Workshops & Training

URISA Certified Workshops

Training Courses to Fit Your Educational Needs

URISA Certified Workshops have long-been recognized as exceptional educational offerings. URISA invests considerable resources in the development, production and improvement of URISA Certified Workshops. Workshops are taught by qualified instructors and the content is vendor-neutral, peer-reviewed and updated annually. 

Current URISA Certified Workshops (download Catalog for detailed descriptions):

Half Day:

• Emergency Preparedness for GIS
• GIS Return on Investment

Full Day:

• 3D Geospatial: Project Implementation Methods and Best Practices
• Building an Address Repository Using the FGDC Standard: Implementing Quality and Data Sharing
• Asset Management:  Planning, Strategy, and Implementation
• Business Intelligence and Data Integration for the GIS Professional 
• Building Quality Spatial Data
• Cartography and Map Design
• eGovernment: Planning, Policy and the Portal
• Field Automation Options for Local Government
• GIS Enterprise Architecture & System Integration
• GIS Program Management
• GIS Strategic Planning
• Introduction to Agile: Project Management and Development
• Introduction to Public Participation GIS: Using GIS to Support Community Decision Making
• LIDAR Concepts, Principles and Applications
• An Overview of Open Source GIS Software
• Public Data, Public Access, Privacy, and Security: U.S. Law and Policy
• Quality Management: Introduction to Issue Tracking
• Transportation Spatial Database Design

Attend a URISA Certified Workshop - URISA Certified  Workshops are presented at GIS-Pro: URISA's Annual Conference for GIS Professionals, at URISA specialty conferences and at many URISA Chapter conferences.Frequently, organizations integrate URISA workshops into their conferences instead of developing their own courses from scratch. They are also presented as stand-alone educational events.  Check the event calendar for an offering in your area.

License a URISA Certified Workshop - Provide your members/employees/users an important professional development opportunity by hosting a URISA Workshop in your area (as part of another event or as a stand-alone offering). Consider a full slate of education and host multiple workshops! Jurisdictions and firms that have a need for GIS training frequently license URISA workshops for presentation at their location, rather than sending all of their staff off-site to receive the training. Very cost effective...details about workshop licensing follows:

URISA Certified Workshop Licensing Guide  - Suggestions and best practices for hosting a URISA Certified Workshop. This guide includes a Workshop Checklist to ensure that your event runs smoothly.

Licensing Fees:

• URISA Chapter - $500 per workshop
• All other organizations - $1,000 per workshop

Current URISA Certified Workshops: (download Catalog for detailed descriptions)

Note that significant discounts are available if your organization purchases a series of licenses. 

To obtain a copy of the license agreement please contact Keri Brennan at kbrennan@urisa.org