Michele Bavaro

received his master
degree in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Pisa. Shortly
afterwards he started his work on Software Defined Radio technology applied to
navigation. First in Italy, then in The Netherlands and in the UK he worked on
several projects being directly involved with the design, manufacture,
integration, and test of radio navigation equipment and supporting customers in
the development of their applications. Today he is appointed as Technical
Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre.

http://geoit.org/2016/10/31/michele-bavaro-received-his-master-degree-in/

Dirk Slama

is Director of Business Development at
Bosch Software Innovations. As Conference Chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps
shaping the IoT strategy of Bosch. Dirk has over 20 years experience in very
large-scale application projects, system integration and Business Process
Management. His international work experience includes projects for Lufthansa
Systems, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent
speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of these successful books:
Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, and Enterprise IoT. He holds
an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer
Science from TU Berlin.

http://blog.bosch-si.com/

http://www.bosch-si.com/

http://geoit.org/2016/10/30/dirk-slama-is-director-of-business-development/

Henri Kühnert:

is Founder and Managing Director of building10 – an operational VC focussing on early stage startups. In 2006 he founded TIC-mobile, one of the first mobile development agencies and sold it in 2011 to Germany largest independent Digital Agency – SinnerSchrader AG. Until 2014, he led SinnerSchrader Mobile as CEO. In parallel he invested as first in investor in several successful startups: Digital Publishing Market Leader – PRESSMATRIX, Europes first Beacon Management Platform – SENSORBERG and The second largest restaurant reservation platform worldwide – QUANDOO. We sold QUANDOO in 2015 for 200.000.000 € to Japanese Recruit Holdings. In 2015 he started venture capital company building10 and invested as first investors in the largest Carsharing Aggregator worldwide, CARJUMP and the last mile Logistics Company – FLIIT.

www.b10.vc

http://geoit.org/2016/10/29/henri-kuehnert-is-founder-and-managing-director-of/

Prof. Dr. Martin Kada, TU Berlin

After his diploma in computer science, Martin Kada worked as an academic
staff member in the GIS group of the Institute for Photogrammetry at the
University of Stuttgart. There he received his doctoral degree in engineering
on the topic of multi-scale generation of 3D city models. Three years later he
was appointed junior professor for geoinformatics at the University of
Osnabrück.

Since 2015 he holds a full professorship at Technische Universität
Berlin and is head of the chair “Methods of Geoinformation Science”. His
research interests include 3D urban environments, particularly their automatic
generation from 3D point clouds and their (real-time) visualization.

TU Berlin

http://geoit.org/2016/10/28/prof-dr-martin-kada-tu-berlin-after-his/

Simon Poole, 58,

from Melbourne Australia,. After studying
physics at Zürich University, he worked for a short period of time for the
Swiss university computer network SWITCH and then moved on to
co-found  what was to become the first commercial ISP in Switzerland and
one of the first in Europe in the early 90s. He lives outside of Zürich in
Switzerland.

Simon is a moderately active OpenStreetMap contributor, is the current chair
of the OpenStreetMap Foundation licence working group, was the chairman of
the OSMF in the years 2013 and 2014, and has been the president of the Swiss
OpenStreetMap Association since 2012.

Trivia: Simon wrote the most popular VT100 terminal emulator for the Atari
ST in the 80s.

http://geoit.org/2016/10/28/simon-poole-58-from-melbourne-australia-after/

Patrick Mast

is project owner at Ubilabs. As part of a team of map geeks
he works on bringing mapping solutions to the edge of technology.

Ever since he received is first handheld GPS receiver in the
90s he has been addicted to maps and geolocations: locating himself on the
globe, visualizing data in a geographic context, gaining new insights by
analyzing geographical data.

After studying Artificial Intelligence in Amsterdam he came
back to Germany to first work in the marine business: locating vessels and
analyzing their movement around the globe. At Ubilabs he now found his home
between like minded people, focussing fully on mapping up the world.

www.ubilabs.net

http://geoit.org/2016/10/27/patrick-mast-is-project-owner-at-ubilabs-as-part/

Timmo Freudl-Gierke
is the Head of
Product Development in Technology at MeteoGroup where he helps teams to
building modern weather solutions. He is an engineer by heart with a not ending
passing to architecture and agile software development.

Before MeteoGroup he has worked as
Head Architekt for the financial company Hypoport AG building
the revolutionary web-based financial transaction platform EUROPACE 2. He
is co-organizer of the micro services conference in Berlin MicroXchg, the
Micro Service user group Berlin and co- organizer of the MongoDB User Group
Berlin. He is a big fan of lightweight tools enabling people to rapidly build
solid web based system.

http://www.meteogroup.com/

http://geoit.org/2016/10/27/timmo-freudl-gierke-is-the-head-of-product/

Andreas Dunsch:

started his own business FlyNex while working as a scientific assistant at the Institute for unmanned Systems at Northern Business School, Hamburg. Working with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) as a former military officer around the world, he learned about the importance of geodata for several purposes. Andreas was as well a customer and provider for on demand geoinformation, working with several mapping solutions. Today he is building his own mapping and navigation solutions for the drone ecosystem. The lower airspace activities demand more and precise geodata than ground mobility applications. For building the operational working platform for UAS within industry solutions geo APIs are therefore key.

https://www.flynex.de

http://geoit.org/2016/10/25/andreas-dunsch-started-his-own-business-flynex/