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Georgia Geospatial Conference 2014 – Student Day

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Yes – if you are a student – show up.

**CALLING ALL STUDENTS**

October 8, 2014, 8:30am-3:00pm
Classic Center-Athena Room J
200 North Thomas St, Athens, GA 30601

If you are currently an enrolled college student in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Kentucky and have applied geospatial solutions to your coursework, you may be eligible to win $$$ by presenting your hard work in front of our select judges of Past Presidents and GIS and Remote Sensing Professionals!!! Submit abstracts to compete for prize money in separate undergraduate and graduate competitions. We are also hosting a map gallery at the conference, please submit your maps to enter to win under the student category!

Agenda:

  • 8:30-10:00       Undergraduate Student Presentations
  • 10:30 -12:00   Graduate Student Presentations
  • 12:00-1:00       Lunch/networking
  • 1:00-3:30         Mapping Your Way Into a GIS Career (see description below)
  • 4:00-4:30        Closing Remarks and Awards

Awards and Benefits

  • Graduate and Undergraduate divisions with cash rewards for each division $500 for 1st, $250 for 2nd, and $125 for 3rd.
  • Award Certificate and recognition on the Georgia URISA and Midsouth ASPRS Website
  • All awards come with a free year membership to GAURISA and Midsouth ASPRS
  • Presentations will be featured in the URISA Journal “The GIS Profesional” and the GAURISA newsletter
  • Earn Points towards your GISP certification
  • Presenters will be showing research projects in front of potential employers

 

  • Submission Requirements:
  • Must be the original work of the Student
  • Only one submission per Student
  • Presentations must relate to Geography, Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, GIS or a related field as applied to a professional field
  • Presenter must be registered as an attendee at conference

SUBMIT PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

Conference Registration Instructions

To register for this event click here and complete the registration form. Please complete your Registration by September 15th. You will be notified of your selection status by September 24th. If you have questions on the registration process, please contact: Wendy Peloquin, Georgia URISA Events Chair, or contact John Hudler, Georgia URISA Education Chair.

Map Gallery Submit

Showcase a map, poster, or plat at the Map Gallery for another opportunity to demonstrate your cartographic abilities in front of potential employers, earn points towards professional certification and possibly win Best Map/Poster Cartographic Design in the Student Category.

Mapping Your Way Into a GIS Career – A Panel for Students/Young Professionals

This session will introduce students to the Geospatial Industry. Several career paths will be highlighted, including the skills required for entry- and mid-level positions. It will also give advice on creating effective resumes and portfolios, as well as proper etiquette and tips for a successful interview.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to the Geospatial Industry
  • Skills Required for Entry and Mid-Level Positions within these Industries
  • Building a Resume and Portfolio
  • Etiquette and Tips for a Successful Interview

Potential Highlighted Geospatial Industries:

  • GIS Consulting Firm / Private Industry
  • State/Local/Federal Government
  • Aerial Photography/Remote Sensing
  • Software Sales and Marketing
  • Non-Profit

Social Media Connections: Look for us on Facebook and LinkedIn at ‘Georgia URISA’ …We’ll be posting updates and presentation tips to help you out!

GITA Lunch and Learn – Atlanta – May 22 2014

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Date: May 22, 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 11:30 AM- 1:30 PM
Location: esri, 3650 Brookside Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30022

Agenda:
11:30 – Noon Registration & Networking
Noon – 12:30 Lunch & Networking 12:30 – 12:40 News & Announcements 12:40 – 1:10 Presentation
1:30 – Adjourn meeting

Topic:  GIS indoors, or more specifically, GeoMetri, which is used by businesses to understand how people move through their buildings.

Chris Bupp of Geographic Information Services, Inc. (GISi) will present on how GeoMetri allows users to compare and measure activity across different time periods or building areas as well as understand real-time traffic patterns for any space, at any time, in a cost-effective and highly accurate solution. GeoMetri operates using Wi-Fi technologies that analyze pedestrian foot traffic in venues like shopping malls, grocery stores, and other types of businesses. As visitors’ mobile devices search for wireless networks to communicate with, they give off “pings” at regular intervals. These bits of information (including signal strength) can be collected and anonymously aggregated for use in physical analytics. GeoMetri is an HTML 5 application compatible with desktop, tablet, or mobile devices. GISi received the Innovation Application award at the 2014 Esri Partner Conference. The award is given to a company with an original idea with local relevance and value while demonstrating a great design and user experience.

Chris Bupp is a Senior Application Developer and has been with GISi for over three years. He enjoys the challenge of solving big problems – the ones that others haven’t been able to work out. Chris is a leader in innovation and optimization . . . how to fix things and how to make things work faster.

Website: www.gitasoutheast.org

Georgia URISA 2014 Conference

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I was sitting around the other day and realized something – My most attended conference is this one I think. This will be my 5th one and I think that either edges out TNGIC or ties it. Which is sorta funny since I’m actually getting tired of conferences in general.

So Georgia URISA holds a conference every two years. This year (as in 2010) I’ll be representing Midsouth ASPRS and GA URISA. It’s a good conference and I don’t say that often. It’s statewide….and we’ve even had people coming down from Canada for this….so nationwide. I’m going, I’m teaching, and I’m presenting.

I’m actually teaching an OSM workshop. I wrote one for URISA which is getting quite a bit of traction. This one is a bit different in that I may have 40ish slides to cover the whole day. We’re going to work, map, and go out and see how OSM works. I’m going to try at the last part of the day to show how you can leverage this data in your GIS operations. I’ve got a complete dataset for the county where the conference will be held….and we will at the end of the day compare and contrast with OSM.

So from the email bag – please attend:

Georgia URISA, ASPRS Mid South, SAMSOG and GITA Southeast are joining together again for the Georgia Geospatial Conference of 2014 to be held October 6th-8th at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.

 

Participants are welcome from federal, state, local governments; academic; private sector; non-profit and international organizations.

 

If you are a practitioner, student, or otherwise interested, in the fields of geographic information systems or surveying, please make plans to attend the largest geospatial conference in Georgia.  For three days, you will have the chance to network with peers, share projects and ideas, and learn.  On October 6th, there will be pre-conference workshops.  On October 7th and 8th, you will hear from leaders in the GIS and Surveying fields with practitioners sharing papers and presentations.  On Tuesday night we will have a social.  On Tuesday, we are also having an afternoon session devoted to future leaders in the GIS field: students.

 

Member Early Bird Costs

Full Day Workshop – $225

Half Day Workshop (does not include lunch) – $125

Conference Registration – $275

Conference Registration One Day – $150

 

Non-Member Early Bird Costs 

Full Day Workshop – $250

Half Day Workshop (does not include lunch) – $150

Conference Registration – $325

Conference Registration One Day – $200

 

Student Costs

Full Day Workshop – $100

Half Day Workshop (does not include lunch) – $50

Conference Registration – $100

Conference Registration One Day – $50 

 

Individual Registration 

Exhibitor/Sponsor Registration

Sponsor / Exhibitor Pricing

 

Bronze – $500 Social Sponsor Only

  • Company Signage at Social
  • Listing of company with a brief company description, logo, web address, and link on the Conference website sponsor page and social advertisements
  • Opportunity to introduce yourself and company at social 

Silver Exhibitor – $750 Member, $1000 non-member

  • Registration for 2 Attendees*
  • 10’x10′ pipe and drape booth, one dressed 8′ table, two chairs, wastebasket, electricity, and a black and white sign
  • Name Printed on back of t-shirts
  • Listing of company with a brief company description, logo, web address, and link on the Conference website exhibitor page
  • Quarter page advertisement in Conference Program 

Gold Exhibitor – $1000 Member, $1250 non-member

  • Registration for 2 Attendees*
  • 10’x10′ pipe and drape booth, one dressed 8′ table, two chairs, wastebasket, electricity, and a black and white sign
  • Logo Printed on back of t-shirts
  • Listing of company with a brief company description, logo, web address, and link on the Conference website exhibitor page
  • Half page advertisement in Conference Program
  • An advance copy of the Master Attendee List (as requested) 

Platinum Exhibitor – $1250 member, $1500 non-member (limited to 12 exhibitor booths)

  • Registration for 3 Attendees*
  • 10’x10′ pipe and drape booth, one dressed 8′ table, two chairs, wastebasket, electricity, and a black and white sign
  • Logo printed on back of t-shirts
  • Listing of company with a brief company description, logo, web address, and link on the Conference website exhibitor page
  • Full page advertisement in Conference Program
  • An advance copy of the Master Attendee List (as requested)
  • Guaranteed 30 minute presentation/demo slot 

*Additional Registration for Members of Exhibitor’s Organization- $200 each

Southeast GITA Meeting February 14th 2014

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Love is in the air…..so is Big Data.

GITA Southeast is pleased to announce a Lunch and Learn meeting scheduled on Friday, February 14 from 11:30AM to 1:30PM. We present an overview of what big data and analytic applications – this involves a discussion of the common use cases, architectural patterns, and relevant technologies. This will include a brief discussion of the open source GIS Tools for Hadoop. A couple real world example demos are presented, followed by an explanation of how they were architected. There are no assumptions made that the audience is conversant with these technologies. Please RSVP to Karen Smith at ksmith@clearion.com.

Date: Feb 14, 2014
Time: 11:30 AM- 1:30 PM

Location: Georgia Power
241 Ralph McGill BlvdNE
Atlanta, GA 30308

Agenda:
11:30 – Noon Registration and Networking
Noon – 12:30 Lunch and Networking
12:30 – 12:40 News and Announcements
12:40 – 1:10 Presentation
1:30 Adjourn meeting

Cost – $12.00 for members & $15.00 for non-members
Lunch – Will be provided. Please make sure to let us know of any dietary concerns when you RSVP.
RSVP – Please contact Karen Smith at ksmith@clearion.com, GITA Southeast President, to RSVP.

Speaker: Mansour Raad

Mansour Raad, Senior Software Architect / Spatial BigData Specialist – With over 25 years of experience in the IT/GIS field, Mansour is a Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer and a BigData advocate within Esri. He has performed as team lead in architecting and implementing ArcIMS and the Flex API for ArcGIS. Mansour holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and frequently blogs on spatial BigData topics and examples of BigData implementations at http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com.

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