Mark Wheeler, GISP, AICP
CIO of the City of Philadelphia
Mark Wheeler, GISP, AICP, is the CIO of the City of Philadelphia leading the Office of Innovation & Technology. Prior to becoming CIO, he was the Chief Geographic Information Officer for the City of Philadelphia and enabled the development of opendataphilly.org, a highly successful cloud-based effort to increase sharing of city GIS data. Mark will be discussing his experiences with developing and supporting open data systems, presenting examples of the economic benefits of open GIS data, and about preparing for GIS data collection of the 2020 Census.