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Washington DC '24
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Kate Fickas, PhD

She/Her.

Director of Imagery and Remote Sensing Solutions at Esri.

About

Dr. Kate Fickas is the Esri Director of Imagery and Remote Sensing Solutions. With background as both a remote sensing product producer and end user, she employs her interdisciplinary expertise in satellite, drone, and lidar remote sensing, GIS, statistical modeling, and machine learning, to develop user and solution driven approaches to cross-industry applications. With her dynamic industry experience ranging from academic research to commercial and government work, Kate is passionate about storytelling and creating authentic, inclusive communities of practice who employ imagery and remote sensing technology to solve the world’s most complex challenges.


On the agenda

  1. Policy, Diplomacy and Process Talks

    May. 17 '24, 09:00am
    Lightning Talks
    The Forum (North)
    • More Than a Map: USAID's First Ever Geospatial Strategy (Carrie Stokes)
    • Deep Data Diving: Exploring the depth of Water Diplomacy (Madeeha Yasmin Merchant)
    • Eyes in the Sky, Grounded in Community – Moving from Imagery to Insight (Kate Fickas, PhD)
    • Data, Justice, and Heart: How Data Visualisation Can Empower Positive Change (David González)
    • Assessing the Impacts of Satellite Data - Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities (Seamus Lombardo, PhD)

    Moderators

    1. Chad Blevins

    Speakers

    1. Carrie Stokes
    2. Madeeha Yasmin Merchant
    3. Kate Fickas, PhD
    4. David González
    5. Seamus Lombardo, PhD

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)


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