Summit Day (all times PST)
8:00 – 8:30 am: Pre-Registration Check-In | On-site Registration
8:30 – 9 am: Opening Keynote and Panel Discussion
“Geospatializing the Veterans Health Administration”
- Daniel Gall, FACHE, Deputy Chief Strategy Officer, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute
- Courtney Fassett, Southern California Growth Lead, Deloitte Consulting LLP
9 – 10 am: Student Lightning Talk Session
Three 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.
Subject matter expert respondents include:
- Cora Chong, GIS Specialist, Innovation, CBRE
- Suzanne Perlitsh, Ph.D., Professor, Chair, Department of Geography, and Director, Master of Science in Geographic Information Science
10 – 10:15 am: Rising Tides, Rising Solutions: Shallow-water hydrographic surveys supporting coastal resiliency
Dave Bernstein, CH, PLA, GISP, Vice President of Hydrospatial Operations, NV5 Geospatial
10:15 – 10:30 am: Trends in GIS
Joseph Seppi, Senior Vice President, Geospatial, Woolpert, Inc.
10:30 – 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 pm: Buffet lunch | Knowledge Network
Network with representatives of these companies and organizations:
- California Geographic Information Association (CGIA)
- California State University Long Beach
- California URISA
- Eclipse Mapping and GIS
- Gamma Theta Upsilon Nu Theta Chapter
- HRL Laboratories
- NV5 Geospatial
- OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
- SC Mappers
- Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)
- University of Redlands
- USC Libraries
- USC Spatial Sciences Institute
- Women in GIS
1 – 1:15 pm: Integrating high accuracy GNSS with IMU and LIDAR sensors: New possibilities in high accuracy mapping for GIS professionals
Isaiah Mack, Eclipse Mapping and GIS
Learn about the exciting new Skadi series from Eos GNSS and the game changing new Smart Handle for High Accuracy GIS data collection.
1:15 – 2 pm: Data-Driven Decisions for Good
- Evelyn Kim, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead, Intelligent Systems Center, HRL Laboratories
- Caroline Wu, Director of Research, Placer.ai
2 – 2:45 pm: Empowering the Geospatial Workforce of the Future
- Thomas Horan, Ph.D., H. Jess and Donna Senecal Endowed Dean’s Chair, and Dean, School of Business, University of Redlands
- Mikah Brachman, Community Manager, OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
2:45 – 3 pm: Closing Remarks | Announcement of Los Angeles Geospatial Summit ArcGIS StoryMap Competition Winners
- Dr. John P. Wilson
- Andrew Haglund, Higher Education Account Manager, Esri
3 – 3:30 pm: Networking Reception
