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Welcome to URISA’s GIS-Pro 2020 — A special virtual edition for challenging times.
We invite you to review the agenda, block your calendar, and join us virtually for URISA’s 58th Annual Conference. Our community has always been resilient and eager to help each other through a crisis. Be engaged. Ask questions. Explore solutions. Make the most of this opportunity. Be safe.

Workshops will be presented ’live’ on September 23 & 24 and after GIS-Pro on October 6 & 7. Attendance at one workshop is included with full registration.

Note that all times in this online agenda are presented in CENTRAL Time (URISA’s office is in Chicago).

You must be registered to access the online platform (which is not this Sched agenda). 

Main conference site: www.gis-pro.org 
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Tuesday, September 29
 

12:00pm CDT

Connected Nation: Lunch & Learn Partner Session - Bridging the Digital Divide for Your Community: Expand Broadband Access
Bridging the Digital Divide for Your Community: Expand Broadband Access with Connected Nation

Join us for this Lunch & Learn session with Connected Nation, a US national non-profit focused on improving lives through technology. CN will explain how their team assesses and plans for the expansion of broadband access, adoption, and use. Connected Nation works to empower people with technology skills and resources to improve their quality of life, and develops public-private partnerships to bring technology access to targeted geographies and population. We'll look at how this mandate fits into the purview of economic development and how your community could potentially benefit. Bring your questions!

We'll look at:
  • Sourcing better broadband data for your region
  • Community broadband assessments: Access, Adoption, and Use
  • Local technology action planning and partnership building
  • Digital inclusion and telework job creation programming
  • How to make this work to improve telehealth for your community

Presenters: Eric Frederick and Chris Pedersen
Speakers
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Chris Pedersen

Executive Vice President Development & Planning, Connected Nation
Chris Pedersen serves as Executive Vice President of Development and Planning for Connected Nation, a national non-profit focused on improving lives through technology. Chris leads nationwide development and planning efforts related to initiating community development, workforce... Read More →
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Eric Frederick

Vice President, Community Affairs, Connected Nation
Eric Frederick is the vice president for community affairs for Connected Nation, a community technology planning expert, and sought-after speaker on issues of community development and broadband. Eric earned his bachelor’s in planning from Northern Michigan University and his Masters... Read More →


Tuesday September 29, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

Eos Positioning Systems, Inc Lunch & Learn: GNSS/GPS and Drones: Everything you want to know about High-Accuracy Mobile GIS
Tools for collecting high-accuracy data for GIS have evolved significantly in the past several years. Specifically, high-accuracy GNSS has changed dramatically in the past 3 years with the addition of Galileo (European) and BeiDou (Chinese) navigation satellite constellations. Furthermore, small mapping drones have become much more reliable, safe, and efficient in collecting high-accuracy imagery.

The advancement in both technologies now allows GIS technicians, and even interns, the ability to reliably collect “survey-grade” horizontal and elevation data at a lower cost than ever before in history. Join me for a lively discussion on the latest technology trends in high-accuracy GNSS and drones.
Speakers
avatar for Eric Gakstatter

Eric Gakstatter

Principal, Discovery Management Group, LLC
Eric has been involved in the high-accuracy GNSS industry for 30+ years. His company deploys thousands of high-accuracy GNSS receivers each year across many industries. For ten years, Eric was the high-accuracy GNSS contributor to GPS World magazine, authoring over 200 technical articles... Read More →


Tuesday September 29, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

HP, Inc. Lunch & Learn Session: HP Large Format Solutions
Visit the HP large format team to learn more about the latest print technology supporting GIS groups of all sizes and now with work from home capabilities.
HP’s large-format business will review the latest hardware technologies available along with incredibly easy to use software solutions. Our solutions make life easier for a production environment group down to home office users
HP will also debut our newest signage software that even includes pandemic posters that are easy to customize to your needs.  
Speakers
JC

Jim Chappell

Large Format Specialist, HP, Inc.


Tuesday September 29, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

Pro-West & Associates Lunch & Learn Session: Renville County: Leading the Way with ArcGIS Hub
Pro-West Solutions Architect Kyle Wikstrom will be joined by Alex Lange, GIS Specialist at Renville County, MN to share how the County achieved extraordinary milestones in its GIS and land records modernization strategy by leveraging Esri ArcGIS Hub. Discover how Hub was rolled out to connect citizens with critical business information and GIS solution, and how it has enabled Renville County to support its citizens and county staff, and embody what it means to be a smart county.
Tuesday September 29, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session
 
Wednesday, September 30
 

12:00pm CDT

Esri Lunch & Learn Session #1 - Emerging Trends in State and Local Government
Keeping pace in building a government that is responsive and accountable to citizens, businesses, and departmental staff requires careful attention to the seemingly unrelated trends of technology, policy, and GIS. Not keeping pace can force teams to always be reactive and potentially fall behind in sustaining a modern approach to delivering government services. This session will highlight emerging trends and relate them to the GIS profession and technology.

Presenter: Chris Thomas, Esri Director of Government Markets
Moderators
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Brent Jones, PE, PLS

Global Manager, Land Records/Cadastre, Esri

Speakers
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Chris Thomas

Director of Government Markets, Esri


Wednesday September 30, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

GeoComm Lunch & Learn: Preparing 9-1-1 for Indoor Mapping
9-1-1 caller location is evolving. New industry developments are making indoor positioning of mobile phones during 9-1-1 calls possible for the first time. But raw geodetic position measurements alone are not actionable without a map, and indoor maps are the key to unlocking this potentially lifesaving technology. In this presentation, John Brosowsky, GeoComm’s Vice President of Innovation will discuss:

• Why indoor maps for 9-1-1 and what you need to know
• Where will indoor maps come from and how will they be maintained over time
• Innovative techniques for scaling locally authoritative crowdsourcing of indoor maps across states

Presenter: John Brosowsky, Vice President of Innovation, GeoComm
Speakers
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John Brosowsky

Vice President of Innovation, GeoComm
John Brosowsky is GeoComm’s Vice President of Innovation. A 25-year visionary GIS and Public Safety industry veteran, John leads GeoComm’s innovation business function and focuses on identifying, strategizing, and evangelizing how new and emerging technologies may be applied to... Read More →


Wednesday September 30, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

Nearmap Lunch & Learn: Aerial Imagery: A Rapidly Evolving Technology for the Future of Smart Cities
Smart cities start with knowing the facts on the ground. Find out how government organizations are using location intelligence, including aerial imagery, Nearmap 3D, DSM, and AI-derived insights within their technology stack, adding a layer of up-to-date reality to their workflows, GIS layers, and third party sources of data.
 
Join this webinar to learn:
- What benefits you can derive from location intelligence 
- What integrations are available for GIS, CAD, CAMA, and other third-party applications
- How others are planning for smarter places and more green spaces. 
 
We look forward to your participation!
Moderators
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Carrie Wiley

Strategic Account Manager - Government, Nearmap
Carrie Wiley, GISP, is a Technical Sales Engineer at Nearmap and serves as a key technical advisor and solution advocate for Nearmap focusing on AEC technologies. With a civil engineering-geospatial background, Carrie brings over a decade of experience in applying GIS and CAD technologies... Read More →

Speakers
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Jeremy Hanks

Account Executive - Public Sector, Nearmap


Wednesday September 30, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session
 
Thursday, October 1
 

12:00pm CDT

Data Transfer Solutions Lunch & Learn: Living in a Mobile World - Productivity Gains in Asset Management Using Mobile Applications
Leveraging mobile technology within Asset Management to gain efficiency and productivity in customer request intake, issue documentation, work management, and spatial and non-spatial asset data capturing and management.

Presenter: Todd Spangler
Speakers
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Todd Spangler, P.E.

Senior Client Solutions Engineer, Data Transfer Solutions, LLC
Mr. Spangler is the Director of Engineering at Data Transfer Solutions where he supports both asset management collection projects and VUEWorks® asset management software implementations. Mr. Spangler’s 23 years of professional experience [count from August 1996 to get accurate... Read More →


Thursday October 1, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

Esri Lunch & Learn Session #2 - Evolving Trends in Community Development
The role of community planners continues to evolve to a broader scope than ever before. Planners are called upon to provide strategies for developments to deal with economic opportunity, resilience planning, creating more walkable communities, and so forth. At the same time, the tools that planners have at their disposal to create, analyze, and visualize these developments have evolved rapidly, as well. In this session, we’ll discuss how these web-based tools empower planning professionals to make better, more sustainable, and more justifiable decisions, without being GIS experts.

Presenter: Keith Cooke, Esri Industry Manager of Community Development
Moderators
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Brent Jones, PE, PLS

Global Manager, Land Records/Cadastre, Esri


Thursday October 1, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session

12:00pm CDT

New Light Technologies Lunch & Learn Session: Google Earth Engine and Open Data for Effective Decision Making

Presenters:
Daynan Crull, Sr. Data Scientist, New Light Technologies Inc.
Ran Goldblatt, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, New Light Technologies Inc.
Brad Bottoms, Lead Geospatial Analyst, New Light Technologies Inc.
Speakers
avatar for Daynan Crull

Daynan Crull

Sr. Data Scientist, New Light Technologies, Inc.
Daynan Crull work as a data scientist has centered on informatics (data retrieval and inference related to information systems) as related to urban dynamics and the built environment. He is currently a Sr. Data Scientist with NLT, where he supports the firm’s overall data science... Read More →
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Ran Goldblatt, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist, New Light Technologies Inc
Dr. Ran Goldblatt is a Chief Scientist and Senior Consultant at New Light Technologies (NLT) in Washington DC. He has received his Bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in Geography and the Human Environment from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) and has worked as a Researcher and Lecturer... Read More →
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Brad Bottoms

Lead Geospatial Analyst, New Light Technologies Inc
Throughout Brad Bottoms’s work with New Light Technologies (NLT), he has completed projects on five continents, with a focus on North America and Southeast Asia. He is NLT’s Lead Geospatial Analyst and Product Manager for Project: Ptolemy, leading the development of the platform... Read More →


Thursday October 1, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
  Lunch & Learn Session
 

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