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John Aitchison

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Engineering Manager & Senior DevOps Engineer at Element 84.

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About

John has over 15 years of engineering experience across hardware and software, with the majority of the last decade focused on cloud infrastructure and data engineering. As an engineering manager and senior DevOps engineer at Element 84, he spends the bulk of his time helping build scalable, secure cloud geospatial systems.

On the agenda

  • From Available to Usable

    Nov. 19 '26, 10:00am Lightning Talks Paperboat Gallery
    • Migrating Digital Earth Africa: Challenges, Lessons Learned, AWS Best Practices
    • Novel approaches for a satellite-informed pipeline to collect, analyze, and archive evacuation data in the wake of a climate disaster
    • Satellite imagery in browser, what are the challenges?
    • The imagery exists. Can you find it?
    • A Field Report on the Last-Mile Problem in Earth Observation
    • Software was the Appetizer: What AI Actually Needs From Geospatial Standards.
    • GenAI Fundamentals for Mere Mortals

    Moderators

    1. Lane Goodman

    Speakers

    1. John Aitchison
    2. Lauren Wilner, PhD
    3. Hanbyul Jo
    4. Melissa Rosa
    5. Khushi Shah
    6. Christy Monaco
    7. Bochu Ding
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Sponsors

Silver

  1. LGND

Bronze

  1. Allen AI

  2. GeoSTL

Community

  1. NASA Lifelines

  2. Overture Maps Foundation

Hosts

  1. Development Seed

  2. Common Space

  3. Taylor Geospatial

Media Partner

  1. Geo Awesomeness

Institutional Partner

  1. The Post Building

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