See highlights of the Spatial Data Science Conference 2023 in New York. The largest event for Data Science, GIS & Analytics professionals.

This year we brought together 800 Data Science, Advanced Analytics & Geospatial experts from across the globe to discuss the latest trends and innovative use cases across multiple industries.

Speakers

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Will Geary

Senior Data Scientist at Revel
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Andie Migden

Senior GIS Analyst at RIPCO Real Estate
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Sowmya Achanta

Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
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Seth Spielman

Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
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Susan Devitt, PhD

Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
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Javier de la Torre

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
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Andy Rossmeissl

CEO at Faraday
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Georgina Vaughan

Data Scientist at Ricardo
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Alex Singleton

Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
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David McClusky

Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
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Tom Fleischer

CTO at Vistar Media
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Helen McKenzie

Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
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Christopher Evangelides

Senior GIS & EO Consultant at Ricardo
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Dr Joan LaRovere

Co-Founder, Vice President, and Board Member at Virtue Foundation
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Mark Korver

Geospatial at AWS
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Geoff Michener

CEO at dataplor
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Gavin Lewis

Head of Engineering at Fathom
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Kadir Karakus

Head of Data at Echo Analytics
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Eugene Chong

Senior Product Manager at SafeGraph
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Ray Roberts-York

Managing Director at Michael Bauer International GmbH
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Vivek Sakhrani

VP, Data & Analytics
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Chen Chen

Sciences Director
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Sohaib Katariwala

Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
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Venkatesh Seka

Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
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Jade Fawcett

GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
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Aaron Fraint

Senior Solutions Engineer at CARTO
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Zachary Walker

Solutions Engineer at CARTO
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Robert Edwards

Senior Data Scientist at General System
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Gina Park Kenney

Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
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Joshua Bramall

Head of Data Science at General System
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Eli Knaap

Senior Research Scientist & Associate Director at SDSU Center for Open Geographical Science
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David Peto

Co-Founder and CEO at General System
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Andrew Rogers

Co-Founder and CTO at General System
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Anand Singh

Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
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Greg Scharer

Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
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Ali Rossi

Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
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Jesse Canella

COO at Tensorflight
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James McClain

Machine Learning Lead at Element 84
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Matt Bialas

Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
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Jeremy Malczyk

Cloud Geographer at Google
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Agenda

Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
Michael Colson
Engineering Manager at Locala
Clément Carreau
Engineering Manager at Locala
Margaret Hoffecker
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Echo Analytics
Fawad Qureshi
Global Field CTO at Snowflake
Sean Wohltman
Google Global Head of Cloud Geography
Eva Estrada-Adler
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Milos Colic
Platform APIs Team Lead at CARTO
Sergey Sukov
CEO at Action Engine
Michael Johns
Geospatial Specialist Leader at Databricks
Felix Palmer
Principal Rendering Engineer at CARTO
Tobin McGilligan
Project Manager at CARTO
Giulia Carella
Senior Data Scientist at CARTO
Ben Pruden
Head of Marketing & GTM at Wherobots
Julien Lebrun
Network Planning Manager at FLO EV Charging
Christina Virosteck
Head of Real Estate Solutions at Dataplor
Konrad Miziolek
Senior Data Scientist II at Instacart
Dmitry Shkolnik
Manager, Data Science at Instacart
Brian Duggan
Staff Software Engineer
Jérôme Urbain
Head of Products at GeoPostcodes
Daniel Smith
Sr. Solution Architect at Wherobots
Andrew Lee
Senior Program Manager at Instacart
Mina Jelani
Geographic Information System Specialist at CBRE
Kristin Scholten
Data Science Advisor at Nationwide
David Buchanan
GIS Solutions Architect at Comcast
Andrew Flowerday
Supervisor - ADAS Mapping & Localization at Ford
Stacy Liu
Principal Architect at Tokio Marine Highland
Kirk Goldsberry
Best-selling author, sports analytics expert, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Harman Dhodi
Senior Analyst at HR&A Advisors
Elizabeth Delmelle
Associate Professor and Direct of Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Joe Francica
Principal Product Manager, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Anne Rolim
Data Scientist at EQT Partners
Daniel Lewis
Distinguished Data Scientist at Geotab
Matthew Konski
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at Geotab
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Gennadii Donchyts
Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
Robin Cao
Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
Paul Langston
Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
Nadine Macklin
Vice President, Customer Success at CARTO
Mayank Singh
VP of Product at Echo Analytics
Tanusha Goswami
Product Manager at MiQ
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Hannah Babineau
Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
Jack Burton
Product Director at Mobsta
Ernesto Martínez Becerra
Product Manager at CARTO
Diego Vicente
Data Scientist at CARTO
Stuart Lynn
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
Erik Lindquist, PhD
Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Jade Edwards
Head of Insights at Zapmap
Chris Maydom
Data Scientist at BT
James Bentley
Data Scientist at Landmark
Ruth Wetters
Data Scientist at Knight Frank
Sharat Ramamani
Analytics Lead at Wolt
Meagan Vigil
Geospatial Data Expert
Warda Rahim
Data Scientist at QBE
Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
Tim Rains
Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
Rebecca M. Mari
Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
Rupert-Hu Gilman
Data Analyst at Bank of England
Julio Covarrubia
Service Line Manager at Entel
Jaime Unger
Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
Sudheer Pamula
Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
Chris Thompson
Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Ben Crampton
Data Scientist at Bank of England
Fu Zheng
Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
Steve Walker
Senior Staff Generative AI ML Solution Engineer
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Kyle Barron
Cloud Engineer at Development Seed
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
David McClusky
Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
Matt Bialas
Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
James McClain
Machine Learning Lead at Element 84
Gavin Lewis
Head of Engineering at Fathom
Jade Fawcett
GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
Gina Park Kenney
Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
Jesse Canella
COO at Tensorflight
Ali Rossi
Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
Greg Scharer
Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
Anand Singh
Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Andrew Rogers
Co-Founder and CTO at General System
David Peto
Co-Founder and CEO at General System
Eli Knaap
Senior Research Scientist & Associate Director at SDSU Center for Open Geographical Science
Joshua Bramall
Head of Data Science at General System
Robert Edwards
Senior Data Scientist at General System
Zachary Walker
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Aaron Fraint
Senior Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Sohaib Katariwala
Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
Sourav Ganguly
Sr. Leader Enterprise Architecture at CoreLogic
Susan Devitt, PhD
Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Chen Chen
Sciences Director
Alex Singleton
Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
Seth Spielman
Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
Sowmya Achanta
Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
Tom Fleischer
CTO at Vistar Media
Yuri Astrakhan
CoFounder of MapLibre and Sr Staff Engineer at Rivian
Ashish Jain
Principal Software Architect at CoreLogic
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
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Registration & Welcome Breakfast
Registration & Welcome Breakfast
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Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Talk to the Map: GenAI and Geo
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Anand Singh
Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Innovation and Impact through CoreLogic’s unrivalled Property and Location Insights
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Susan Devitt, PhD
Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Spatial Data Clean Rooms for Collaborative Logistics Optimization
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Sowmya Achanta
Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
Tackling Health Inequities with Geospatial
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Coffee Break
Coffee Break
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Mark Korver
Geospatial at AWS
What Did We Learn From the Short History of Cloud-Native Geospatial to Inform Us in the Age of GenAI?
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Gina Park Kenney
Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
Improving the Xfinity Mobile Experience
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Kadir Karakus
Head of Data at Echo Analytics
Greg Scharer
Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
Navigating Cinema Advertising with Geospatial Data
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Andie Migden
Senior GIS Analyst at RIPCO Real Estate
Predicting Rent Prices of Ground Floor Retail Space using GWR and Spatial Regression
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Will Geary
Senior Data Scientist at Revel
How to Build an Electric Rideshare Service
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Eugene Chong
Senior Product Manager at SafeGraph
Chen Chen
Sciences Director
Navigating OOH Campaign Measurement Through a Dynamic World
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Lunch
Lunch
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Andy Rossmeissl
CEO at Faraday
The Value of Customer-Led Market Strategies
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Geoff Michener
CEO at dataplor
Jesse Canella
COO at Tensorflight
Powering Insurance Systems for More Informed Decisions
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Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Ray Roberts-York
Managing Director at Michael Bauer International GmbH
Jade Fawcett
GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
Ali Rossi
Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
Panel - Spatial Data Science Careers
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Alex Singleton
Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
Seth Spielman
Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
Harnessing Old and New Technologies: An Open Geodemographic Classification System for the US
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David McClusky
Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
Go Beyond the Map
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Vivek Sakhrani
VP, Data & Analytics
Geo-Targeting in the Last Mile of Public Health: Reaching the Zero-Dose Child
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Coffee Break
Coffee Break
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Dr Joan LaRovere
Co-Founder, Vice President, and Board Member at Virtue Foundation
Data for Good: Changing the Shape of Medical Deserts to Save Lives
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Christopher Evangelides
Senior GIS & EO Consultant at Ricardo
Georgina Vaughan
Data Scientist at Ricardo
Monitoring the Impact of Climate Change: Using Satellite Imagery to Detect Wildfires
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David Peto
Co-Founder and CEO at General System
Andrew Rogers
Co-Founder and CTO at General System
Expanding Into New Dimensions With Spatiotemporal Data
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Tom Fleischer
CTO at Vistar Media
Vistar Media
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Spatial Data Scientist of the Year Award
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Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
Michael Colson
Engineering Manager at Locala
Clément Carreau
Engineering Manager at Locala
Margaret Hoffecker
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Echo Analytics
Fawad Qureshi
Global Field CTO at Snowflake
Sean Wohltman
Google Global Head of Cloud Geography
Eva Estrada-Adler
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Milos Colic
Platform APIs Team Lead at CARTO
Sergey Sukov
CEO at Action Engine
Michael Johns
Geospatial Specialist Leader at Databricks
Felix Palmer
Principal Rendering Engineer at CARTO
Tobin McGilligan
Project Manager at CARTO
Giulia Carella
Senior Data Scientist at CARTO
Ben Pruden
Head of Marketing & GTM at Wherobots
Julien Lebrun
Network Planning Manager at FLO EV Charging
Christina Virosteck
Head of Real Estate Solutions at Dataplor
Konrad Miziolek
Senior Data Scientist II at Instacart
Dmitry Shkolnik
Manager, Data Science at Instacart
Brian Duggan
Staff Software Engineer
Jérôme Urbain
Head of Products at GeoPostcodes
Daniel Smith
Sr. Solution Architect at Wherobots
Andrew Lee
Senior Program Manager at Instacart
Mina Jelani
Geographic Information System Specialist at CBRE
Kristin Scholten
Data Science Advisor at Nationwide
David Buchanan
GIS Solutions Architect at Comcast
Andrew Flowerday
Supervisor - ADAS Mapping & Localization at Ford
Stacy Liu
Principal Architect at Tokio Marine Highland
Kirk Goldsberry
Best-selling author, sports analytics expert, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Harman Dhodi
Senior Analyst at HR&A Advisors
Elizabeth Delmelle
Associate Professor and Direct of Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Joe Francica
Principal Product Manager, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Anne Rolim
Data Scientist at EQT Partners
Daniel Lewis
Distinguished Data Scientist at Geotab
Matthew Konski
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at Geotab
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Gennadii Donchyts
Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
Robin Cao
Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
Paul Langston
Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
Nadine Macklin
Vice President, Customer Success at CARTO
Mayank Singh
VP of Product at Echo Analytics
Tanusha Goswami
Product Manager at MiQ
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Hannah Babineau
Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
Jack Burton
Product Director at Mobsta
Ernesto Martínez Becerra
Product Manager at CARTO
Diego Vicente
Data Scientist at CARTO
Stuart Lynn
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
Erik Lindquist, PhD
Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Jade Edwards
Head of Insights at Zapmap
Chris Maydom
Data Scientist at BT
James Bentley
Data Scientist at Landmark
Ruth Wetters
Data Scientist at Knight Frank
Sharat Ramamani
Analytics Lead at Wolt
Meagan Vigil
Geospatial Data Expert
Warda Rahim
Data Scientist at QBE
Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
Tim Rains
Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
Rebecca M. Mari
Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
Rupert-Hu Gilman
Data Analyst at Bank of England
Julio Covarrubia
Service Line Manager at Entel
Jaime Unger
Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
Sudheer Pamula
Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
Chris Thompson
Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Ben Crampton
Data Scientist at Bank of England
Fu Zheng
Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
Steve Walker
Senior Staff Generative AI ML Solution Engineer
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Kyle Barron
Cloud Engineer at Development Seed
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
David McClusky
Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
Matt Bialas
Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
James McClain
Machine Learning Lead at Element 84
Gavin Lewis
Head of Engineering at Fathom
Jade Fawcett
GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
Gina Park Kenney
Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
Jesse Canella
COO at Tensorflight
Ali Rossi
Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
Greg Scharer
Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
Anand Singh
Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Andrew Rogers
Co-Founder and CTO at General System
David Peto
Co-Founder and CEO at General System
Eli Knaap
Senior Research Scientist & Associate Director at SDSU Center for Open Geographical Science
Joshua Bramall
Head of Data Science at General System
Robert Edwards
Senior Data Scientist at General System
Zachary Walker
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Aaron Fraint
Senior Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Sohaib Katariwala
Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
Sourav Ganguly
Sr. Leader Enterprise Architecture at CoreLogic
Susan Devitt, PhD
Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Chen Chen
Sciences Director
Alex Singleton
Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
Seth Spielman
Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
Sowmya Achanta
Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
Tom Fleischer
CTO at Vistar Media
Yuri Astrakhan
CoFounder of MapLibre and Sr Staff Engineer at Rivian
Ashish Jain
Principal Software Architect at CoreLogic
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO

Workshops

On the day prior to the conference, we held multiple interactive sessions with industry specialists.

A Data-Driven Approach to Flooding & Climate Risk Design to Enhance Supply Chain Network Resilience

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Over 125 billion dollars were lost in damage due to Hurricane Harvey. Whether you are in the Retail, Logistics, Energy, Insurance or many other sectors, extreme weather events cause major losses due to asset damage, failure in supply chain, etc. In this workshop we will demonstrate how to use a data driven approach for designing a supply chain network that is resilient to weather extremes both for the current climate state and also under future climate scenarios and time horizons. We will also explore how to identify the assets at risk due to real weather events for emergency response planning and impact analysis.

Enable Serverless Geospatial Analytics and Machine Learning with AWS and CARTO

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With continuous growth in the size of datasets and declining cost of storage, it’s becoming more common to use a data warehouse like Amazon Redshift for geospatial datasets. With AWS Data Exchange, you can find and subscribe to third-party data sets and seamlessly query them alongside your first party data in Amazon Redshift. In Amazon Redshift you can use spatial joins, built-in spatial functions, and machine learning models on your data directly in Amazon Redshift using SQL which analysts are already familiar with. By keeping the data in Amazon Redshift you can benefit from the best price-performance of any cloud data warehouse. With the geospatial capabilities enabled in Amazon Redshift, combined with the tools from CARTO, it’s possible to solve most spatial use cases natively in the cloud.

Blank spaces: using geosegmentation & financial data to learn which locations could most benefit from the "Swift Effect"

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Taylor Swift's recent Eras tour is set to generate $4.6 billion in consumer spending - but with only (!) 146 shows, many fans and businesses are set to miss out. In this workshop, Helen will walk you through how to use Spatial Indexes, geosegmentation, spend data and a lot of puns to solve the important spatial problem: which areas are experiencing Taylor Swift deprivation?

Mastering Geospatial Analytics using Snowflake and CARTO

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This practical workshop will teach geospatial professionals to leverage Snowflake and CARTO capabilities for location-based applications. Using a combination of Snowflake’s built-in functions and CARTO Analytics Toolbox, participants will answer business questions and explore real-life use cases. This session is suitable for geospatial practitioners at all levels, whether they are beginners or advanced developers seeking to explore Snowflake’s latest features.

Taming Big Data with Spatial Indexing

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This hands-on workshop will focus on a variety of contexts where spatial indexes can be used to enhance the performance of spatial analysis and visualizations when using "big data". This session is best for anyone with (at least) some basic SQL knowledge and a desire to learn how to scale their workflows to massive datasets.

From Data to Action: Decision Science for Accelerated Business Results

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Mobility data alone doesn’t provide much value unless it’s analysed and transformed into actionable insights. Technical difficulties for data cleaning and processing, and the expertise needed to extract customer behaviour from mobility data can be a real pain - but once mastered it is a game changer for businesses. In this hands-on workshop attendees will work on a real-world use case and learn about the necessary tools to drive business decisions. During the workshop, attendees will download Echo's mobility data and will work on Python, Geopandas and a Jupyter notebook to successfully master their analysis of mobility insights.

Low Code Flow: Using CARTO Workflows for Low Code Repeatable Spatial Analytics

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This practical workshop will teach people of all geo backgrounds how to leverage CARTO Workflows to build repeatable low code/no code spatial analytics within a cloud environment. Attendees will build their own Workflows to produce a complete spatial analysis, from raw data to clean results and visualization. This session is good for geo-practitioners at all levels, but a general understanding of spatial analysis and SQL is recommended.

Deeper, Broader, Faster, Stronger: Expanding into new dimensions with spatiotemporal data

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Spatial data that changes over time presents difficulties because of the cost, time, and complexity to process and analyze at scale.  But this data holds valuable, latent and undiscovered insights that can make your analysis deeper (historically), broader (spatially), faster (analytically), and stronger! Join us for a fun and interactive session with Josh and Robert, senior data scientists who specialize in working with global-scale, spatiotemporal datasets. In this session, you'll use CARTO, Python and other familiar technologies to explore and overcome some of the most complex and challenging examples of geospatial analysis, get a glimpse into the future of geospatial data science and pocket some actionable takeaways.

Workshop overview

Intro & setup

Indexes - Geospatial, Timeseries, Multiattribute

Connecting and API basics

Analysis

Mobility data (footfall analysis) at a global scale,

Dynamic spatio-temporal analysis,

Spatio-temporal feature engineering

Spatial Data Science with PySAL: An Introduction to Geodemographic Segmentation and Urban Economic Structure

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This tutorial provides an introduction to urban spatial analysis using PySAL and geosnap, demonstrating how to use spatial data science to uncover market areas in the city for both residential and employment markets. The tutorial first introduces geodemographic segmentation and regionalization as techniques for understanding the consumer structure of a metropolitan region, and then introduces the combination of spatial autocorrelation measures with computational geometry as a method for uncovering employment market areas in the city. These analytics can be used to better understand the existing and emerging "spatial structure" of a city, identify targeted uses in different portions of the region, and coordinate the co-location of other goods and services like transportation and accommodation.

ML on the Edge: Training models for Remote and On-Orbit Earth Observation

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Thousands of Earth Observation (EO) satellites are flying overhead, thanks to the SmallSat revolution. With space-to-ground bandwidth struggling to keep pace, availability windows come at a premium. In this workshop, you'll explore the benefits of pre-processing data using Python to train a Machine Learning (ML) model that pre-select only high-quality imagery for downlink. The model will be lightweight, and capable of running on off-the-shelf, space-ready hardware.

Planet-scale spatial analysis with Google EarthEngine and BigQuery

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This workshop will walk through using recently launched capabilities in Google Earth Engine, Vertex AI, and Big Query to gain insights from remote sensing and geospatial data. We'll walk through common use cases and patterns for moving data between the services, and best practices for their use.  Users will get hands-on experience implementing common geospatial workflows and approaches that can be used for solving problems in conservation, climate risk, and natural resource management among many others.


Workshops

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Jay Conference Bryant Park
Columbia University
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Auditorium of the conference
Venue

Columbia University

New York, US

After Party

Amity Hall

Amity Hall
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Diversity program

Having a diverse group present at #SDSC23 is a priority for us, and for that reason we are setting aside 30 tickets to ensure we attract attendees from groups who are typically underrepresented at Data Science or GIS events.
This includes but is not limited to: women, underrepresented backgrounds, people with disabilities and LGBTQ.

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