GIS Pro 2013: URISA’s 51st Annual Conference for GIS Professionals. The conference will take place at the Rhode Island Convention Center which is connected directly by a skywalk to our Headquarters’ Hotel, the Omni Providence (previously the Westin Providence) http://www.urisa.org/gispro2013
Lightning talks, frivolity, and education! Attend URISA’s GIS-Pro IGNITE session for fast-paced presentations, with some entertainment mixed in. You’ll be glad you did! Participants to include:
A Short History of Disruption Greg Babinski, GISP, King County GIS Center, Seattle, WA
My Transect Data are in PDF Format! Rachel Shmookler, RPS - Applied Science Associates, Inc., South Kingstown, RI
Afraid of The Dark: Community Streetlight Inventory Justin Jobin, The Town of Jamestown, Jamestown, RI
GIS and System Integration for Small Organizations Michael Olkin, GISP, Town of Amherst, MA, Amherst, MA
Citizen Problem Reporting via Smart Phones David Holmes, Intergraph Corporation, Levittown, AL
Access Your Plans and Drawings in the Field: A Mobile Application for Department - Thomas Harrington, Jr., PhD, Applied Geographics, Inc. (AppGeo), Boston, MA
What GIS People Need to Know About MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Adena Schutzberg, Directions Magazine,Somerville, MA
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution: Reflections on Teaching a MOOC on Mapping Anthony C. Robinson, Ph.D, Penn State University, College Park, PA
Community Maps Don Cooke, Esri, Redlands, CA
We Are Vanguard! Ryan Bowe, GISP, Photo Science, Nicholasville, GA, and Wendy Peloquin, Reynolds, Smith & Hills (RS&H), Atlanta, GA
The State of GIS in Rhode Island Shane White, State of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Director Professional Development and Geospatial Education, The Polis Center @ IUPUI
I am the current URISA Professional Education Committee Chair as well as Chair of the Community Resilience Task Force. At the conclusion of GIS-Pro 2019 I will assume the role of URISA President-Elect.I have nearly three decades of experience supporting GIS-related projects for federal... Read More →
GIS Marketing & Business Development Manager, King County GIS Center
Greg Babinski is Marketing and Business Development Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle, where he has worked since 1998. Previously he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland. He holds an MA in geography... Read More →
Ryan Elizabeth Bowe, GISP works for Photo Science in Lexington, Kentucky. She has a passion for metadata and she has created tens of thousands of metadata files for geospatial datasets, some of which she acquired, edited, documented and delivered to clients. Co-author of “Avoiding... Read More →
Michael Olkin is the GIS Administrator with the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Michael has worked in the Geographic Information Systems industry for 17 years, specializing in municipal GIS implementation, server GIS, database administration & all types of fun techie stuff. Michael... Read More →
David Holmes is currently a Business Consultant assisting with strategic marketing, business development, and sales operations within the Security, Government & Infrastructure Division (SG&I) of Intergraph.
He has been with Intergraph SG&I for 5 years in strategic marketing and... Read More →
Justin Jobin is the Environmental Scientist and GIS Coordinator for the Town of Jamestown, RI where he is responsible for the implementation, management, and maintenance of The Town's Geographic Information System. He is also responsible for overseeing the Town’s High Groundwater... Read More →
Tom Harrington is Director of Marketing at Applied Geographics (AppGeo) where he has worked for the last 12 years and where he is involved mainly in deciphering RFPs and preparing proposal responses to them. He also enjoys strategic business planning and the challenge of keeping up... Read More →
Adena Schutzberg is Executive Editor of Directions Magazine and principal at ABS Consulting Group, Inc., a GIS consulting firm providing services to clients including GIS software, data, and imagery companies. Previously, she headed U.S. operations for UK-based Cadcorp, and held... Read More →
Rachel Shmookler specializes in geospatial analysis, data processing, and data management. Rachel attended Clark University where she received a B.A. in Environmental Science and an M.A. in Geographic Information Systems. She has been working at RPS ASA for the past three years on... Read More →
Monday September 16, 2013 7:30pm - 9:00pm EDT
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