Rob Kendall is the President and CEO of eQuake Systems Inc. He formed this company with Doug Goble in January, 2019. Rob’s 30-year career has mainly focused on oil and gas based technical geophysics with an emphasis on seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation.

Rob has been involved in the development of leading edge non-traditional seismic techniques including downhole microseismic, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Induced Seismicity Monitoring (ISM). He has installed and maintained ISM arrays throughout the world and processes the earthquake data from these arrays. Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) and emergency response is a natural extension to induced seismicity monitoring.

He is the recipient of numerous technical awards and has published extensively in scientific journals. He is a past president (2012-2013) of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG).

Doug Goble Graduated as a Computer Electronics Technologist in 1981, from Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. Technical Field work was Doug’s focus for the next twenty years with GSI, Sonics Exploration, and then Solid State Geophysical. Worldwide technical support took Doug to Alaska, Argentina, Canada, Ecuador, the Lower 48, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Svalbard (Norway), Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen.

In 1998 Doug accepted a position in Calgary for Houston based Geophysical Equipment manufacturer Input/Output. Doug was responsible for sales and service in Canada, and managed the office of five people.

In 2002 , Doug formed Global Seismic Repairs Inc., and has been supporting the international geophysical acquisition community ever since.

Uday is a full stack developer working in Android , IOT space. He has a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University Of British Columbia , Vancouver.

His range of expertise include low level embedded development on Linux environment , and more recently web services and application side development using Java springboot over elastic stack.

In his current role he is responsible for development and maintenance of a platform service that gathers data from field devices on one side, massages the data into data models and uses text based querying to visualize data on the front end producing dynamic graphs.

Ted Irwin is a Business Administration graduate of Washington State University and has a 28 year career in sales, management, consulting and business development, primarily in the outdoor industry with major brands such as Arc’teryx, K2 Sports, Victorinox Swiss Army, and Keen Footwear. From a family of geologists in his hometown of Calgary, Ted has lived in Seattle for over 30 years and is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.

Mike is a Professor and Chair of Geophysics at the University of Oxford. He has a PhD in Geophysics from Queen’s University in Canada and he was a Green’s Scholar and NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the USA. He has held faculty positions at the Universities of Toronto, Leeds and Bristol, and he worked briefly for Chevron Canada Resources in Calgary.

He was previously president of the British Geophysical Association and vice-president (Geophysics) of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has published over 200 papers in leading journals. He was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2011 and fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.

Mike’s research interests cover pure and applied seismology, with connections to mineral physics, geodynamics and engineering. He has led seismic field experiments in a range of geologic settings varying from the Canadian Arctic to Ethiopia. He has managed a number of large industry-funded consortia, including the Bristol University Microseismicity Projects (BUMPS).

Thomas L. Davis, PhD, is a University Professor Emeritus at the Colorado School of Mines and founded the Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP), an industry funded consortium now in its 33nd year. RCP received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2014.

He is active member in SEG as an organizer for technical conferences, workshops and continuing education programs and has served as SEG’s Second Vice President, Technical Program Chairman, and Distinguished Lecturer. He received the C.J. Mackenzie Award from the Engineering College of the University of Saskatchewan, the Milton B. Dobrin Award from the University of Houston, and the Dean’s Excellence and Melvin F. Coolbaugh Memorial Awards from the Colorado School of Mines.

He was a co-recipient of the best poster award of the SEG in 2009 for a presentation on multicomponent seismic applications to tight gas fractured reservoir characterization and the southwest section of AAPG in 2011 on CO₂ flood monitoring in Postle Field, Oklahoma.

Calgary, Canada (former Managing Director, Peters & Co)

Andrew has over 23 years of experience in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin. He was Exploration Manager at Pan East Petroleum and held geophysical and exploration roles at Norcen Energy and Shell Canada.

He holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia, an MSc in Geophysics from University College and a BA Mod in Experimental Physics from Trinity College.

Ryan is a litigation lawyer with JSS Barristers in Calgary, Alberta, with a background in commercial and civil litigation. He acts for companies, tribunals, insurers, individuals, governments, and non-profits. He has successfully represented clients at all levels of courts in Alberta, before various tribunals, and in the superior courts of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Some of his recent experience includes acting for a seismic exploration company in a large data acquisition dispute against an international oil and gas company, acting for an international engineering firm in a large uranium mine construction dispute, and defending lawyers (including large multinational law firms) against professional negligence claims.

Ryan graduated from law school at the University of Saskatchewan. He was called to the bar in British Columbia in 2012, and the Alberta bar in 2014. He was a contributing author for the textbook Statute of Limitations in International Commercial Claims (Thomson Reuters, 2016). He has served on various community boards, including as Chair of the Downtown Business Improvement Association. Before becoming a lawyer, Ryan was a tennis instructor. He was the club professional at the Lakeshore Tennis Club in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was born and raised, and an assistant professional on Grand Cayman Island in the British West Indies.