Talks And Events

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2025

• 25 April 2025 - A workshop on GIS for Field Practice and Health: Hands on Applications at MESCON 2025 organised by Department of Community Medicine, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kerala.

• 6 February 2025 - From Maps to Solutions: Leveraging GIS and Remote Sensing during Floods a session in the National Seminar on Roles and Challenges of Deep Learning Based Landslide Sustainability Mapping using Geospatial Information System sponsored by DRDO at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

2024

• 4 December 2024 - As a guest speaker in Global Telemapathon 2024 organised by Humanitarian OSM Team
• 30 November - 1 December 2024 - From Data Silos to Data Sharing - The Geodata Perspective at State of the Map Asia 2024 at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
• 16-17 November 2024 - Panelist for the Discussion - Use of OpenSteetMap in the Industry and a session on Why some one should contribute to OSM at State of the Map Kerala 2024 at Wayanad Kerala.
• 11 August 2024 - As a guest speaker in the OSM Birthday celebration Srilanka organised by the Eastern University of Sri Lanka.
• 27 July 2024 - A session on OSM and it matters at Map Time India 2.0 organised by TomTom
• 27 April 2024 - A session on OSM standards at DATA DRIVE Mapathon - Mapping India’s Roads on OpenStreetMap organised by The Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific in association with TomTom

2023

• 16-18 November 2023 - Democratising Open (Geo)Data - a session at FOSS4G Thailand & State of the Map Asia 2023 at Bangkok, Thailand. Was also the member of the core organizing committee, review committee and Onsite Volunteer.
• 28-29 October 2023 - Mapping Mobility: Unveiling Kochi’s Transport Landscape through OpenStreetMap - Talk at IndiaFOSS Conf. 3.0, the 3rd edition of Free and Open Source Software conference by the FOSS United community at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
• 09 September 2023 - Spatial Mapping and Network - Mentor for OSM field mapping activity organised by OSM Bengaluru and Lets Talk Spatial communities.
• 13 August 2023 - Empowering Communities through OpenStreetMap - a Session in OSM Kerala’s Informative Session for Beginners in the Freedom Fest 2023 organised by Government of Kerala at Tagore Theatre, Thiruvananthapuram.
• 27 June 2023 - Open Geospatial, a webinar for the post graduate students of Symbiosis International University, Pune.
• 24 April 2023 - HNPW Conference 2023, Geneva - The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is an annual humanitarian conference, held in a hybrid format from 17 to 28 April 2023 it is a collaborative space for experts from UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, academia, the military, private sector initiatives and member states. Spoke in the session Scaling grassroots organizations to influence change and impact local and global ecosystems through open mapping. representing OSM India Community.

2022

• 02 December 2022 - iTalk on Open Mapping - a session organised by Innovation Cell of College of Applied Science, Thamarassery
• 12-13 November 2022 - Lets Map Our Neighbourhoods - An Open Data Approach - a workshop on mapping using open source tools at MiniDebConf 2022, NSS Engineering College, Palakkad.
• 24-28 October 2022 - GeONG 2022, 8th Humanitarian & Data Development Forum, Chambéry France - A co-construction workshop with the attendees of GeoNG on the challenges of funding participatory mapping projects; and a 2-days seminar combining training and experience sharing around sustainability building for communities contributing to mapping of their territory.
• 23-24 July 2022 - Democratising Open (Geo)Data for Open Innovation and Solutioning - Talk at IndiaFOSS Conf. 2.0, the 2nd edition of Free and Open Source Software conference by the FOSS United community at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
• 06 March 2022 - S.P.A.R.S.H Mapathon - Mentor. Mapathon organised by Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management (SIDTM), Pune and supported by Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific and OpenSteetMap India
• 05-06 March 2022 - Open Data Day Celebration - Facilitating the two day workshop at Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, for the Mapping activities of the Pudussery panchayat, Palakkad, Kerala aspart of creating Open Data of Pudussery Panchayat with Open Data Kerala
• 28-30 January 2022 - Advadarshi 2022 - OSM Mentor. OSM Mapping workshop organised by NSS unit of Viswajyothi College of Engineering & Technology in association with OSM Kerala

2021

• 11 December 2021 - OpenStreetMaps and its Applications - Special Lecture at ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) capacity building programme on “Geospatial Applications in Environmental studies” by the Department of Geography, University of Madras
• 03 September 2021 - Starting Local OSM Communities - Speaker in the webinar on Local OSM community building: Tips, tricks and challenges organised by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
• 10 July 2021 - The Boundary Puzzle (Lightning Talk) at State of the Map 2021, the annual international conference of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• 25 June 2021 - Applications of Geospatial Technology in Dynamic Decision Making for Sustainable Solutions - Webinar for Skill-Lync, an Ed-Tech company
• 23 June - 08 July 2021 - Pudusserry Panchayat Mapping Exercise - Mentor. In collaboration with IIT Palakkad under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
• 10 March 2021 - Panel Discussion - OpenData Day 2021 - A panel discussion organised by OpenDataKerala as part of the Open Data Week celebration [Watch Recording]
• 10 - 16 January 2021 - Introduction to OpenStreetMap at Naksha 2021

2020

• 04 December 2020 - HOT OSM and Indian Community (Lightning Talk) at HOT Summit 2020 [Watch Recording]
• 19 November 2020 - OSM Taging System and Field Mapping using OSM - FSCI Free Software Camp
• 26-27 September 2020 - QikPik OSM Neighbourhood Mapping Party - 2020 - OSM Mentor
• 13 September 2020 - Openstreetmap - What, Why and How? at FOSS Cell Anniversary of NSS Engineering College, Palakkad, Kerala
• 05 September 2020 - Geospatial Technology for Smart Agriculture and Smart City Management - Webinar organised by Geospatial Awareness Hub [Watch Recording]

2019

• 27-29 September 2020 - Mapping ourselves - An OpenStreetMap Experience - Spark 2019, College Of Engineering Pune (COEP)
• 30-31 March 2019 - Neighbourhood Mapping Using Open Source Tools at FOSS Meet Pune

2018

• 22-28 December 2018 - Koorachundu Mapping Party V2 OSM Trainer and Technical support

2014

• 18–20 December 2014 - Mapping Efforts in an Unsurveyed Land - An OpenStreetMap Experiment at Koorachundu Village Panchayat Swathantra 2014, 5th international free software conference organised by Government of Kerala
• 21-24 July 2014 - Koorachundu Mapping Party V1 - Mapping Volunteer and Technical Support