University of Redlands
Every year, the Center for Spatial Business invites guest speakers from a variety of sectors to share their knowledge on how geographic information systems (GIS) has benefitted their business. Drawn from academia and industry, our speakers hail from diverse backgrounds and possess significant expertise and experience in GIS. We invite you to learn more about our upcoming speakers and explore hundreds of hours of videos and presentation decks from past presentations.
Speaker Series events are free and open to the public.
Leveraging LiDAR To Achieve A Sustainable Digital TwinBy Ed Maghboul President, X-Spatial, LLC
WEDNESDAY
February 22, 2023
Dinner at 5:30 p.m.
Talk at 6:15 – 7:15 p.m.
University of Redlands, Orton Center
1249 E Colton Ave, Redlands, CA 92374
RSVP by Feb 17th at www.redlands.edu/maghboul
All events are scheduled for Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Pacific Time, and will be presented virtually.
February 22, 2023
Ed Maghboul, President, X-Spatial, LLC
Leveraging LiDAR to Achieve a Sustainable Digital Twin
January 25, 2023
Constantinos Papantoniou, Founder, GeoBlockchain Framework
GeoBlockchain for Trusted and Authenticated Geospatial Systems
November 15, 2022
Anika-Aduesa I. Smart, Director, Systems Projects (GIS), Information and Technology Services, LA Metro
The Evolutionary Role of the GIS Professional: The 'Art of the Mas'
October 12, 2022
Cindy Elliott, Esri
The Urgency for Accelerating Supply Chain Sustainability
Including, a rich library of videos and slides (when available) of approximately 50 talks over the past 12 years.
| Academic Year 2022-2023 | ||||
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| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
| Wednesday February 22, 2023 | Leveraging LiDAR to Achieve A Sustainable Digital Twin | Ed Maghboul |
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| Wednesday January 25, 2023 | Geoblockchain for Trusted and Authenticated Geospatial Systems | Constantinos Papantoniou | Slides | |
| Tuesday Nov 15, 2022 | The Evolutionary Role of the GIS Professional: The 'Art of the Mas' | Anika-Aduesa I. Smart | Slides | |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | The Urgency for Accelerating Supply Chain Sustainability | Cindy Elliott | Slides | |
| Academic Year 2021-2022 |
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| Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
The Morality of Wind Energy Landscapes |
Dr. Martin J. Pasqualetti | Slides | |
| Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | Making People’s Lives Better with Transformative Data and Analytics— And How Spatial Analysis Plays a Key Role |
Jan Kestle | Video | Slides |
| Thursday, January 27, 2022 | From Desktop to the Cloud: The Evolution of GIS at Walgreens | Ben Farster | Video | Slides |
| Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | Location Intelligence and Social Justice in the Chi: GIS and its Role in Equity in the Second City |
Yolanda Richards | Video | Slides |
| Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | Exploring the Roles of Location and Transportation Provision on Business Establishment Formation, Dissolution,and Relocation | Dr. Konstadinos (Kostas) G. Goulias | Video | Slides |
| Academic Year 2020-2021 | ||||
| Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | How Businesses Leverage GIS and Location Intelligence to Create Knowledge of Markets: Placemaking for the Future | David Beitz and Paris Williams-Allen | Video | N/A |
| Thursday, January 28, 2021 | GIS in Business Education: Why, How, Benefits, and Challenges | Dr. Joseph Kerski | Video | N/A |
| Thursday, November 19, 2020 |
Collecting and Connecting the Data for COVID-19 | Este Geraghty | Video | Slides |
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 |
A Maker’s Transformation: From Facilities Management to Market Planning to the Future of GeoAI |
Nikki Paripovich Stifle | Video | Slides |
| Academic Year 2019-2020 | ||||
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| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) | Video | Slides |
| Wednesday, March 11, 2020 |
On GeoAI in the Real World | Mansour Raad | Video | Slides |
| Wednesday, February 5, 2020 |
Empowering an Insurance Enterprise with Geospatial Insight |
Joe Holubar | Video | Slides |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2019 | The Role of Big Data in Retail Location Decision Making |
Lawrence Joseph | Video | Slides |
| Tuesday, November 5, 2019 | The Gaps in Your (Team’s) Spatial Thinking |
Jim Herries | Video | Slides |
| Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Geoprivacy Attitudes and Personal Location Masking Strategies of Internet Users | Dr. Piotr Jankowski | Video | N/A |
| Academic Year 2018-2019 | ||||
| Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | Cartographer Redefined - Mapping Amongst the Masses. | Indy Hurt | Video | N/A |
| Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | The Role of Analytics in Southern California Edison's Massive Project to Provide Renewable Energy from the Tehachapi Wind Farm. | H. Steven Eimer | Video | N/A |
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018 |
Exploring of Emerging Geospatial and Information Technologies on Earth and in Space at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. | Tom Soderstrom and Stephanie Granger | Slides | |
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November 13, 2018 |
Understanding Space-Time Diffusion in a Retail Ecosystem for Home Improvement Products: How to Combine the Temporal Bass Model, with Bayes and Spatial Huff Models. | Dr. Christopher Franklin | N/A | |
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November 8, 2018 |
Augmented and Virtual Reality for Immersive Spatial Exploration and Decision-Making in Business | Eric Wittner and Rex Hansen | N/A | |
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Academic Year 2017-2018 |
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March 28, 2018 |
GIS as an Analytic for Location Economics | Wayne Gearey | N/A | |
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March 20, 2018 |
Digital Transformation and GIS in Utilities | Bill Meehan | N/A | |
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January 23, 2018 |
Exploring the Geographic Footprints of Google Fiber |
Tony Grubesic |
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| Academic Year 2016- 2017 | ||||
| October 17, 2017 | Humanitarian Aid and Spatial Technologies in Crisis | Andrew Schroeder | Video | N/A |
| March 28, 2017 | The Illusion of Simplicity: The Case for Making Drones Easy to Use | Lawrie Jordan | Video | N/A |
| January 31, 2017 | Privacy - Preserving Inference of Social Relationships from Location Data | Dr. Cyrus Shahabi | Video | N/A |
| December 6, 2016 | Driving Innovation with GeoHub in the City of Los Angeles | Ms. Lilian Coral | Video | N/A |
| November 1, 2016 | Achieving Corporate Global Location Intelligence | Dr. Wayne Gearey |
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Slides |
| September 20, 2016 | Targeted Digital Marketing: A Defense Against Retail Disruption | Seann G. Bernshaw, Ph.D. ABD | Video | Slides |
| Academic Year 2015-2016 | ||||
| March 7, 2016 | The State of Geospatial Big Data | Mansour Raad | Video | Slides |
| January 27, 2016 | On Demand Cities | Dr. Thomas Fisher | Video | Slides |
| December 2, 2015 | Spatial, Temporal and Socioeconomic Characteristics in Crowd-sourced Geographic Information | Linna Li, Ph.D. | Video | Slides |
| October 1, 2015 | Sleepwalking into the Future? A World Without Spatial Thinking | Joseph Kerski, Ph.D., GISP | Video | Slides |
| November 18, 2015 | West Marine's Transition to a Waterlife Outfitter: The Role of Location Intelligence | Dr. Lawrence Joseph |
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Slides |
| Academic Year 2014-2015 | ||||
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April 8, 2015 |
Spatial Data: The Fuel for Spatial Decision-Making |
Video | N/A | |
| March 11, 2015 | The Criticality of GIS Basemaps: Quality is the Key to Success | Milton Ospina | Video | Slides |
| December 3, 2014 | Applying Real-Time GIS | Greg Tieman & Thomas Paschke | Video | Slides |
| November 19, 2014 | GIS Day: rKnowledge - The Spatial Diffusion of rDNA Methods | Dr. David Rigby | Video | Slides |
| September 17, 2014 | Incorporating GIS Technology into Local Government | Ingrid Bruce | Video | Slides |
| Academic Year 2013-2014 | ||||
| September 18, 2014 | Situational Awareness and Business Intelligence | Dr. Ming Tsou | Video | Slides |
| May 28, 2014 | Geomedicine: Getting from Hippocrates to HIE to Hadoop | Dr. Estella Geraghty | Video | N/A |
| January 28, 2014 | Web GIS: Technologies, Applications and Directions | Pinde Fu, Ph.D. | N/A | |
| November 20, 2013 | Getting to Yes? The Sustainable Energy Modeling Program, a Decision Support System for Infrastructure Siting | Dr. Hal Nelson | N/A | |
| Academic Year 2012-2013 | ||||
| November 7, 2012 | GIS Mobile Resources Management | Wolfgang Hall | N/A | |
| October 3, 2012 | GIS and Big Data-Theory and Best Practice Case Studies | David Schrader | N/A | |
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Academic Year 2011-2012 |
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| Maps for Business: Spatial-based Decisions Made Easy | Steve van Vliet | N/A | ||
| December 5, 2012 | House Planner | Dr. Carsten Lange | Slides | |
