Summit Day (all times PST, subject to change)
8:00 – 8:30 am: Pre-Registration Check-in | On-site Registration
8:30 – 9:15 am: Opening Keynote and Panel Discussion
Boris Skopljak, Vice President for the Geospatial Sector, Trimble
“Building the Future with Geospatial Insight”
Panelists:
- John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute
- Courtney Fassett, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Arno Abrahamian, Associate Technical Consultant, Esri
9:15 – 10:15 am: Student Lightning Talk Session
Four students from participating Southern California GIS academic programs present five-minute lightning talks, followed with discussion and Q&A with GIS experts and Summit participants.
Student presenters:
- Jonathan Aguilar, CSUN
- Ishmael Legaspi, USC
- Miyoki Homma Gonzalez, University of Redlands
- Maris Zammataro, CSULB
Respondents:
- Cora Chong, GIS Specialist, Innovation, CBRE
- Amanda Rago, AI and Data Engineering Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Steve Steinberg, Geospatial Information Officer (GIO), County of Los Angeles
10:15 – 10:45 am: From Data Collection and Observation to Earth Intelligence
- Hyperspectral Imaging for Earth Intelligence.
Harrison Knapp, Remote Sensing Scientist, Aerospace Corporation - Identifying near-misses between vehicles and vulnerable road users using LiDAR.
Scott Kelley, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nevada Reno
10:45 – 11:30 am: Los Angeles Geospatial Summit ArcGIS StoryMap Competition
Talk with students from participating universities as they present their research through Summit ArcGIS StoryMaps and compete for prizes provided by Esri.
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Buffet lunch | Knowledge Network
Network with representatives of these companies and organizations:
- Aerospace
- Autodesk
- California Geographic Information Association
- California State University, Long Beach
- California GPN
- CBRE
- Deloitte
- Esri
- SSI/Gamma Theta Upsilon Nu Theta Chapter
- Trimble/CSDS
- HRL Labs
- NatSec Student Club
- NV5 Geospatial
- SC Mappers Student Club
- Tethys Geoscience Foundation
- Frontier Precision
- University of Redlands
- USC Libraries
1:00 – 1:15 pm: Afternoon Keynote
From Data to Decisions: How Raw Spatial Data Becomes Actionable Insight
Dave Bernstein, Vice President of Hydrospatial Operations, NV5
1:15 – 2:00 pm: Panel: Human + Machine: Preparing the Geospatial Workforce for a New Era
Moderator: Avijit Sarkar, Professor, Director of Institute for Geospatial Impact, University of Redlands
Panelists:
- Evelyn Kim, Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Center, HRL Laboratories
- Canserina Kurnia, Senior Solution Engineer, Education, Esri
- Elizabeth Lafontaine, Director of Research, Placer
- Regan Maas, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, CSUN
2:00 – 2:30 pm: Networking Game
Details to be announced
2:30 – 3:15 pm: Geospatial Innovation for Los Angeles and California
- Ismaeel Babur, Autodesk
- TBA
3:15 – 3:30 pm: Closing Remarks | Announcement of Los Angeles Geospatial Summit ArcGIS StoryMap Competition Winners
- Dr. John P. Wilson
- Andrew Haglund, Higher Education Account Manager, Esri
