Jack Dangermond – Using Data to See Patterns, Connections and Relationships

No single individual has done more to help government leaders understand their most complex problems, visualizing them in time and space, than Jack Dangermond. Growing up on a family nursery, and studying landscape design, Jack and his wife Laura founded Esri in 1969 with a vision to create a mapping and data analysis framework to create a deeper understanding of our world and to enable people to design a better future. GIS - geographic information systems – was born, and today his company is the world’s leader in this space. Jack is often asked to advise Governors on how to bring a state’s treasure trove of data into view so it can at a practical level address its challenges through understanding patterns, connections and relationship