Advanced Analytics Lead at Esri for West Asia, Middle East & Africa

Title: Demystifying Geo.AI

Abstract:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) have been quite popular in the recent years. Success stories from self-driving cars to medical imaging are filling the media. GIS is not falling behind: having efficient and intelligent tools will significantly cut costs of creating and maintaining GIS content and bring its quality to higher standards. Using AI in the transportation for planning and logistics, smart grid management, and more can increase productivity and improve safety. In this talk, Esri will provide an in-depth overview of advanced applications all over the world where AI are used for classifying vehicles and their types in parking lots using DL, detecting and analyzing objects from FMV, Imagery analytics for land monitoring & intelligent inspection, using DL for restoring 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR, predicting weather using Support Vector Machines (SVM) & forest-based Prediction, predicting environmental phenomena such as seagrass growth, automatic image classification of UAE University first 3D Campus model, and leveraging drone technology for facility mapping and site surveys.

This talk will also provide a walkthrough of the latest and most advanced feature analytics that use different AI techniques to implement solutions and applications to the most common challenges. These applications use AI for applications such as deep neural network for car accident prediction, DBScan & PCA for smart road digitization, SVM for movement intelligence, ANN for ETA trip prediction, predictive policing, the planned implementation of the world’s first AI-powered GeoSmart Contact Center, and more.

 Biography: 

Dr Adel Bolbol Fernلndez is the regional Business Development Manager for Advanced Analytics at ESRI, developing technological horizon-scanning strategies, business and industry solutions, proof of concepts, commercial territory plans and demonstrations. He has more than 15 years of experience working with Spatial Data Management, Analytics and GIS consultancy in several domains including Utilities, Transportation, Land Information, Defence, Maritime, Aviation, Weather & Archaeology.

Adel has a PhD in GeoInformatics from University College London (UCL) on using Machine Learning for understanding movement and behaviour, MSc in GIS from City University London, and APM/PMI certified. He is also a member of the British Computing Society (BCS), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Association for Project Management (APM). Over the past 15 years, Adel has worked across industries in the Geospatial domain such as Transportation, Defence, Utilities and Land Information in UK, USA, UAE & Egypt. Through the years, Adel led numerous geospatial technology deployments, advanced Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence work for and with several organizations such as Transport for London (TfL), Department for Transport (DfT), UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), US Department of Defence (DoD), UK Hydrographic Office, UK MetOffice, Rural Payments Agencies of England, Ireland & Scotland, Thames Water Utilities, many of Abu Dhabi and Dubai Governmental agencies amongst others in the region, and a plethora of organizations in the private sector.

Adel’s current role has been overseeing the market needs and developments in the region of

the Middle East, Africa and West Asia for Advanced Analytics. Adel’s work interests include Spatial Analysis, Spatiotemporal Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Movement Analysis, WebGIS, Spatial Data Infrastructures, and Geospatial Information Standardisation.