IN-PERSON MEETING
December 5, 2023 9:00 am — December 7, 2023 5:00 pm
OGC Innovation Days is a multi-day event bringing together policy makers, program decision-makers, and other experts in Geospatial. The focus of the event is climate, emergency, and disaster management and resilience solutions that scale from local to global impacts. The three day programme aims to provide greater progress towards shared data and services, specifically advancing actionable climate data and emergency and disaster management. Join us at American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington, DC, and tackle climate and disasters together with the power of geospatial.
Event Information:
If you have any questions regarding the event or your registration, email info@ogc.org. Did you miss the 2022 event? Did See a recap of Innovation Days 2022. View the 2022 event agenda and summary.
Featured Speakers:
December 5, Climate and Disasters inputs and outputs
| 8 – 9am | Registration Open | Coffee and Breakfast |
| 9 – 9:30am
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Opening | Opening and Welcome
OGC Red Cross |
| 9:30 – 9:50am | Keynote | Keynote Speaker:
Former Director of FEMA – Craig Fugate |
| 9:50 -11am | Disaster Response and Emergency Management Panel | Moderator
NSGIC -Jonathan Duran
American Red Cross – Brett Dennis Board of Directors, NYC GISMO – Alan Leidner NASA – Shanna McClain DHS – David Alexander |
| 11 – 11:30am | Break | |
| 11:30am – 12:40pm | Wildfire Panel | Moderator
NRCan – Ryan Ahola Speakers State level government NASA Civil Air Patrol – Scott Kaplan National Remote Sensing Program Manager, United States Forest Service – Everett Hinkley |
| 12:40 – 2pm | Lunch Break | |
| 2 – 3:20pm | Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Panel | Moderator To be detirmined
Speakers Government of Canada – Joost Van Ulden European Climate Change Service NOAA – Steve Olson JPL |
| 3:20 – 3:50pm | Break | |
| 3:50 – 4:50pm | AI Panel | Moderator
USGS – Josh Delmonico Speakers OMB NOAA Industry NRCan – Ryan Ahola NASA |
| 4:50 – 5:00pm | Closing remarks | Logistics and Reception |
| 5:00 – 7:00 | Reception | Hosted at the American Red Cross |
December 6, Demonstration Day
| 8 – 9am | Registration Open | |
| 9 – 9:20am
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Opening | Opening and welcome
OGC American Red Cross |
| 9:20 -10:00am | OGC Impacts: Standards, Innovation, and Funding Activities | OGC – Trent Tinker |
| 10 -11am
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RAVEN Demonstration, General Dynamics Information Technology | |
| 11 – 11:30am | Break | |
| 11:30am – 1pm | Demonstration Spotlight: Geospatial climate and disasters open topic | Industry presentations
SkyMantics – wildfire evacuation synthetic data HSR.health – Ajay Gupta Dean Hintz FloodMapp Compusult – Barry O’Rourke Voyager Search |
| 1 – 2:20pm | Lunch | |
| 2:20 – 3:40pm | Demonstration Spotlight: The role of AI in climate and disasters | |
| 3:40 – 4:10pm | Break | |
| 4:10 – 4:30pm | Closing Remarks |
December 7, OGC Executive Planning Committee, Strategic Member Advisory Committee, and Special Guests
| 8 – 9am | Registration Open | |
| 9 – 9:20am
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Opening | Opening and welcome
OGC Red Cross |
| 9:20 – 11am | Round Table Discussion | Ongoing activities, new inputs, and lessons learned from Innovation Days 1 and 2 |
| 11 – 11:30am | Break | |
| 11:30am – 1pm | Round Table Discussion | Agency and Industry synergies, OGC priorities, and next steps for 2024 in Climate and Disasters |
Join us at the American Red Cross Headquarters,
1730 E Street Northwest Washington, DC 20006
Sponsoring and Supporting innovation days allows for OGC and its partner organization to continue to focus on critical topics in climate, disasters, and beyond. OGC meetings are a forum to share the latest and greatest on all matters in geospatial. Our meetings span domains from Defense to Agriculture, from EO to Transportation, from Digital Twins to Marine. Technical topics include Cloud, APIs, Internet of Things, and Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality. It’s the one place where the location community from across the globe collectively solves some of the pressing issues of our time such as climate change, pandemics response, disaster preparedness and more.
To help improve your stay in the Washington DC area, OGC is working with several hotels to provide accommodations. Enjoy special Innovation Days Room Blocks from the list of hotels below.
Courtyard Arlington Crystal City/Reagan National Airport – 2899 Richmond Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202 – 703-549-3434
Book your $179 group rate for OGC Innovation Days Room Block
Courtyard Washington, DC/Foggy Bottom – 515 20th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20006 – 202-296-5700
Book your $299 group rate for OGC Innovation Days Room Block
Hotel Hive – 2224 F ST, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037 – 202-898-1100 – 202-849-8499
Book your $139 rate for OGC iDays Room Block
Residence Inn Washington, DC Downtown – 1199 Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 – 202-898-1100
Book your $219 group rate for OGC Innovation Days Room Block
Thank You Sponsors and Supporters:
The OGC Innovation Days would not be possible without the support of organizations across the globe. The organization feels that location is everywhere, and that open standards and interoperable technologies will lead to a future for FAIR data. Thank you:
2022 Participating Organizations
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