›Geospatial Advocacy Kenya Meetup

Geospatial Advocacy Kenya meetups bring together geospatial industry practitioners working in the field of GIS, earth observation, and surveying. We also welcome neo-geographers and enthusiasts with an interest in location data from areas such as Big Data, IoT, Machine Learning, and BI.

Our monthly meetups will be for free or accessible at a small fee. At the meetups, members will present and discuss all matters geospatial and take time to socialize and network. The purpose of the meetups is to build a community of geospatial practitioners who are impacting their world.

Geospatial Advocacy Kenya is an initiative that seeks to advance the geospatial industry in Kenya through media & communications, events, and policy advocacy. Visit https://geospatialadvocacy.co.ke/ to learn more about us.

This is our inaugural meeting where we'll look at the challenges and opportunities in our industry brought about by technology convergence and 4IR.

We'll have a welcome address by Geospatial Advocacy Kenya and user stories from GRO Intelligence and KenGen. We'll ensure there's plenty of time to engage with the speakers, the sponsors, and one another.

Here's the agenda:

• 5.30 - 6.00: registration / socializing
• 6.00 - 6.30: welcome address by Geospatial Advocacy Kenya
• 6.30 - 7.30: user stories by GRO Intelligence and KenGen
• 7.30 - 8.00: discussions and engagement

Presentations will be from

Edwin Makokha - KENGEN

Edwin Egondi is a GIS professional working for The Kenya Electricity Generating Company, with 10 years of working experience in this field. Building on a background in Geo-information Technology, he has developed a range of technical skills, both through formal training and practical experience where he has developed quite an interest in the GIS and Remote sensing fields.

Edwin enjoys applying GIS to challenging projects inside the geothermal resource development project. He works with specialized scientists, including Geo-chemistry scientists, Geologists, Geo-physical scientists, Reservoir Scientists and Geothermal drilling Engineers. He is currently a representative on an integrated resource management system task force in KenGen Olkaria, and is delighted to share his Geospatial experience.

Victor Ngeno - Gro Intelligence

Preliminary presentation title: Tackling The Food Problem Using Data

Victor is a Software Engineer at Gro Intelligence. Gro prides itself with developing the industry's most comprehensive agricultural data platform which allows their clients quickly find the data they need, integrate their own data, build predictive models, derive meaningful insights and ultimately make better informed agricultural decisions. All with the aim of having a more connected, efficient, and productive food industry worldwide.

Some of our data inputs include satellite data which goes through various levels of processing to derive meaningful information.

Come as you are, be ready to leave inspired and transformed!

Sponsors: Esri Eastern Africa, Oakar Services, Fraym and Spatiality.