On Point with Korem

Josef Strobl is a professor of geomatics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science, a member of the European academy of arts and sciences and a member of the executive committee for the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI).

In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, I will speak with Mike Liebhold a Distinguished Fellow, and Sr. Researcher at the Institute for the Future. If you’re not familiar with the institute, it’s a non profit that helps organizations shape their business strategy for the future based on today’s technological innovations and to exploit these technologies by anticipating the future that they want, not for the future that happens, according to Mike. As the IFTF is located in Palo Alto, Mike has a long history of providing direction to Bay area technology firms like Google and Apple as well as LucasFilm. We are at the cusp of a dramatic new era for geospatial technology so you want to miss this episode of OnPoint.

In this OnPoint with Korem, you’ll hear from Jack Levis, the former senior director of process management at UPS. His job was setting the direction for UPS' planning, execution, and control systems including corporate pickup, delivery, and transportation systems. UPS engaged in a digital transformation and modernization effort well before it become a common tech buzzword. And as a transportation company, it relied heavily on UPS’s ability to create a highly accurate framework of road and address data as well as the array of sensors on each delivery vehicle all integrated into a solution that was well ahead of its time. To learn more about the UPS’s journey into location intelligence and Jack’s vision, stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem

ARTHUR BERRILL is the Head of Location Intelligence at the Royal Bank of Canada, a multinational financial services company that is the largest bank in Canada. Mr. Berrill’s distinguished career in geospatial as the president of DMTI Spatial, and Vice President at Pitney Bowes and MapInfo. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Mr. Berrill is carrying a vision for location intelligence that bridges, big data, digital twins and how location data can be used to understand the impacts of climate change to a major financial institution like RBC.  Stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.

In this episode of OnPoint with Korem, Gregory Brodski, the CEO of Traffic Information Consolidation or TICON, discusses how his company is bringing a new level of data driven opportunities for traffic analysis, transportation planning and Intelligent Transportation Systems using high-resolution traffic data and artificial intelligence especially for retail modelling and site selection. Mr. Brodski has a warning for convenience store and fuel retailers in the new era of electric vehicles. They need to make them more attractive to keep customers there longer or risk losing them to other locations like malls or hotels where consumers naturally spend a longer time. Mr. Brodski has a PhD in mechanical engineering and has spent the majority of his career in transportation planning and analysis. So stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.

Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.

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Lior Ron is the head of Uber Freight, the logistics support app that works to help carriers and shippers with real-time freight management to book and track primarily long haul loads and reduce time wasted waiting for the next load. Lior and Joe connected around 2007 when he was the Product Lead for Google Maps. He’s worked for Motorola Mobility, but is best known for co-founding, Otto, the company behind self-driving trucks that was acquired by Uber for $600 million in 2016. Lior was well ahead of the curve in understanding the power of location intelligence, so you won’t want to miss this episode of OnPoint with Korem.

Today we receive Ed Parsons of Google. His job is to evangelize location-based solutions and look at beyond the current status quo of geospatial technology and into the practical applications of what’s next in Geotech. Ed’s career is incredibly broad. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and a professional member of the British Computer Society. Ed was the UK Ordnance survey’s first chief technology officer where he worked from 2001 to 2006. He has an honorary Ph.D from Kingston University in recogniztion to his many contributions in the field of GIS.

Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.

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Karl Doenges is the EV Charging Industry Liaison for the National Association of Convenience Stores or NACS. If you are at all interested in the market for electric vehicles, the need for more raw materials for batteries, for manufacturing facilities of vehicles, for the energy infrastructure you’ll need to listen further. And where does of location intelligence come in. Who’s going to win? Will it be existing fuel retailers other types of convenience stores or places like hotels or malls where charging for longer periods of time is a necessary factor. This will be a tutorial on the ev market so stay tuned for this episode of OnPoint with Korem.

Every other Tuesday On Point with Korem brings you the latest news, insights, and use cases for geospatial technology! Tune in every episode to see leading experts in the field share their views and experiences.

Asif Khan is the founder of the Location Based Marketing Association. There’s no better individual than Asif to understand how retailers and consumer product good manufacturers are leveraging location-based marketing. He’s watched the industry mature over his more than 20-year career and he currently hosts the Location Weekly podcast, now in its 12th year of production. In addition, he is the CEO of Ground Level, a startup turning location-based data into insights.

Gary Menger is President and Founder of Applied Geographic Solutions, one of only a handful of companies that provides demographic data products to organizations. And as you will hear, there are some interesting findings in the 2020 Census and AGS knows better than most of the errors that are introduced into the Census because of how the data was both collected, processed and then released for public consumption. Stay tuned for this episode of Onpoint with Korem to hear more about the good bad and ugly of the 2020 Census.