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Democratising Data and Solving Challenges to Scale: An Interview with Kurt Janssen

September 22, 2023 • Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom • Episode 56

An interview with Kurt Janssen, CEO of Orbica based in New Zealand, Australia and Germany.

Kurt is a geographer and geospatialist by trade, with a passion for emerging technology and data. Kurt has a BSc with Honors in Geography from the University of Canterbury and was the 2016 NZSEA Young Professional of the Year. He worked for central government such as the Ministry of Health and Ministry of the Environment as a Geographic Information Systems (or GIS) Advisor. He also worked for private companies in New Zealand and the United States such as ESRI, Abley and Orbviz. In 2017 he established award-winning geospatial consultancy Orbica.

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Orbica - democratizing access to geospatial data through a Cloud Native Geospatial and AI Platform.

Hosted by: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBase
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