Annual Conference & Exposition - Wednesday Schedule

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

9:00 – 10:00 AM
Opening Session & Keynote Address

David Dubauskas , Chairman of this year’s conference will welcome attendees to the conference and introduce some distinguished guests.
We will then welcome David Gisclair, Technical Assistance Program Director for the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Gisclair will deliver the Keynote Address.

Educational Sessions
10:30 AM – 12 Noon

Cross Jurisdictional Collaboration
A Focus on Addressing and Centerlines

Planning and responding to events, those fundamental to business or catastrophic in nature, requires reliable information and cooperation from a variety of sources. This session highlights proven cases of effective cross-jurisdictional collaboration.

• Horry County, S.C. – The Grand Strand
  Tim Oliver, Horry County, SC
  
• Census 2010 – Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program in Delaware County
  Shoreh Elhami GISP, Delaware County Auditor's Office, Delaware, OH
  Jon Sperling, HUD,Washington, DC
• The Vision for a Nation-wide Address Database
  Will Craig, GISP, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Management & Professional Development
Key Issues in County & Regional GIS Program Development

Development and Implementation of a successful County or Regional GIS Program can be challenging on many fronts. This session addresses some of the key relevant issues such as hiring a GIS Manager, creating a Strategic Plan, Data Licensing/Dissemination and Application Usage Monitoring.

3D GIS
Urban 3D

Adding the 3rd dimension to planning information systems is a significant paradigm shift in both technical design capabilities as well as public understanding. Virtual models are depicting existing built form as well as proposed new development in ways never before possible. This session discusses experiences from both a vendor and user perspective.

• Using 3D GIS as a Tool to Integrate Factors Associated with Planning
  Jorge Morteo, City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
• Virtual 3D City Models as Foundation for 3D Planning Information Systems,
  Lutz Ross and Birgit Kleinschmit, Berlin Institute for Technology, Berlin, Germany
• 360° Street-level Video: The Next Step
  Karen Tanaka, Immersive Media Co, Portland, OR

Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
Enterprise GIS Implementation

Learn how to integrate GIS into an organization. Look at 13 specific issues (related to people, strategy/business, and project management) to be aware of during technology implementation and how to get beyond them.

• Thirteen Key Issues to Address in Technology Implementation
  Marianne Mac Donald and Burcin Becerik, Camp Dresser & McKee Inc, Cambridge, MA

Emergency Management & Homeland Security
The State of the Virtual State

During times of emergency, the last thing emergency responders and decision makers need to worry about is a lack of spatial data to support their response efforts. Recently, many states have been making a concerted effort to collect local spatial data in a central location for the benefit of emergency responders and citizens alike. Two states, Alabama and Louisiana, have created web sites, Virtual Alabama and Virtual Louisiana, in response to this need. Attend this panel discussion and hear from the creators of the virtual states, their challenges, and the benefits of their work. Questions from audience members will be accepted during the presentation.

• Chris Johnson, GISP  U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
• Brant Mitchell, Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Baton Rouge, LA
  

Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)
New Technologies: Enhancing PPGIS

New technology is improving the effectiveness of PPGIS. This session demonstrates case studies using these new technologies.

• Empowering Communities using Google Maps API
  Wansoo Im, Vertices LLC, New Brunswick, NJ
• More than Just Maps: Engaging the Public with Real-Time GIS Models
  Erin Perdu, GISP, ENP & Associates, Ann Arbor, MI
• Interactive Decision Support for Participatory Land Use Planning
  Gustavo Arciniegas, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Data Acquisitions & Conversion
Ground Control to Major Tom

Effecting change through feedback can show limitations to your data usability and guide maintenance solutions through broad user community input.

• High Field Productivity with Low Cost Tools - Two Examples
  Mark Lyon, GISP, Shaw Environmental Inc, Albuquerque, NM
• Improving Vertical Geodetic Data: Not So Easy in the "Big Easy"
  Gilbert Mitchell, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
  David Moyer, National Geodetic Survey, Madison, WI
• Using Innovative Tools to Ensure GIS Data Quality
  Tamarin Gullett, Cherokee County GIS Department, Canton, GA
  Jim Bohn, GISP, Senior Business Consultant, DataLOGIC, Inc. Atlanta, GA
  

Open Source and Open Standards
Building Applications with Open Source Technologies

This session visits Building Applications with Open Source: KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid

• Building Open Source Applications – Don’t Bite off More Than You Can Chew
  Eric Bohard GISP, Clackamas County, Oregon, Oregon City, OR
• Ordinary Open Source Apps for Every Day
• Sara Yurman, Spatial Focus Inc, Decatur, GA
  

Interactive Track - **NEW DETAILS ABOUT THIS SESSION!
Strategic Communication Planning - Moving the Mountain

(Part 1 of 2)

Imagine a time when all the members and partners of your organization are, for one year, unified around three core messages: how to reach particular stakeholder groups from their value perspective; how messages are voiced; who transmits the complementary pieces of each message; when and how the sequence of messages are communicated throughout the year; and how success in communicating these messages is measured. 

This session on Strategic Communication Planning is an interactive session designed to result in an actionable Strategic Communication Plan for URISA that will be implemented over the next year - and to set precedent for years to come. In creating this strategic communication plan for URISA, you will develop a template and techniques to use with your own organization.

A simple but eloquent Strategic Communication Plan is necessary to:

1) Effectively turn strategic vision to action
2) Coalesce our normally disparate communities to unified purpose
3) If replicated annually, establish a culture of incremental progress toward a unified vision - the distant "future state"

This session continues at 2:00pm in the same room

Facilitators

• Cy Smith, Statewide GIS Coordintor State of Oregon, Salem, OR
• Scott Riordan - Oregon State CIO's Office, Salem OR 

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion Luncheon

Networking at its finest! Discuss your interests over lunch with your peers. Choose the topic of most interest to you — from management issues to database design, privacy, and data sharing — and join in the conversation. You’ll be amazed at the wealth of ideas that your colleagues have!

Educational Sessions
2:00 – 3:30 PM

Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration
Spatial Data Collaboration in Louisiana

A panel on Louisiana GIS Data Prioritization, Procurement, Management and Dissemination: A panel discussion with focus on ortho-imagery and elevation data using LiDAR.

• Louisiana GIS Data Prioritization, Procurement, Management and Dissemination
  David Gisclair, LOSCO Baton Rouge, LA
• Panelists:
  Lynn Dupont, Regional Planning Commission
  Craig Johnson, Louisiana State University

Management & Professional Development
Real World GIS Skills Development from Classroom to Boardroom

Some of us seek out GIS as a profession while some of us have the profession of GIS thrust upon us (and find out we like it!). The book learning of GIS often does not translate into “real world” experience. These experts will discuss the evolution of GIS skills from entry level GIS staffers to seasoned professionals.

• Bringing Operational GIS into University Classrooms
  Wendy Guan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Soft Skills
  Jack Dangermond, ESRI, Redland, CA
• ULA Commercial
  Hilary Perkins,GISP, Webster Groves, MO
  Mike Lovett, GISP, CDM Camp Dresser & McKee Inc, Maitland, FL

3D GIS
3D on the Fly

Advances in 3D visualization tools and methodologies have assisted practitioners in developing creative solutions that address day-to-day operational challenges. Fly-through and LiDAR technologies will be discussed and presented.

• Data Management of Large 3D Urban Scenes
  Xavier Lopez, Oracle Corporation, Nashua, NH
• Dynamic Visualization: A Power Line Case Study
  Helen Peng, Fugro EarthData Inc, Orlando, FL
• Automated Feature Extraction Using 3-D GIS - A Case Study of Mobile Mapping
  Jason Amadori, GISP, Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, Orlando, FL

Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
Service-Oriented Architectures and Open Frameworks

Service-oriented architectures and open frameworks provide technologies toward geospatial enterprise integration. Overcoming data ownership issues is also critical in overcoming obstacles in implementing enterprise GIS solutions.

• Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just the Librarian: Data Ownership Fosters Enterprise Success
  Greg Bury, Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst, NJ
• The Importance of an Open Framework for Managing Infrastructure Asset Data
  Michael Schlosser, Autodesk Canada Inc, Regina, SK Canada
• A Spatial Analysis of California Broadband Availability
  Malcolm Adkins, GISP, Michael Baker Jr. Inc., Oakland, CA

Natural Resources & Environment
Land Use Change

With an increase in population and need for developable land, GIS plays an integral role in tracking land use and analyzing environmental impacts. This session will explore analyze change of land use to show urban sprawl and new areas of development.

• Evaluating the Environmental Effects of Urban Sprawl Using Landscape Metrics
  Michael Gilbrook, HDR Engineering, Orlando, FL
• Updated Statewide Land Use Data Using Semi-Automated Methods for MA
  Christian Jacqz, State of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
  Sudha Maheshwari, Sanborn, Ann Arbor, MI

Data Acquisitions & Conversions
Going from Zero to 60

From basic data needs to fine tuning established processes, you can collect information and propagate it out to your organization. See how these local departments are making it work.

• Crossing the Digital Divide
  Winchester Jordan and Conrad Comeaux, Lafayette Parish Assessor's Office, Lafayette, LA
• Evolution of a Geospatial Data Collection Utility: From Clipboard to Web Service
  Jeffrey Trudnak, GISP, Spatial Networks, Clearwater, FL
• Using Innovative Tools to Ensure GIS Data Quality
  Tamarin Gullet, Cherokee County GIS Department, Canton, GA
  Jim Bohn, GISP, DataLOGIC, Inc, Atlanta, GA

Open Source and Open Standards
Utilizing Google Maps/Earth as an Open Source API’s

Open Source API’s allows you to build Mashups easily. This session presents case studies of Google Maps/Earth applications.

• Utilizing Google Maps with Korean Online Mapping Webportal
  Wansoo Im, Vertices LLC, New Brunswick, NJ
• Streaming ArcGIS data to Google Earth Through the Dynamic Generation of KML Data
  David Greene, AMEC, Nashville, TN

Interactive Track - **NEW DETAILS ABOUT THIS SESSION!
Strategic Communication Planning - Moving the Mountain

Part 2 of 2 (continued from the morning session)

The challenge we face together in URISA is the vast range of direct and indirect participants including member jurisdictions, governing boards, related stakeholders groups, and decision makers. While URISA has a strategy, we do not have a strategic communication plan to ensure achievement of our high-level objectives.

What we'll develop together:

• Identify three of four critical strategic objectives (or synthesis of objectives) that warrant targeted communications
• Create context descriptions and guiding principles associated with each objective
• Describe how the objectives, when combined, achieve the signature capability of URISA (i.e. the business objective)
• Create a one-page summary of each central message to unify thinking and provide "Talking Points" (how we are all going to talk about this over the next year)
• An implementation plan and schedule covering the coming year.

 Once created, the Strategic Communication Plan is the communications roadmap to guide aus all, and that everyone can have a role in implementing.

Educational Sessions
4:00 – 5:00 PM

Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration
Cooperative Orthoimagery Acquisition

If the diverse business needs of governmental agencies using orthoimagery can be met, significant cost savings can be realized through collaborative efforts. Learn how two such efforts have successfully implemented cooperative orthoimagery acquisition programs.

• We Can Get Along - Creation of a Multi-Agency Cooperative Base Mapping Program
  Kim McDonough, GISP, Tennessee Dept of Transportation, Nashville, TN
• Managing a Regional Orthophoto Consortium: Project Management Tips &Tricks
  Matthew Krusemark, GISP, Denver Regional Council of Governments, Denver, CO

Management & Professional Development
Understanding the Responsibilities of Surveyors and GIS Professionals

This interactive panel discussion explores the continuing controversy surrounding the role of surveyors and GIS professionals and Federal government procurement rules. The session will highlight the need to further explain the NCEES Model Rules, which provide guidelines on respective responsibilities, to both professions.

• Understanding the Responsibilities of Surveyors and GIS Professionals
  Bruce Joffe, GISP, GIS Consultants, Oakland, CA
  Eric Bohard, GISP, Clackamas County, Oregon
  

Management & Professional Development
Update on URISA Initiatives

This session is designed to give an update on two core URISA Intitiatives: GISCorps and GISCI. Attendees will hear updates on volunteerism in Mozambique and Sudan through the GISCorps program and strategies for applying for GISCI certification to become a GISP, the application review cycle and the recertification process.

• The GISCI Certification Program
  J Allison Butler, GISP, AICP, Butler & Butler LLC, Orlando, FL
  
• GISCorps Projects and Activities in 2007 – 2008
  Shoreh Elhami, GISP, Delaware County Auditor's Office, Delaware, OH
  GISCorps Committee:
  Mark Salling, GISP, Cleveland State University,
  Dianne Haley, GISP, Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, Calgary, Canada
  Ingrid Bruce, GISP, City of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  Kevin Sato, City of Cottonwood Heights, Utah

Geospatially Enabled Enterprise
GIS and Content Management Integration

Geospatial technologies are now considered mainstream components within the overall enterprise IT framework and are increasingly used for a wide rage of business process automation. This session will provide examples of integrating legacy property/tax data, utility infrastructure field data collection/inspection and adding geospatial representations to a document management system.

• Integration of Geospatial Technology and Enterprise Content Management
  Stephen Beck, GISP, Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson, Baltimore, MD
• Geospatially Enabling a Document Management System
  Carl Anderson, Fulton County, Atlanta, GA

Natural Resources & Environment
Water Resources/Demand

The increase in demand for potable water has a direct relationship to the increase in population. This session will focus on collaboration of stakeholders and GIS-based demand forecasts that assist with accurate water projections and allocation.

• Water Resource Collaboration and GIS: The Nexus
  Phyllis Thomas, Phyllis Thomas Consulting, Centennial, CO
• Accurate Projections of Future Water Demands in Florida using GIS-Based Population
  Justin Saarinen, GISP, GIS Associates, Gainesville, FL

PPGIS
PPGIS Practice in Elections

Public policy is best served with fair and open elections. This session presents case studies of voting and campaigning in the election process.

• Election Day Incident Mapping and Automated Analysis
  Megan Heckert, Avencia Incorporated, Philadelphia, PA
• Campaign Contribution Mapping and Analysis
  Megan Heckert, Avencia Incorporated, Philadelphia, PA
• Spoiled Ballots & Race: GIS and the Controversy over Voting Technologies in Ohio
  Mark Salling, GISP, Center for Community Solutions & NODIS, Cleveland, OH

Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Disaster Response and Readiness - Take 2

Up-to-date imagery and data provide critical information during a disaster. The use of oblique imagery for disaster mitigation and emergency response has proven value, but requires additional complimentary information to be of optimum benefit. Diverse data integration and system interoperability challenges will be explored via these presentations.

• United States Marine Corps Bases Use of Oblique Imagery
  Art Kalinski, GISP, Pictometry International Corp, Guntersville, AL

Open Source and Open Standards
Open Standards and Technologies

Open standards and technologies provide a rich framework to integrate spatial capabilities into other applications. This session reviews the application of these technologies.

• Web Mapping using Open Source Technologies
  Mark Obremski, IMAGINiT Technologies, South Jordan, UT
• Powering the GeoWeb: A Hands-On Survey of Protocols and Formats
  Don Murray, Safe Software Inc, Surrey, BC Canada

Interactive Track
Unified Voice to Advocate Development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure

This facilitator led discussion revolves around making the best of our individual influence to move National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) objectives in our own jurisdictions. In addition, discussion from this panel will be provided to the appropriate parties to refine the currently developing NSDI strategic framework and draft action plan.

Facilitators

• Cy Smith, GISP, State of Oregon, Salem, OR
• Danielle Ayan, GISP, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Exposition Hall Networking Reception
5:00 – 7:00 PM

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