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2016 Washington GIS

GIS is Returning to Tacoma!
Please Join us May 23-25, 2016 for our 19th Annual Washington GIS Conference.

Once again we will gather at the Convention Center in the heart of beautiful Historic Tacoma. Our theme, "GIS Evolved: Transforming Our World" acknowledges the transformative power that GIS, has in our lives.

8:00am PDT

Morning Workshops Tacoma Convention Center

8:30am PDT

Create Great Web Apps - No Coding RequiredLIMITED Room 315 GIS Program Management (Part 1 of 2)LIMITED Room 318Cy Smith, GISP Key Surveying and Geodesy Elements Geospatial Professionals Should UnderstandLIMITED Room 317Gavin Schrock Move Beyond Static Maps: Introduction to ArcGIS OnlineLIMITED Room 316Mary Ullrich

1:30pm PDT

Afternoon Workshops Tacoma Convention Center ArcGIS Open Data: Get Started & Use Best PracticesLIMITED Room 315 GIS Program Management (Part 2 of 2) Room 318Cy Smith, GISP Using ArcGIS Online and Esri Collector to Capture GIS DataLIMITED Room 316Jim Lahm

10:30am PDT

GIS in Land Protection Assessment and Mapping - A comparison of tools and spatial analysis in ArcGIS and QGIS Room 315Karsten Vennemann GIS-Centric Asset Management at the King County Road Services Division Room 316Denise Ainslie Breakout Sessions Tacoma Convention Center GISPD.com: GIS Professional Development Perspectives Room 317David Howes • Jeff Berry • Jason Eklund • Aaron Paul

11:00am PDT

Building An Asset Management Foundation with GIS (City of Tacoma) Room 316Steve Schunzel, GISP Finding land to designate as Agricultural Resource Land, easy with GIS, correct? Room 315Aaron Petersen

11:30am PDT

An online tool for evaluating Land Use Suitability for Maize Room 315Karsten Vennemann Inspection Based GIS City of Burien Room 316Fernando Llamas Jr

1:00pm PDT

Teaching GIS - A Sustainability Management Perspective Room 317Christy Heaton Exploring Recreation in Washington State Room 315Jennifer Hackett Revolutionizing Hydrant Inspections with a Beautiful Mobile Solution Room 316Greg Heintz • Radcliffe McKenzie

1:30pm PDT

ArcGIS Online for Communication and Production: Learning Things the Hard Way Room 317Molly Jackson, GISP Improving Utility Decision Making Room 316Andy Simpson Mapping Historic Ballard with Crowd Sourced Mobile Data Collection Room 315Matt Stevenson Breakout Sessions Tacoma Convention Center

1:45pm PDT

Streamlining the Cartographic Workflow with QGIS Room 317Evan Derickson

2:00pm PDT

The Awesome POSM - A portable street map of the world Room 317Jubal Harpster Husky Lines: Incorporating Qualitative Survey Data into the Spatial Environment Room 315Alexa Brockamp Using GIS to Estimate Earthquake Pipeline System Damage Room 316Bill Heubach • Nathan Hildebrandt

2:15pm PDT

What’s Happening Now at the Tacoma Widget Factory? Room 317Mike Murnane

3:00pm PDT

Creation of a Public Safety GIS to Fit Computer Aided Dispatch Room 316Shawna Ernst Learning Geodesign through a Series of Survivable GIS Labs Room 315Eugene Martin • Philip Murphy Ph.D. Integrating Microsoft Office 365 and ArcGIS: Developing Skills for the Modern GIS Age Room 317David Howes

3:30pm PDT

Tacoma All-Hazards Risk Assessment Room 316Philip Norton • Donna Wendt

3:45pm PDT

A Spatial Region Growing Approach for Forest Fire Fuel Management Room 315Vaishnavi Thakar

4:00pm PDT

Landslide Mapping in Pierce County Room 316Kate Mickelson • Stephen Slaughter

8:30am PDT

Using High Resolution LiDAR to Update Hydro Room 317Joey Bisig Calm, Cool & Collector Room 316Vanessa Simpson The Evolution of ArcGIS Online at the City of Seattle Room 315Suzy Brunzell • John Edwards

9:00am PDT

Use of PhoDar to Monitor Riparian Change in Agriculture Zones Room 317Joshua Greenberg

9:15am PDT

Tacoma Water - Collections in the Watershed Room 316Lisa Sievers Updating the City of Seattle’s GIS Applications using Web App Builder Room 315Harvey Arnone • Toby Semroc

9:30am PDT

Lidar Development at the Division of Geology and Earth Resources Room 317Abigail Gleason

10:30am PDT

Creating a State Standard Pertaining to Critical Infrastructure Room 316Ray Brooks Using GIS to Enhance the Collaboration, Creation and Management of Assigning Addresses and New Roads in Island County Room 315Becca Blackman UW Tacoma - Student Lightning Talks Room 317Gregory Lund

11:00am PDT

Developing Owner Notify Tool using Geocortex Essentials Room 315Subu Swaminathan Evaluating King County GIS Against the GMI GIS Assessment Room 316Greg Babinski, GISP

11:30am PDT

Transforming Tacoma Water with GIS Room 316Lisa Stapleton

1:30pm PDT

Being Creative with GIS Solutions Room 316Don Burdick Building Aggregated, Master Addressing API’s – From Concept to Pre-Production Room 315Joy Paulus • David Wright Breakout Sessions Tacoma Convention Center

2:15pm PDT

Using Python for Data QC in an Enterprise GIS Room 315Ann Stark, GISP FAMIS - Use cases for leveraging the Esri Platform Room 316Aaron Paul