Leading decision-makers through a digital leap (Coming soon to the GIS Leadership Summit 2026)
Turning geospatial capability into trusted, enterprise decision-making
How to win executive trust and scale geospatial into everyday decision-making
Hello, I'm Lorin Liliko'i Lima, Geospatial Manager at Kaingaroa Tipu in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the GIS Leadership Summit 2026, I'll share how I have socialised strategy, championed prioritisation, and secured geospatial investment through modernisation and capability uplift.
About the speaker
I learned GIS in Redlands, at the heart of the geospatial industry, and later deepened that foundation through Johns Hopkins University’s Advanced Academic Programs. I bring more than two decades of experience building enterprise geospatial capability across government and industry. My work spans crisis response, transport, research, and forestry, focused on bridging technical capability and business strategy to enable confident, data-driven decision-making.
Geospatial delivers the most impact when leaders trust it enough to act on it.
What I’ll cover
- Reframing GIS for executive audiences
Shifting the conversation from tools and data to decision confidence, risk, and productivity - Building trust through governance
Ensuring clear ownership, standards, and consistency to create reliable decision environments - Scaling enterprise capability
Moving from project-based delivery to a trusted, organisation-wide decision platformMake value visible.
Why this matters now
Across every environment I’ve worked in, from national crisis response to operational forestry systems, the pattern is consistent.
Technology alone does not drive adoption. Trust does.
This session focuses on how to lead decision-makers through that digital leap, aligning geospatial to business priorities, building trust through governance, and designing for scale so it becomes embedded in how organisations operate, make decisions, and prioritise investment.
