The first responder that’s already inside the building.

President and CEO

Rob Kendall is President and CEO of eQuake Systems Inc. He formed the company with Doug Goble in January 2019. His 30-year career has focused on oil and gas 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 has received 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).

Chief Operating Officer

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

In 1998 he accepted a position in Calgary with Houston-based geophysical equipment manufacturer Input/Output. He was responsible for sales and service in Canada and managed an office of five people.

In 2002 he formed Global Seismic Repairs Inc., and has supported the international geophysical acquisition community ever since.

Senior Software Engineer

Uday is a full-stack developer working in Android and IoT. He has a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 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.

Professor and Chair of Geophysics, University of Oxford

Michael Kendall is 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. 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. He was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2011 and a fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.

His research covers pure and applied seismology, with connections to mineral physics, geodynamics, and engineering. He has led seismic field experiments from the Canadian Arctic to Ethiopia, and he has managed large industry-funded consortia, including the Bristol University Microseismicity Projects (BUMPS).

University Professor Emeritus, Colorado School of Mines

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 33rd year. RCP received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2014.

He organizes SEG technical conferences, workshops, and continuing education, and has served as SEG’s Second Vice President, Technical Program Chairman, and Distinguished Lecturer. His awards include 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 SEG best poster award in 2009 for multicomponent seismic applications to tight-gas fractured reservoir characterization, and of an AAPG southwest section award in 2011 for CO₂ flood monitoring in Postle Field, Oklahoma.

Calgary — former Managing Director, Peters & Co.

Andrew has more than 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.

Litigation lawyer, JSS Barristers, Calgary

Ryan is a litigation lawyer with JSS Barristers in Calgary, Alberta. He acts for companies, tribunals, insurers, individuals, governments, and non-profits. He has represented clients at all levels of court in Alberta, before tribunals, and in the superior courts of British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Recent work 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 uranium mine construction dispute, and defending lawyers, including large multinational firms, against professional negligence claims.

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