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George M. Banzhaf is the CEO and co-founder of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing corporate inventory programs, field data gathering, R&D, reforestation and seedling genetics, drone and imagery, silvicultural operations, and GIS mapping. Envisioning a better way for technology to be used to improve information, communication, and collaboration, TreeTracker was developed as a platform (online and in-the-field app) that everyone – no matter their sector of industry or size – could use to organize, develop, and share their data for increased functionality, efficiency, and success. Come learn more about TreeTracker’s mission to provide the highest quality information management system available to every sector of the forest community.
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Andre Cheung is the Founder and CEO of Robotics Cats and joins us from Hong Kong with Mike Ross and Rob Vernon, Founder and CTO, and CEO, respectively, of Indicium Dynamics from Tasmania. Robotics Cats is a machine vision startup comprised of a team of talented engineers with diverse cultures focused on computer vision, AI, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Indicium Dynamics is a full-service IoT and data integration solutions provider. Their low-code and affordable IoT solutions provide control over the collection, analysis, and display of data, optimising processes across a wide range of industries and organisations. Come have a listen about how Robotics Cats and Indicium Dynamics are collaborating on the XPRIZE Wildfire challenge.
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Preston Green is the Assistant Vice President of cut-to-length (CTL) Systems at Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Oregon, USA where he responsible for harvesting management on a select number of harvesting teams, research and development of CTL innovations, and production analytics across a fleet of CTL equipment.
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Dr. Kerry Halligan is the GM of Technology at the Woodland Solutions Group. Kerry is a software developer with a background in forestry and a passion for combining the best in mobile, web and geospatial technology to solve complex data collection, management and analysis challenges. He is the lead architect and developer for Woodland Solutions Group’s MobileMap, InventoryManager, Spatial CMS framework, and the US Forest Service Digital Mobile Sketch Map application.
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Donn is a consulting forester, frequent speaker at forestry workshops and conferences, and developer of the Forest Metrix timber cruising software. Forest Metrix sprang from the woods of central Vermont with its development driven by foresters and the forest industry. Forest Metrix is deployed with state agencies, some of the largest TIMOs and forest and arboriculture service companies, log buyers, and countless consulting foresters, arborists and ecological professionals. Come have a listen to Donn’s journey as a forester and entrepreneur, and his passion for solving problems and helping others.
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Lidar from space? Impossible, right? NUVIEW came out of stealth mode earlier this year and their mission is to revolutionize the Earth observation industry by building the premier commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using lidar technology. NUVIEW’s cutting-edge data will elevate worldwide capabilities, transforming human understanding of Earth and expanding the horizons of what is possible. Come listen to Clint Graumann, CEO of NUVIEW, talk about the future of space lidar, Mr. Spoc and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Ben Gwilliam is a Private Land Forest Inventory Analyst with the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ben completed a Master of Forest Conservation at the University of Toronto before joining the OWA where his work focuses on developing enhanced forest inventories using lidar for private woodlot owners. Ben shares how he got started and the various tools that he has had to learn to be able to offer this service to OWA members.
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Swapan Chaudhuri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeplai and joins us from Poland. TimberID is a complete platform solving the digitalization of forest management and reporting in terms of harvested timber database creation delivering timber provenance authentication, supply chain verification and carbon footprint monitoring. Come have a listen on how TimberID technology can help forestry companies meet their European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obligations.
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John Pineau is the Executive Director at the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Mattawa, Ontario. John has worked in the forest industry, led research organizations focused on driving innovation in forestry, taught as a professor at colleges, and most recently, is providing leadership with non-profit organizations. As Part 1 of a podcast series with the OWA, come have a listen about John’s journey as an innovator and community builder in the forest industry.
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Alex Meyers is the COO and Co-Founder of TimberEye, a company that reimagines how logs get measured, moved, bought and sold. TimberEye log scaling technology perfectly handles hundreds of thousands of logs a month with its operating system covering every aspect of log inventory management. TimberEye scales logs 20x faster than humans within 0.3 cm of verified human scalers resulting in your team having perfect real time visibility into your operations. Come listen to Alex explain how TimberEye is a better way to interact with your supply chain.
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Alicia Sullivan is the Product Manager for Google’s Earth Engine Sustainability Solutions and joins us from the greater Seattle area. She obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Forest Resources Management from the University of Washington and started her forestry career at the Washington Department of Natural Resources and Weyerhaeuser. Her interest in program and product management led her to roles with Microsoft, Amazon, CARMERA and Google. Come have a listen to Alicia’s career journey from forestry to high tech and their overlap with climate and environment.
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Steven Hawkes is the Vice President of Forest Resources at LandVest and joins us from Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Steven has been responsible for the oversight of a team of highly qualified foresters, GIS technicians, and administrative staff who provide a full suite of professional forest management services on over 2,000,000 acres of privately-held timberland across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. Come have a listen on a broad range of topics from technology to innovation to people from one of the leaders in the forest industry.
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Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service company HedeDanmark a/s, whose history can be traced back to 1866. According to Jens, measuring wood should be easy and that is why HD LogSystems has focused on developing and selling wood measurement solutions, including LogStackLIDAR and LogStackPRO. Come have a listen on how photographed cells from biopsies through a microscope to automate the detection of round cells led to the HD LogSystems’ first innovation.
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Dr. Tuomo Kauranne is the CEO of Arbonaut, a Finnish company focused on building digital twins of forests. In 1998, Arbonaut developed the first forest inventory tools in the world capable of detecting individual trees from aerial and satellite imagery, and over its 25+ years in business, has completed over 100 forestry projects in over 30 countries. Come listen to Tuomo story tell how the company got founded and how he leverages technology for impact.
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Markus Drugge (CEO) and Jacob Hjalmarsson (COO) of Arboair join us on this podcast. Many forest owners today lack forest data at a detailed level. At the same time, forest management could be conducted both more profitably and sustainably if we had high-quality digital decision-making data for the prevailing state of the forest. Come have a listen to learn how Arboair uses AI-driven image analysis to produce sharp decision-making data for forest owners.
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Dr. Matt Russell is the President & CEO of Arbor Custom Analytics and offers data and analytics consulting services to forestry companies and organizations. With experience in forestry and analytics research, teaching, and outreach, and having authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles focusing on applied forestry research, come have a listen on Matt’s thoughts on multiple topics ranging from carbon to blockchain technology.
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By day, Dr. John Lindsay is a geomatics professor at the University of Guelph and the rest of time, he is an entrepreneur working as co-founder of Whitebox Geospatial Inc., which is a company that develops innovative geospatial software built on open-source. Come learn more about the WhiteboxTools Open Core, which is the foundation of the Whitebox platform and comprised of over 460 open-source tools, and how it can be used to process and analyze geospatial data of all kinds.
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Formerly with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Dale Fried is the Founder and CEO of 3DEO Inc., which builds upon US Department of Defense investments in Geiger-mode lidar totaling well over $100M spanning more than a decade. The company’s vision is to bring the advanced capabilities of Geiger-mode lidar technology to bear on problems of interest to its commercial and government customers. Fast to 3DEO means 10-30 million 3D measurements per second and thousands of detectors working in parallel. Come listen to what “fast” means in the context of forestry.
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We kick off 2023 with Cakey Worthington, VP of Carbon Operations and Zach Pardue, Manager of Forest Information and Geospatial Systems from Anew. With the merger of Element Markets and Bluesource to create Anew, the company introduced "Climate as a Service” – an approach that offers companies and organizations a seamless solution to navigating the increasingly complex landscape of environmental responsibility. Since inception of its legacy companies, Anew has transacted over 150 million tonnes of carbon, has provided more than 240 million diesel gallons equivalent of renewable fuels for transportation, and has developed projects on over 3.5 million acres of forest and farmland.
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunter is the COO and Co-Founder of Treeswift, a company that has built a new data and monitoring system for the natural world by pushing the frontier in robotic and machine learning technology. Treeswift has designed high-resolution sensors which can operate underneath the forest canopy and replace traditional forest measurement tools, and when combined with drones and backpacks, can be used to cruise forests for carbon and timber.
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