WGIC Chairman, Jack Dangermond, was effusive about the opportunities he saw for the council.“With WGIC we have the vision to create a new institution that brings together participants from around the world in the geospatial industry. This will allow new kinds of partnerships to emerge, enabling companies to help each other, and also allow the geospatial industry to collectively work with big global initiatives such as World Bank and the UN,” he said.

This will also enable our industry as a whole to have a collective opinion on emerging policies such as those on privacy or geospatial data restriction. I firmly believe that by joining together and exploring collaborative efforts we can make meaningful progress.”

The 21 co-founders of the WGIC are: AAM Group, AGI India, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Cyient, Data World, DigitalGlobe (a Maxar Technologies company), e-GEOS, Esri, FARO, Geospatial Media, GeoTech Vision, Ground Truth, Hexagon, IIC Technologies, Oracle, Riegl, Rolta Group, Trimble, Tom Tom, and Topcon.

Key positions within the WGIC are set out below.

PATRONS

Chairman: Jack Dangermond, Founder & President, Esri

Vice Chairman: Alain De Taeye, Member of the Management Board, TomTom

EXECUTIVE BOARD

President: Amy Minnick, Senior Vice President and General Manager (Commercial and Civil Government), DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company

Secretary General & CEO: Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial Media and Communications

Treasurer: Stephen McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer, GroundTruth

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Policy Development & Advocacy: Ronald Bisio, Vice President, Trimble

Partnership & Industry Engagement: Valrie Grant, Founder & Managing Director, GeoTechVision

Finance & Administration: John Renard, President – Utilities and Geospatial BU Cyient

Marketing & Communications: Theo Agelopolous, Director – Infrastructure Strategy & Marketing, Autodesk.