Dr. Anita Patil-Deshmukh, CEO, PUKAR, inaugurates the two-day State of the Map Asia 2018 conference on November 17 at IIM Bangalore. (L-R) Prof. Rahul De, Chair, Centre for Software and IT Management, IIMB, Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy, IIMB, and Prof. Abhoy K Ojha, Dean, Academic Programmes, IIMB, look on.
Prof. Abhoy K Ojha, Dean, Academic Programmes, IIMB, welcomes the participants to the two-day conference on November 17.
Prof. Rahul De, Chair, Centre for Software and IT Management, IIMB, addresses the participants.
Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy & Area Chair, highlights the need for using more geospatial data in aiding public policy conversations.
Dr. Anita Patil-Deshmukh, CEO, PUKAR, presents the keynote address on day one of the conference.
Panellists from different countries of South Asia at the State of the Map Asia conference on November 17.
Wayfinding Through Storytelling: Communities in Karnataka: A demo by TB Dinesh and ‘Helavaru’ on the first day of the conference.
An expert panel on ‘Business of Geospatial Data in Asia’ moderated by Noopur Raval on November 18.
Sajjad Anwar conducts a workshop on OpenStreetMap at the conference on November 18.
Erwin Olario, from the Philippines, conducts a crash course on ‘web-based data mining and quick-and-dirty maps’, on November 18.
Poornima Badrinath, from Mapbox, talks about how to turn an image into a map, using Cartogram, Mapbox Studio and Mapbox GL, on November 18.
Siddharth Hande, CEO, Kabbadiwala Connect, gives the closing remarks on November 18.
Nama Budhathoki, Executive Director, Kathmandu Living Labs, takes questions from the audience
A group picture of the participants and the organisers.
A section of the audience.