2018 GeoRodeo | Austin, Texas

Agenda

Note: Agenda times subject to change.

7:45AM to 8:30AM

Registration – Breakfast – Social

Sponsored by

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8:30AM to 8:45AM

Opening Remarks

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8:45AM to 10:15AM

8:45AM to 9:30AM
Mark Korver, Geospatial Lead, Technical Vision and Business Development, Amazon Web Services

Best Practice for Serving COG Imagery using MapServer/GDAL on AWS

Mark is the Geospatial Lead on the Specialist Team at AWS, part of the Technical Vision and Business Development group. He supports large geospatial customers, and works closely with the Scientific Compute and Open Data teams on projects such as Earth on AWS. In addition, he represents the solution architecture team as the core storage expert. Mark holds a Master in City Planning from MIT with a specialization in Technology Transfer and is a native Japanese speaker.

9:30AM to 10:00AM
Martijn van Exel, OpenStreetMap Community Lead at Telenav

OpenStreetCam: Improving OpenStreetMap with crowdsourced street level images

Martijn has been involved with the OpenStreetMap project since 2007 as a contributor and in a leadership capacity. He sits on the Board of Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. He works for Telenav, where he leads initiatives related to OpenStreetMap aimed at improving the map for everyone.

10:00AM to 10:15AM
Cristy Burch, Regional GIS Specialist, Texas Parks and Wildlife

ArcPy, Pandas, Beautiful Soup and Chronic Wasting Disease - Automating the Weekly Report

Cristy is a Regional GIS Specialist for Texas Parks and Wildlife. Cristy programmed an automated python routine which generates a weekly report on data collected statewide regarding Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).

Presentation Slides PDF: ArcPy Pandas
Presentation Slides PDF: Example Weekly Report

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10:15AM to 10:30AM

Break

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10:30AM to 11:45AM

10:30AM to 11:15AM
Andrew Turner, Director of R&D Center, ESRI

Open Data

Neogeographer and Director of Esri R&D DC. Open Source & Open Data Architect. Brewer, Trombonist, Cyclist, Idealistic Technocrat. Capitol Hill, DC

11:15AM to 11:45AM
Michael Potts, Geodatabase Administrator, Texas Parks & Wildlife

Python Scripting: Automating Enterprise Geodatabase Maintenance for Texas State Parks

Michael Potts earned an MS in Geography from Texas A&M University and interned for both Washington College and the National Park Service. Casey Trees hired him as a GIS Specialist in Washington DC, where he worked for 5 years. He has 10 years of experience in Python and has taken programming classes through TNRIS. He also works in SQL, HTML, and JavaScript. Currently, he serves as Geodatabase Administrator for Texas State Parks in Austin.

Presentation Slides PDF: Automating Enterprise Geodatabase Maintenance

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11:45AM to 1:30PM

Chow Time

Lunch on your own. Here's a map of nearby lunch spots:

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1:30PM to 3:00PM

1:30PM to 2:00PM
Jeff Ferzoco, Customer Success Manager, Carto

The Edge of Location: New tools & CARTO customer stories

Jeff Ferzoco is on the Customer Success team at CARTO, and spends his days helping people better understand good mapping, design, strategy and technical choices. His background in design and urban planning have given him experience in cities, and he loves understanding places through data and cartography.

2:00PM to 2:30PM
Sara Safavi, Software Engineer, Planet

Geo & Jupyter or: How I learned to stop worrying & love the Notebook

Sara is a software engineer at Planet, where she creates tools to help developers, data scientists, and geo-people do amazing things with daily satellite imagery. When she's not geeking out over pretty pictures of Earth taken from space, Sara can frequently be found giving tech talks & teaching workshops centered around Python and/or geospatial data.

2:30PM to 3:00PM
Todd Smith, Product Manager, Cesium

CesiumJS and Cesium ion

Todd has been with the team from the beginning. While he works out of the Exton, PA office, he spends lots of time on the road, interfacing between the Cesium development team and the user community and forging partnerships. As the original Cesium ion power user, he has driven many of the improvements to ion. Todd is a Penn State GIS graduate and has been in the web mapping world for over 15 years.

Presentation Slides PDF: Cesium Ion

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3:00PM to 3:15PM

Break

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3:15PM to 4:15PM

3:15PM to 3:45PM
Chris Williams, HomeAway

The Data will be with you, Always!

Chris began to blend GIS and database fundamentals to solve data problems 20+ years ago at TCEQ. He was fortunate enough to find TNRIS and moved on to focus on solutions using SQL Server, ArcSDE and GeoDatabases. His current role at HomeAway is as a Database Engineer, where he works with a lot of database technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, and SQL Server) to solve these problems. In the Fall, you can also find him teaching his GeoSpatial Database class at ACC, where he teaches these same data ideals.

3:45PM to 4:15PM
Ibrahim Demir, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Disaster Communication Using Intelligent Systems, Holograms and Virtual Reality

Ibrahim Demir is an assistant research professor at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on hydroinformatics, environmental information systems, scientific visualization, big data analytics, intelligent systems, and information communication. He has led the design and development of many research and operational cyber systems including Iowa Flood Information System, Iowa Water Quality Information System, NASA IFloodS Information Systems, and Iowa Watershed Approach Information System.

Presentation Slides PDF: Disaster Communication Using Intelligent Systems

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4:15PM to 4:30PM

Closing Remarks

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5:00PM

Social at Adelbert's Brewery