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Explore the highlights from this year's Spatial Data Science Conference in London, where we gathered over 600 Data Science, GIS & Analytics professionals.

The conference offered a mixture of presentations, panels and workshops, where we heard from a range of professionals shaping the future of Spatial Data Science. They covered a range of topics including GeoAI, sustainability, innovative data streams, climate change and more.

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Speakers

Ben Crampton

Ben Crampton

Data Scientist at Bank of England
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Fu Zheng

Fu Zheng

Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
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Javier de la Torre

Javier de la Torre

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
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Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson

Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
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Sudheer Pamula

Sudheer Pamula

Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
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Tim Rains

Tim Rains

Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
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Fawad A. Qureshi

Fawad A. Qureshi

Global Field CTO at Snowflake
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Julio Covarrubia

Julio Covarrubia

Service Line Manager at Entel
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Rebecca M. Mari

Rebecca M. Mari

Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
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Phil Cooper

Phil Cooper

Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
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Ruth Wetters

Ruth Wetters

Data Scientist at Knight Frank
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Jaime Unger

Jaime Unger

Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
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Helen McKenzie

Helen McKenzie

Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
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Warda Rahim

Warda Rahim

Data Scientist at QBE
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Jade Edwards

Jade Edwards

Head of Insights at Zapmap
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Rupert-Hu Gilman

Rupert-Hu Gilman

Data Analyst at Bank of England
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Erik Lindquist, PhD

Erik Lindquist, PhD

Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
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Meagan Vigil

Meagan Vigil

Geospatial Data Expert
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Sharat Ramamani

Sharat Ramamani

Analytics Lead at Wolt
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Hannah Babineau

Hannah Babineau

Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
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Tanusha Goswami

Tanusha Goswami

Product Manager at MiQ
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James Bentley

James Bentley

Data Scientist at Landmark
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Paul Langston

Paul Langston

Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
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Chris Maydom

Chris Maydom

Data Scientist at BT
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Jack Burton

Jack Burton

Product Director at Mobsta
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Mayank Singh

Mayank Singh

VP of Product at Echo Analytics
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Robin Cao

Robin Cao

Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
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Nadine Macklin

Nadine Macklin

Vice President, Customer Success at CARTO
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Ernesto Martínez Becerra

Ernesto Martínez Becerra

Product Manager at CARTO
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Stuart Lynn

Stuart Lynn

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
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Gennadii Donchyts

Gennadii Donchyts

Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
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Agenda

Anthony MacKinnon
CEO at Georadix
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
Michael Colson
Chief Product Technology Officer at Locala
Clément Carreau
Engineering Manager at Locala
Margaret Hoffecker
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Echo Analytics
Fawad Qureshi
Global Field CTO at Snowflake
Sean Wohltman
Google Global Head of Cloud Geography
Eva Estrada-Adler
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Milos Colic
Platform APIs Team Lead at CARTO
Sergey Sukov
CEO at Action Engine
Michael Johns
Geospatial Specialist Leader at Databricks
Felix Palmer
Principal Rendering Engineer at CARTO
Tobin McGilligan
Project Manager at CARTO
Giulia Carella
Senior Data Scientist at CARTO
Ben Pruden
Head of Marketing & GTM at Wherobots
Julien Lebrun
Network Planning Manager at FLO EV Charging
Christina Virosteck
Head of Real Estate Solutions at Dataplor
Konrad Miziolek
Senior Data Scientist II at Instacart
Dmitry Shkolnik
Manager, Data Science at Instacart
Brian Duggan
Staff Software Engineer
Jérôme Urbain
Head of Products at GeoPostcodes
Daniel Smith
Sr. Solution Architect at Wherobots
Andrew Lee
Senior Program Manager at Instacart
Mina Jelani
Geographic Information System Specialist at CBRE
Kristin Scholten
Data Science Advisor at Nationwide
David Buchanan
GIS Solutions Architect at Comcast
Rebecca Blandin
Mapping Systems Integration Engineer at Ford
Stacy Liu
Principal Architect at Tokio Marine Highland
Kirk Goldsberry
Best-selling author, sports analytics expert, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Harman Dhodi
Senior Analyst at HR&A Advisors
Elizabeth Delmelle
Associate Professor and Direct of Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Joe Francica
Principal Product Manager, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Anne Rolim
Data Scientist at EQT Partners
Matthew Konski
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at Geotab
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Gennadii Donchyts
Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
Robin Cao
Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
Paul Langston
Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
Nadine Macklin
Vice President, Customer Success at CARTO
Mayank Singh
VP of Product at Echo Analytics
Tanusha Goswami
Product Manager at MiQ
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Hannah Babineau
Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
Jack Burton
Product Director at Mobsta
Ernesto Martínez Becerra
Product Manager at CARTO
Diego Vicente
Data Scientist at CARTO
Stuart Lynn
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
Erik Lindquist, PhD
Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Jade Edwards
Head of Insights at Zapmap
Chris Maydom
Data Scientist at BT
James Bentley
Data Scientist at Landmark
Ruth Wetters
Data Scientist at Knight Frank
Sharat Ramamani
Analytics Lead at Wolt
Meagan Vigil
Geospatial Data Expert
Warda Rahim
Data Scientist at QBE
Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
Tim Rains
Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
Rebecca M. Mari
Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
Rupert-Hu Gilman
Data Analyst at Bank of England
Julio Covarrubia
Service Line Manager at Entel
Jaime Unger
Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
Sudheer Pamula
Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
Chris Thompson
Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Ben Crampton
Data Scientist at Bank of England
Fu Zheng
Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
Steve Walker
Senior Staff Generative AI ML Solution Engineer
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Kyle Barron
Cloud Engineer at Development Seed
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
David McClusky
Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
Matt Bialas
Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
James McClain
Machine Learning Lead at Element 84
Gavin Lewis
Head of Engineering at Fathom
Jade Fawcett
GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
Gina Park Kenney
Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
Jesse Canella
COO at Tensorflight
Ali Rossi
Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
Greg Scharer
Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
Anand Singh
Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Andrew Rogers
Co-Founder and CTO at General System
David Peto
Co-Founder and CEO at General System
Eli Knaap
Senior Research Scientist & Associate Director at SDSU Center for Open Geographical Science
Joshua Bramall
Head of Data Science at General System
Robert Edwards
Senior Data Scientist at General System
Zachary Walker
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Aaron Fraint
Senior Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Sohaib Katariwala
Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
Sourav Ganguly
Sr. Leader Enterprise Architecture at CoreLogic
Susan Devitt, PhD
Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Chen Chen
Sciences Director
Alex Singleton
Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
Seth Spielman
Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
Sowmya Achanta
Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
Tom Fleischer
CTO at Vistar Media
Yuri Astrakhan
CoFounder of MapLibre and Sr Staff Engineer at Rivian
Ashish Jain
Principal Software Architect at CoreLogic
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
8:30
60
min
Registration & Welcome Breakfast
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Registration & Welcome Breakfast
9:30
40
min
CARTO Keynote
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Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
10:10
15
min
From Location Planning to GeoAI: How LI Drives Business Impact Across Industries
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Chris Thompson
Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
10:25
20
min
Keynote Snowflake
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Fawad A. Qureshi
Global Field CTO at Snowflake
10:45
30
min
Coffee Break - Brain Date
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Coffee Break
11:15
15
min
The Forest Data Partnership: Striving to Meet the Data Needs of Small-Scale Producers under the EUDR
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Erik Lindquist, PhD
Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
11:30
10
min
Geospatial Data on AWS and into the LLM for GenAI
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Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
11:40
15
min
Specialist Insurance - Managing Portfolio Climate Risk at Scale
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Sudheer Pamula
Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
Warda Rahim
Data Scientist at QBE
11:55
10
min
The Role of Accurate Geospatial Data and Advertising in a Post Cookie World
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Jaime Unger
Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
12:05
15
min
Using Network Data Science to Analyse Global (Flight) Connectivity
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Ruth Wetters
Data Scientist at Knight Frank
12:20
15
min
1. Hit the Road Jack
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Tim Rains
Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
Chris Maydom
Data Scientist at BT
12:30
70
min
Lunch
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Lunch
13:40
15
min
Take Control of your Sustainability Risk
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Fu Zheng
Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
13:55
10
min
Using Population Coverage to Drive Selection Insights
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Meagan Vigil
Geospatial Data Expert
Sharat Ramamani
Analytics Lead at Wolt
14:05
15
min
Staying Afloat: The Impact of Flooding on UK Firms
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Ben Crampton
Data Scientist at Bank of England
Rupert-Hu Gilman
Data Analyst at Bank of England
Rebecca M. Mari
Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
14:20
25
min
Panel | Navigating Industries: Spatial Insights into Market Valuation and Trends Analysis
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Hannah Babineau
Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
Paul Langston
Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
Robin Cao
Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
14:45
15
min
Uncovering the Spatial Footprint of Digital Behavior
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Julio Covarrubia
Service Line Manager at Entel
15:00
10
min
Earth Engine, Vertex AI, and other Google Cloud services for Building AI enabled Geospatial Solutions
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Gennadii Donchyts
Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
15:10
30
min
Coffee Break
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Coffee Break
15:40
10
min
Leading Privacy-first Consumer Segmentation and Targeting with Location Intelligence
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Mayank Singh
VP of Product at Echo Analytics
Tanusha Goswami
Product Manager at MiQ
15:50
15
min
Charging Electric Vehicles (EV) on the Public Network
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Jade Edwards
Head of Insights at Zapmap
16:05
15
min
Hex Appeal: Optimising Geospatial Pipelines
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James Bentley
Data Scientist at Landmark
Anthony MacKinnon
CEO at Georadix
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
Michael Colson
Chief Product Technology Officer at Locala
Clément Carreau
Engineering Manager at Locala
Margaret Hoffecker
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Echo Analytics
Fawad Qureshi
Global Field CTO at Snowflake
Sean Wohltman
Google Global Head of Cloud Geography
Eva Estrada-Adler
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Milos Colic
Platform APIs Team Lead at CARTO
Sergey Sukov
CEO at Action Engine
Michael Johns
Geospatial Specialist Leader at Databricks
Felix Palmer
Principal Rendering Engineer at CARTO
Tobin McGilligan
Project Manager at CARTO
Giulia Carella
Senior Data Scientist at CARTO
Ben Pruden
Head of Marketing & GTM at Wherobots
Julien Lebrun
Network Planning Manager at FLO EV Charging
Christina Virosteck
Head of Real Estate Solutions at Dataplor
Konrad Miziolek
Senior Data Scientist II at Instacart
Dmitry Shkolnik
Manager, Data Science at Instacart
Brian Duggan
Staff Software Engineer
Jérôme Urbain
Head of Products at GeoPostcodes
Daniel Smith
Sr. Solution Architect at Wherobots
Andrew Lee
Senior Program Manager at Instacart
Mina Jelani
Geographic Information System Specialist at CBRE
Kristin Scholten
Data Science Advisor at Nationwide
David Buchanan
GIS Solutions Architect at Comcast
Rebecca Blandin
Mapping Systems Integration Engineer at Ford
Stacy Liu
Principal Architect at Tokio Marine Highland
Kirk Goldsberry
Best-selling author, sports analytics expert, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Harman Dhodi
Senior Analyst at HR&A Advisors
Elizabeth Delmelle
Associate Professor and Direct of Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Joe Francica
Principal Product Manager, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Anne Rolim
Data Scientist at EQT Partners
Matthew Konski
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at Geotab
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Gennadii Donchyts
Cloud Geographer at Google Cloud
Robin Cao
Senior Data Scientist at Choreograph
Paul Langston
Partner - Location Intelligence at CACI
Nadine Macklin
Vice President, Customer Success at CARTO
Mayank Singh
VP of Product at Echo Analytics
Tanusha Goswami
Product Manager at MiQ
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Hannah Babineau
Head of Partnerships at Data Appeal
Jack Burton
Product Director at Mobsta
Ernesto Martínez Becerra
Product Manager at CARTO
Diego Vicente
Data Scientist at CARTO
Stuart Lynn
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
Erik Lindquist, PhD
Forestry Officer at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Jade Edwards
Head of Insights at Zapmap
Chris Maydom
Data Scientist at BT
James Bentley
Data Scientist at Landmark
Ruth Wetters
Data Scientist at Knight Frank
Sharat Ramamani
Analytics Lead at Wolt
Meagan Vigil
Geospatial Data Expert
Warda Rahim
Data Scientist at QBE
Phil Cooper
Global Geospatial Lead at Amazon Web Services
Tim Rains
Geospatial Data Scientist at BT
Rebecca M. Mari
Senior Economist/Manager at Bank of England
Rupert-Hu Gilman
Data Analyst at Bank of England
Julio Covarrubia
Service Line Manager at Entel
Jaime Unger
Director of Account Management at SafeGraph
Sudheer Pamula
Technical Lead - Pricing & Data Science at QBE
Chris Thompson
Expert Associate Partner - Insights & Data Science at Bain & Company
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO
Ben Crampton
Data Scientist at Bank of England
Fu Zheng
Product Manager Sustainability at Swiss Re
Steve Walker
Senior Staff Generative AI ML Solution Engineer
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Kyle Barron
Cloud Engineer at Development Seed
Jeremy Malczyk
Cloud Geographer at Google
David McClusky
Director, Developer Solutions, Google Maps Platform
Matt Bialas
Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
James McClain
Machine Learning Lead at Element 84
Gavin Lewis
Head of Engineering at Fathom
Jade Fawcett
GIS Technical Specialist at The University of Manchester
Gina Park Kenney
Sr Manager, Emerging Wireless Technologies at Comcast
Jesse Canella
COO at Tensorflight
Ali Rossi
Senior Data Scientist at Foursquare
Greg Scharer
Senior Vice President Technology & Operations at National CineMedia
Anand Singh
Executive, Location Intelligence at CoreLogic
Andrew Rogers
Co-Founder and CTO at General System
David Peto
Co-Founder and CEO at General System
Eli Knaap
Senior Research Scientist & Associate Director at SDSU Center for Open Geographical Science
Joshua Bramall
Head of Data Science at General System
Robert Edwards
Senior Data Scientist at General System
Zachary Walker
Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Aaron Fraint
Senior Solutions Engineer at CARTO
Venkatesh Seka
Principal Data Cloud Architect at Snowflake
Sohaib Katariwala
Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
Sourav Ganguly
Sr. Leader Enterprise Architecture at CoreLogic
Susan Devitt, PhD
Industry Solution Engineer at Snowflake
Chen Chen
Sciences Director
Alex Singleton
Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool
Seth Spielman
Director, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft
Sowmya Achanta
Program Manager, Community Health Management at BCBSA
Tom Fleischer
CTO at Vistar Media
Yuri Astrakhan
CoFounder of MapLibre and Sr Staff Engineer at Rivian
Ashish Jain
Principal Software Architect at CoreLogic
Helen McKenzie
Geospatial Advocate at CARTO
Javier de la Torre
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO

Workshops

On May 15th, we held multiple interactive sessions with industry specialists.

Taming Big Data with Spatial Indexing

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Predicting demand using Snowflake Cortex ML and CARTO

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Using Databricks and Carto to process, serve and explore global spatio-temporal datasets

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Where and When: A Space-Time Analysis of Vehicle Collisions in London

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Risk and resilience: How well do you know your flood risks, today and tomorrow?

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Cosmopolitan Elites? Understanding the cost-of-living crisis in London at a hyper-local scale

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Venue

Conference

Royal Geographical Society Headquarters

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Workshops

Park Plaza Riverbank

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After Party

Ognisko

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Diversity program

Having a diverse group present at #SDSC24 is a priority for us, and for that reason we are setting aside 30 tickets to ensure we attract attendees from groups who are typically underrepresented at Data Science or GIS events.
This includes but is not limited to: women, underrepresented backgrounds, people with disabilities and LGBTQ.

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