2025 WA GIS Conference

2025 WA GIS Conference

8:00am PDT

Conference Registration Cherry Parkes Lobby

8:30am PDT

Building Your GISP Portfolio: A Hands-On Experience Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Change Management - You Build It, Will They Come? Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Demystifying Esri's Network Information Management System: Business Values and How to Begin Pinkerton: Rm 131 Introduction to Developing a Drone Program and Uses in a Local Public Agency Milgard Hall: Rm 301 The GIS Code of Ethics for GIS Professionals – An Interactive Workshop Cherry Parkes: Rm 105

1:30pm PDT

WGGL/YPI Networking Activity Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Indoor GIS Technology Workshop Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Integrating Drone Data into Your GIS Workflow: Planning, Capture, Processing, and Integration for Mapping and Modeling (Part 2) Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Real-Time GIS with ArcGIS Velocity Pinkerton: Rm 131

3:00pm PDT

Washington Governmental GIS Leaders (WGGL) Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Young Professionals Initiative: YPI Social Event: Young Professionals Camp Colvos

5:00pm PDT

WAGISA Welcome Social William Philip Hall

8:00am PDT

Conference Registration and Catered Breakfast Cherry Parkes Lobby

9:00am PDT

WAGISA Opening Plenary & Keynote Address William Philip Hall

10:15am PDT

Transition to Presentations TBD

10:30am PDT

Feed the Snake: Growing Your Python Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Editing on the Web Made Even Better! (Esri) Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Are You Ready for the New Datum? Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Enterprise Data Modernization at King County, WA Milgard Hall: Rm 301

11:00am PDT

Automate All The Esri Things – A Simple Guide Milgard Hall: Rm 311 ArcGIS Real-Time Data Integration (Esri) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

11:30am PDT

Preparing for the New US Spatial Datum Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Smart Data for Smarter Decisions Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Automating Sewer Tap Data Integration and Spatial Alignment Milgard Hall: Rm 311

12:00pm PDT

Catered Lunch William Philip Hall

1:30pm PDT

Applying GIS to Transform Public Health Workflows Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Monitoring Transplanted Eelgrass Populations in a Restored Tidal Estuary with High-Resolution Drone Imagery and Structure-From-Motion Elevation Modeling. Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Leveraging WA 3DHP Network for Additional Value (NV5) Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Developing Data Collection Workflows in Field Maps for ArcGIS Milgard Hall: Rm 311

2:00pm PDT

Planning for Informatics and Data Modernization at a Local Public Health Agency Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Integrating Disparate Datasets for Comprehensive Kelp Forest Mapping in Washington State Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Using Risk and Condition to Develop Asset Management Strategy (Trimble) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

2:30pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

“I Know What Data You Published Last Summer” A User and Data Management Horror Story. Milgard Hall: Rm 301 King County Watershed Mapping Toolbox Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Using ArcGIS QuickCapture for Near-Real-Time Updating of Snowplowing Status Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Digital Twin and 3D GIS (Esri) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

3:30pm PDT

Tools for Teaching and Community Science: A High-Resolution Fire History Dataset for Riverside State Park in Spokane, Washington Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Quantifying ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro Usage at King County Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Remapping the Hydrography of Washington State: Update on Progress & Lessons on How Project Management Techniques Have Helped Meet Success Milgard Hall: Rm 301

4:00pm PDT

Geospatial Digital Twin for Facilities and Vertical Asset Management (NV5) Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Managing WDFW's Culture Resource Data Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 ArcGIS Feature Service and Power BI Integration Milgard Hall: Rm 311

4:30pm PDT

WAGISA Sponsor's Social William Philip Hall

6:00pm PDT

Conference Social TBD

8:00am PDT

Conference Registration and Catered Breakfast TBD

8:30am PDT

GIS Process Improvement from a Lean Six Sigma Lens Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Fighting Invasive Weeds: Automated Herbicide Records in Green River Watershed Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Covington Water District and the Utility Network Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 From Reactive to Proactive: GIS-Driven Disaster Preparedness for Resilient Communities (Quartic Solutions) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

9:30am PDT

How a GIS Tech Stack Failure Taught Us to Build a Team, Not Just Tools Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Modernizing Parcel Management at Yakima County Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Crash Course on Data Migration Tools in Utility Network Foundations Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Street-Level Imagery: A Game-Changing Approach to How We Operate (NCTech) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

10:00am PDT

10:30am PDT

Powering Connectivity: Navigating Challenges in Mapping Utility Network Data to Outage Management Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Govern, Guide, Geolocate: SOPs and Tools for Smarter Asset Management Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Don't Panic, It's Just AI: A Developer's Handbook  Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Dick Thomas Award Presentation Competition Milgard Hall: Rm 110

11:00am PDT

Where Are You? Coordinates and Precision Cherry Parkes: Rm 105

11:30am PDT

Bridging the Gap: Lessons from Data Sharing Between Enterprise and ArcGIS Online Milgard Hall: Rm 301 Beyond 2D GIS Data and Mapping: Drones, SLAM LIdar, Gaussian Splats, and SfM, Oh My! Exporing Modern 3D GIS Data Milgard Hall: Rm 311

12:00pm PDT

Catered Lunch William Philip Hall

1:30pm PDT

Using GIS to Bring Awareness and Support to People with Chronic Conditions Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Exploring The Great Indoors Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Supercharge Your GIS with High-Resolution Aerial Imagery for Public Safety, Planning, and Infrastructure, and More (EagleView) Milgard Hall: Rm 110 Seattle GIS Return on Investment Report Milgard Hall: Rm 301

2:00pm PDT

Network Analysis: Using GIS to Better Understand Our Response to the Opioid Epidemic Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Mapping Arts & Culture Grant Recipients in King County Cherry Parkes: Rm 105

2:15pm PDT

Modernizing a Custom Legacy Vaccine Provider App for Enhanced Accessibility and Sustainability Milgard Hall: Rm 311 Unlock Your GIS Potential: A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration (ROK Technologies) Milgard Hall: Rm 110

2:30pm PDT

Building Geospatial Community with Maptime Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Save Time for More Interesting Work: ArcGIS Python API: Automating Repetitive Administrative Taks Milgard Hall: Rm 311 GIS Request Management: The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed Milgard Hall: Rm 301

2:45pm PDT

A GIS Strategy to Map Historic Racial Covenants Across Washington State Cherry Parkes: Rm 105 Analyzing Risk with GIS at WSRB Milgard Hall: Rm 311

3:00pm PDT

Transition to Closing Plenary TBD

3:15pm PDT

WAGISA Closing Plenary William Philip Hall

4:00pm PDT

Conference Sendoff Social TBD