Abstracts Sought for GIS-Pro 2012: URISA's 50th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals

The committee welcomes the submission of individual papers, complete sessions, luncheon presentations, panels, and lightning talks and has proposed a list of suggested topics for consideration (note that all abstracts received will be reviewed and considered for the conference program regardless of the list below):

Data and Applications of GIS

• Data storage: cloud or in-house; new methods for compression; data de-duplication
• Basemap updating/maintenance
• Maps in the Cloud
• Transportation & Transit (planning/mapping/management)
• Addressing
• Map communication: how to not make the “normal” mistakes

Technical

• Open Source
• Architecture
• Server Technology/Cloud Computing
• Leveraging the Tablet Explosion
• Mobile Applications

Leadership and Management

• GISP Certification
• Esri ArcGIS Certification
• Education: how to cope with reduction in budgets and still keep your people on top of the fast-paced changes

User and Business User

• GIS Return on Investment (ROI)
• Business process reengineering
• GIS in the First Nations /Tribal Agencies
• Reflections on the Past 50 years of URISA
• GIS in the Social Sciences
• "New" Uses for GIS
• Geospatial Future
• GIS in the Pacific Northwest

Abstract submissions will be accepted until Friday, February 17, 2012. Abstract submissions should include a presentation title and descriptive abstract text not to exceed 250 words.
URISA is pleased to welcome the Northwest GIS Users’ Group as co-host of GIS-Pro 2012.
The link to the Call for Presentations and general conference information is:  http://www.urisa.org/gispro2012