The Digital Forester
Episodes
Dr. Amir Soleimani - TreeTrack
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Amir Soleimani, CEO and co-founder of TreeTrack, shares insights into innovative land restoration technology, the impact of wildf...
Carlos Albuquerque - INFLOR
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Carlos Albuquerque, CEO of INFLOR, discussing his journey from computer science to forestry, the unique asp...
Derrick Emsley - veritree
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryIn this conversation, Kevin Lim interviews Derrick Emsley, CEO of veritree and co-founder of tentree. They discuss Derrick's entrepreneurial jo...
Jason Dain - Remsoft
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Dain, Director of Product - Forest Operations at Remsoft, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from Ottawa’s out...
Levi Farrand - Deep Forestry
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Levi Farrand, CEO of Deep Forestry, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share his incredible journey from adventure guide and naval diver in Austral...
Alex Deslauriers - FireSwarm Solutions
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Deslauriers, Co-Founder & CEO of FireSwarm Solutions, joins The Digital Forester podcast to share how his personal loss to wildfire sparked a...
Domenico Iannidinardo & Aaron Fujikawa - Strategic Natural Resource Group
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Domenico Iannidinardo, CEO, and Aaron Fujikawa, Director of Remote Sensing & Geomatics at Strategic Natural Resource Group (SNRgroup), join us on ...
Lorne Carson - Carson Integrated
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lorne Carson, President of Carson Integrated, joins us on The Digital Forester podcast to share his journey from the East Coast to building a diverse ...
Howard Butler - Hobu Inc.
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Digital Forester, Howard Butler, President of Hobu Inc., shares his journey from agricultural roots to leading innovation in op...
Dr. Nicholas Coops - UBC
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nicholas Coops, Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing at UBC, joins The Digital Forester podcast to talk about his journey through forestry, res...
Andrea Feunekes - Remsoft
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Feunekes, co-founder and former CEO of Remsoft, helps us kick off Season 5 of The Digital Forester. Andrea reflects on 30+ years of leading Rem...
Henry Ines - Chainparency
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Ines is Co-Founder and CEO of Chainparency and joins us from Houston, Texas, USA. Chainparency is a supply chain software and data solutions com...
Frank Mastrobuono - Global Surface Intelligence
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Mastrobuono is VP Sales, North America at Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) and describes himself as an inspired business development, managemen...
Eli Jensen - Ironwood Forestry
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Jensen is the Owner of Ironwood Forestry and joins us from Flagstaff, Arizona. Ironwood Forestry is comprised of a dedicated team of professionals...
Kevin Shorthouse - Northwest Solutions Inc.
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Shorthouse is the Director of Northwest Solutions Inc. and joins us from Thunder Bay, ON. Since 2014, this Northern Ontario family-owned busines...
Rod Poirier - JRP Solutions Ltd.
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rod Poirier is the Owner of JRP Solutions Ltd. and joins us from Courtenay, BC. As a Canadian owned and operated company that has been in business sin...
Alex van Gelder - Clear Timber Analytics
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex van Gelder is the CEO and Founder of Clear Timber Analytics and joins us from the The Netherlands. Clear Timber Analytics provides accurate t...
Dave Ginther - Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc.
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Ginther is the Owner of Voice Directed Tally Systems Inc. (VDTS) and joins us from Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Dave’s background is in the IT ...
Marko Gasic - Mosaic Forest Management
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Gasic is the Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Mosaic Forest Management and joins us from Vancouver, BC. At the time of recording,...
Andrew Davis - Visual Forester
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Davis is the Product Manager for Visual Forester and joins us from Bend, Oregon, USA. In his role, he helps natural resource professionals conn...
Mark Books - LandMark Spatial Solutions
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Books is the Geospatial Services Manager at LandMark Spatial Solutions. Mark is a Certified Forester of the geospatial variety and has applied th...
George Banzhaf - TreeTracker
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George M. Banzhaf is the CEO and co-founder of TreeTracker. His career in the forest industry has been wide ranging, from marketing timber, managing c...
Andre Cheung - Robotics Cats and Mike Ross and Rob Vernon - Indicium Dynamics
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Cheung is the Founder and CEO of Robotics Cats and joins us from Hong Kong with Mike Ross and Rob Vernon, Founder and CTO, and CEO, respectively...
Preston Green - Miller Timber Services
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Preston Green is the Assistant Vice President of cut-to-length (CTL) Systems at Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Oregon, USA where he responsible ...
Dr. Kerry Halligan - Woodland Solutions Group
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kerry Halligan is the GM of Technology at the Woodland Solutions Group. Kerry is a software developer with a background in forestry and a passion ...
Donn Downey - Forest Metrix
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donn is a consulting forester, frequent speaker at forestry workshops and conferences, and developer of the Forest Metrix timber cruising software. Fo...
Clint Graumann - NUVIEW
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lidar from space? Impossible, right? NUVIEW came out of stealth mode earlier this year and their mission is to revolutionize the Earth observation ind...
Ben Gwilliam - Ontario Woodlot Association
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Gwilliam is a Private Land Forest Inventory Analyst with the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ben com...
Swapan Chaudhuri - Deeplai
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Swapan Chaudhuri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeplai and joins us from Poland. TimberID is a complete platform solving the digitalization of forest m...
John Pineau - Ontario Woodlot Association
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Pineau is the Executive Director at the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA) and joins us from Mattawa, Ontario. John has worked in the forest indus...
Alex Meyers - TimberEye
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Meyers is the COO and Co-Founder of TimberEye, a company that reimagines how logs get measured, moved, bought and sold. TimberEye log scaling tec...
Alicia Sullivan - Google
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alicia Sullivan is the Product Manager for Google’s Earth Engine Sustainability Solutions and joins us from the greater Seattle area. She obtained h...
Steven Hawkes - LandVest
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Hawkes is the Vice President of Forest Resources at LandVest and joins us from Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Steven has been responsible for the...
Jens Fuglsang Røge - HD LogSystems
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jens Fuglsang Røge is the Business Manager at HD LogSystems and joins us from Denmark. HD LogSystems is part of the international trading and service...
Dr. Tuomo Kauranne - Arbonaut
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Tuomo Kauranne is the CEO of Arbonaut, a Finnish company focused on building digital twins of forests. In 1998, Arbonaut developed the first fores...
Markus Drugge and Jacob Hjalmarsson - Arboair
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Drugge (CEO) and Jacob Hjalmarsson (COO) of Arboair join us on this podcast. Many forest owners today lack forest data at a detailed level. At ...
Dr. Matt Russell - Arbor Custom Analytics
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Matt Russell is the President & CEO of Arbor Custom Analytics and offers data and analytics consulting services to forestry companies and orga...
Dr. John Lindsay - Whitebox Geospatial Inc.
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By day, Dr. John Lindsay is a geomatics professor at the University of Guelph and the rest of time, he is an entrepreneur working as co-founder of Whi...
Dr. Dale Fried - 3DEO
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Formerly with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Dale Fried is the Founder and CEO of 3DEO Inc., which builds upon US Department of Defense investments i...
Cakey Worthington & Zach Pardue - Anew
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off 2023 with Cakey Worthington, VP of Carbon Operations and Zach Pardue, Manager of Forest Information and Geospatial Systems from Anew. With...
Dr. Elizabeth Hunter - Treeswift
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elizabeth Hunter is the COO and Co-Founder of Treeswift, a company that has built a new data and monitoring system for the natural world by pushin...
Dr. Mark Corrao - Northwest Management Inc.
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mark Corrao is the Director of Technology at Northwest Management Inc., which is a leader in forestland and environmental management, providing ex...
Taylor Griffith - TRACT
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Griffith, Founder of TRACT, joins us from Athens, Georgia, USA to talk about how he leveraged his background in financial technologies to devel...
Bruce Ripley - Manulife
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Ripley, Project Manager with the Strategic Innovation group at Manulife (Hancock Forest Management), joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the ...
Dr. Elias Ayrey - Renoster
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elias Ayrey, Co-Founder and Head Scientist at Renoster, joins us from the Pacific Northwest in the US to talk about how Renoster uses remote sensi...
Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers - RasterMatics International
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mark Norris-Rogers, Principal Consultant at RasterMatics International, joins us from outside of Cape Town in South Africa. Mark gives us an overv...
Olle Gelin - AirForestry
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Olle Gelin is the CEO and Co-Founder of AirForestry, which is a company that thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. AirForestry h...
Brendan Moore - The Lyme Timber Company
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Moore is a Project Manager at The Lyme Timber Company, a private timberland investment organization founded in 1976, and joins us from Vermont...
Rolf Schmitz - CollectiveCrunch
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rolf Schmitz is the co-CEO and co-founder of CollectiveCrunch and while normally based out of Germany, joins us from Espoo, Finland. In his words, mo...
Alex Bilyk - Silvacom
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Bilyk is the Forest Inventory Innovation Manager at Silvacom and joins us from the company’s Thunder Bay office. In this podcast, Alex talks ab...
Brandon Craft - Forest Resource Consultants
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Craft is a Technical Services Forester at Forest Resource Consultants (FRC) and joins us from Macon, GA. Immediately after completing his mast...
Bruce MacArthur - Tesera Systems
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce MacArthur is the CEO of Tesera Systems and joins us from the foothills in between Cochrane and Calgary, Alberta. He started his career in forest...
Dr. Cassidy Rankine - Planet
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cassidy Rankine is the Western Canadian Account Executive at Planet and joins us from Vernon, BC to share his thoughts on the state of earth obser...
Scot McQueen - Forest Stewardship Council
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scot McQueen, Senior Technology Officer at the Forest Stewardship Council, joins us from Olympia, Washington to share with us how he is leveraging tec...
Adam Dick - Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Dick is a Science Advisor at the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service and joins us from Fredericton. Adam was one of the champions...
Albrecht von Ruffer - SKYLAB
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Albrecht von Ruffer, CEO of SKYLAB, joins us from Hamburg, Germany. As a biologist by training and an entrepreneur with a successful exit already, Alb...
Dr. Guoliang Liu - aiTree Ltd.
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Guoliang Liu, President of aiTree Ltd., calls in from China while on a business trip to talk about his journey over the last 30 years bringing his...
Doug Jones - Remsoft
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Jones, Senior Vice President of Remsoft, joins us from Fredericton, NB to kick off Season 2 of the Digital Forester podcast. Doug shares his thou...
Gaetan Pelletier - Northern Hardwood Research Institute
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gaetan Pelletier is the Executive Director of the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute in Edmundston, New Brunswick. With over 30 years of forestry e...
Mike Sutton - Forestry Corporation of NSW
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Sutton is the Manager of Innovation & Research at the Forestry Corporation of NSW in Australia. Mike, who started his career at a time where ther...
Simon Ackerman - Stellenbosch University
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joining us from South Africa, in between writing his Ph.D. thesis, Simon Ackerman, CTO of Forest Operations Research at Stellenbosch University, share...
Johan Ekenstedt - Arboreal
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From his treehouse in Sweden, Johan Ekenstedt, Founder of Arboreal, shares with us how he leveraged the lidar and augmented reality capabilities of sm...
Cam Brown - Forsite
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cam Brown is the Strategic Planning Forester at Forsite, which is a full-service forest management company that employs over 150 people from Halifax t...
Dr. Pete Watt - Indufor Asia Pacific
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From New Zealand, to Laos, to the UK, to Guyana and back to New Zealand, Dr. Pete Watt, Team Leader, Resource Monitoring & Climate Change at Indufor A...
Enda Keane - Treemetrics
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Enda Keane, CEO of Treemetrics, pioneered the Internet of Trees (IoT) concept and was an early adopter of all things lidar, forest inventory, harvesti...
Max Nova - NCX (FKA SilviaTerra)
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Max Nova, COO of NCX (FKA SilviaTerra), shares with us how he met Zach Parisa, CEO of NCX, at the Yale School of Forestry and how that friendship and...
Phil Green - First Resource Management Group
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With 25 years of experience in forestry, Phil Green from First Resource Management Group (FRMG) talks to us about his company’s role in managing eig...
Chad St.Amand - Millar Western Forest Products
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chad St.Amand from Millar Western Forest Products (MWFP) joins us to share his forestry journey from British Columbia to Ontario to Alberta, Canada an...
Michael Dooner & Mike Berzinis - Southern Forestry Consultants
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southern Forestry Consultants president Michael Dooner and Mike Berzinis, Director of Geospatial Solutions, talk about natural resources management an...
Murray Woods - Treedimensions
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Woods, Principal Consultant at Treedimensions, shares his experiences with and thoughts about airborne, terrestrial and hand-held lidar, single...