2010 New York State Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Conference

Sunday-Tuesday, October 24-26, 2010

The Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Expect the best—Quality Presentations, Outstanding Posters, and real solutions from our exhibitors!

The NYS GIS conference has a long standing tradition of providing attendees with an opportunity to meet fellow New Yorkers active in the GIS field, exchange information and real experience, and seek solutions to your geographic data management needs.

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What's new at this year's NYS GIS Conference? "GIS Ablaze"

For the first time ever, Platinum and Gold Sponsors of this year's NYS GIS Conference will be given the opportunity to stand center stage and impart their wisdom in a power-packed presentation of GIS knowledge, and tidbits of “Who knew you could do that with geospatial information?” in our newly launched “GIS Ablaze” Ignite Sessions. These 5-minute sessions will be held during lunch on Monday and attendees will have the opportunity to vote on a favorite. The winning Sponsor will earn an exclusive highlight of their session on the NYSGIS Conference website.

The goal of this new program is to provide entertaining presentations that impart new knowledge to conference attendees.  For those not familiar with Ignite sessions, the rules are simple.  These are 5-minute long PowerPoint presentations that require each slide be advanced automatically every 15 seconds.  Slides are visually oriented with minimal text.  The presenter must know their material or will miss their opportunity to comment on the slide as they rapidly advance.  The sessions are a lot of fun and provide a high impact message for the attendees.  We are genuinely excited to be offering the opportunity to our prime sponsors. 

For more information on Ignite Sessions, go to:  http://igniteshow.com/ or contact Bruce Oswald at: bruce.oswald@gmail.com. 

 

Other reasons attend the NYS GIS Conference this year?

Excellent reasons provided by 2009 attendees include:

• " From my standpoint as a newer GIS professional, hearing about the new advances and techniques that can be utilized with GIS.",
• "content of sessions was the best in years",
• "2 of the sessions were very good and gave information I will be using for my work",
• "Sessions, opportunities to mix with exhibitors in hall",
• "It was an excellent place for networking and sharing ideas, and several of the plenary sessions were very clever. I liked the broadband mapping discussion.", and last but not least. . .
• "Receiving regional context for GIS applications around the state."

Speaking of GIS applications from around the state, take a look at . . .

• Bill Johnson's State of the State Address for 2009