Enter the 2025 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition
This year, Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps and ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World teams are cohosting the 2025 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition to highlight best practices and innovation in storytelling, cartography, and data visualization—and to help you elevate awareness of the isssues that mean the most to you.
Individuals and organizations worldwide tell place-based stories about local communities, challenges, and innovative solutions—with common threads across people, the infrastructure we build, and the impacts on the natural world and environment. Whatever your story, the three 2025 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition categories—People, Environment, and Infrastructure—offer an open space for all voices.
Entrants must be at least 18 years old and submit one story or collection built with ArcGIS StoryMaps. The story or collection must include ArcGIS Living Atlas content. Submissions will be accepted until December 12, 2025, and winners will be announced in April 2026.
Help Shape the Future of Desktop GIS with the ArcGIS Pro Assistant
Esri is building the future of GIS workflows in ArcGIS Pro—and things are getting conversational. With the ArcGIS Pro assistant (currently in beta), Esri is beginning an exciting journey to transform how users interact with spatial data, tools, and documentation. With continued development and user feedback, Esri aims to create a tool that simplifies workflows and empowers users to solve problems more intuitively.
Currently, the ArcGIS Pro assistant can perform select AI-assisted actions, answer ArcGIS Pro help documentation questions in a conversational manner, generate openCypher queries based on a specified knowledge graph schema, and create query layers by generating SQL queries for a specified database connection and table schemas using natural language.
An endeavor as important as building an assistant doesn’t happen overnight. It takes continual testing and iteration, which is why your feedback is crucial. Developing this assistant depends on the ArcGIS Pro user community joining the Early Adopter Community (EAC).
As an EAC member, you gain early access to new features and can provide feedback that directly shapes ongoing enhancements. You’ll be among the first to test capabilities as they are developed, including an ever-expanding library of new actions and a powerful ArcPy coding assistant capability. Early access is available only to those with named user licenses in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise, within organizations that allow beta functionality and have the assistant enabled.
