Thierry Badard, PhD., Eng. is professor in geoinformatics at the Department of geomatics sciences of Université Laval in Quebec City (Canada).
He is the director of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG) and is also on the steering committee of the Big Data Research Centre (BDRC) at Université Laval. He has more than 20 years of experience and he has been involved and has led national and international R&D projects of importance. His research interest deals with geospatial Big data, location analytics, data integration and fusion for better decision support, geospatial Business Intelligence, IoT and smart cities. He acts as a chair, editor and reviewer for numerous international journals and scientific conferences and has already an important record of scientific contributions. Dr. Thierry Badard is also actively involved in the geospatial free and open source community. He is developer, administrator and project coordinator of several open source projects : GeoKettle, GeoMondrian, SOLAPLayers and GeOxygene. He is an OSGeo charter member and has acted as a member of the OSGeo conference committee and a reviewer for the OSGeo Journal for several years. He is one of the founding co-chairs the OSGeo Quebec local chapter and a founding co-chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) commission on open source geospatial technologies.
He has also recently founded Ekumen, a company specialised in Location analytics & geomarketing where he acts as CTO. For further details, please visit http://www.ekumen.biz & http://www.crg.ulaval.ca.