GIS-Pro 2024: Full Schedule

Welcome to GIS-Pro 2024: URISA’s 62nd Annual Conference, taking place in Portland, Maine! This is where you review the comprehensive educational program for the conference and plan your agenda.

We are pleased to collaborate with the New England Chapter of URISA on this important event.

Go to this page to register for the conference and make travel plans; review sponsor and exhibit packages, and check out young professional and student opportunities. Early bird registration discounts are available until August 1.

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11:00am EDT

GIS & Public Health

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT

Somerset/Oxford

GIS is an important tool in understanding public health. From understanding maternal and child welfare and access to healthcare to mapping socioeconomic factors and historical addressing, these talks all provide us with methods for using GIS within the broader public health sphere. This session will conclude with a panel discussion from all session participants to further explore citizen science, spatial and temporal accuracy, and bridging the gap between data and community.

Making Health Equity Transparent with LA County’s Community Health Profiles
Shannon Julius, GISP, Principal GIS Analyst, County of Los Angeles, Downey, CA
Robert Graham, Principal GIS Analyst, County of Los Angeles, Downey, CA
Juan Cardenas, GISP, GIS Analyst, County of Los Angeles eGIS, Downey, CA

Pushing the Boundaries of Esri’s Geocoder: Historical Geocoding
Cassandra (Cassie) Sanford, GIS Specialist, UW-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research, Madison, WI
Nyla Thursday, GIS Specialist, UW-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research, Madison, WI

Beyond the Classroom: GIS and Community Engagement at Meharry Medical College
Wansoo Im, Ph.D, Professor, School of Global Health/Meharry Medical College

Moderators

Pamela Harris

Natural Resource Planner, Maryland Department of the Environment

Speakers

Shannon Julius, GISP

Principal GIS Analyst, County of Los Angeles

Shannon has been working as a GIS professional for Cities in Los Angeles County since 2014 and for Los Angeles County since 2021. She has an M.S. in GISci from Cal State Long Beach and a B.A. in Environmental Analysis from Pitzer College. Her current hobbies are hiking, board games... Read More →

Robert Graham, GISP

GIS Specialist, County of Los Angeles

Rob is a GIS programmer and data architect working with Los Angeles County Enterprise GIS. He is committed to GIS technology as a tool to improve human conditions and build community power, and has worked with a variety of public interest groups to develop engaging data and mapping... Read More →

Juan Cardenas, GISP

GIS Analyst, County of Los Angeles

GIS Analyst at Los Angeles County Enterprise GIS

Cassie Sanford

GIS Specialist, UW-Madison's Center for Health Disparities Research

Cassie Sanford is a GIS Specialist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR). At CHDR, Cassie and her coworker Nyla have pioneered new ways in historical geocoding. They have created new datasets using historical census data to support... Read More →

Nyla Thursday

GIS Specialist, UW-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research

Nyla is an enthusiastic GIS and cartography teacher and life long learner. She loves finding brand new ways to solve tangled messes of problems, learning endlessly from her peers, and teaching anyone that is interested. In her work at the Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR... Read More →

Wansoo Im, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Global Health/Meharry Medical College

GIS and Public Health pdf

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Somerset/Oxford

The Role of GIS in Pursuit of Equity and Social Justice

2:00pm EDT

Network Modeling

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Somerset/Oxford

Physical networks such as roadways, sewer systems, and watersheds tie us together and are ever evolving. This session will focus on modeling of these networks, their underlying data, and improving the relationships within them.

Engineering and GIS Analysis
Vineela Griddaluru, P.E., CFM, GISP, Water Resources Engineer, Jacobs, Wildwood, MO

Generating Certified Public Mileage as a Published Dataset
Gregory Rothwell, GISP, Senior GIS Technician, City of Phoenix-Water Services, Phoenix, AZ

Enhancing Sewer Inspections through GIS for Safer and Smarter Infrastructure Management
Johnny Harley, GIS Analyst, TREKK Design Group, Fairway, KS

Moderators

Rick Szmajter

Retired, Retired City of Durango

Speakers

Vineela Griddaluru, P.E., CFM, GISP

Water Resources Engineer, Jacobs Solutions Inc.

Vineela is a proficient Water Resources Engineer and a GISP with 14 years of professional experience. Her expertise over the years includes successfully developing numerous models of surface water hydrology and hydraulics (h&h), water distribution systems, storm water management... Read More →

Gregory Rothwell, GISP

Senior GIS Technician, City of Phoenix - Water Services

Johnny Harley

GIS Analyst, TREKK Design Group

Network Modeling pdf

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Somerset/Oxford

Spatial Analysis & Modeling

4:00pm EDT

Addresses, Roads, & Data Models, Oh My!

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Somerset/Oxford

Address point and road centerline data are at the center of local data that are used for public safety and emergency services among many other applications. Presentations in this session explore addresses from the perspectives of data models for public safety and preparing data for public safety use cases.

3rd version's a charm? NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model Deep Thoughts
Deb Rozeboom, GISP, ENP, PMP, Product Manager GIS Services, GeoComm, Albany, OR

NENA Address Data Standard Revisions: and the Relational GIS Data Model, and CLDXF v2
Ed Wells, GISP, Retired, University Park, MD

How to (Not) Build a 911 Database
Heather Studley, GISP, GIS Manager, Bannock County GIS, Pocatello, ID

Moderators

Sid Pandey

GIS Senior Consultant, Deloitte

Sid is a Senior Geospatial Consultant within Deloitte's Location Intelligence Practice. He possesses extensive experience helping organizations leverage geospatial technology to analyze, collect, manage, and visualize data to make informed decisions. He regularly works with interdisciplinary... Read More →

Speakers

Deb Rozeboom, GISP, ENP, PMP

Product Manager - GIS Services, GeoComm

Deb Rozeboom is a Product Manager of GIS Services with GeoComm. In her 18-year career at GeoComm she has worked with countless Local, State, and Federal government agencies and Public Safety ECCs to build and maintain GIS data for 9-1-1 systems. She is a member and leader of multiple... Read More →

Ed Wells, GISP

Past President of URISA, Retired

Ed Wells was one the four principal co-authors of the FGDC address standard. He served as Technical Editor for the NENA workgroup that drafted the Civic Location Data Exchange Format (CLDXFv1), and is an active member of CLDXFv2 workgroup. He has been an active participant in the... Read More →

Heather Studley, GISP

GIS Manager, Bannock County GIS

Studley started as a simple GIS Technician entering Records of Surveys and suddenly became someone who “knows things” (getting put in charge of the GIS system in the process) and one of those things is addressing and GIS data integration for the local 911 system. She is also involved... Read More →

Addresses, Roads, Data Models, Oh My! pdf

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Somerset/Oxford

Addresses/Buildings/Emergency Services