Technical Sessions

Improving Decision Making with Esri Community Analyst and Esri Data

Cathy Spisszak

Enable people throughout your organization to quickly discover and explore the important facts about any area. This session will show how to use Community Analyst and the thousands of demographic, health, economic, education, and business data variables to make better policy decisions and recommendations.

Building Virtual Cities with ArcGIS 3D Analyst and Esri CityEngine

Patrick Gahagan

Having 3D capabilities is a powerful step forward for GIS; the Esri platform provides tools to create, analyze, and view realistic 3D cityscapes. This session will help you understand different methods and techniques for working with 3D data, and it will highlight the latest capabilities such as sharing 3D scenes in a web browser.

Learning What's New in ArcGIS 10.1 for Server—Services

Derek Law

ArcGIS for Server provides powerful capabilities delivered as web services, and version 10.1 includes many important enhancements to services and the publishing experience. This session will provide an overview of the new publishing workflow; introduce the concept of data stores; and highlight the new capabilities of GIS services for mapping, printing, editing, and geoprocessing.

Learning What's New in ArcGIS 10.1 for Server—Administration

Derek Law

The architecture, functionality, and administrative workflows used with ArcGIS for Server have seen significant changes at 10.1. This session will highlight many of those changes and be of particular interest to users of previous versions of ArcGIS for Server.

Using ArcGIS on Smartphones and Tablets

Matt Kennedy

The demand for GIS on mobile devices is growing, and the Esri platform provides simple deployment methods. This workshop will give an overview of different mobile solutions, the role of GIS on smartphones and tablets, and patterns and practices for deployment.