The ROI of Us: Giving as a Strategic Career Catalyst
Celebrate International Women's Day with a roundtable on giving, growing, and leading in geospatial.
Our upcoming panel brings together geospatial professionals who embody the spirit of giving back to move forward. Join us to hear how mentorship, open‑source contributions, and community leadership have shaped their careers in unexpected ways. Join in with your questions as we wrap-up with a Q&A.
This is a public event open to all genders.
Panelists:
Raquel Perez is the founder and manager of Esri Young Professionals Network and works as the Senior Industry Marketing Manager and GIS Day Lead for Esri. She has established 10 regional chapters across the US to engage emerging professionals with in-person networking and professional development opportunities.
Ayushi Goyal is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where she works at the intersection of aerospace, geospatial, and AI to help organisations unlock the power of cloud and location intelligence. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton, she is an active member of both the Aerospace and Geospatial Technical Field Communities at AWS, through which she has organised and spoken at numerous geospatial AI industry initiatives. She is a passionate advocate for women in STEM and an active contributor to the Women+ in Geospatial community.
Karolina Lehotska is a GIS Sales Engineer in the Earth Observation industry who has been working remotely since 2012. She has been a volunteer and mentor at Women+ in Geospatial. She curates geospatial jobs and shares tips on career strategy, remote work, portfolio building, and networking for GIS professionals on LinkedIn and Substack.
Paige Quint is a key Senior Software Engineer on the User Team at UP42, where she builds the business-critical systems that power our platform, specifically focusing on Authentication, Account Management, and our Payment Infrastructure, ever. While her day-to-day isn't focused on geospatial data analysis, she builds the foundational software that allows our customers to access and purchase that data.