2018 Speakers

George Mathew

CEO & Chairman, Kespry
Angel Nguyen Swift

VP of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma
Madhury Ray

Senior Analyst, Risk & Analytics at NYC DOHMH
David Weis

Vice President, Location Intelligence at Mastercard
Maksim Pecherskiy

Chief Data Officer of San Diego
Kerry Lagueux

Geoanalytics Lead at BCG
Enu Herzberg

Data & Analytics Lead at Postmates
Andrew Hill

Co-founder & CEO at Textile.io
Françoise Pickart

Director, Risk + Analytics OEPR at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Chris Whong

Director of NYC Planning Lab
Craig Mills

CEO at Vizzuality
David Breeding

Head of Geoanalytics at AppGeo
Ana Sofia Reis

Global Insights Lead at Waze
Anthony Lopez

Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at NREL
Paul Ramsey

Solutions Architect at CARTO
Rodrigo Sarmiento

Data Scientist & Co-Founder at Descifra
Hannah Curtis

Product Manager of CARTO’s Data Observatory
Raúl Ochoa

Head of Technology at CARTO
Dillon Massey

Product Designer at Citizen Housing and Planning Council
Tim Kiely

Head of Research & Lead Data Scientist at Hodges Ward Elliott
Wenfei Xu

Data Scientist at CARTO
Matt Forrest

Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO
Jeff Ferzoco

Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO
Jeff Kaplan

Customer Success Director at CARTO
Jorge Gómez Sancha

CDO at CARTO
Tyler Bird

Community Strategist at CARTO
Stuart Lynn

Head of Research at CARTO
Ariana Escobar

UX Designer at CARTO
Michelle Ho

Data Scientist at CARTO
Mamata Akella

Head of Cartography at CARTO
Chad Misiuk

Urban Planner at SEMCOG
Javier de la Torre

CSO at CARTO

George Mathew

CEO & Chairman, Kespry

George Mathew is the CEO & Chairman of Kespry, the leading aerial intelligence platform provider. George brings 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups to the company. Prior to Kespry, George held senior leadership positions at Alteryx, salesforce.com and SAP.

May 23, 09:45 - Mercator Area

Keynote: Kespry

Angel Nguyen Swift

VP of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma

Angel Nguyen Swift is VP of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma, an Operational Data Management and Intelligence company. Enigma puts data in the context of the real world and makes it connected, open, and actionable for the Fortune 500. Angel joined Enigma from American Express, where she served as the VP of the Global Financial Crimes Compliance – Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Prior to American Express, Angel served as a New York County Assistant District Attorney.

May 24, 09:00 - Mercator Area

Keynote: Enigma

Madhury Ray

Senior Analyst, Risk & Analytics at NYC DOHMH

May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

May 23, 15:45 - Robinson Area

Dialysis, Disaster, and Distance: Three Stories in One Map

David Weis

Vice President, Location Intelligence at Mastercard

David Weis is the Location Intelligence product manager for MasterCard Advisors who partners with financial institutions and merchants to help solve business problems using location as a primary ingredient. Having spent over 15 years working with big data, David understand the power and complexities of location based services. Before joining MasterCard, David spent 10 years helping to build online interactive experiences. He is also an avid motorcycle enthusiast, professional photographer and baseball player.

May 23, 13:15 - Mercator Area

Keynote: Adventures in Applied LI: How MasterCard Creates Insights with Location Information

@MrMaksimize

Maksim Pecherskiy

Chief Data Officer of San Diego

@MrMaksimize

Previous to his role as CDO for the City of San Diego, Maksim spent nearly a decade solving complex problems with technology. He spent 2014 working as a Code For America fellow in Puerto Rico with a focus on economic development, and before that he was a Solutions Architect.

May 24, 11:00 - Mercator Area

Re-thinking Mobility in Cities

Kerry Lagueux

Geoanalytics Lead at BCG

May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

Enu Herzberg

Data & Analytics Lead at Postmates

Enu Herzberg is the chief architect and head of Data @ Postmates, the nation’s largest app-enabled on-demand delivery network. With a diverse team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers, Postmates leverages real time insights, advanced analysis, and dynamic growth tools to fuel the delivery of ~3 million orders per month, from over 100,000 local businesses, in over 250 cities across the US, and Mexico. Enu lives in New York where he spends much of his downtime analyzing the explosive growth in avocado toast & is most proud of his perfect 5.0 Postmate rating.

May 23, 15:45 - Mercator Area

15 Million Miles of Burritos Later: Visualizing How On-demand Is Transforming Commerce & Communities

@andrewxhill

Andrew Hill

Co-founder & CEO at Textile.io

@andrewxhill

Andrew is the CEO and co-founder at Textile.io, where he is working on personal data technologies that enhance privacy and decentralization.

May 23, 11:00 - Robinson Area

Location in the Era of Privacy

Françoise Pickart

Director, Risk + Analytics OEPR at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

@chris_whong

Chris Whong

Director of NYC Planning Lab

@chris_whong

Chris Whong is an urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie, and full-stack web developer. As Founder and Director of the progressive technology team NYC Planning Labs, he is promoting open technology, open source software, and open data at the NYC Department of City Planning.

May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

May 24, 11:30 - Mercator Area

Building a Spatial Stack for NYC Planning

@craigmmills

Craig Mills

CEO at Vizzuality

@craigmmills

May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area

Sector Focus: LI for Social Good

David Breeding

Head of Geoanalytics at AppGeo

David has been with AppGeo since 2012 as Senior Project Manager and GIS analyst on the Services Delivery Team, working on strategic engagements with state and local government as well as corporate customers.

May 24, 09:45 - Robinson Area

Leveraging Serverless Infrastructure to Bring LI to the NFPA

Ana Sofia Reis

Global Insights Lead at Waze

Ana Sofia joined Waze in 2015 and is responsible for creating insights-driven stories and uncovering business opportunities for advertisers using Waze’s unique data. Prior to joining Waze, Ana Sofia worked at Google as an Online Media Expert in Dublin.

May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

Anthony Lopez

Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at NREL

Anthony is a senior geospatial data scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with a decade of experience and domain expertise in techno-economic analysis of renewable energy, solar resource assessment, and spatiotemporal modeling.

May 23, 16:45 - Mercator Area

Customer Breakout: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

@pwramsey

Paul Ramsey

Solutions Architect at CARTO

@pwramsey

Paul has been working with geospatial software for over 15 years: consulting to government and industry; building a geospatial software company; and programming on open source software. He co-founded the PostGIS spatial database project in 2001, and is currently an active developer and member of the project steering committee.

May 23, 11:00 - Mercator Area

A Political Junkie's Journey into the Dark Soul of Data Science

Rodrigo Sarmiento

Data Scientist & Co-Founder at Descifra

Rodrigo has a BA in Economics and an MS in Data Science, both from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Rodrigo is on a permanent quest to design Artificial Intelligence algorithms that can help decision makers leverage the possibilities that geographic data can bring.

May 23, 16:45 - Robinson Area

The Predictive Power of Geospatial for Retailers

@hannah_blue

Hannah Curtis

Product Manager of CARTO’s Data Observatory

@hannah_blue

Prior to joining CARTO she was the Director of Data Discovery at Keyrus. She comes from a background of data analysis and integration, then as a consultant and across a range of industries.

May 24, 09:45 - Mercator Area

From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake

@rochoa

Raúl Ochoa

Head of Technology at CARTO

@rochoa

Raul is Head of Technology at CARTO, he takes care of leading and aligning everything technology-wise at CARTO. He joined the company in 2014 to develop and improve the tools, services, and APIs running it. He's a software engineer, with a background in computer science and several years of experience creating applications.

May 24, 11:30 - Robinson Area

Technology Trends in the LI World

Dillon Massey

Product Designer at Citizen Housing and Planning Council

Dillon is an accomplished designer and cartographer, having worked with the US Agency for International Development in Lima, Peru, where he led an online-mapping pilot program for USAID’s GeoCenter in Washington, DC.

May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area

Sector Focus: LI for Social Good

@tim__kiely

Tim Kiely

Head of Research & Lead Data Scientist at Hodges Ward Elliott

@tim__kiely

Hodges Ward Elliott is a commercial real estate investment advisory firm. One of the world’s top Hotel brokerages for over 40 years, HWE recently expanded into all classes of commercial real estate with the opening of the NYC office in 2015. Tim joined Hodges Ward Elliott in 2015 to build the Research Team from the ground up, with a focus on bringing the practices of Data Science to the commercial real estate investment world in a way the industry had not seen before.

May 23, 14:45 - Mercator Area

Profiting in Commercial Real Estate using Location Intelligence

@iamwfx

Wenfei Xu

Data Scientist at CARTO

@iamwfx

Wenfei has a background in urban planning, economics, and design and is very excited to be combining those skills at CARTO. Previously, Wenfei worked the Civic Data Design Lab and Senseable Cities Lab at MIT.

May 24, 09:45 - Mercator Area

From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake

Matt Forrest

Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO

Matt is the Senior Customer Success Manager for CARTO's strategic projects and use cases. Matt's work focuses on implementing high value geospatial solutions for customers across a wide range of industries and use cases.

May 24, 11:00 - Robinson Area

Spatial Innovations in Commercial Planning and Logistics

Jeff Ferzoco

Senior Customer Success Manager at CARTO

Jeff Ferzoco is the Customer Success Manager for Public Sector and Urban Design. In his role, he uses his experience in design, workflow, and strategy to help CARTO customers make the best use of location to meet their goals.

May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

Jeff Kaplan

Customer Success Director at CARTO

Jeff Kaplan is the Director of Global Customer Success at CARTO. Jeff and the CS Team of experts work with our enterprise customers to ensure that together their location data and CARTO's technologies help them answer questions that have business impact.

May 23, 11:30 - Mercator Area

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

@jorgesancha

Jorge Gómez Sancha

CDO at CARTO

@jorgesancha

Jorge started building Digital Products back when Netscape was still the hottest browser. With a background in Software Engineering, he pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers.

May 23, 14:00 - Mercator Area

The CARTO Product Roadmap

Tyler Bird

Community Strategist at CARTO

Tyler Bird is the Community Team Lead at CARTO. In this capacity he engages with non-profits, multilateral development institutions, the public sector, data science communities, and academia through Location Intelligence projects.

May 23, 14:00 - Robinson Area

Sector Focus: LI for Social Good

@stuart_lynn

Stuart Lynn

Head of Research at CARTO

@stuart_lynn

Stuart initially studied mathematical physics at Edinburgh University before deciding astronomy was prettier and easier to explain in bars and obtained a Ph.D. in astrophysics.

May 23, 16:05 - Mercator Area

Black Belt in Spatial Analytics

@arianaescobar

Ariana Escobar

UX Designer at CARTO

@arianaescobar

Ariana is a venezuelan audiovisual communicator and awarded designer based in Madrid, with years of experience in the Web, Product, and Game Design industries. At CARTO, she juggles between working on product design and web/graphic design for all our marketing projects.

May 23, 11:30 - Robinson Area

Designing LI apps for User Experience

Michelle Ho

Data Scientist at CARTO

At CARTO, Michelle uses code, data, and maps to help others better understand their environmental context and make decisions in business and life. Michelle is a graduate of NYU's Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) program and previously worked as an analyst for the Manhattan District Attorney.

May 23, 14:45 - Robinson Area

When Data Science Met LI: A Love Story

@mamataakella

Mamata Akella

Head of Cartography at CARTO

@mamataakella

Mamata Akella is Head of Cartography at CARTO. She has been a professional web cartographer since 2008 and has a passion for pushing the limits of cartographic design with current web technologies to build beautiful, well thought out maps.

May 23, 17:00 - Mercator Area

Cartography Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

Chad Misiuk

Urban Planner at SEMCOG

May 23, 16:05 - Robinson Area

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

@jatorre

Javier de la Torre

CSO at CARTO

@jatorre

Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world

May 23, 09:00 - Mercator Area

The New LI Stack

May 24, 12:00 - Mercator Area

Watch the recap

The New LI Stack

Keynote: AI, Geospatial, and the Future of Work

Location in the Era of Privacy

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

Designing LI apps for User Experience

The CARTO Product Roadmap

Sector Focus: LI for Social Good

Profiting in Commercial Real Estate using Location Intelligence

When Data Science Met LI: A Love Story

15 Million Miles of Burritos Later: Vizualizing How On-demand is Transforming Commerce & Communities

Black Belt in Spatial Analytics

Dialysis, Disaster, and Distance: Three Stories in One Map

Customer Breakout - National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The Predictive Power of Geospatial for Retailers

Leveraging Serverless Infrastructure to Bring LI to the NFPA

Cartography Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

From Simple to Decadent Analytics: Making a Data Streams Layer Cake

Spatial Innovations in Commercial Planning and Logistics

Technology Trends in the LI World

Special Closing Keynote

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

Re-thinking Mobility in Cities

Enigma: Ice Cream Saves Lives

Building a Spatial Stack for NYC Planning

2018 Speakers

George Mathew

Angel Nguyen Swift

Madhury Ray

David Weis

Maksim Pecherskiy

Kerry Lagueux

Enu Herzberg

Andrew Hill

Françoise Pickart

Chris Whong

Craig Mills

David Breeding

Ana Sofia Reis

Anthony Lopez

Paul Ramsey

Rodrigo Sarmiento

Hannah Curtis

Raúl Ochoa

Dillon Massey

Tim Kiely

Wenfei Xu

Matt Forrest

Jeff Ferzoco

Jeff Kaplan

Jorge Gómez Sancha

Tyler Bird

Stuart Lynn

Ariana Escobar

Michelle Ho

Mamata Akella

Chad Misiuk

Javier de la Torre

George Mathew

Keynote: Kespry

Angel Nguyen Swift

Keynote: Enigma

Madhury Ray

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

Dialysis, Disaster, and Distance: Three Stories in One Map

David Weis

Keynote: Adventures in Applied LI: How MasterCard Creates Insights with Location Information

Maksim Pecherskiy

Re-thinking Mobility in Cities

Kerry Lagueux

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

Enu Herzberg

15 Million Miles of Burritos Later: Visualizing How On-demand Is Transforming Commerce & Communities

Andrew Hill

Location in the Era of Privacy

Françoise Pickart

Panel: Introducing LI in your Organization

Chris Whong

Panel: Finding the Geospatial Sweet Spot in Cities

Building a Spatial Stack for NYC Planning