Technical Sessions

Explore the latest enhancements to ArcGIS Online, Esri's cloud-based geospatial content management system for storing and managing maps, data, and other related information. Learn how you can create communities; share and discover geospatial information; and make easy-to-use maps, applications, and presentations. Hear about free basemaps, web viewers, hosted mapping services and how to use ArcGIS Online for your organization.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Harry Moore
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Social media feeds can enhance your maps by providing valuable information. Learn how to display popular feeds like Twitter and analyze geospatial trends from crowdsourced data.

Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Presenter: Jeff Archer
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

ModelBuilder provides a graphic modeling framework in ArcGIS for visually designing and implementing geoprocessing workflows. Explore best practices for using system tools and scripts in ModelBuilder to create and execute complex geoprocessing procedures and projects.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Shitij Mehta
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

ArcGIS for Local Government enables cities, counties, and other local authorities to simplify and streamline their GIS implementations. Explore free online resources, such as geodatabase schema, data model documentation, map designs, sample data, and templates for common government functions, that can be configured to support the specific needs of your organization.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Lindsay Thomas
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Discover tips and tricks for authoring and publishing intelligent maps that can be accessed on smartphones and tablets and explore the ArcGIS applications and runtime SDKs for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Learn how to configure and publish web maps for smart devices using both ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Server.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Justin Fan and Frank Somarriba
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Viewing your data in 3D can quickly highlight spatial relationships and patterns that may not have been visible in 2D. Discover how ArcGIS 3D Analyst and the 3D Virtual City templates can help you explore your data and analyze how man-made structures impact city development.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Amadea Azerki
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Lidar data is a rich source of topographic information in its native format, but it can be difficult to use due to its size. Learn how lidar data can be managed, viewed, updated, and shared in ArcGIS.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Amadea Azerki
Time: 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Effective web maps feature many components including a basemap layer, operational layers, graphics, and pop-up windows. Learn best practices for managing each component and explore resources that can help you build and share your maps.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Amadea Azerki
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs are a collection of developer tools that can help you build and embed interactive maps for your own website. Explore how you can mash up services, live feeds, tools, and widgets to create custom web maps on your preferred platform. Learn more about ArcGIS Viewer for Flex, ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, and the ArcGIS.com map viewer.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Justin Fan
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Community Analyst is a Software as a Service (SaaS) mapping solution that allows users throughout your organization to quickly discover and explore important facts about any area to help develop the right policy strategies, convey important information to those who need it, and ultimately improve communities. Discover how combining thousands of demographic, health, economic, education, and business data variables with instant reports and interactive color-coded maps can help you make better policy decisions and recommendations.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Harry Moore
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Learn how ArcGIS can display, analyze, and manipulate temporal data. Explore the new time-aware functionality in ArcGIS 10 and review strategies for animating temporal datasets and publishing temporal map services.

Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Presenter: Crystal Dorn
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

ArcGIS for Desktop gives you the visualization and analysis tools to better answer questions, examine relationships in your data, and create cartographic outputs. Learn about useful keyboard shortcuts and time-saving techniques for managing tools and views in your daily workflows.

Level: Intermediate
Presenter: Harry Moore
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Leverage your existing ArcGIS investment by accessing your data, maps, and tools from Microsoft SharePoint. Learn how to access and configure basemaps from SharePoint and symbolize your features using heat mapping and clustering techniques.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Robert Feuerstein
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

ArcGIS Explorer Desktop is a free GIS viewer that allows you to explore, visualize, share, and present GIS content. Discover tips and tricks for fusing your local data with online map services; performing spatial analysis; and adding information such as photos, reports, and videos.

Level: Beginner
Presenter: Robert Feuerstein
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Imagery is now integrated into all aspects of the ArcGIS platform. Get an overview of the various tools and applications to quickly access and analyze imagery and learn how to manage catalogs of imagery from various sources.

Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Presenter: Frank Somarriba
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.