Tory Smith is Director of Product Management at Niantic Spatial, where he’s spent the past 5 years building out the AR mapping and visual positioning system (VPS) offerings. Previously, he worked on mapping technology for both autonomous vehicle and augmented reality applications at Mapbox, Drive.ai (acquired by Apple), Ford Motor Company, and Delphi. He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in German from Virginia Tech.

Brian "Bam" McClendon is the Chief Technology Officer at Niantic Spatial, where he leads the engineering development of the company’s groundbreaking Large Geospatial Model. Building on a legacy of innovation in mapping technologies, Brian is developing a new generation of geospatial maps to transform the way we understand and interact with the physical world.

He previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Niantic Labs, where he brought AR to life in popular mobile games like Pokémon GO. Brian brings nearly four decades of experience in computer graphics, mapping, computer vision and machine learning, and has made significant contributions to geospatial technology with 40 patents to his name. He began his career at Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), where he helped build 3D graphics supercomputers. In 2001, he co-founded Keyhole, Inc., where he served as Vice President of Engineering before the company was acquired by Google.

At Google, Brian spent the next decade leading the Geo engineering team, where he played a key role in the development and evolution of Google Earth, Google Maps, Street View, Local Search, and GroundTruth.

He serves as a research professor at the University of Kansas, his alma mater, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in electrical engineering from the university in 2015. In a fitting tribute to his roots, his childhood home at Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, Kansas was set as the original default center point of Google Earth.

Dr Charlie Houseago is a Spatial AI Solutions Architect based at Niantic Spatial's London office and R&D centre. He combines expertise in research, engineering and design at the frontier of Geospatial Intelligence to transform scientific papers into shipped products.