{"id":203472,"date":"2019-01-18T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcwatch&p=203472"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:13:09","slug":"immerse-yourself-in-gis-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"arcwatch","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcwatch\/immerse-yourself-in-gis-close-to-home","title":{"rendered":"Immerse Yourself in GIS Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":651,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10922],"tags":[209772,386202,386192,201022,287612],"arcwatch_issues":[293422],"class_list":["post-203472","arcwatch","type-arcwatch","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-events","tag-esri","tag-esri-international-user-conference","tag-esri-latin-america-user-conference","tag-esri-uc","tag-event","arcwatch_issues-september-2013","arcwatch_sections-the-headlines"],"acf":{"short_description":"Esri is gearing up to host major regional user conferences in Lima, Peru, and Munich, Germany.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":null,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":195482,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"GIS users will converge on Lima, Per\u00fa, and Munich, Germany, next month for Esri's regional user conferences\u2014the biggest celebration of \"all things GIS\" outside the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in California.\r\n\r\nThe\u00a0Esri Latin America User Conference<\/a>\u00a0(LAUC), October 16\u201318 in Lima, and the Esri Europe, Middle East, and Africa User Conference (EMEAUC), October 23\u201325, in Munich are part of a series of regional User Conferences. The two events will be followed by the\u00a0Esri Asia Pacific User Conference<\/a>\u00a0(APUC), November 12\u201314, in Singapore and the Esri Africa User Conference (AUC), May 6\u20138, 2014, in Cape Town, South Africa.\r\n\r\nRegional User Conferences combine the best of the Esri UC with the best solutions, success stories, and promising projects created by the top GIS talent of each region. Each event is packed with technical workshops, demonstrations, exhibits from vendors, paper sessions, seminars, and social events such as galas.\r\n\r\nHowever, these events offer Esri important feedback, too, says Esri president Jack Dangermond.\r\n\r\n\"Regional User Conferences also give us an ideal platform to listen to our users and learn what they really want and need. This principle formed our foundation and is still in place today,\" Dangermond says. \"It has enabled us to develop GIS technology that's truly driven by our customers.\"\r\n\r\nPlan to attend, and prepare to immerse yourself in GIS. You will hone your GIS skills and fine-tune your analytical abilities at training sessions, seminars, and workshops led by Esri staff and other experts. You'll have ample time to network during lunch and breaks.\r\n\r\nYou'll return home with knowledge, tools, confidence, and connections that will help you on the job, contributing to helping your organization advance in today's technically complex, digitally oriented business world."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":195492,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"