{"id":7052,"date":"2016-05-10T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2016-05-10T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:06:22","slug":"this-young-professional-soars-with-a-golden-ticket-to-usgifs-geoint-2016-symposium","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/this-young-professional-soars-with-a-golden-ticket-to-usgifs-geoint-2016-symposium","title":{"rendered":"This Young Professional Soars with a Golden Ticket to USGIF\u2019s GEOINT 2016 Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Capria<br \/>\nTravis Dennis is packing his bag and heading to Orlando. He is one of 25 young professionals selected by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) to attend the GEOINT Foreward and Symposium, May 15-18. Participants will also attend a mentoring luncheon, special exhibit hall briefings, and an invitation to the USGIF Chairman\u2019s Reception.<br \/>\nWith such a great opportunity ahead of him, we sat down with Travis to learn more about his work at Esri and his interests in the GEOINT community.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your role at Esri?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy role is as Inside Sales support to the Defense team, part of National Government Sales.<br \/>\n<!--more--><strong>What are some of the new things in the Esri platform that you are excited about for the GEOINT community?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is so much to be excited about with the Esri platform. At the Federal GIS conference we previewed a new data visualization tool called<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/arcgis-capabilities\/insights\">Insights for ArcGIS<\/a>. We also featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/drone2map\">Drone2Map<\/a> which streamlines the creation of professional imagery products from drone-captured still imagery for visualization and analysis in ArcGIS. There\u2019s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/apps\">large suite of other apps<\/a> that are being released that I\u2019m pretty excited about.<br \/>\n<strong>What changes do you see for GIS?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe new era of software technology is evolving from \u201cSystems of Record\u201d (traditional databases) to \u201cSystems of Engagement\u201d\u2014a software system that serves an entire organization. It\u2019s about making the technology fit into the user\u2019s mission more seamlessly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/05\/ticket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/05\/ticket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Why do you think you were chosen by the USGIF for a Golden Ticket?<\/strong><br \/>\nI believe the reason I was chosen for Golden Ticket was because of my involvement with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/landing-pages\/ypn\">Esri Young Professionals Network<\/a>, my hosting of a panel at FedGIS on mentorship for YPN, and my recent enrollment in the MS program in <a href=\"https:\/\/cos.gmu.edu\/ggs\/academic-programs\/ms-in-geoinformatics-and-geospatial-intelligence\/\">Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence<\/a> at George Mason U. I\u2019ve taken two classes so far; one on Satellite Imagery; and another on Spatial Agent-Based models (computer simulations of groups of people making decisions).<br \/>\n<strong>What do you hope to accomplish at the GEOINT Symposium?<\/strong><br \/>\nI look forward to meeting the other Golden Ticket winners, making new friends in the field, and being inspired by the leaders who will speak with us.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/usgif.org\/community\/YPG\/YPG_GEOINT_Symposium\">Read more about the all the young professionals the GEOINT Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[22],"tags":[157432,266502,279512,241,118382,279522,279532],"class_list":["post-7052","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider","tag-arcgis","tag-defense","tag-geoint","tag-gis","tag-government","tag-usgif","tag-young-professionals-network"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Young Professional Soars with a Golden Ticket to USGIF\u2019s GEOINT 2016 Symposium<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/this-young-professional-soars-with-a-golden-ticket-to-usgifs-geoint-2016-symposium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Young Professional Soars with a Golden Ticket to USGIF\u2019s GEOINT 2016 Symposium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Karen Capria Travis Dennis is packing his bag and heading to Orlando. 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