ESRI UC Wrap-up
Well, I’m back at home after a very early Saturday morning flight out of San Diego. It always seems like a good idea to book these early flights to get home in good time, but I sure wasn’t thinking that when my alarm went off at 3:45am Saturday morning…
Friday was the final day at the ESRI UC, and I attended what turned out to be an ad-hoc combined session including: ‘Working with ArcGIS Online’, and ‘Authoring and Using Great Web Maps’. These sessions were combined, and moved to a larger room, due to the standing room only offerings of these same sessions earlier in the week. The session provided some useful information on the ArcGIS online offerings including ArcGIS Online for Organizations which looks very interesting.
Following this morning session was our SRK GIS meeting. This meeting was one of the primary reasons for us attending the ESRI UC, and this meeting was an opportunity for us to gather and discuss a number of items wrt GIS within SRK. We had a great meeting with many good ideas and suggestions brought forward and it was fun to discuss the exciting new developments everyone had seen during the week, and to hear how other offices are using GIS. We have defined a number of ‘next steps’ to help move GIS forward within our organization.
All-in-all my first ESRI UC experience was a very good one. It is similar in many ways to Autodesk University as far as technical user conferences go: there are some great sessions, and there are some so-so sessions. The trick is to learn how to read between the lines of the session titles and short abstracts to determine the value of the session. It was nice to catch-up with some former clients, to meet a lot of great people, and it truly was incredible to to be at an event with one single focus… GIS.
On a personal note, after our meeting I was able to take in a few of the sites down on the waterfront, including: USS Midway, and a San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants ball game where I was able to see Tim Lincecum dominate the home team for a 6-1 Giants win.
Some photos from San Diego:
Until next time,
Take care.
Warren M
Friday was the final day at the ESRI UC, and I attended what turned out to be an ad-hoc combined session including: ‘Working with ArcGIS Online’, and ‘Authoring and Using Great Web Maps’. These sessions were combined, and moved to a larger room, due to the standing room only offerings of these same sessions earlier in the week. The session provided some useful information on the ArcGIS online offerings including ArcGIS Online for Organizations which looks very interesting.
Following this morning session was our SRK GIS meeting. This meeting was one of the primary reasons for us attending the ESRI UC, and this meeting was an opportunity for us to gather and discuss a number of items wrt GIS within SRK. We had a great meeting with many good ideas and suggestions brought forward and it was fun to discuss the exciting new developments everyone had seen during the week, and to hear how other offices are using GIS. We have defined a number of ‘next steps’ to help move GIS forward within our organization.
All-in-all my first ESRI UC experience was a very good one. It is similar in many ways to Autodesk University as far as technical user conferences go: there are some great sessions, and there are some so-so sessions. The trick is to learn how to read between the lines of the session titles and short abstracts to determine the value of the session. It was nice to catch-up with some former clients, to meet a lot of great people, and it truly was incredible to to be at an event with one single focus… GIS.
On a personal note, after our meeting I was able to take in a few of the sites down on the waterfront, including: USS Midway, and a San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants ball game where I was able to see Tim Lincecum dominate the home team for a 6-1 Giants win.
Some photos from San Diego:
Until next time,
Take care.
Warren M
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