Dr. Alex Philp is an Interdisciplinary leader with thirty years of professional management experience in advanced technology, application development and integrated solutions to complex problems for a broad range of customers. This experience spans academia, federal, state, local, and tribal governments, and the private sector. Recognized internationally for blending technical innovation and project execution, Alex has delivered various award-winning applications across national security, environmental policy, health science, and applied research domains.

Alex began his career engaged in field-based natural resource management service for the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service. Alex combined his academic strengths in historical geography and biogeography of watersheds through space-time into award-winning Earth systems science technical applications for the US Government, NASA, NOAA, USGS, and Army Corps. He remains a Senior Research Fellow for the University of Montana.

Having founded six cascading businesses over twenty years, Alex is a serial entrepreneur dedicated to active collaboration, successful outcomes, and a high standard of excellence. Through his extensive business networks, he served two Montana Governors in agricultural information systems and applied science, supported US transpacific diplomatic and business exchanges as a US Trade Delegate to APEC, a broad range of intersecting commercial and government programs for PEEC, various areas of innovation in geospatial applications and platforms for world-leading organizations including the US Government cyber security capabilities. Dr. Philp has received the highest awards in innovation from the State of Montana, the University of Montana, IBM, Esri, PNNL, MITRE, and various US Government patents.

Dr. Philp currently serves as Distinguished Senior Principal, Strategic Outreach, supporting a cross-cutting portfolio involving climate change security, global natural resource illicit networks and strategic competition, innovation in sensor systems, undersea autonomous AI-ML driven physics-based simulation and modeling environments and pre-detection of destabilizing national and international threats. Dr. Philp's active sponsor base includes NOAA, NASA, Dept of State, US Navy NAVSEA, USASOC, and various other agencies. Dr. Philp leads technical innovation implementation with the NVIDIA, Esri, and various other Non-Government Organizations and universities.

Ms. Christy Monaco is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Previous to joining OGC, Christy was the Vice President of Programs at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a role she held since December of 2020. She previously served for over 30 years in the U.S. Intelligence Community, during which she held a number of positions including with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). A government executive for over half of her federal career, in 2022 she was recognized by President Biden as a Meritorious Executive in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service for her contributions at NGA. Christy currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Ms. Monaco was born in Nashville, Tennessee, grew up in Ormond Beach, Florida, and currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and English. Ms. Monaco has also earned a Master of International Management degree with a concentration in International Commerce from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces, from which she graduated with highest distinction. She is also a Pilates enthusiast and instructor, enjoys fly fishing, painting, and tries really hard to actually read the book club books.

George is Senior Principal - Market Lead: Government & Capital Markets. George joined Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) in February 2012, bringing an extensive background in commercial & corporate real estate data and technology platforms, as well as commercial development & asset management experience.

George's work with the US Federal Government is anchored by Cotality solution and analytic offerings with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Cotality supports FEMA in both its hazard mitigation efforts as well as FEMA's hazard event response program, providing post-event data and analytics in support of in-field recovery efforts.

George is the Natural Hazard SME for Cotality engagements with other Federal Agencies, including the Federal Reserve Bank, the US Treasury - Office of Financial Research, the Veteran's Administration, USDA, and additional Federal Agencies.

George has also taken a leading role in industry groups and initiatives, having served as Education Chair of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) ESG CoP (community of practice), as well as the Structured Finance Association (SFA) ESG Benchmarking Committee for MBS Policy. George was named a "HousingWire Insider 2023" for his industry work supporting natural hazard education.

Maggie Cawley currently serves as the Executive Director for OpenStreetMap US. Shejoined OSM US in March 2019 after 15 years as a geospatial professional. As the largest collaborative, freely editable geospatial database of the world, OpenStreetMap sits at the intersection of open data, private industry and government services. In her role, Maggie works to engage, support and grow OSM and its community across the United States through advocacy, education, and events like the annual State of the Map US conference.

Mike Bennett is the Head of Government Solutions, North America for ICEYE. For over 15 years, Mike has worked in the weather and natural disaster industry, from operational forecasting and hazard communication in broadcast meteorology, to peril risk assessment and post-event forensics in the InsurTech space, to strategic account management and sales leadership around emergency management in SpaceTech.

Nathan Jones is the Assistant Division Chief of Business Administration for the Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau. He leads the Geography Division's educational efforts, recruitment, contract execution and budget management, and oversight activities. More specifically, Nathan works to ensure the Geography Division has the resources it requires to maintain the MAF/TIGER System, which serves as the basis for all data collection, tabulation, and dissemination at the U.S. Census Bureau. Nathan holds a degree in Geography from The Pennsylvania State University.

Ola Ayeni founded St. Louis-based Claim Academy, which is helping to solve the massive software, cyber and now geospatial developer shortage in the Greater St. Louis area and nationally. Through this coding boot camp, Claim Academy trains people to be industry career ready in just 3.5-months. Claim Academy is one of the 50 Best Coding Bootcamps in the world, according to Courserport and Switchup. Since 2020, Claim Academy has been named one of the best 16 cybersecurity bootcamp in America by Course Report and Fortune Magazine. Graduates of Claim Academy make $72,000 to start even without a college education. Ola is a TedX fellow and a Pulitzer Foundation speaker. When Ola is not working to change lives at Claim Academy and not with his wife Jennifer and their 4 children, he performs several civic duties. He has served on the Downtown Partnership Board, St Louis Promise Zone Workforce Board, Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, and Design St Louis, nominated by the Mayor. And currently on the Greater St Louis Inc board - A regional initiative with over 3 Million residents. He was the Co-chair MacArthur Foundation Workforce Board and is currently on the board of St Louis Geofutures Coalition and one of the Commissioners of the Botanical Gardens - Zoological District of St Louis.

Dr. Patrick Bresnahan is currently the Geographic Information Officer (GIO) for Richland County, South Carolina. Dr. Bresnahan earned a PhD in geography from the University of South Carolina and participated in the Postgraduate Research Program for the U.S. Department of Energy was awarded a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship sponsored by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Dr. Bresnahan received fellowship awards from AM/FM International (now GITA) and NASA under the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium. Dr. Bresnahan actively supports efforts of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and chairs the National Association of Counties GIS subcommittee. Dr. Bresnahan coauthored "The GIS Guide for Local Government Officials" which was published in 2005.