Canadian Company Samdesk wins Innovation Award at Esri Partner Conference
April 23, 2025
Esri Canada congratulates samdesk for receiving the Innovation Award at the Esri Partner Conference in Palm Springs, California. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, samdesk helps organizations worldwide reduce risk and improve resiliency by alerting them in real time to disruptions that may affect their business, operations and assets.
“Recognizing threats to people and operations early enables organizations to take immediate action to mitigate and avoid negative outcomes,” says Jason Breukelman, director, Strategic Alliances, Esri Canada. “Samdesk real-time crisis alerts combined with Esri maps bring situational awareness, risk management and incident response to a whole new level. They have developed something truly innovative that further enhances the benefits of GIS to users.”
“We are delighted to receive this recognition for the work that samdesk does with Esri. Esri is nothing short of fantastic to work with,” says James Neufeld, founder and CEO of samdesk. “In today’s environment, customers need safe, cost efficient and fast solutions. Working tirelessly to solve customer pains is the shared value between Esri and samdesk.”
Samdesk uses artificial intelligence (AI) and real-time context from public sources to craft alerting data and content. Esri users can layer samdesk real-time crisis alerts over their Esri ArcGIS maps to receive notifications when incidents might disrupt their operations. The alerts provide rich context and on-the-ground visuals of critical incidents such as active shootings, military action and natural disasters, well ahead of traditional news and other sources. If a crisis is occurring in proximity to locations of interest, teams can immediately enact an emergency response, getting people to safety and minimizing negative impacts.
Organizations worldwide use the integrated Esri-Samdesk solution to:
- protect people and assets by identifying crises in real time
- proactively mitigate risks
- effectively respond to unforeseen events
- enhance analysis and location-based planning using historical, contextualized crisis data.
Samdesk alerts leverage Esri ArcGIS feature services and can be ingested into ArcGIS Velocity, providing real-time access to emerging geospatial crises or situations. Samdesk alerts also integrate with ArcGIS Dashboards to enhance operational systems and gain deeper insights into supply chain management, employee safety, travel, entry to new markets, operational safety and beyond.
Samdesk serves customers in numerous sectors including commercial, public safety, utilities, defence and security, government, energy and natural resources. Its users include NATO, LA Metro and Nutrien.
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