Dr. Justin Bennett — 26-year DoD geospatial veteran, repeat entrepreneur and DBA joins Mapping the Conversations to unpack what really drives successful geospatial programs. He explains how interoperability improves data integrity, introduces his Geo IQ maturity ideas, and explores how Geo AI is reshaping geospatial research and practice.

They dive into:

• Justin’s journey: USAF → federal mapping roles → serial entrepreneurship → doctorate and new venture
• Why standards & interoperability should be your first investment to improve data integrity
• Geo IQ — a simple, actionable maturity lens for measuring organisational geospatial capability
• Entrepreneurship lessons from the field: “Do things people can’t do or don’t want to do.”
• The human side of mapping — curiosity, craft, and how diving became a mirror for Justin’s work

Who should listen: practitioners building geospatialcapacity, data managers wrestling with messy datasets, geospatial entrepreneurs, and anyone curious about where Geo-AI meets real-world practice.

Tune in and discover how better standards, a practical maturity lens, and smart AI augmentation can turn messy geospatial data into decisions that matter.

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