We just finished up another amazing User Conference, and I want to thank the 14,000+ people who attended and made this our best conference ever. The theme of the conference this year was “GIS—Understanding Our World,” and I tried to describe what the theme meant during my Monday plenary [you can watch video of the plenary here]. While there may be some curiosity involved in our quest for understanding, what really drives this is the need for our actions to be intelligent and based on science.

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