 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

GISCI and the Future of the GISP

• GISCI provides GIS professional certification and the GISCI Core Technical Knowledge Exam as an addition to the GISP certification. Learn about the value and growth of GIS professional certification and where GISCI and the GISP certification go from here.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Lunch & Learn: Augmenting Lidar & Imagery Collects with Nearmap Point Clouds & Imagery

• State agencies are constantly facing scenarios ranging from natural disasters to new developments, to transportation updates and many others that quickly impact the accuracy of existing imagery and 3DEP lidar collects.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Striving for More Granular Statewide Broadband Data in North Carolina

• The NC Broadband Infrastructure Office, with the NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, is attempting to map broadband availability at a larger scale than previous efforts by leveraging statewide GIS datasets and community surveys.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

National Pandemic GIS and Informatics Task Force Shifts Gears

• This session will be an interactive conversation bringing together many of the organizations represented on the Task Force and the NSGIC community. Topics range from the finding of pandemic after action activitess to practical strategies and privacy.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Doing a Lot with a Little: Engagement and Outreach in a Pandemic

• The State of Georgia's Geospatial Information Office discuss the pandemic: what worked, what didn't, and what they are doing to move forward to bolster and unite their GIS and 911 community around NG9-1-1.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Breakfast Breakout: Data for the Nation - 3DEP and 3D Hydrography Working Groups

• An opportunity for the 3DEP Interest Group and the EDH for 3DNHD Interest Groups to discuss elevation and hydrography data development and data integration issues and provide updates about key activities. Focus will be on private sector activities.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Awards Reception

• Celebrate the work recognized by the Geospatial Excellence Awards and the Service Awards during this fun, casual networking reception with great food and drinks.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Speed Networking

• The fun and fast-paced series of events where sponsors rotate to complete the circuit of visiting with all participating states. All state representatives should plan to attend; sponsors must have pre-arranged participation.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

State Caucus

• A roundtable discussion with state and local government representatives to talk frankly about the most pressing issues of the day. Restricted to state/local government only.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Taking Spatial Automation to the Next “Level”: How 1Spatial is Implementing its New 3D Capabilities

• The presentation during the Lunch and Learn will review the differences between 2D, 2.5D and 3D data and how when the time comes, you can automate the process of creating and validating your datasets across all dimensions.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

How Can We Help the Geospatial Data Act Help Us?

• There is a much excitement in the location community since the GDA became a law in 2018. However, the GDA implementation felt like it's in its early stages, with much work to be done on the data acquisition, standards, and collaboration/partnership fronts.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Business Meeting

• The Business Meeting, required by the NSGIC Bylaws, features reports by Board Officers, Executive Director, Committees, awards, and election results. The meeting is held in two parts.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Business Meeting

• The Business Meeting, required by the NSGIC Bylaws, features reports by Board Officers, Executive Director, Committees, awards, and election results. The meeting is held in two parts.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Keynote: Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

• Secretary Degraffenreid leads the modernization of elections in Pennsylvania, where she continues to champion GIS as a tool to provide transparency, accuracy, and confidence in elections.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Build Strong GIS Teams: Open Source for GIS

• Brendan will highlight the step by step process of getting your statewide GIS technical teams positioned to take advantage of free and open source GIS tools. Exemplary case studies of successful use of open source GIS tools at the state level.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Topographic Change at the Statewide Scale: An Indiana Case Study Powered by OpenTopography

• The size and complexity of high resolution lidar topographic datasets can pose challenges for both end-users, as well as federal, state, and local agencies tasked with curating and delivering these open datasets.

 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Roll Call of States & Welcome Lunch

• Lunch is served! In this welcome session, we'll also enjoy a fast-paced Roll Call of States. State representatives and other NSGIC member representatives will be asked to come to the front of the room (or unmute if participating virtually) and say hello.

 3DHP FORUM

Washington NHD Strategic Plan for EDH: Taking Advantage of Opportunities

• August's Elevation-Derived Hydrography for the 3D National Hydrography Dataset (EDH for 3DNHD) Monthly Forum discussed Washington's strategic plan for enhancing existing National Hydrography Datasets.

 WORKSHOP

3DEP Gap Analysis Workshop 3: Gap Strategies and Planning

• The workshop focused on strategies to address 3DEP data gaps and methods for compiling strategies into a plan of action.

 3DHP

USGS 3DTNM for Action: Part 1 3D Hydro Program (3DHP)