Keynote Speakers
In order to give some larger perspective to all the participants attending this year’s WhereCamp Boston we will have keynote speakers throughout the weekend. Here is information about the speakers:
Andres Ferrate
Geo Developer Relations Manager
Google
Andrés manages the Geo Developer Relations team. His mission is to ensure Geo developer success and he enjoys helping developers build cool and compelling applications with Google’s Geo APIs. Andrés has a broad range of experience, having worked with various technologies in the past 14 years in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Tom MacWright
Mapbox Developer
Development Seed
Tom specializes in building interactive and creative open source mapping tools for Development Seed. He is a lead architect of Development Seed’s open source mapping stack, including the TileMill project that combines Mapnik, Carto, Modest Maps, and other open source tools for use designing custom maps online. He’s also the lead developer behind TileLive.js, a dynamic tile rendering toolset that provides fast, non-Flash interactive maps, and the Wax collection of map utilities.
Jeff Warren
The creator of GrassrootsMapping.org and co-founder and Research Director for the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, Jeff designs mapping and civic science tools and professionally flies balloons and kites. Notable software he has created include the vector-mapping framework Cartagen and orthorectification tool MapKnitter. He is a fellow at MIT‘s Center for Civic Media and an advocate of open source software, hardware, and data. He co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design firm in 2004, and directed the Cut&Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on opensource tools and web design in 2006-7 with Lima designer Diego Rotalde. He is a co-founder of Portland-based Paydici.com as well asWeardrobe.com.
Jeff holds an MS from MIT and a BA in Architecture from Yale University, and spent much of that time working with artist/technologist Natalie Jeremijenko, building robotic dogs and stuff. To find out more, visit Unterbahn.com.
