Helen Thompson is Distinguished Product Engineer for ArcGIS Business Analysis and Geoenrichment at Esri. She is an advocate for applying spatial analytics, location intelligence and geographic thinking. With more than forty years of business and technical experience, Helen has helped support a range of industry communities make sense of the world and bring about real positive change through geographic understanding. A recognized thought leader, keynote speaker and expert on location-based data and spatial analysis in business and society, Helen believes that to be business intelligent you first need to be location intelligent. Her passion is helping organizations thrive by applying spatial analysis and finding context in data to transform our understanding of people, place and possibilities.