Renia Kagkou is a Senior Solution Engineer at Esri’s AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) team. At Esri, she develops workflows that integrate geospatial analysis, scenario testing, and impact assessment, for decision-making in planning and designing the built environment. She consults firms on leveraging these workflows for landscape design, urban design, planning, and territorial planning projects. She also helps disseminate the value of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to the planning and design disciplines through conference presentations and panels, workshops, and academic engagements.
Renia is from Athens, Greece and she holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) and a Master of Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology (MDes ULE) from Harvard GSD (2018), and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute, New York (2014). Prior to joining Esri, she worked as an architect in New York, and as a GIS specialist for Urban Planning firms and University projects in Cambridge and Boston, MA. Renia has also taught Mapping, Cartography, and GIS courses at SCI-Arc (Los Angeles), and for the Master Program on Architecture, European Urbanization and Globalization, at the University of Luxembourg (Belval).
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