Conferences

Pro-West is preparing to head for Las Vegas September 24-27 for the 2017 Internal Association of Assessing Officers’ (IAAO) Annual Conference. Taking place at Bally’s Hotel and Casino right at the heart of the Strip, the conference program promises a rich learning experience, covering topics at the forefront of Assessors’ agendas country-wide. Pro-West will be…

Conference delegates at this year’s URISA GIS-Pro in Jacksonville, FL October 26-28 will have the opportunity to discover Jefferson County, WA’s story of GIS transformation. Taking the County from stagnant to standard-setting, find out the driving forces, milestones, lessons learned along the way, and successes achieved by the Jefferson team in their journey towards a…

Pro-West’s Jennifer Ward, Local Government GIS Consultant, and Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist, will be teaching at this year’s Minnesota Association of Assessing Officers (MAAO) Summer Seminars. Taking place May 24-25 at St Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN, the two-day MAAO Summer Seminars program features 14 classes focusing on topics of critical importance to…

In the GIS industry, there are two distinct “conference seasons” each year: February-March and September-October. We’re about 2 weeks out from the February 2017 “opener”, so we would like to share where and when you can find Pro-West in the next couple of months. Esri FedGIS The aforementioned “season opener”. Taking place February 13-14 in…

The WLIA Annual Conference is just a month away, so it’s time to get organized! Taking place February 22-24 in Wisconsin Dells, this is a landmark year for the conference – its 30th – and Pro-West is proud to help WLIA celebrate. The has been released, offering a rich blend of valuable and practical topics…

With little over a month to go until Esri’s FedGIS 2017, Pro-West is ready! Following the success of the 2016 conference for our business, we are looking forward to exhibiting for the second time. Taking place February 13-14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC, this year’s theme is “Innovation that…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The 26th annual MN GIS/LIS Consortium annual conference is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be offering a workshop on a topic that is important to me: Open Data. In this pre-conference workshop, we will explore the topic of open data and how it can help the citizens…

Fall is officially here and, at Pro-West, that means just one thing: the MN GIS/LIS Annual Conference will soon be here! It’s taking place a little later this year – October 26-28 – giving us an extra couple of weeks to polish our presentations and get in plenty of practice with the popcorn machine. Every year we strive to…

The Esri UC 2016 brought together 16,000 GIS professionals from around the world to introduce new and enhanced products and capabilities, exchange ideas, recognize achievements amongst the mapping community, and celebrate the difference GIS is making on a global scale. As always, we enjoyed connecting with many of our clients at the UC and hope…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The Esri User Conference is the largest gathering of GIS professionals from around the world, who attend hundreds of technical and interest sessions on new ways of understanding our world. Here are just a FEW of the highlights! ArcGIS for Local Government will move to a new deployment approach that simplifies…