FedGeoDay 2025 Program
FedGeoDay is on
April 22, 2025
Events will be held at the Department of the Interior and the American Red Cross buildings in Washington, DC.
*FedGeoDay Workshops will take place on April 23, 2025 at the American Red Cross Building
April 22 - FedGeoDay
8:00 AM
American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room
Networking Breakfast
Kick off the day and meet fellow attendees at our exclusive Networking Breakfast.
Join National Geodetic Survey's Senior Advisor for Geodesy, Dr Dan Roman, and NGS Constituent Manager, Galen Scott, for informal discussions about the Nation's Oldest Science Agency, geodesy as critical national infrastructure, and the NGS mission to modernize the National Spatial Reference System for the first time in 40 years.
9:00 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Registration Opens at DOI Yates Auditorium
Check in and registration will begins at 9:00 AM.
9:30 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Welcome Remarks by Ryan Burley and Bill Dollins
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
GeoSolutions
Bill Dollins
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson
Founder and President
Cercana Systems LLC
9:35 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Demonstrations: Open Source Geospatial Applications for Resilience
Moderator:
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
GeoSolutions
Presentations:
“Chattanooga FOSS: How We Built a Real-Time Map of Reported Flooding and Road Closures for Hurricane Helene”
Daniel J. Dufour
Director of Performance Management and Open Data
City of Chattanooga
“USGS Geospatial Information Response Team: Resources for Resilience”
Xan Fredericks
Emergency Response Coordinator
Chair, Geospatial Information Response Team
USGS National Geospatial Program
“HURREVAC: The decision support tool of the National Hurricane Program, Administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center”
Karen Townsend
President and CEO
Sea Island Software (HURREVAC)
“eoAPI: A Cloud Native Framework for Earth Observation Data Access and Analysis”
Henry Rodman
Cloud Engineer
Development Seed
10:35 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Keynote Address: "Expanding the “What”, “So What”, and “Now What”: Using Open Earth Observations in Disaster Response”
Ms. Katie Picchione
Response Coordination Lead
NASA Disasters Program
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
11:20 AM
15-minute Break
11:35 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Presentation: Geospatial in Federal Report 2025
Jaymes Cloninger
CEO
Motivf
11:50 AM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Lightning Talks
Moderator:
Intro and Welcome
11:50 AM
Wayne Hawkins
VP - Intel Programs
RGi
Talks:
“Classifying Point Clouds with 2D Computer Vision”
11:50 AM
Shane Brennan
Software Engineer
RGi
“Transforming Disparate Data into Actionable Intelligence”
11:55 AM
Clay Hicks
Mission Director
Zignal Labs
“All Latitudes, Longitudes, and Heights will be changing. What does this mean for you and your data?”
12:00 PM
Galen Scott
NGS Constituent Manager, NSRS Modernization Engagement Team
NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, Geodetic Services Division
12:05 PM
American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room
Lunch Break
Lunch will be provided for a $20 charge.
1:20 PM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Lightning Talks
Moderator:
Intro and Welcome
1:20 PM
Wayne Hawkins
VP - Intel Programs
RGi
Talks:
“Postgres, Iceberg, & Parquet, A new Paradigm in Data Sharing”
1:25 PM
Adam Timm
Field CTO - Public Sector
Crunchy Data
“Data Discovery at Scale: Spatial Aggregations of STAC Metadata”
1:30 PM
Emma Paz
Application Developer
Development Seed
“Mapping Features with Layer Cake”
1:40 PM
Quincy Morgan
Technical Lead
OSM US
“GeoSolutions In Action: Real World Applications Leveraging GeoServer, GeoNode, and MapStore”
1:45 PM
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
GeoSolutions
“Address Management: The Hidden Spatial Data Infrastructure Behind Emergency Response and Economic Operations”
1:55 PM
Ghermay Araya
CEO
New Light Technologies
“Reliability in Geospatial AI”
2:00 PM
Jason Gilman
AI/ML Applications Lead
Element 84
2:05 PM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Panel: Open Data for Resilience
Moderator:
Eddie Pickle
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson
Senior Vice President
Crunchy Data
Panelists:
Maggie Cawley
Executive Director
OpenStreetMap US
John Crowley
Head of Partnerships
MapAction
Jed Sundwall
Executive Director
Radiant Earth
Angelina Calderon
Business Development, Reality Labs Technologies
Meta
2:55 PM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Fireside Chat: Achieving Resilience in the Cyber War
Moderator:
Ashley Fairman
Founder & CEO
DICE Cyber LLC
Panelists:
Jennifer Bisceglie
Founder & Executive Vice Chair
Interos Inc.
Damian R. Taylor, MSc.
Chief Information Security Officer
Office of Inspector General - USPS
3:40 PM
20-minute Break
4:00 PM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Panel: Demystifying AI
Moderator:
Bill Dollins
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson
Founder and President
Cercana Systems LLC
Panelists:
Brian Maddox
Owner
Digital Maddox, LLC
Emily Kalda
Product Manager
RGi
Jason Gilman
AI/ML Applications Lead
Element 84
Ran Goldblatt
Chief Scientist
New Light Technologies
Jackie Kazil
Director, GIS Solutions
Bana Solutions
4:55 PM
DOI Yates Auditorium
Closing Remarks by Eddie Pickle
Eddie Pickle
FedGeoDay Co-
Chairperson
Senior Vice President
Crunchy Data
5:00 - 7:00 PM
American Red Cross: Hall of Service Room
Reception at the American Red Cross Hall of Service
FedGeoDay Venues
Department of the Interior (DOI) -
Yates Auditorium
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Visitor Entrance on C Street
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240
American Red Cross Building
American Red Cross Building
Hall of Service Room
1730 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Presenters
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Katie Picchione
Response Coordination Lead, NASA Disasters Program
NASA -
Ryan Burley
Director of Sales and Business Development
GeoSolutions -
Daniel Dufour
Director of Performance Management and Open Data
City of Chattanooga -
Xan Fredericks
Emergency Response Coordinator Chair, Geospatial Information Response Team
USGS National Geospatial Program -
Karen Townsend
President & CEO
Sea Island Software (HURREVAC) -
Henry Rodman
Product Manager
-
Jaymes Cloninger
CEO
-
Wayne Hawkins
VP - Intel Programs
RGi -
Shane Brennan
Software Engineer
RGi -
Adam Timm
Field CTO - Public Sector
Crunchy Data -
Emma Paz
Application Developer
Development Seed -
Ghermay Araya
-
Maggie Cawley
Executive Director
-
John Crowley
Head of Partnerships
MapAction -
Jed Sundwall
Executive Director
Radiant Earth -
Angelina Calderon
Business Development, Reality Labs Technologies
Meta -
Ashley Fairman
Founder & CEO
-
Jennifer Bisceglie
Founder & Executive Vice Chair
-
Damian R. Taylor, MSc.
Chief Information Security Officer
Office of Inspector General - USPS -
Bill Dollins
Founder & President
-
Brian Maddox
Owner
Digital Maddox, LLC -
Emily Kalda
Product Manager
RGi -
Jason Gilman
Product Manager
Element 84 -
Ran Goldblatt
Chief Scientist
New Light Technologies -
Eddie Pickle
Senior Vice President
-
Aaron Kelley
President
UpSlope Advisors Inc. -
Mikel Maron
Product Lead
Earth Genome -
Jesse Springston
Senior Data Analyst
-
Nathan McEachen
CEO & CTO
TerraFrame, Inc. -
Quincy Morgan
Technical Lead
OpenStreetMap US -
Alyssa Castronuovo
Program Coordinator
OpenStreetMap US