To advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability. To accomplish this mission, OGC serves as the global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution providers and users.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization, originated in 1994. In the OGC, more than 500 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open standards for geospatial content and services, GIS data processing and data sharing.

OGC standards are used in a wide variety of domains including Environment, Defense, Health, Agriculture, Meteorology, Sustainable Development and many more.

Our members come from government, commercial organizations, NGOs, academic and research organizations.

Jeff Burnett - Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
Steven Hagan - Vice President of Development for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation
Jeffrey Harris - Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors. Consultant to industry and the US Government. Former President of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space and former President of Lockheed Martin Special Programs.
Chris Holmes – Product Architect, Planet Labs
Dr. Mike Jackson - Research Chair, Geospatial Sciences, University of Nottingham
Sanjay Kumar - Chief Executive Officer, Geospatial Media and Communications
Jack Pellicci - President, Lancer Information Solutions
Jeff Peters - Director, Federal Programs, ESRI, Inc.
Mark Reichardt - President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
François Robida - Deputy Head of Information Systems and Technologies Division at BRGM
Dr. Walter S. Scott - Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of DigitalGlobe
Velu Sinha - Partner, Bain & Co.
Eric Soulères - CIS
Dr. Christopher Tucker - Independent
Rob van de Velde - Director of Geonovum, the Dutch National SDI Executive Committee
Geoff Zeiss, Ph.D. - Principal at Between the Poles
Jen Ziemke, Ph.D. - Co-Founder and Co-Director , International Network of Crisis Mappers and Associate Professor, John Carroll University