Remote-sensing Pioneer Stephen Achal wins the 2021 Influencer of the Year Award By the autumn of 2019, after more than 30 years working for ITRES Research, a Calgary-based manufacturer of an array of remote-sensing and mapping applications, Stephen Achal had made an out-sized mark on the spectral...
Ecopia AI Wins the 2021 Most Disruptive Technology Award Maps have been a vital form of technology for millennia. Any innovation that improves the quality of maps has a cascading effect for individuals, businesses, and governments trying to navigate, understand, and explain the world. Whenever...
University of Calgary Geomatics Professor Wins 2021 Woman of Impact Award Dr. Xin Wang, a professor of geomatics engineering at the University of Calgary, was thrilled but also surprised to discover she won the 2021 Woman of Impact award. It was late September, and she had just finished teaching...
OpenHouse.ai Disrupts the Homebuilding Industry and Wins Start-up of the Year Buying a house is one of life's biggest decisions. The choice is based on a matrix of practical and emotional factors. No two home buyers are alike. Price, neighbourhood, square footage, nearby schools, even the colour of...
Blackline Safety Wins Company of the Year at the 2021 TECTERRA Awards Get home safe. That simple, but challenging mission is undertaken by the 450 employees at Blackline on behalf of clients working in manifold industries in more than 70 countries. It was early on a Friday afternoon in the spring...
The TECTERRA Awards were developed to create a platform to celebrate the leaders and technological disruptions in geospatial, and there isn’t a better time to recognize those advancements. Though this year we couldn’t celebrate these successes in person due to restrictions around live events, we’re...
Serial entrepreneur, mentor, author and thought leader: Cara Wolf, founder and CEO of Calgary-based Ammolite Analytx, is one of the leading voices in the geospatial community.
If there were an award for enthusiasm, Kate Pexman would definitely win it. At TECTERRA, we’ve given her our version of just that, which is the 2019 Award for Student Leadership in Geospatial.
Sean Greenwood has a lot of accolades to his name: Olympian, the first Canadian UAV pilot to fly beyond visual line of sight in unrestricted airspace, a commercial helicopter pilot (those of you in Calgary and Vancouver may remember him flying the Global News chopper)--and TECTERRA’s 2019...
Winner of Tecterra’s 2019 Startup of the Year award, Localintel uses geospatial data to help municipalities both large and small promote local advantages, engage business and drive economic development.