What Makes ERGIS Worth Attending? Hear from Your Peers, Then Share Your Story
Choosing to attend a conference means making time in a busy schedule and deciding where to invest your professional development budget. What makes that investment worthwhile?
For GIS professionals in oil and gas, renewable energy, and pipeline, part of the value comes from spending time with people who understand the challenges of the work. It’s an opportunity to ask questions, compare approaches, and learn how other organizations are putting GIS into practice.
In this Voices from the Field video, filmed at ERGIS, participants share why they attend conferences like this and the value they find in coming together.
Learning from the People Doing the Work
Customer presentations give conference attendees a closer look at how GIS is being used within other organizations. They offer context that goes beyond a finished map or application: the problem a team needed to solve, the decisions they made, and the lessons they learned during implementation.
Across oil and gas, renewable energy, and pipeline, many of those experiences have relevance beyond a single industry. Managing data, connecting office and field teams, modernizing enterprise systems, and helping people adopt new workflows are challenges that professionals can learn about from one another.
A presentation can also be the beginning of a conversation. Someone in the audience may be working through a similar issue, considering a different approach, or looking for a peer who understands the questions their team is asking.
Your Experience Could Help Someone Else
The call for papers is open for the 2027 Esri Energy Resources GIS Conference, taking place May 10–12, 2027 in The Woodlands, Texas.
We’re inviting GIS professionals in oil and gas, renewable energy, and pipeline to share how they’re using GIS, what they’ve learned, and the challenges they’re solving.
For oil and gas professionals, that could mean a story about exploration and production, land and asset management, field operations, or environmental monitoring. Renewable energy teams might share their approaches to site selection, land analytics, permitting, or managing operational assets. Pipeline professionals could discuss data management, integrity, regulatory compliance, or connecting field and office workflows.
Enterprise modernization, digital twins, and GeoAI also offer opportunities to share experiences across all three industries.
You don’t need a groundbreaking project to have a story worth sharing. Think about a recurring problem your team addressed, a workflow you improved, or something you wish you had known before starting an implementation. Explaining your approach and what you learned could give another organization a useful starting point.
Bring Your Perspective to ERGIS
As you watch the video, consider the experiences your team could contribute to the next conference. What have you learned that would help a peer? What conversation would you like your work to start?
The value of ERGIS grows through the people willing to share their experience. We encourage you to be part of that exchange.
Submit your paper by November 13, 2026.
View the call for papers and submit your story
