Auckland 2025
Business 2 Business, Gala Dinner and other event tickets are sitll available to purchase
- Business 2 Business - Tuesday 18th November, 2:00pm - 5:30pm - Networking and Sponsor Talks
- Gala Dinner - Wednesday 19th November - 6pm until late – An evening of celebration, connection, and entertainment
- GeoChicas - Thursday 20th November - Evening - evening of networking, sharing, and community building working to increase the participation and visibility of women in FOSS4G spaces
- And more...
Amy has worked for multiple organizations across the academic, private sector, and government ecosystems, most recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she worked with interdisciplinary teams to model and map both the built environment and highly resolved estimates of human population at global scale. Amy received her PhD in Geography from The University of Tennessee, and an MS in Geography with a graduate minor in Logistics and Transportation.
Amy is the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation where she is responsible for guiding Overture's technical roadmap, infrastructure design, and data interoperability strategy. Her previous work in the geospatial domain spans nearly 30 years, designing, building, and deploying geospatial data and technology solutions for human health and security, environmental remediation, logistics, and transportation planning projects.
Amy has worked for multiple organizations across the academic, private sector, and government ecosystems, most recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she worked with interdisciplinary teams to model and map both the built environment and highly resolved estimates of human population at global scale. Amy received her PhD in Geography from The University of Tennessee, and an MS in Geography with a graduate minor in Logistics and Transportation.
With a background in geospatial solutions, Ana is dedicated to driving open source initiatives that empower organizations in government, business, and research sectors to harness the full potential of spatial data.
Ana Belgun is a co-leader of Terria, where she is committed to making spatial data and digital twin technologies more accessible and impactful for both technical and non-technical users.
With a background in geospatial solutions, Ana is dedicated to driving open source initiatives that empower organizations in government, business, and research sectors to harness the full potential of spatial data.
Hirini has been involved with Te Potiki National Trust, and the website www.maorimaps.com since 2010. He co-founded the Māori community focused company Takarangi Research. He now supports Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln University) as its Māori Strategic Capability Lead.
Hirini grew up in the small marae community of Oromahoe in the Bay of Islands, Northland. He completed a doctorate at the University of Otago, Dunedin, exploring the past-present and future of his village. The general theme of his research interests is understanding something of the relationship between people, land and water.
Hirini has been involved with Te Potiki National Trust, and the website www.maorimaps.com since 2010. He co-founded the Māori community focused company Takarangi Research. He now supports Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln University) as its Māori Strategic Capability Lead.
Selene is a Latin American queer feminist, community organizer, mapmaker, and co-founder of Geochicas. She holds a PhD. in Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Research Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab and Stanford University. Selene is also part of the FAIR network for feminist AI, Tierra Común for data Decolonization, and the Communication and Public Policy Research Center of the School of Communication of the UNLP. She currently works at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Specialist in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Workshops will be held at AUT City Campus in the heart of the Auckland central business district. Classrooms are in the WF building. The registration and break area will also be in the WF building.
Conference sessions will be held at AUT City Campus in the heart of the Auckland central business district. All sessions will be held in the WG building. The registration, exhibition and break areas will also be in the WG building.
Registration at the conference is not a prerequisite for participation in the Community Day (including Code Sprints). Participation in the Community Day is free of charge and we welcome all folks interested.
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