Conferences

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…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Day 2 of the Esri User Conference was filled with technical sessions, special interest groups, and presentations. ArcGIS Workflow Manager provides a central job management and tracking system to streamline tasks in ArcGIS for Desktop. It supports your entire enterprise, from knowledge workers to executives and public engagement. This workflow management system…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist The first day of the 2016 Esri User Conference began, as it does, with the plenary sessions, and I was at the front of the line to get into the presentation hall (one of my top tips!). Exemplary work done by GIS professionals from around the world was featured, including Racine …

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist Over 16,000 GIS professionals from around the world will gather in San Diego for the Esri UC next week. Those attending will network with peers from the global GIS community, learn new methods and techniques in hundreds of sessions and technical trainings, and engage with trusted experts and solution providers.…

GIS professionals from across northwest and north central Minnesota converged May 5th on the Beltrami County Administration Building in Bemidji for the NW-NC Minnesota GIS User Group. Agencies represented included local governments, private industries, utilities, the forestry service, emergency response, academic, and state offices, with the shared purpose of promoting GIS in the area. Attendees discussed…

Kyle Wikstrom, GIS Solutions Specialist On May Pro-West will join other GIS leaders from across the state at the 2016 MN GIS/LIS Consortium Spring Workshops at the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis. As is always our aim, we will be bringing attendees the latest and best in GIS expertise, this time focusing on getting up to…