Smarter Data Smarter World 2024 featuring GeoIM for Infrastructure

Simon is the Geospatial Development Director at Dalcour Maclaren and has been in the geomatics/geospatial/location intelligence/data capability sectors for over thirty years, working across many disciplines and sectors such as construction, waste and minerals, environmental planning, architectural visualisation and planning, mapping and digital solutions. He has led teams across Europe to deliver place-based solutions and infrastructure to multiple stakeholders. Simon sits on the Industry Advisory Committee for the Geospatial Commissions "National Underground Asset Register" (NUAR) initiative, is a member of the UK Survey4BIM Executive leadership, delivers regular STEM/STEAM talks for academia, mentors professional candidates for RICS and CICES and is currently the Chair of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors EDI Council. This Council is making great strides in improving EDI across CICES and the wider geospatial/surveying industry, including the launch of CICES's first dedicated Women's Network, which has a major focus on the importance of allyship.

Karen leads Environment Agency’s Asset Management digital approach within the asset management directorate across the whole asset lifecycle and is a qualified accountant. The Environment Agency is one of the leading departments within Government to integrate data management into project delivery and using the capability as a foundation to shape a digital data and technology approach within the asset management business. 

She has been instrumental in driving forward improvements to the availability and access of data internally and externally as well as recognising how a data centric approach is key to transforming asset management delivery.  This includes a programme of interventions to drive a data centric approach which includes a data requirements library for asset data standards and a data assurance platform. 

Karen is involved in several cross UK industry groups including chairing the Public Sector 4 Information Management Group, and the Infrastructure Client Group Data and Digital Task Group, and GIIG part of NIMA.  She is also a UK committee member for ISO19650 and ISO55000 standards.

James is a Geographer, with twelve years of dedicated expertise in delivering comprehensive geographic consultancy and cutting-edge solutions across diverse client portfolios. A passionate advocate for leveraging geographic data, James actively champions the transformative power of mapping to empower individuals and organisations in making informed, strategic decisions.

Dr Anne Kemp OBE has 30 years of experience as Fellow and Technical Director for Digital Engineering and BIM Strategy and Development at Atkins.  She is chair of nima, and convenor of the International Standards Organisation committee for the 19650 series, focused on managing information for the whole life cycle of the built environment, which drives the UK BIM Framework, the basis of the Transforming Infrastructure Performance 2030 IM Mandate (IMM).   Anne is Co-Lead for the Digital workstream of the Construction Leadership Council and over the past 12 months has been chairing a CLC initiative and consultation looking at a refreshed approach to the IMM.  She was chair of the Association of Geographic Information from 2014 to 2016.  Awarded the ICE’s President’s Medal 2017, and Geospatial Professional of the Year 2019 she received an OBE for “Digital Construction Innovation” in the Queen’s birthday Honours 2019.

BSc (Hons), FRGS, FBCS, FBCart.S, MIoD, MPWI
ICE Certificate in BIM

Steven's expertise covers geospatial solutions, BIM, AEC, and whole life asset information. He has been a civil servant and now consults for clients such as the UK Central Government, Transport for London, and Network Rail, and has served as a senior consultant in asset management at the World Bank. Currently, he is a director and principal tutor at BimEnable and a tutor in ISO 19650 with ICE, CIOB, BSI and a tutor in survey / geomatics with RICS.

As Geospatial Capability lead in Europe, Vida has responsibility for strategy and direction of Geospatial work at Jacobs, a global engineering and solutions consultancy. Vida is an experienced team leader and geospatial industry professional who has worked in both public and private sector organisations to assist with the capture, analysis and management of spatial data across many different business sectors. Initially working as a Transport Planner before specialising in Geospatial, Vida went on to work not only on strategic and operational transport schemes, but also within disciplines such as flood risk, ecology, and noise and air quality assessment. Most recently she has led Geospatial teams on large pipeline and highways planning projects, and on innovative app development for the AquaDNA Smart Water solution from Jacobs. Alongside project delivery Vida is focused on building a team to support the digital delivery approach at Jacobs; this includes empowering and training specialists to find the best technical solutions, advise on software decisions, understand the client problem, and communicate effectively. Vida is a member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Council, an active STEAM ambassador, RGS Chartered Geographer assessor, and joint allyship lead for the Jacobs Employee Network Harambee to promote Black talent.

Edward Hixson who comes from a degree in Marine Biology works within Skanska as a GIS analyst and within the @one alliance project. Ed has worked in Skanska for the last two and half years joining as a graduate GIS Data Technician and finished the Skanska Emerging Talent program in August 2024. Ed often is working on data maintenance, utilising a wide range of geospatial tools specifically including FME. Alongside this, in Ed's current role he is working on curating, developing and rolling out a variety of custom GIS solutions for all areas of the @one alliance, whether its during pre-construction environmental planning, Virtual Reality, post construction pipeline testing or accessibility with the use of colour within GIS. Ed is also a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors and the Royal Geography Society.

Nabil joined 1Spatial in 2024 as Managing Director UK & Ireland. He has extensive experience in the geospatial data sector having been CEO of another geospatial software & services company where oversaw a period of significant transformation and growth leading to a successful exit to private equity.

With a degree in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London, Nabil started his career in the Royal Navy, with appointments at sea as well as joint operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also seconded to the US Navy 5th Fleet in Bahrain and the United Nations in Georgia.

On leaving the military in 2007, Nabil practiced as a Barrister in Paris representing entrepreneurs, multinationals and Governments in International Arbitration Tribunals, before spending a year at London Business School as a Sloan Fellow studying for a MSc in Strategy & Leadership. Following a hugely rewarding role at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Nabil worked for corporates such as Lockheed Martin and KBR in business development & commercial roles.

Nabil has a passion for driving growth in tech businesses, primarily in the data sector and, since 2016, has held CEO roles in tech SMEs as well as co-founding two digital start-ups.

James Richardson is a GIS Analyst for Skanska UK working on the A428 RDP Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Scheme in North Cambridgeshire for the last two and half years and finished the Skanska Emerging Talent program in August 2024. James maintains the project's GIS mapping platform (Skanska Maps) as well as creating a series of mobile site applications for the site team. Before starting at Skanska, James holds a BSc in Geography and Geoscience and an MSc in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Aberdeen. James is also a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors and is a STEM Ambassador

Dr Medina Jordan is the founder and consultant of Six35 Consulting Ltd, which provides information management consultancy services for built-asset owners and operators.
Medina’s appreciation for quality data and information grew while she developed skills in data and statistical analyses as part of her natural sciences doctorate training.
After completing her studies, Medina changed careers and spent 21 years working in the built-environment sector working for both Tier 1 contractors and specialist management consultancies, with 14 years spent as a BIM Information Management (IM) practitioner, where she specialised in IM for Facilities and strategic Asset Management.
Medina established her own consultancy in 2022.

Rob Dunfey is Geomatics Manager at Shell’s London HQ.  He has worked at Shell for 16 years in a variety of roles and is now their Principle Technical Expert for Geospatial, in that role he’s accountable for Shell’s global GIS deployment.

Born and raised on the Wirral he now lives in Linlithgow. If you want to talk to him about something other than GIS strategy, points, lines and polygons; F1 racing, Football and Hill walking are all of interest.

Chris Stanley is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the rail industry. His distinguished career began working in IT supporting & implementing various railway IT systems. He quickly progressed to lead one of the five national IT teams. After a three-year hiatus from the rail industry, Chris returned to lead a variety of IT projects of varying scales. His expertise led to a secondment, during which he successfully delivered an externally regulated project aimed at enhancing asset data. This initiative resulted in the design and creation of five regional asset data teams, one of which Chris was appointed to lead. In 2023, Chris was appointed Head of Asset Data for Network Rail. He holds a MSc in Information Capability Management from Cranfield University, a Postgraduate Award in Business Leadership from Warwick University, and is a member of the Institute of Asset Management.

With a degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science, Seb joined Laser-Scan (which became 1Spatial) in 1997 as a software engineer.

After working on many projects and a broad range of software as a senior and then principal software engineer, he then moved into consultancy and then product management which provided insight into customer and industry needs and trends.

After leading product management for a number of years, Seb is now CTO at 1Spatial.

Matthew joined 1Spatial in February 2018.  Matthew is responsible for leading 1Spatial’s Infrastructure team focusing on energy, water, transport, flood risk management and digital communications. Prior to joining 1Spatial, Matthew was a senior manager at Ordnance Survey Great Britain, responsible for engaging with public sector organisations and developing Ordnance Survey’s product strategy.  LinkedIn

Stephen is a member of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors and joined the Technical Authority in 2015 as part of the Geotechnical team. He recently joined the Data and Information Office team as a Principal Geospatial Engineer and is supporting the evolution of geospatial technology across the wider business. He has over 25 years’ experience working with geographic information systems (GIS) and during his time in the Technical Authority has developed several processes to extract geotechnical value from our national aerial survey data. He has been a Network Rail drone pilot, collecting data for engineering verifications and most recently has been the technical lead for a number of satellite based earth observation projects.

Jon joined 1Spatial in April 2022 to work on the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) project, following a period acting as a Solution Architect contractor. His career started in 1984 as a Cartographic Assistant at Ordnance Survey, going on to work in various roles including the GISlab, geospatial data research and designing early forms of online map applications on the OS website. He also had a spell at BT, working on various geospatial data sharing initiatives for customers such as Essex County Council and later with internal GIS strategy for Openreach.

On NUAR, Jon leads the team responsible for the process that transforms asset data supplied by all contributing organisations into a standardised model. Data is transformed and validated using 1Integrate, and kept up to date on a regular basis via 1Data Gateway. By September 2024, the number of asset-owning organisations onboard was close to 300, including all major Utilities companies across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.