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style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">A number of events
will be featured at GIS-Pro 2011: URISA’s 49<sup>th</sup>
Annual Conference taking place November 1-4, 2011 in
Indianapolis. An “<i>All Things Geospatial</i>” evening
Ignite session, Lightning Talks, an OpenStreetMap Lab,
Esri Technical Workshops and User Group Meeting, and a
DevMeetUp are all on the program this year. In addition
to full-day URISA Certified Workshops, peer presentations
and invited speakers and panelists, URISA is also hosting
a working group during the conference to develop the final
tier of the Geospatial Technology Competency Model for the
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This tier will establish
the competencies needed for GIS managers. </span>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Conference
Chair, Geney Terry, GISP noted that the educational
content of the conference will</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> “cover
professional development, tools to measure the success
of GIS like ROI and maturity models, state of the art
technologies, geospatial industry trends, sharing of
leadership experience, and cross-jurisdictional
collaboration. Several sessions will be conducted more
like a training class and you will have information in
your hands that you can take back to work and implement
immediately. One area of the GIS profession that the
conference has not focused on extensively in the past is
the d<strong><span style="font-weight:normal;">eveloper
community</span></strong><b>,</b> both application
and web. That's changing this year. We've included
several sessions, both daytime breakout sessions and
evening events, that will provide opportunities for
developers to learn, collaborate, and network. These
sessions cover industry standard software and open
source applications.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">URISA
Certified Workshops, this year offered at <u>no
additional cost</u> with your conference registration,
will be presented on November 1. Attendees may choose
one workshop to attend (note that some of the workshops
are already nearing capacity): </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D;"><span><span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Business
Intelligence and Data Integration for the GIS
Professional</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cartography and Map Design</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;">3D Geospatial: Project
Implementation Methods and Best Practices</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;">Open Source GIS</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;">GIS Strategic Planning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;">Public Data, Public Access,
Privacy and Security</span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
</ul>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Featured
Sessions include:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black;">One
Government and Data Sharing </span></i></b><span
style="color:black;">– Vincent Hoong, Executive Director
of the Singapore Land Authority will discuss in the
Opening Keynote how they use a 'one government' approach
to motivate agencies to work together and how they've
developed a policy framework to successfully guide data
sharing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black;">Thought
Leaders Panel </span></i></b><span
style="color:black;">- Executives from a variety of
national and international corporations that use GIS to
solve their own problems will tell you why they decided
to use GIS, and how they convinced their organizations
to invest in geospatial data and technology. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:black;"></span><b><i><span
style="color:black;">Geospatially Enabling
Decision-making</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> – Find out how
the Kansas Legislature is integrating geospatial data
and location into the process of making laws. You'll
gain ideas about how to geospatially enable your own
state or provincial legislatures, county commissions,
municipal councils, tribal councils, or any deliberative
body.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">Recognize the 2011
GIS Hall of Fame inductees, Exemplary Systems in
Government and URISA Service Award winners during the
Awards Breakfast; network at the GISP and Young
Professional receptions; and expand your professional
community at the various social events during the
conference. Sponsors/Exhibitors are a focus for the
conference, with the general sessions and meals taking
place in the same ballroom as the exhibition. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">GIS-Pro 2011 will
take place at the new JW Marriott Indianapolis which has
already garnered customer satisfaction awards since
opening in February. Discounted rooms are being offered
for only $139 (including internet access), but the offer
is only valid until October 7.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> Visit the
conference website at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gis-pro.org">www.gis-pro.org</a> for
complete program and registration details and follow the
conference on twitter </span><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">(#gispro2011</span></b><span
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