LOCATE YEP RECIPIENTS

Young and Emerging Professionals are the future of our industry. The contribution that younger professionals make to the development of new technologies, innovative ideas and complex projects should not be underestimated.

Each year, Locate celebrates the work and achievements of our future leaders with a dedicated symposium and professional development workshop.

Below are some of the previous YEP recipients that represent the diverse range of skills and accomplishments that have been supported through the Young Professional Grants program. Their achievements serve as inspiration for future young professionals in their respective fields.

Being awarded the Locate23 Grant was fantastic. It gave me an opportunity to attend the conference without worrying about my financial situation while being there and allowed me to focus on getting the most out of attending the conference. It was a great chance to broaden my views on how geospatial interacts with the real world from applying LiDAR technology to vineyards, using location data in an immersive environment like Virtual reality and collaborating with the space industry. It also was a chance to connect and chat with a wide range of people in our industry in different application areas of geospatial, geographic areas and other young emerging professionals as well. I recommend any young emerging professional to apply for this grant as attending conference is a worthwhile experience and being able to reduce the personal burden to attend it is great.

Oscar So

GIS Analyst, Australia Post

The Locate conference had so many distinguished guests and speakers. It was an opportunity to speak with colleagues, peers and leaders in the spatial field. What I took away most of all was the positive sense of cooperation everyone held. So many solutions, technologies and partnerships were shared and proposed providing me with an invaluable resource of information I could take with me and implement. Without attending conferences like Locate you can easily be unaware of what possibilities there are, what other companies and teams are doing and how to interact with your spatial community.

Huon Wilson

Geospatial Engineer, Water NSW

LOCATE23 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Georgia Doubtfire	Sponsored by Australian Geospatial Intelligence Organisation (AGO)
Huon Wilson	Sponsored by The Surveyor’s Trust
Jason Bourne	Sponsored by Defence & Space at SASIC
Kimia Amoozandeh	Sponsored by The Surveyor’s Trust
Kunal Cheekhooree	Sponsored by SmartSAT CRC
Mohammad Kazemi Beydokhti	Sponsored by Kurloo Technologies
Oscar So	Sponsored by The Surveyor’s Trust
Sahaja Muppidi	Sponsored by Mercury Project Solutions

LOCATE23 PRESENTATION WINNERS

Georgia Doubtfire	Best Grant Submission
Kimia Amoozandeh	Best Grant Submission
Richard Dein Altarez	Best Student Presentation
Deepak Gautam	Best YP Presentation
Joram Downes	Best Overall Presentation

LOCATE22 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Daniel Shek	Sponsored by Map Gear
David Schunck	Sponsored by Mercury Project Solutions
Henrique Reis	Sponsored by Spatial Vision
Irene Wanady	Sponsored by Beveridge Williams
Jonathon Magson	Sponsored by Australian Geospatial Intelligence Organisation (AGO)
Mohammad Kazemi Beydokhti	Sponsored by Geoscience Australia
Nina Westenraad	Sponsored by RPS

LOCATE22 PRESENTATION WINNERS

David Schunck	Best Student Presentation
Connor Wilson	Best YP Presentation
Chris Yule	Best Overall Presentation