June 2009 - Posts

With two weeks until UC, everyone at ESRI is working full steam ahead to bring everything together for San Diego. Technical experts are fine tuning their demos, session moderators are coordinating any last minute items with presenters, the Events team Read More...
The 25 select technical workshops below will be video recorded at the UC. The workshops will then be available for viewing from the UC Web site by the week of July 27. Consider these workshops when finalizing your conference planner, in case you want Read More...
Share your work in a new event, or just swing by the Map Gallery's Monday evening Lightning Talks , which will be clear, quick, and informal presentations highlighting inventive Web or mobile applications. These five-minute talks are based on the three-fold Read More...
How can we design our future with GIS? Among the many stories about GIS technology and applications in the summer 2009 ArcNews is ESRI President Jack Dangermond's GIS: Designing Our Future , where he explains the theme of this year's ESRI UC and the discipline Read More...
After a successful launch in 2008, the ESRI Climate Change Program has continued to grow as interest in climate change and conservation spreads in the GIS community. Former Governor Jim Geringer now represents state views and a GIS perspective on the Read More...
On the television show LOST, a plane wreck has left the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 marooned on a tropical island. The survivors have no means of communication with the rest of the world and can only assume that the island they're stranded on is Read More...
What does a Peruvian economist have in common with an Indonesian biologist? Hernando de Soto, economist, author, and president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy, and Willie Smits, founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Indonesia and chairman Read More...
GIS Concept and Industry Focus Sessions are again back at the conference by popular demand. These sessions offer a down-to-earth and insightful introduction to GIS and are geared toward people who are new to GIS, interested in learning about industry Read More...