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Jack Dangermond

President and Co-Founder, Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.)

Search every verified Jack Dangermond interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jack Dangermond, president and co-founder of Esri, delivered keynote addresses and interviews at several geospatial events in late 2026, including the Esri User Conference Austria, INTERGEO in Munich, and the 46th annual Esri User Conference. In these appearances, he discussed the convergence of GIS and artificial intelligence, describing an "instrumented planet" where virtually everything that moves and changes is measured and made available. He characterized the combination of GIS and AI as a means to expand collective intelligence, with geography providing the content and context for AI tools. Dangermond also spoke about the role of GIS professionals in addressing global challenges, stating that civilization is advancing while the world faces environmental crises such as climate change, flooding, and extreme heat. He said that creating a more intelligent and sustainable world is possible and that the work of the GIS community provides evidence of this. At the Esri User Conference, he highlighted user-submitted maps and applications across sectors including conservation, water management, utility networks, and emergency response, and he acknowledged award winners from the United States and around the world. He also referenced a quote from Jane Goodall, saying that what people do makes a difference and that individuals must decide what kind of difference they want to make.

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Notable quotes

“We're also ruining the world. I mean the very same footprints is creating climate change and we see it here in Europe. I mean thousands of people died through the summer just because of extreme heat. We're seeing flooding, fires, all this stuff. Not good. And I don't need to go on about this. That's probably boring to you because we read about it every day and this is threatening maybe not our lives or some of our li”

“As we move from now to the end of this century, I see the world as becoming completely digital. A digital twin. A kind of nervous system for the planet. And most people understand what I'm talking about when I say a nervous system for the planet because they all have one. And every measurement happens, we react, we cognate on it. So, a more intelligent world will mean more intelligent decisions. It'll mean being able”

“The new localism that we were talking about earlier, it's going to be dependent upon a new kind of volunteerism. And a new kind of volunteerism really is what feeds NOS's. So small purposeful organizations fueled by volunteerism of people who at the same time can bring their rich knowledge to bear to make their communities better, protect conservation, do education, all of the things that so many of your members real”

“My view of today's politics is there's going to be less federal money, less grants. What is going to happen is a new localism is going to occur. There'll be community organizations that are organized around libraries, around education, around things that people really care about in their own community, conservation, and that new localism will be empowered by being able to understand everything that's going to be its ”

“The map on the left shows where the money is going like for education or health care versus where it should go the need map these these show awareness and people get alive because somebody sat down and designed it they didn't just throw some measurements together to do it.”

“The great hope is that as we bring this together we have the CO as an analogy map a map as an analogy for shifting how we how we're dealing with the great problems of carbon or the great problems of loss of biodiversity we got to get together.”

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