Mr. Brunner is an experienced scientist, award-winning professor, and principal data scientist at Esri, the global market leader in GIS software, location intelligence, and mapping. Through his vision and guidance, he has helped organizations across the world understand how to manage, disseminate, and analyze vast quantities of imagery in support of a wide range of missions and problems. Mr. Brunner’s current focus is developing custom AI and computer vision driven spatial analysis tools in support of extracting features from imagery and attributing those features. He is also exploring extended reality applications and the incorporation of 3D GIS data into extended reality environments. As a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher, Mr. Brunner served as an Adjunct Professor at Saint Louis University from 2017 through 2022 where he also was the recipient of the 2019 award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Mr. Brunner has written multiple lesson paths for Esri’s ArcGIS Learn website that teach ArcGIS users how to use the ArcGIS API for Python for data science. Mr. Brunner’s unique ability to solve abstract quantitative geographic problems and explain those solutions has enabled him to give presentations around the world on topics such as advanced image processing, augmented reality, and GeoAI.