Martha C. Anderson
United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Martha C. Anderson received a B.A. degree in Physics from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Presently she is a Research Physical Scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, MD. Her research interests focus on mapping water and energy land-surface fluxes at field to continental scales using thermal remote sensing, with applications in water management, drought monitoring, and yield estimation. She has served on the Landsat and ECOSTRESS Science Teams.
Piotr Zaborowski
Open Geospatial Consortium
Piotr Zaborowski (male), Senior Director leading and managing OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Programme. Trained in computer science from Warsaw University of Technology and an EMBA from WUTBS/CEU, Piotr has rich experience in the software R&D and services provision for Earth Observations downstream (processing systems and chains, data and catalogs), telecommunication and financial markets. Being the co-chair of RDA-IGAD and OGC Europe Forum as well as member of joint activities in ITU, ISO, GEO Blue Planet Sec, IDSA/Gaia-X, OASC, he is helping various sector in the efficient use of geospatial information, tools and systems for decision support, forecests, robotics. He is fluent in the secure, distributed decision support systems for mass market and large scale computations, data mining, RPA and digital transformation.
Dejan Jakovljevic
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Dejan Jakovljevic is the Director of and Informatics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He has more than 20 years of IT experience and use of technology in International Development. He is a strategic leader in the field, driving organizational modernization and transformation in the International Development domain, aiming to harness the power of technology towards achieving SDG goals. His work focuses on driving Digital Transformation, organizational modernization and enabling Innovation scale up and delivery. Prior to joining FAO, Mr Jakovljevic held positions with UNICEF, WHO and OSCE with leadership roles in East Asia and Pacific, European Region, and driving Global initiatives in the other parts of the world. Mr. Jakovljevic has Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Houston, Texas.
In FAO, his focus is also on agro-informatics and application to bring positive impacts in the digital transformation in agrifood systems, including geospatial information technology, big data, and AI. He led the team to get remarkable results with international recognitions, including Geospatial World Excellence Award for FAO Geosptial Platform and World Summit of the Inoformation Society (WSIS) Champion for FAO Digital Services Portfolio.