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6th Annual

GIS Day @ KU

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
5th Floor - Kansas Union

GIS Day @ KU is part of a nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS), and how we use this evolving tool to analyze our world. We continue our tradition of bringing together a community of GIS users from academia, business and government. This year's focus is on the range of available software solutions (both proprietary and open-source), and how GIS and the web are combining to create new and exciting capabilities. The 2007 symposium also includes a new event, an information fair with vendors from academia and local business that will run throughout the day. As always, GIS Day @ KU is FREE and open to the public.

– Free and Open to the Public –

-- FREE Online Registration --	Parking and Event Map
Google Map of Participants	Student Competition
NEW - Information Fair

Printable Schedule of Events (pdf)

*All presentations will be in Woodruff Auditorium on the 5th Floor Kansas Union. Refreshments, along with the Information Fair, will be in Parlors ABC also on the 5th Floor of the Kansas Union.*
8:30 – 9:00	Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15		Opening Remarks Joshua Campbell - GIS Day Planning Committee, KU Dept. of Geography Watch Online Video (4:39)
9:15 – 9:45		Web 2.0 and Geospatial Convergence Geoff Zeiss – Director of Technology, Autodesk It's a Brand New Game: Open Standards, Open Source, Open Content, and Convergence PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) Watch Online Video (41:53)
9:45 – 10:00	Break
10:00 – 10:30		Taking Google Earth to the Next Level Brian Timoney – Founder of The Timoney Group Adding GIS Muscle to Spinning Globes Using Open Source View Presentation Watch Online Video (22:52)
10:30 – 11:00		Neogeography Andrew Turner – Founder of Mapufacture, author of 'Introduction to Neogeography' Neogeography and GIS, it's not one or the other View Presentation Watch Online Video (25:37)
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 11:45		Server GIS Jeremy Bartley – ArcGIS Server Developer Team, ESRI A Geographer's Role in a Google Maps World View Presentation Watch Online Video (34:09)
11:45 – 12:45	Lunch at the Kansas Union (on your own)
1:00 – 2:30	Student Research Presentation Competition (8 - 8 minute talks)
2:45 – 4:15	Spatial Modeling Applications
		Aimee Stewart – Systems Programmer, KU Biodiversity Research Center LifeMapper: Open Source Geospatial Tools for the Biological Community View Presentation
		Nathaniel Brunsell– Professor in Atmospheric Studies, KU Dept. of Geography Ecohydrology of the Central Plains: An Open-Source Approach PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) Watch Online Video (30:52)
		Jude Kastens – Research Assistant, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program (KARS) Using Digital Elevation Data for Applications in Floodplain Mapping View Presentation Watch Online Video (33:53)
4:15 – 4:30	Concluding Remarks and Award Presentation Watch Online Video (4:39)