Getting ready for ESRI User Conference

ESRI User Conference will take place from 12th-16th of July in San Diego. This will be big event. It is expected that ArcGIS 10 will be released during the Conference. There are other changes happening as well. From today a new logo has showed up on main site.

New logo

One of the big changes is on support site. It is still changing and I would like to add for better. Not too long ago it was using ArcGIS 10 links and documentation as default but now it is changed to the current release, 9.3.1. It is more than likely it will keep changing based on responses users are providing.

In addition to this ArcGIS.com site is up and running. This is a very good place to start looking for maps and data ready for use in your organization. Here is explanation about it:

ArcGIS.com is a Web site for experiencing online ArcGIS. Visit the site to create maps, find and use maps, applications, and tools, and share your maps and applications with others. Within the site, you will find applications for building and sharing maps. You will also find thousands of basemaps, specialty layers, applications, and tools that you can view and use, plus communities you can join.

Simultaneously new ArcGIS Explorer Online is also launched. If you have used "regular" ArcGIS Explorer you will be very familiar with this version. It does require Silverlight 4.0 but installation is very quick. 

New version of ArcGIS Exploere is also expected, as announced in this post.

In short it is shaping to be a great conference with plenty of news, events and networking opportunities. If you are lucky enough to go there make sure to make most of it. There is already plenty of materials for you to read over here: http://www.esri.com/events/user-conference/index.html

Getting ready for the conference

In five days 14th New Zealand ESRI User Conference will take place. Conference will be in Wellington in Town Hall. Conference dates are 2nd -5th of November. To find more about the conference visit GIS User site and NZ ESRI User Conference pages.

Above is the theme logo for this conference. Related to that is a big conference dinner. Most of the attendees do make an effort and dress up according to theme and it is always great experience. Have a look at some photos from the last year's dinner here.

On more serious note, we will have great speakers including Hon Maurice William Minister for Land Information, Building and Construction, Customs, Statistics and Small Business, Lawrie Jordan  ESRI Director of Imagery Enterprise Solutions, Colin MacDonald  LINZ Chief Executive and others.

Agenda is available on-line and we are hoping everybody will find something of interest among the four streams and number of presentations and workshops.

Personally, I will present a half day workshop on ArcGIS Explorer 900. More details are listed here but I will write another post(s) after the conference.