As Australasia’s largest general insurer, IAG, we've spent the last 4 years freeing ourselves from the limitations of licensed geospatial tools. To release and realise the potential of our data and make it available across the business - we had to adopt an open source strategy, focussed on the role of geospatial data and technology, to help deliver our purpose & strategy.
Borrowing from Joseph Campbell – this presentation will take you on ‘The Hero’s Journey’ through the transformation of the disparate location/GIS/geospatial teams within IAG over time; as well as the various incarnations of our geo-infrastructure and the ever present challenges of change & uncertainty and how we hope to stay ahead with open source software, open data and open minds
The aim of the talk is to explain the how, why and what of our leaps forward in capability; to hopefully motivate other organisations to also adopt the ever-increasing amounts of amazing open source spatial, data engineering and data science tools to get better at what they do.