Josh Lieberman develops, leads, and manages OGC Innovation Program initiatives. Originally trained as a geologist and environmental scientist, Josh has been involved in OGC both as a member and as an initiative architect for almost two decades while serving as principal at Tumbling Walls, senior geospatial analysis manager at Deloitte, and lead architect at Traverse Technologies and Syncline. He is also a part-time senior researcher at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis and teaches graduate classes at Harvard and UMBC. Josh currently leads the IP initiative Disaster Pilot 2021 and ITA track of Testbed 17, as well as working to develop future IP initiatives and supporting OGC standards activities such as MUDDI, GeoPose, and Routing API.