Dr. Nadine Alameh is the CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international not-for-profit consortium leading the future of Location with community, technology, innovation and standards for the good of society. Nadine is a recognized leader in the geospatial field with a career impacting interoperability, innovation and information sharing in a multitude of domains including Aviation, Earth Observations, and Defense.

Prior to OGC, she held various roles in industry from the Chief Architect for Innovation in Northrop Grumman’s Civil Solutions Unit; to CEO of Aviation data exchange startup; to senior technical advisor to NASA’s Applied Science Program.

Dr. Alameh holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Information Systems Engineering, and 2 Master Degrees in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning with a concentration in Geospatial Information Systems.

Patrick Cozzi is the creator of Cesium and 3D Tiles, and CEO of Cesium. He originated CesiumJS, an open source library that has over 1 million lines of code and 2 million downloads. He created the Cesium WebGL engine and 3D Tiles, an OGC Community Standard for streaming massive 3D geospatial datasets. He is co-creator of glTF™, and has authored, edited, or contributed to ten books on 3D mapping, computer graphics, and games. He holds an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught Computer Science for 8 years.

A social entrepreneur and geospatial evangelist, Sanjay is the Founder and CEO of Geospatial World - an organization committed towards advancing knowledge for sustainability. A Masters and M. Phil in Politics and International Relations, Sanjay has special interest in public policy and global development agenda. He lends his time and experience to many not-for-profit organizations to help them further societal goals and has been awarded by the United Nations Statistics Department as ‘Global Geospatial Industry Ambassador’ in 2018. He serves as Board Member to Open Geospatial Consortium, US National Geospatial Advisory Committee, World Geospatial Industry Council, and International Society of Digital Earth.