About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of geospatial intelligence in AI with John Lenahan from Esri.

What if the most important part of AI is the part nobody talks about, not the chatbot, but the map underneath the world? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with John Lenahan, Head of Esri’s Global Commercial Services team, about geospatial AI, GIS, and why “where” may be the missing context in so much of today’s AI conversation. We explore how maps become far more powerful when they layer in infrastructure, weather, sensor data, supply chains, demographics, and risk, and how AI can help t...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: John Lenahan

Topics covered

• geospatial intelligence
• AI
• GIS
• infrastructure
• sensor data
• demographics

Keywords

• geospatial AI
• GIS
• maps
• infrastructure
• AI conversation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Esri

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