Guide, Geography of NYC
Presentation: Ground Proofing: Detecting the Transformations of NYC Neighborhoods
Dr. Jack Eichenbaum is an internationally regarded expert in urban geography, real estate research and computer assisted mass appraisal. He holds degrees in physical science, social science and engineering, and have exceptional skills in research design, data analysis, and quantitative modeling.
As City Assessor, he has made contributions in all phases of the computerization of New York City’s property valuation system: data collection, basic research, software implementation, programming, training, statistics. He pioneered the use of location response surfaces in valuation and helped plan a Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Department of Finance.
He organized and coordinate a citywide GIS interest group (GISMO) which educates and advocates for the diverse community of GIS users in the New York metropolitan area. He chairs the Public Data Access Committee of the New York Area Data Council and advocates for data integration throughout the region.
His academic career encompasses quantitative and theoretical research on migration, ethnicity, urban growth and neighborhood change. Dr. Eichenbaum is an authority on location analysis and the location value of real estate. He has extraordinary knowledge of the geography of New York City which he teaches at the City University.
Having lived and worked in Europe, Israel, Mexico as well as the United States, he adapts easily to new environments and he has conducted research in Spanish and English. He maintains international contacts among geographers, urban information system specialists and land policy professionals.
Staff Writer, The Atlantic’s CityLab
Presentation: The Hidden Histories of Maps Made By Women
Reading mainstream history books, you might never know that women historically had much of a role at all in cartography. But really, they’ve been involved in mapmaking about as long as any man has. Women have made maps to chart territories, educate students, sell propaganda, convey data, argue policy, and make art. In other words, women have made maps, period. And they continue to, as this century’s geospatial revolution turns.
In this 45 minute presentation, I’ll highlight the stories of five remarkable women mapmakers and the importance of their work to the field of cartography. These will likely include: the 18th century students who sewed globes as part of their education at a Philadelphia girls academy; the remarkable tale of Shanawdithit, the native Newfoundland woman who mapped the traumatic attacks on her tribe that she witnessed in the 19th century; the amazing map work of the Hull House residents, a group of untrained women who essentially invented American statistical mapping; the pioneering early 20th Century African American cartographer Louise Jefferson; and the amazing Geraldine Sarmiento, who is designing the future of maps today at Mapzen.
Director of the Foundary at Cornell Tech
Presentation: Are we there yet? Challenges for location-aware data science
Dr. Sahuguet is currently the Director of the Foundry at Cornell Tech. He has a passion to invent and build products that leverage technology to solve meaningful problems and have a large social impact. His goal is to empower people and organisations to be more productive and collaborative through innovation. Arnaud holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania, a MSc from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a BSc from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
Before joining GovLab as Chief Technology Officer, Arnaud spent eight years at Google as a product manager for speech recognition and Google Maps; he founded and launched the OneToday mobile fundraising platform for Google; he also worked on child protection and civic innovation. Before Google, he spent five years at Bell Labs research as member of technical staff working on standardisation and identity management.
Chair of the American Geographical Society
Presentation: Robots Telling Stories with Maps – The Future of Humanity and the Role of Space-Time Technologies
Chris thinks and works at the intersection of technology, strategy, geography, and national security. He is the Chair of the American Geographical Society. In addition, he manages Yale House Ventures, a portfolio of technology companies, social ventures, and public entrepreneurship initiatives.
Chris is the creator of www.MapStory.org, a companion to Wikipedia, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the MapStory Foundation. Chris serves, or has served on a variety of other private sector, government, and non-profit boards including the Open Geospatial Consortium, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, OpenPlans, the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board Intelligence Task Force, and the American Geographical Society. Chris is affiliated with a variety of think tanks including the Center for National Policy and the Institute for State Effectiveness
Previously, Chris was the President and CEO of a high-technology firm in the area of geospatial intelligence that he took from startup to acquisition. Prior to his time in industry, Chris was the founding Chief Strategic Officer of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture fund. And prior to that, he served as the Special Adviser to the Executive Vice Provost of Columbia University.
Head of Sales, Engineering, Environment and Infrastructure, Civil Maps
Presentation: Crowd Sourced Geospatial Data for Autonomous Vehicles, the New Driver in Urban Mapping
With 15+ years in leadership roles in the geospatial industry, I have spent most of my time focused on providing business development, marketing, strategic planning, program and business unit development, and commercialization of geospatial technologies.
Solving problems, big and small, for customers is my passion. From helping teams implement simple software solutions and recommend the right vendors, to bringing people, technology, and business processes together to create, nurture and expand geospatial business units for global companies.
I believe people and their creativity are the solutions to problems not technology. Technologies should be brought together and leveraged to empower people, to increase people’s access to sound and timely information so organizations can make decisions. That is why I am focused on finding the best technologies for people and helping them develop solutions so they can concentrate on decision making based on their experience and creativity.
My primary interest is applying geospatial technologies to the energy and EPC industries. Our firm, The Aventine Group of Companies, is focused on these industries, while also offering a few other out-sourced special program or project services. Our success has been product only of our customer’s satisfaction and we intend to keep it that way.
I have worked on projects and with clients in many parts of the world, and I have worked with people from many countries with the range of personal and technical backgrounds. These experiences have always reinforced my belief in people and our ability to come together to overcome challenges, and I continue to be inspired to take on new challenges by the people and clients I meet.
As part of my desire to bring the best solutions to customers, I have joined the Civil Maps team to assist them in commercializing their artificial intelligence technology stack for the engineering, environment and infrastructure industries.
Chief Technology Officer of the ESRI’s R & D Center
Presentation: Data Driven Citizenship
Andrew’s work focuses on cross-domain collaboration and democratizing the map making process creating open tools for cartography and analysis. In 2006 he published the popular and widely regarded book “introduction to Neogeography” which led an industry shift of the GIS market. He is a world renowned speaker, author, advocate and engineer for crowd-sourced geospatial technology.
Andrew is an active member in many organizations developing and supporting open standards such as the OpenStreetMap, Open Geospatial Consortium, Open Web Foundation, OSGeo, and World Wide Web Consortium. He is also the co-founder of CrisisCommons, a global community of volunteers leveraging technology to assist in building solutions for disaster reponse, recovery and rebuilding.
Andrew has consulted for enterprise and multinational organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, USGS, MapQuest, the BBC, the Library of Congress in developing their geospatial and community components. He has lectured coursed and lead workshops for Stanford, Harvard, University of Virginia, and other universities and organizations teaching about utilizing modern data sharing technologies.
Director of MGIS, New York City Economic Development Corporation
Presentation: How Public and Private Data will Redefine the Way We Think about Openness within Cities
Kevin joined Sidewalk Labs by way of Conveyal, a transportation technology firm. As a principal at Conveyal Kevin led projects related to open source software and open data strategy for the transportation sector. Conveyal led the development of several key software platforms including OpenTripPlanner, a widely used multimodal journey planner, and Transport Analyst an accessibility analysis tool co-created by the World Bank and used by transport planners and researchers around the world.
Kevin founded Conveyal along with colleagues from OpenPlans, a New York City based non-profit focused on improving cities through the use of open data and open source software. At OpenPlans Kevin co-directed the Transportation Group, where he led the development of transportation software for a variety of public sector clients
Prior to joining OpenPlans Kevin led the SubsidyScope project for the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan DC-based non-profit that advocates for government transparency and improved civic technology. With a team of researchers and technologists SubsidyScope collected an analyzed data on federal subsidies across different sectors of the economy.
Kevin gained an interest in open data and civic tech as a partner in an industrial design firm. There he worked extensively with patent data and led the creation of a complete, searchable digital archive of US patents in collaboration with HP Labs, Duke University and the Internet Archive.
Although he’s spent much of his professional life working in technology sector, Kevin studied geography and urban planning as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Formerly of MapZen currently OpenStreetMap Consultant and Advisor Foam.Space
Presentation: The Hidden Histories of Maps Made By Women
I work at the intersection of open technology, cultural diversity and mapping. As Vice President of Partnerships and Business Development at Mapzen, I lead community initiatives and communications to bring the best mapping capabilities to organizations of all sizes. I am also President of OpenStreetMap US the largest open spatial dataset in the world. Throughout my work, I am driven to build mapping tools that are powerful means of connection.
I received an M.A. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, where my work focused on documenting technologies of empathy within geospatial contexts. I completed a Masters in physical computing from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a B.A. in women’s studies, and a concentration in media studies and design.
Chief Analytics Officer at Enigma
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Mike Flowers is the Chief Analytics Officer at Enigma, leading the development of an enterprise-focused analytics platform. As the information revolution transforms critical sectors such as finance, manufacturing, and supply line logistics, enterprises are accruing data about their operations at a breakneck pace.
Mike is also the Urban Science Fellow at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). He works closely with CUSP’s faculty, staff, and partners, to identify approaches to advance the use of data analytics in municipal operations and urban policymaking. A recognized leader in promoting the use of civic data, Mike is a key participant in CUSP projects that will help define the emerging field of urban informatics around the world. He also serves as a mentor and project advisor to CUSP’s M.S. students as they undertake practical data analysis of constraints on city operations and development, which include political, policy, and financial considerations.
Prior to joining CUSP, Mike was appointed by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as the first ever Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Open Platform Officer. He founded the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA). A groundbreaking initiative in the use of data to make better decisions, MODA provided quantitative support to the city’s public safety, public health, infrastructure development, economic development, disaster preparedness and response, legislative, sustainability, and human services efforts. In addition, Mike designed and oversaw the construction of NYC DataBridge, a citywide analytics platform that enabled the sharing and analysis of city data both across agencies and with the public. He also ran the implementation of the city’s internationally-recognized Open Data initiative.
Prior to joining the Bloomberg Administration, Mike was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for the 110th and 111th Congress, where he led bipartisan investigations into off-shore tax haven abuses; failures in the mortgage-backed securitization market by U.S. investment and commercial banks and government agencies; and deceptive financial transactions by foreign governments. From March 2005 to December 2006, Mike was Deputy Director of the Department of Justice’s Regime Crimes Liaison’s Office in Baghdad, supporting the investigations and trials of Saddam Hussein and other high-ranking members of his regime. From 2003 to 2005, he was with Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington D.C., specializing in federal, state and local criminal investigations and regulatory actions. After a clerkship in federal district court in Philadelphia, Mike began his career as a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 1999.