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CalGIS 2016 Keynotes & Other Details Announced

Des Plaines, IL (February 29, 2016) - The four California URISA Chapters and the California Geographic Information Association are pleased to share details about CalGIS 2016 taking place May 10-12 in Anaheim. 

Preliminary Schedule: Information about preconference workshops and important keynotes are detailed below. The individual presentations will soon be posted. Dozens of California GIS professionals will be presenting their good work at the conference, sharing ideas and generating discussion. Here is just a sampling of the presentations being prepared: 

Preconference Workshops: Consider registering for one of the optional preconference workshops that will be presented on Tuesday, May 10. Each is described below. Most require an additional fee and all are limited as to how many individuals may attend. Don't delay! 

Deploying Mobile GIS

Full-day training, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, with break for lunch on own

Instructor: Tripp Corbin, GISP, CEO, eGIS Associates, Inc., Dacula, GA - URISA President-Elect

One way to meet demands for providing superior service levels and operational efficiencies under tightening budget constraints is to leverage new technology that places GIS data in the hands of field crews. This allows for improved management and better maintenance of work processes to properly appraise infrastructure assets and to meet service request response times. This URISA Workshop is designed to provide local government managers with practical guidelines for building an effective mobile GIS program across multiple departments. 

Specific topics include:

Learning Objectives:

NG9-1-1 and the GIS Workflow

Half-day training, 8:30 AM-12:00 Noon

Instructor: Sandi Stroud, Public Safety GIS National Director, Michael Baker International 

This URISA Workshop is aimed at the GIS professional who is currently supporting or may support their emergency communications division in the future. In a fully operational next generation 911 system, GIS is the core component in determining how a 911 call is routed to the correct public safety answering point (PSAP). This will have profound impacts on local maintenance workflows, local data access, and data fidelity. We recognize there is a sincere lack of education available aimed at the GIS professional who may not be as versed with the 911 terminology or needs. This workshop is intended to provide an overview of next generation 911, GIS’ role in such a system, the implications on local workflows, and illustrate common pain points and sources of errors in local GIS datasets. 

Learning Objectives:

Intended Audience: GIS Managers, Emergency Management and Public Safety professionals. 

Open Source GIS

Full-day training, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, with break for lunch on own

Instructors:

Jeffrey Johnson, Terranodo LLC

Landon Blake, Hawkins & Associates Engineering

Santiago Giraldo, CartoDB

Esri Workshop - details to come

Half-day workshop, 1:00-5:00 PM  

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Wednesday, May 11: Opening Keynote Address

Clint Brown, Director of Product Engineering, Esri 

The Human Era of GIS: Ten years ago, as people everywhere on the planet began to use and be amazed by Google Maps, and other web mapping tools, we all became GIS users. The recent implementation of Web GIS and social computing are creating exciting, new opportunities to move beyond our traditional, highly technical application of GIS. We are on the verge of big changes —for who will be engaged by GIS and how it can be used by virtually everyone. We are entering the Human Era of GIS. This is an important story about where GIS has been and where we are headed. As practitioners, how will be transform our dialog and communications about our work to make GIS more broadly accessible by an ever-expanding community of new users. 

Thursday, May 12: Closing Keynote Address                                             

Benjamin Tuttle, PhD, Geographer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 

Delivering GEOINT in the Open: Over the last year the NGA has strived to be the first transparent intelligence agency. As such it looks to deliver GEOINT to all users when, where, and in the format needed. This new architecture is a hybrid of proprietary and open technology. In addition to proprietary and custom software and government data It is also deeply dependent on a broad swatch of open source software, open standards, and open data. This talk will go cover the road to this new system of GEOINT Services. 

EXHIBITS

The exhibition is filling fast. Thanks to Esri (Gold Sponsor), Dudek and Hexagon Imagery Program (Silver Sponsors) and the exhibitors who have already reserved their booth space: 

REGISTRATION & VENUE

Don’t delay! Registration discounts expire tomorrow, March 1. The conference will take place at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort steps from the Anaheim Gardenwalk and the Disneyland Resort. The discounted conference rate is $149 single/double. 

MORE INFORMATION

For complete conference information, visit  www.calgis.org



Contact:

Wendy Nelson
Executive Director - URISA
Email Contact   
www.urisa.org    
847-824-6300