University of Redlands
Small Business and Academic Tracks
The University of Redlands School of Business has brought together noted experts in GIS education, researchers, and business professionals to create a unique learning experience. The University has organized two distinct session tracks that have been added to the 2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit.
2008 Education Program Proceedings
Small Business Track
Tuesday, April 29
The half-day Small
Business Track, developed through a grant funded by the Small Business Administration (SBA), will give an overview of the benefits of GIS for small businesses as well as GIS fundamentals for marketing, trade area analysis, and operations.
Academic Track
Wednesday, April 30
The all-day Academic Track will include academic paper presentations, panel discussions, and featured speakers.
Featured Speakers
Susan Wachter
Professor, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Susan Wachter is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests are in the modeling of housing defaults, homeownership affordability, GIS, neighborhood change, and methods for pricing real estate.
Grant Thrall
Professor, Department of Geography
University of Florida
Grant Thrall holds a Ph.D. in geography and economics from Ohio State University.
He serves on the board of the American Real Estate Society and is coeditor
of the Journal of Real Estate Literature.
Brady Foust
Professor, Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin–Eau Clair
Brady Foust has close to 40 years of theoretical and applied research in the areas of retail site location, insurance and tax geospatial solutions, and the design and implementation of large spatial databases.
James Pick
Professor, School of Business
University of Redlands
James Pick received his B.A. from Northwestern University and Ph.D. from the
University of California, Irvine. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Universidad
Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2001 and Visiting Researcher at the University
of California, Irvine, in 2005.
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