Eight institutions combine to form the Taylor Geospatial Institute, in hopes of training and attracting much-needed technical talent in the St. Louis area. This puts in place one of the key features of the GeoFutures Strategic Roadmap, aimed at making St. Louis the Geospatial center of the world.

Those institutions are the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Saint Louis University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University in St. Louis.

 Caught Schmoozing are:

  1. Tracy Whelpley, Greater St. Louis Inc.; Tony  Wyche, Greater St. Louis Inc.
  2. Donivan James, St. Louis Univ.; Andrew Taylor, Enterprise Holdings; Jason Hall, Greater St. Louis Inc.
  3. LaTonia Collins Smith, Harris-Stowe State Univ.; Freddie Wills, Jr., Harris-Stowe State Univ.
  4. Henning Lohse-Busch, SLU Geospatial Institute; Vasit Sagan, Taylor Geospatial Institute
  5. Craig Unruh, AT&T Missouri; Robert Cardillo, Planet Federal
  6. Andy Dearing, Spatial STL Advisors; Tara Mott, ESRI
  7. Emily Hemingway, TechSTL; Gabe Angieri; Arch Grants
  8. Emily Lohse-Busch, Lohse-Busch Strategy; Sam Fiorello, CORTEX

On the 4thEst8:

Meet Emily Hemingway

Meet Gabe Angieri