On Tuesday, July 21, 2015, more than 300 GIS professionals came together in San Diego, California for the 5th annual GIS Managers’ Open Summit. The GIS Managers’ Open Summit is an “unconference”-style event designed to help GIS managers, business and technology strategists, and other decision makers attending the Esri User Conference to engage in conversations with their peers on topics that relate to business efficiencies, ROI, GIS management strategies, and much more.
- A modern vision of enterprise GIS
By Adam Carnow and Keith Cooke, Esri - Tapping the strategic potential of GIS
By Gary Maguire, Manager of Business and Location Intelligence Services, South Australia Department for Communities and Social Inclusion - How to raise the significance of your GIS
By Wade Kloos, GIS Director, Utah Department of Natural Resources - Management support of GIS
By Brian Zumwalt, GIS Manager, Pinellas County Florida
Each presentation was followed by 20 minute round table discussions on a range of topics selected by the attendees. Like last year, we asked attendees at each table to fill out a card briefly summarizing what they talked about, and what their big takeaways were from their discussion. For the benefit of those who could not attend the table discussions and the larger GIS community, we collected all of the summary cards and compiled the information which you can see here: