DGI 2020 | Worldwide Business Research (WBR) | 20 January 2020 | Royal Lancaster London, Lancaster Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 2TY, UK

Where The Future Of The Global Geospatial Intelligence Industry Is Defined

Are you ready to take full advantage of breakthroughs in imagery, AI/ML and remote sensing in your geospatial intelligence strategy?

Join 650 of the world’s leading geospatial intelligence decision makers to position your agency at the centre of your nation’s defence and security strategy.

Why Attend?

Learn From Those Leading the Way
Our speaker faculty represent the world’s nest geospatial intelligence leaders. These forward-thinking leaders will learn how senior defence and security leadership plan to invest in geospatial intelligence.

Unbiased Advice You Can’t Get Anywhere Else
Our agenda is 100% focused on your biggest challenges and opportunities and our expert speaker faculty will openly share the do’s and don’ts to help you best address them.

The Most Interactive DGI Ever
Benefit from lots of interactivity, including 15 hours of workshops, boardrooms and drill-down roundtables – your opportunity to develop relationships and meet new contacts.

2020 Speakers

Pia Dahl Højgaard
Director General, Danish Geodata Agency

Lt General James Hockenhull
Chief of Defence Intelligence, Joint Forces Command, UK MoD

Colonel Cam Stoltz
Director, Space Requirements, Canadian Armed Forces Joseph Casas, S&T Small Missions and DoD Formulation Manager, Partnerships and Formulation Office, Manager, OSD JCTD Arctic Collaborative Environment (ACE) , NASA

Randall Billy
Business Development Leader, National Mapping Team at International Government, Esri

Dr Lisa Porter
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (DUSD) (R&E), US DoD

Debbie Fugate
Deputy Director, National Geospatial Program, United States Geological Survey

Major Denise Sweet
Deputy Commanding Officer Mapping and Charting Establishment, Canadian Armed Forces

BGen Melvin G. Carter USMC
Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Marine Corps

Vice Admiral Robert Sharp
Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Brigadier Chris Middleton
Commander, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence

Gary Blohm
Director, US Army Geospatial Center

Colonel Derrick Lee
Head of Intelligence, US Army Europe

Colonel Orest Babij
Commander, Canadian Forces Intelligence Group

Air Vice-Marshal Ian Vallely
Director, Cyber Intelligence and Information Integration, Joint Forces Command, UK MoD

Brigadier General Radoslaw Jezewski
Director of Intelligence, EU Military Staff

Jose Casimiro Morgdo
Director of Intelligence Centre, EU Military Staff

Al Di Leonardo
Member of the Board, Special Forces Operations Foundation

Dave Gauthier
Director of Source Commercial and Business Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru
Director, European Union Satellite Centre

Lt Colonel Aaron Mikkelsen
Director, GEOINT, New Zealand Defence Forces

Mark Munsell
Deputy Director, Chief Information Officer - IT Services, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Vanessa Lawrence
Senior Advisor, World Bank

Christy Monaco
Director of the Office of Innovation, NGA

Dan Visone
Director, Systems and Acquisition Support Directorate, US Army Geospatial Center

Captain Lorenzo Agnarelli
Director, Italian Satellite Remote Sensing Centre, Italian MoD

Bill Goetz
Director of Source Foundation, NGA

Justin Langlois
Vice President, Advanced Applications, WorldView Space

Giuseppe Nobile
Head of Geospatial Section, NATO International Military Staff

Adriano Baptista
Head of Operations Division, European Union Satellite Centre

Lyston Lea II
Principal Advisor, US National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO)

Will Mortenson
Head of NOME and Volunteer Geographic Information, NGA

Dan Ruark
Head of GEOINT Branch, NATO Fusion Centre

Captain Derrek Swannick
Director, IMaGE, Information and System Services, Joint Forces Command, UK MoD

Colonel Roly Cockwell
Department Head Joint User C4ISR, Joint Forces Command, UK MoD

Ian Spencer
Director, Defence Geographic Centre, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence

John Teufert
Branch Head, Geospatial Intelligence, NATO Communications and Information Agency

Lt Colonel Al McGrath
Chief Instructor, Defence School of Geospatial Intelligence, Joint Forces Command, UK MoD

Ingrid Vanden Berghe
Director, NGI (National Mapping Agency of Belgium)

Bret Rodgers
Subject Matter Expert, Human Geography, Geospatial Intelligence Division, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

Vice Admiral (ret’d) Robert Murrett
Professor of Practice, Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University

George O’Hanian
Branch Chief, Military Engineering and Survey Support, US Army Geospatial Center

Colonel David Pendall
Commander, European Cryptologic Center, US Army Europe

Colonel Jason Lamb
Director of Intelligence, Analysis and Innovation, Air Education and Training Command, US Air Force

Jo-Ellen Adkins
NGA Senior Representative, US State Department and USAID, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Dr Gordon Campbell
Head of Enterprise, Science, Applications and Climate Department, Directorate of EO Programmes, European Space Agency

Pete deLuca
Chief, IDG Division, NGA Support Team to USEUCOM

Ricardo Arias
Senior Advisor, Science and Technology and Innovation, US Africa Command

Einar Bjorgo
Director, UNOSAT, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

Joe Drummey
Senior Director, Government Strategy, MAXAR, NGA

Mandy Warrington-Brown
Assistant Director, Collection, Defence Geographic Centre, NCGI ,UK MoD

Gary Dunow
Chief, International Support Team, Canada and UK, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Marlene Meyer
Deputy National Geospatial Officer, Joint GEOMETOC Support Center, Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization

Captain Derek Swannick
Head, Imagery and Geospatial Systems (IMaGE), ISS Dev, Intelligence Systems, UK MoD

Wend Williamson
Assistant Director, Foundation, Defence Geographic Centre, NCGI, UK MoD

Jim Hill
Research Engineer, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, US Army

Dr (Lt Colonel ret’d) Michael Thomas
Professor of Cyberwarfare Studies, US Air War College

Colonel (Retd) John Kedar
CGeog(GIS), FInstRE, FRGS Geospatial Strategy Advisor

Neil Thompson
Former Head of Geospatial Intelligence Group, Canadian Armed Forces

Lt Colonel Soenke Fischhoefer
Geospatial Officer, INT/SPT, European Union Military Staff

Lt Colonel Charalampos Paraschou
Chief Geospatial Intelligence Officer, NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Greece

Scott Simmons
Director, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Professor Todd Bacastow
Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence, Penn State University

Jennifer Faraon
INST-E Senior Foundation Liaison, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Dena Orlando
Deputy GSD, US Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

Lori Scherer
Vice President Intelligence Portfolios, Mitre Corporation

Professor Jeff Moulton
Executive Director of the Stephenson National Center for Security Research and Training, Louisiana State University

Mick Cory
Secretary General, Eurogeographics

Joseph Casas
S&T Small Missions and DoD Formulation Manager, Partnerships and Formulation Office, Manager, OSD JCTD Arctic Collaborative Environment (ACE), NASA

Denise McKenzie
GIS Specialist

Robert Boettcher
Chief Geomatics Officer, Canadian Forces Warfare Centre

Scott Herman
VP Product Development, BlackSky Global LLC

Charles Beattie
Senior Imagery Analyst Officer, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

Joerg Herrmann
Senior Vice President of Sales, Capella Space Corp

Eric Exner
Collections Manager, Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center Atlantic, US Coast Guard

Anthony Calamito
Director, Government Solutions, Mapbox

Rafal Modrzewski
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, ICEYE

Pieter Elands
Programme Manager, Unmanned Systems, TNO

Dr Paul Becker
President and Professor of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Federal Agency

Patty Mims
Director of Global National Government, Esri

Jim Dolan, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Illuminate
Jim Dolan
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Illuminate

Ryan Lewis
General Manager, SpaceNet

Jennifer Daniel
Associate Deputy Director for Enterprise, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Ivan B. DeLoatch
Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, U.S. Geological Survey

Matt Wood
Sales Director, Europe and NATO, Planet

Anthony Vinci
Technology Leader, Bridgewater Associates and Former Chief Technology Officer, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Rear Admiral Heidi Berg
Head of Intelligence, US AFRICOM

John Serafini
Chief Executive Officer, Hawkeye360

Dr Chris Tucker
Author and Chairman, American Geographic Society

Dr. Uwe Jasnoch
Vice President Business Development, Geospatial Division, Hexagon

John Delay
Senior Scientist, Strategy and Architecture, Geospatial Solutions, L3Harris

Nathan Kehler
Executive Director, Canadian Research and Mapping Association (CRMA)

Skip Krakie
Chief, EUCOM Support Team, NGA

Tim Hegarty
AFRICOM Support Team Chief, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Colonel (ret’d) Steven Fleming
Professor of Practice, Spatial Sciences, Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Massimo Comparini
Chief Executive Officer, E-Geos

Dave Hoerner
Mission Manager for Space and Chief, SPACECOM Support Team, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Group Captain John Stamford
Chief of Staff, Head - Analysis, National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence, UK MoD

Nick Land
Business Development Manager, Esri

Lou Flynn
Director, NS2 Solution Strategy

Michaela Mesquite
Senior Leader, AAA Team, NGA

Krishin Asnani
Director of Business Development, BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP)

Lt Colonel Richard Blunt
Commander, Royal Engineers (Geographic), National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI), UK MoD

Dan Pomirleanu
Deputy Chief for Geospatial Information, Defence Information Agency MoD Romania

Colin Bray
Chief Executive Officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland

Lt Colonel Albert Mannard
Commanding Officer, Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre

Major William Watts
Commander, 60th Engineer Detachment, Geospatial Production Cell (GPC), European Command

2020 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:
• Esri

SPONSORS:
• Airbus Defence & Space
• BAE Systems
• BlackSky
• Capella Space
• Collins Bartholomew
• Compusult
• Echosec Systems
• Ecopia AI
• e-GEOS
• EarthCube
• Eternix
• European Space Imaging
• FGS LLC
• GAF AG
• General Dynamics Information Technology
• HawkEye 360
• Helyx
• Hexagon
• HERE
• ICEYE
• Illuminate
• L3Harris
• Leidos
• Mapbox
• MapLarge
• Maxar
• Orbital Insight
• Planet
• Raytheon
• SAP NS2
• SCAN Computers, NetApp, Nvidia
• SI Imaging Services
• Spatial Networks
• Telespazio
• TerraGo
• Textron Systems
• Video Inform
• ViaSat
• World View
• Stephenson Technologies Corporation (STC)