15 Minute Maps
Episodes
Episode 20 - Saïd Abou Kharroub: The One-Stop-Shop Map
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if all the data needed to respond to a humanitarian crisis already existed — but was scattered, siloed, and hard to use?In this episode of 15-M...
Episode 19 - Yann Rebois: Mapping the Invisible in Cities
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Urban crises are some of the hardest environments to map — and yet that’s where millions of the world’s most vulnerable people live.In this epis...
Episode 18: Cornelia Scholz - The Dragon's Map
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if our most trusted maps are quietly lying to us?This week on 15 Minute Maps, GIS technical advisor Cornelia Schultz (Red Cross Red Crescent Clim...
Episode 17 - David de Ridder: Rerouting… to Better Health
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 15 Minute Maps, I speak with David de Ridder, Senior Research Fellow at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), who specializes in...
Episode 16 – John Huth: The Map Hidden in the Waves
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever Wondered How You’d Navigate the Ocean With No Compass, No GPS, and No Land in Sight? Well this episode once again proves the importance of main...
Episode 15 - Guilherme Iablonovski: The Map of Matter
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk about rebuilding after a disaster, but we leave so little thought for rthe materials needed. Have you ever thought about where all the r...
Episode 14 - Brianna Pagan Corremonte: The Story of a Forest Fire
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She Lost Her Home to Wildfires… and Turned It Into a Powerful Mapping Idea That Could Not Only Save Lives but Local History as Well!Professor Briann...
Episode 13- Esperanza Ortega-Tapia: Climate Change Driven Loss of Cultural Farming Heritage
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this very moving episode, Esperanza Ortega-Tapia describes her dream of being able to map the loss of farming land within BIPOC communities in the ...
Episode 12 - Guido Pizzini: Communities at the Heart of Humanitarian GIS Preparedness
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Guido Pizzini - Director, Business Development, Impact and Partnerships at Immap Inc. - takes us through his dream of mapping communi...
Episode 11 - Sven Schmitz-Leuffen: The Gap Map
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sven Schmitz-Leuffen, GIS and Technical Solutions Lead at the International Committee of the Red Cross has a problem, how to know where and to whom sh...
Episode 10 - Song Huang: Dark Skies
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From time to time, one feels the need to break with tradition, and while this podcast has normally only dealt with planetary GIS and mapping, in this ...
Episode 9 - Maaz Sheikh: GIS for All
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I am joined by Maaz Sheikh, young GIS entrepeneur and start up king. Ageospatial, the platform he created, uses AI agents and large la...
Episode 8 - Rhiannan Price: STEAM not just STEM
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rhiannan Price, program lead at Nasa Lifelines, blends art and science to create her dream map. An advocate of community mapping, Rhiannan believes th...
Episode 7 - Varsha Sivaram: Empowering Research with a Geospatial Platform
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Varsha Sivaram, senior economic geographer at FRAYM, takes us into her world where she blends academic research with practical data solutions. In a wo...
Episode 6 - Andrew Schroeder: Users as Creators
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GIS IS DEAD! This weeks guest is Andrew Schroeder, Co-founder of WeRobotics, Co-director of CrisisReady, and Vice President of research and analysis ...
Episode 5 - Richard Brittan: A Poverty Map that Works
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am joined by Richard Brittan, founder of the innovative GIS company ALCIS. Richard identifies the lack of mapping of poverty in most parts of ...
Episode 4 - Joel Myhre: A Holistic View of the World
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mahalo to the global GIS Ohana from this weeks guest Joel Myhre, humanitarian technology innovator. With a CV as long as the Magna Carta, Joel has wor...
Episode 3 - Nathaniel Raymond: The BLIMP
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I am joined by Nathaniel 'Natty' Raymond - Executive Director of Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University. Co-founder of Senti...
Episode 2 - Olivier Cottray: A Map in the Eye of the User
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am joined by Olivier Cottray, Director of Humanitarian Solutions at ESRI, and with nearly 5000 followers on LinkedIn, he is the closest the hu...
Episode 1 - Jessie Pechmann: A different Kind of World Map
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first ever episode of 15 Minute Maps I am Joined by Jessie Pechmann, storied humanitarian and Geospatial expert. She is currently the Humanita...