SLU, NGA Host Geo-Resolution Conference Sept. 12
ST. LOUIS – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Saint Louis University will co-host the Geo-Resolution 2024 conference, “Modeling the Future for Today’s Decisions,” Thursday, Sept. 12, at SLU’s Busch Student Center. The event is supported by Taylor Geospatial Institute.
This year’s theme will focus on how geospatial models can help solve many of the world's most critical problems.
Geo-Resolution encourages collaboration between government, academic and industry partners to foster geospatial technology innovation and applications, connect geospatial experts and students and grow the geospatial ecosystem in the greater St. Louis region.
Discussions will include:
- The strengths and weak spots of modeling in geospatial research and analysis
- Areas for growth and development over the next decade and beyond
- How the development of generative AI has influenced the types and possibilities of modeling in the geospatial field
- Specific global challenges that geospatial researchers have been addressing through modeling
Geo-Resolution will provide participants and students access to geospatial experts from government, academia, innovation hubs, start-up companies and nonprofit organizations. Students will be able to meet local leaders from industry, academia and government to explore geospatial career opportunities.
This year’s leadership chat will feature:
- VADM Frank D. Whitworth, director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Fred. P. Pestello, Ph.D., president, Saint Louis University
- Nadine Alameh, Ph.D., executive director, Taylor Geospatial Institute
The conference will include a student mentoring lunch; a poster session; a research, innovation and career expo and networking opportunities.
Geo-Resolution 2024 is free and open to the public. The conference will be held in-person at Saint Louis University and streamed live on the conference website.
Advance registration is required.
Geo-Resolution 2024 Conference Details
- When: 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. CT, Thursday, Sept. 12, with a networking reception to follow
- Where: Saint Louis University’s Busch Student Center
About NGA
NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders.
NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable geospatial intelligence. NGA enables the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense to fulfill the president’s national security priorities to protect the nation.
For more information about NGA, visit us online at www.nga.mil, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and X/Twitter.
About SLU
Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic institutions. Rooted in Jesuit values and its pioneering history as the first university west of the Mississippi River, SLU offers more than 15,200 students a rigorous, transformative education of the whole person. At the core of the University’s diverse community of scholars is SLU’s service-focused mission, which challenges and prepares students to make the world a better, more just place.
About Taylor Geospatial Institute
TGI is passionate about fueling geospatial science and technology to create the next generation of solutions and policies that the whole world will depend on for sustainability and growth.
The TGI consortium is led by Saint Louis University and includes the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Harris-Stowe State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Missouri University of Science & Technology, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University in St. Louis. Collectively, these institutions encompass more than 5,000 faculty and 100,000 students.
For more information, visit taylorgeospatial.org.
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