solutions

4:55 PM

DOI Yates Auditorium

Closing Remarks by Eddie Pickle

Eddie Pickle
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson

Senior Vice President

Crunchy Data

5:00 - 7:00 PM

American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room

Reception at the American Red Cross Hall of Service

FedGeoDay Venues

Department of the Interior (DOI) -
Yates Auditorium

Department of the Interior (DOI)
Visitor Entrance on C Street
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240

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American Red Cross Building

American Red Cross Building
Hall of Service Room
1730 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

Presenters