Current speakers include*:
Jeff Archer
(Esri)
GeoData sharing on the web for fun and profit
Jessica Block and Katrina Petersen
(UCSD Calit2 and UCSD Communications Department)
"Communicating Wildfire Hazards" -
We will introduce our research at UCSD on the use of
real-time fire data for incident command and the effective
visualization of that information from the San Diego fires of 2007 and
for current use of remotely collected environmental data in San Diego
County.
Don Cooke(Esri Community Maps Evangelist)
These are the Good Old Days: DIME and GIS in the 1960s
Kitty Currier
(UC Santa Barbara Department of Geography)
Kite aerial photography of coral reefs
Rhonda Glennon
(Santa Barbara)
Aircraft navigation and aviation charting
Tom Longson
(Singly / The Locker Project)
Mano Marks
(Google Geo Developer Relations)
Bill Michels
(VP of Platform, Factual)
Paul Wilson
(GE Energy GeoSpatial)
"Keeping the Lights On" - Managing the electric grid is an inherently spatial exercise. Electric utilities were early adapters of geospatial technology, and now rely on GIS for information about the wires and devices that make up the network. With the advent of the smart grid, however, mainstream GIS data models and update processes may not be able to keep up with massive data volumes and rapid changes. Can "neo-geo" technology help?
*not necessarily in this order.
