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August 2026

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Industry Highlights

AI Readiness Takes Center Stage at UN GGIM

At its 16th Session, the UN Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management highlighted “AI readiness for authoritative geospatial information” as a key discussion area.

Geospatial demand is rising. Can organizations keep up?

83% of professionals say demand for geospatial data, analysis, and outputs has increased, while 78% say demand is growing faster than their teams can deliver.

Location Data in Action

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Plan Smarter Retail Expansion with Location Intelligence

Place Intelligence used mobile location data to analyze visitation across more than 12,500 ski resorts, hiking trails, and marinas across the US. 

Predik Data

How Boston restaurants find the best locations for new openings?

Predik Data combined foot traffic, mobility, socioeconomic, and sales data helped identify high potential locations and plan new openings.

Bizzirex

How Brisbane's transport grid handles massive influx of people 

BizziRex uses mobility data to map attendee origins and movements during Brisbane’s 2026 NRL Magic Round, revealing where visitors came from.

Appen Podcast - Can an LLM Actually Reason?


Dan Roth, Oracle’s Chief AI Scientist and Penn professor, joins Appen’s Jeanine Sinanan Singh and Brian Jenkins to discuss evaluating AI as a system, not just a model.

Compliance Corner

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California Delete Request and Opt out Platform (DROP)

California’s new DROP platform gives consumers a simpler way to request deletion of their personal information from registered data brokers. With compliance requirements now in effect, DROP is an important development for the data industry and a reminder of the growing focus on data privacy and governance.

Quadrant team

The People Behind Quadrant

Aishwarya Bose
Senior Data Engineer

Meet Aishwarya, one of the people who has been part of Quadrant’s journey since 2019. From our early days of building processes from scratch to working with massive mobility datasets, data quality, automation, and compliance, she shares how her role has evolved and how she has seen the location data industry change over the years. Outside of work, she talks about her family back in India, her life in Singapore with her husband and toddler, and the things that keep her busy. 

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