Ed Parsons

Ed is a Digital Geographer and Geospatial Technology Advisor, previously responsible for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using Geography.

He has previously led Google’s efforts in maintaining a healthy Open Data Ecosystem to support AI in Europe. Additionally, Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer of Ordnance Survey, where he moved from after being EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division at Autodesk.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and was co-chair of the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group.

Further, Ed represented Google at the EMTEL committee of ETSI developing geospatial solutions for emergency telecommunications.