All posts by Gavin Schrock

Vijay Alagarraj

Vijay Alagarraj – Product Development Manager, Quantum Spatial Inc. – Georgia, USA Vijay started working for Quantum Spatial as a geospatial developer in 2009. As the company grew, he became technical lead and architect for the development group. Later he became product development manager and technical team manager across three continents and five time zones....

Steven L. Waslander

Steven L. Waslander – Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Director, Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (WAVELab) – Canada Robotics, UAS, autonomous vehicles—Steven L. Waslander has been working on these in academia, research, and practical levels long before most of us had discovered how cool they were. There is no “robo-cool” without the dedicated...

Sravan Puttagunta

Sravan Puttagunta – CEO, Civil Maps – California, USA Think big geospatial data—very big geospatial data. When people dream up digital worlds of interactive 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality, they often overlook the next step: dealing with massive amounts of data.  Civil Maps, a relatively young company, has decided to slay some big data...

Sid Nair

Sid Nair – Senior Director, Marketing and Product Management, Teletrac-Navman – California, USA There’s a lot of talk about “the internet of things,” or IoT, but of great and lasting value is “the internet of where things are”—how better to manage assets and processes spatially.  There are all sorts of ideas of how to make...

Shannon Hixon

Shannon Paul Hixon – Product Manager (High End) NAFTA, Leica Geosystems Inc. – Colorado, USA If you are a customer of Leica surveying products, you probably know the name Shannon Hixon well; he has often been the go-to guy for advanced end-user inquiries, but more recently Shannon has moved into product management. Shannon graduated from...

Sarang D. Thombre

Sarang D. Thombre – Dr. Sc. (Tech), Senior Research Scientist, Deputy Leader of Research Group – Intelligent Mobility and Geospatial Computing, National Land Survey of Finland, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Department of Navigation and Positioning – Finland Sarang leads the technology implementation for the project Enhanced Situational Awareness to Improve Maritime Safety in the Baltic,...