While Bentley Systems has had a Bentley Education Program for some time, it has been reawakened, according to Katriona Lord-Levins, chief success officer at Bentley. “It has been brought into the times we’re in, and to meet the needs that we have to create a talent pipelines for our customers and ourselves,” said Lord-Levins. “Not only do we want to help students develop their engineering skills that will help them in the real world, but we also want to get people excited about the possibilities of the future.”

The new appointees’ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Patty Mims, Javier de la Torre, and Prashant Shukle to its Board of Directors.

The new appointments bring experience in defense & intelligence, homeland security, cloud-native GIS, data science, environmental data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Earth Observation, and more.