Eli Jensen is the Owner of Ironwood Forestry and joins us from Flagstaff, Arizona. Ironwood Forestry is comprised of a dedicated team of professionals with a passion for forest management and innovation with the aim of revolutionizing the forestry industry. Come have a listen on what the concept of forest architecture means to Eli and his innovation projects dealing with the development of the Mark series of sprayers and his efforts to map thousands of acres using mobile lidar.

Kevin Shorthouse is the Director of Northwest Solutions Inc. and joins us from Thunder Bay, ON. Since 2014, this Northern Ontario family-owned business has been dedicated to providing forestry, mining, and environmental services, along with expert training and communications consulting. Come learn how the company’s client-focused, results-oriented team leverages technology to provide innovative solutions to the natural resources sector.

Rod Poirier is the Owner of JRP Solutions Ltd. and joins us from Courtenay, BC. As a Canadian owned and operated company that has been in business since 1992 and managed by forest professionals and software engineers, JRP Solutions currently serves customers across North America and Australia with its Plant Wizard, Forest OPS and SNAP! software solutions. Come have a listen about Rod’s career in forestry and what it took to develop these industry-leading software solutions.

Alex van Gelder is the CEO and Founder of Clear Timber Analytics and joins us from the The Netherlands. Clear Timber Analytics provides accurate tools to help foresters with their daily duties by translating modern technology, such as high-resolution drone imagery and advanced data analytics, into reports that allow foresters to precisely target resources. Come have a listen to learn more about Clear Timber Analytics’ bark beetle detection, growing stock analysis, forest disturbance analysis,...

Dave Ginther is the Owner of Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc. (VDTS) and joins us from Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Dave’s background is in the IT sector where for over 25 years he worked as both a general manager and consultant. Dave founded VDTS after discovering Voice Recognition as an effective tool for hands free data gathering and over the years has gained clients in forestry, lumber manufacturing, and agriculture. Come have a listen and learn about VDTS voice directed solutions for...

Marko Gasic is the Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Mosaic Forest Management and joins us from Vancouver, BC. At the time of recording, Marko was the Vice President of Information Technology and Planning at Mosaic and successfully led several major digital transformation projects for the company. Come have a listen to Marko’s thoughts from an executive level on the forest technology landscape and his leadership approach to realizing success.

Andrew Davis is the Product Manager for Visual Forester and joins us from Bend, Oregon, USA. In his role, he helps natural resource professionals connect with stakeholders through digital twins of forests and the creation of immersive visualizations from their existing data. Come have a listen to learn how Stand Designer and Visual Forester Pro save people time and headaches by ensuring everyone sees the same picture beyond the data and charts.

Mark Books is the Geospatial Services Manager at LandMark Spatial Solutions. Mark is a Certified Forester of the geospatial variety and has applied these skills for over 25 years to research and forest management, including prescribed burning. He brings his experience to assist fellow foresters and natural resource managers in using geospatial technology to enhance their work. Further desiring to set up forestry and foresters for success, Mark has also been an executive volunteer in his role...

George M. Banzhaf is the CEO and co-founder of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing corporate inventory programs, field data gathering, R&D, reforestation and seedling genetics, drone and imagery, silvicultural operations, and GIS mapping. Envisioning a better way for technology to be used to improve information, communication, and collaboration, TreeTracker was developed as a platform (online and in-the-field app) that...

Andre Cheung is the Founder and CEO of Robotics Cats and joins us from Hong Kong with Mike Ross and Rob Vernon, Founder and CTO, and CEO, respectively, of Indicium Dynamics from Tasmania. Robotics Cats is a machine vision startup comprised of a team of talented engineers with diverse cultures focused on computer vision, AI, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Indicium Dynamics is a full-service IoT and data integration solutions provider. Their low-code and affordable IoT solutions...

Preston Green is the Assistant Vice President of cut-to-length (CTL) Systems at Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Oregon, USA where he responsible for harvesting management on a select number of harvesting teams, research and development of CTL innovations, and production analytics across a fleet of CTL equipment.

Dr. Kerry Halligan is the GM of Technology at the Woodland Solutions Group. Kerry is a software developer with a background in forestry and a passion for combining the best in mobile, web and geospatial technology to solve complex data collection, management and analysis challenges. He is the lead architect and developer for Woodland Solutions Group’s MobileMap, InventoryManager, Spatial CMS framework, and the US Forest Service Digital Mobile Sketch Map application.

Donn is a consulting forester, frequent speaker at forestry workshops and conferences, and developer of the Forest Metrix timber cruising software. Forest Metrix sprang from the woods of central Vermont with its development driven by foresters and the forest industry. Forest Metrix is deployed with state agencies, some of the largest TIMOs and forest and arboriculture service companies, log buyers, and countless consulting foresters, arborists and ecological professionals. Come have a listen...

Lidar from space? Impossible, right? NUVIEW came out of stealth mode earlier this year and their mission is to revolutionize the Earth observation industry by building the premier commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using lidar technology. NUVIEW’s cutting-edge data will elevate worldwide capabilities, transforming human understanding of Earth and expanding the horizons of what is possible. Come listen to Clint Graumann, CEO of...

Ben Gwilliam is a Private Land Forest Inventory Analyst with the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ben completed a Master of Forest Conservation at the University of Toronto before joining the OWA where his work focuses on developing enhanced forest inventories using lidar for private woodlot owners. Ben shares how he got started and the various tools that he has had to learn to be able to offer this service to OWA members.

Swapan Chaudhuri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeplai and joins us from Poland. TimberID is a complete platform solving the digitalization of forest management and reporting in terms of harvested timber database creation delivering timber provenance authentication, supply chain verification and carbon footprint monitoring. Come have a listen on how TimberID technology can help forestry companies meet their European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obligations.

John Pineau is the Executive Director at the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Mattawa, Ontario. John has worked in the forest industry, led research organizations focused on driving innovation in forestry, taught as a professor at colleges, and most recently, is providing leadership with non-profit organizations. As Part 1 of a podcast series with the OWA, come have a listen about John’s journey as an innovator and community builder in the forest industry.

Alex Meyers is the COO and Co-Founder of TimberEye, a company that reimagines how logs get measured, moved, bought and sold. TimberEye log scaling technology perfectly handles hundreds of thousands of logs a month with its operating system covering every aspect of log inventory management. TimberEye scales logs 20x faster than humans within 0.3 cm of verified human scalers resulting in your team having perfect real time visibility into your operations. Come listen to Alex explain how...

Alicia Sullivan is the Product Manager for Google’s Earth Engine Sustainability Solutions and joins us from the greater Seattle area. She obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Forest Resources Management from the University of Washington and started her forestry career at the Washington Department of Natural Resources and Weyerhaeuser. Her interest in program and product management led her to roles with Microsoft, Amazon, CARMERA and Google. Come have a listen to Alicia’s...

Steven Hawkes is the Vice President of Forest Resources at LandVest and joins us from Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Steven has been responsible for the oversight of a team of highly qualified foresters, GIS technicians, and administrative staff who provide a full suite of professional forest management services on over 2,000,000 acres of privately-held timberland across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. Come have a listen on a broad range of topics from technology to innovation to people from...

Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service company HedeDanmark a/s, whose history can be traced back to 1866. According to Jens, measuring wood should be easy and that is why HD LogSystems has focused on developing and selling wood measurement solutions, including LogStackLIDAR and LogStackPRO. Come have a listen on how photographed cells from biopsies through a microscope to automate...

Dr. Tuomo Kauranne is the CEO of Arbonaut, a Finnish company focused on building digital twins of forests. In 1998, Arbonaut developed the first forest inventory tools in the world capable of detecting individual trees from aerial and satellite imagery, and over its 25+ years in business, has completed over 100 forestry projects in over 30 countries. Come listen to Tuomo story tell how the company got founded and how he leverages technology for impact.

Markus Drugge (CEO) and Jacob Hjalmarsson (COO) of Arboair join us on this podcast. Many forest owners today lack forest data at a detailed level. At the same time, forest management could be conducted both more profitably and sustainably if we had high-quality digital decision-making data for the prevailing state of the forest. Come have a listen to learn how Arboair uses AI-driven image analysis to produce sharp decision-making data for forest owners.

Dr. Matt Russell is the President & CEO of Arbor Custom Analytics and offers data and analytics consulting services to forestry companies and organizations. With experience in forestry and analytics research, teaching, and outreach, and having authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles focusing on applied forestry research, come have a listen on Matt’s thoughts on multiple topics ranging from carbon to blockchain technology.