Los Angeles Geospatial Summit

Learn and be more

Network at the annual 2024 LA Geospatial Summit in Los Angeles, live and in-person with fellow students, young professionals from throughout the Southland and eminent industry leaders.

Gain insights on GIS industry trends and opportunities.

Share your research in an ArcGIS StoryMap or lightning talk.

Join us FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024  at the USC Hotel, 3540 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007.

Register here!

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Workshops
Watch as many of the pre-recorded technical workshops as you like. The recordings will be available for six months after the 2024 Geospatial Summit.

Summit Day (all times PST)

8:00 – 8:30 am: Pre-Registration Check-In | On-site Registration 

8:30 – 9:30 am: Opening Keynote and Panel Discussion

9:30 – 10:15 am: Maxar Student Lightning Talk Session

10:15 – 10:30 am: Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History

10:30 – 11:30  am: Los Angeles Geospatial Summit Esri ArcGIS StoryMap Competition

11:30 am – 1 pm: Buffet Lunch and Knowledge Network

1 pm – 1:15 pm: High-Accuracy GNSS in California is Changing

1:15 – 2 pm: GIS for Resilient and Secure Communities

2 – 2:45 pm: Empowering the Geospatial Workforce of the Future

2:45- 3:30 pm: Closing Remarks and Networking Reception

Summit Day (all times PST)

8:00 – 8:30 am: Pre-Registration Check-In | On-site Registration 

8:30 – 9:30 am: Opening Keynote and Panel Discussion
“What’s Coming with GeoAI?” What are the opportunities, limitations and challenges with AI in the geospatial world and the impact of GeoAI upon the role of the geospatial analyst?

• Sean O’Brien, Ph.D., Vice President, Intelligent Systems, HRL Laboratories
• John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Director, USC Spatial Sciences Institute
• Courtney Fassett, Government and Public Sector Strategy & Analytics Consultant, Deloitte Consulting

9:30 – 10:15 am: Maxar 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.

Industry Panel:

• Barry Tilton, Technology Evangelist, Maxar
• Cora Chong, GIS Specialist, Innovation, CBRE
• Christine Devine, Director of Education and Professional Development, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

Student Presenters:

• John Adrian, California State University, Long Beach: “Preprocessing Imagery for Mapping the Martian Landscape using GPT-4 and Python Scripting”.
• Leo Lerner, Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place, USC Spatial Sciences Institute: “Affective geographic information science: can visual carto-elicitation evoke the sensorimotor?”.
• Priyanka Somai, University of Redlands: “Digital Inclusion in India: A Geospatial and Multivariate Perspective”

10:15 – 10:30 am: Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History

• Beau MacDonald, GIS Project Administrator for the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC.

Beau is an applied biogeographer and guides Wilson Map Lab student research teams who participate in data-driven collaborations across a range of projects and data Hubs about urban forests, food insecurity, and water conservation. The funded research projects she works with include environmental and social determinants of health, with location analytics and informatics applications; and environmental modeling and visualization, with historical ecology and retrospective data analysis.

10:30 – 11:30  am: Los Angeles Geospatial Summit Esri ArcGIS StoryMap Competition
Talk with students from participating universities as they present their research through ArcGIS StoryMaps. Thanks to Esri for awarding prizes for the most innovative use of technology, the most compelling communication using maps and the most suitably applied methodology or analysis.

• Check out the StoryMap Virtual Gallery

11:30 am – 1 pm: Buffet Lunch and Knowledge Network
Network with representatives of these companies and organizations:

• Burns & McDonnell
• California Geographic Information Association
• California State University Long Beach
• California URISA
• Deloitte
• Eclipse Mapping and GIS
• Esri
• Gamma Theta Upsilon Nu Theta Chapter
• HRL Labs
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• NV5 Geospatial
• SC Mappers
• Southern California Association of Governments
• United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
• University of Redlands
• USC Libraries
• USC Spatial Sciences Institute
• Women in GIS

1 pm – 1:15 pm: High-Accuracy GNSS in California is Changing

• Isaiah Mack, Eclipse Mapping and GIS.

The high-accuracy GNSS landscape is changing rapidly. And California in particular is going through some important changes. This presentation will cover the high-accuracy correction methods available today (SBAS, L-BAND, HAS, RTK), and what is possible in California and beyond. What are the options for RTK corrections in CA today? This presentation will also cover the brand new European HAS Correction service, free 10-20cm worldwide!

1:15 – 2 pm: GIS for Resilient and Secure Communities

• Debbie Fugate, Ph.D., Senior GEOINT Authority for Geography and Cartography, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Jason Knowles, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, GeoAcuity
• Cathy Power, Technical Expert, NV5 Geospatial
• Yi Qi, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Teaching), USC Spatial Sciences Institute

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
• Christine Devine, Director of Education and Professional Development, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
• Andrew Haney, Senior Geospatial Consultant, 1898 & Co.
• Chrystine Kern, Ed.D, Chief, Recruitment Strategies, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Canserina Kurnia, Senior Solution Engineer, Education, Esri

2:45- 3:30 pm: Closing Remarks and Networking Reception
After Esri’s announcement of the ArcGIS StoryMap competition winners, stay for another chance to network with the GIS professionals and other Summit participants in attendance.
Closing Remarks by John P. Wilson, Ph.D., USC Spatial Sciences Institute.
Esri announcement of LA Geospatial Summit ArcGIS StoryMaps competition winners by Andrew Haglund.

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