This year’s ArcGIS Knowledge sessions are structured to guide attendees from foundational concepts through advanced analytics and real-world applications over the course of the week.
Check out the table below to see where you might need to choose between Knowledge sessions and plan your tracks carefully.
All the Knowledge sessions below are also browsable on the agenda website using these custom agenda links:
Drop by the Expo
The Esri User Conference (UC) is one of our best opportunities to connect with users, answer questions, and listen to your feedback. We appreciate the chance to hear directly from you about how you envision using knowledge graphs and graph analysis or link charts with your spatial data to help expedite your workflows and drive decision-making. If you have questions or need to request a new feature, UC is the perfect time to talk with us.
Several product team members will be at our booth in the Spatial Analytics area during all Expo hours.
Click here to navigate to our Knowledge booth: 2026 Esri User Conference | Esri
Also on the Expo floor, take your pick of industry! We have Solution Engineer specialists at the Public Safety, Defense and Intelligence, State & Local Government, GIS for Good and Natural Resources industry booths with industry-specific demos.
For example, at the Conservation Kiosk in the GIS for Good showcase, Ed will show a case study in using ArcGIS Knowledge to help protecting critical habitats. He's linked EPA Toxic Release Inventory data, watershed boundaries, critical habitat designations, and ecological research into a single knowledge graph, giving researchers a way to trace how industrial activity might be affecting threatened aquatic species — connections that are easy to miss when that data lives in separate systems.
Knowledge Session Schedule
Tuesday, Jul 14
On Tuesday, the ArcGIS Knowledge product team leads introductory sessions focused on connecting data and analyzing relationships. These sessions are designed as the primary entry point—helping attendees across industries understand how knowledge graphs extend GIS into relationship-centric analysis workflows.
At the same time intelligence analysts are encouraged to check out some focused demos showcasing how ArcGIS Knowledge supports ArcGIS as a complete system to support national security.
Wednesday, Jul 15
On Wednesday, the focus shifts to applied and advanced content. We recommend you prioritize the Analysis Use Cases with Knowledge Graphs session, which highlights how organizations are using knowledge graphs to solve real-world problems, and the Graph Analytics with Spatial and Temporal Context session, which serves as the core 200-level deep dive, showcasing more advanced analytical techniques and product capabilities.
Surrounding these core sessions, Wednesday also includes related content across national security, fraud detection, and connected intelligence workflows—providing additional context for how ArcGIS Knowledge fits into broader mission-driven analytics environments.
* Knowledge will also be featured briefly during second half of the 2.5 hr Analytics and Data Science and ArcGIS spotlight session from 8:30-11:00 AM (Room 30 D - SDCC). Knowledge will only have a 5-7 minutes in the second half of this tour through new analytics capabilities. We will cover what's new with Knowledge and share a simple example of how graph complements GIS to help explore land parcel ownership.
Thursday, Jul 16
Thursday afternoon on the Expo floor, visit the industry demo theaters to dive into how knowledge graphs support topics like conservation and activity-based intelligence (ABI). With ABI, Carlee and Madeleine reinforce how knowledge graph approaches support data fusion, object management systems and operational decision-making. In the conservation deep dive, Hannah shows how species loss doesn't happen in isolation — it ripples through an ecosystem and ArcGIS Knowledge makes those ripples visible. She'll weave biodiversity data from GBIF, iNaturalist, and the Global Biotic Interactions database into a single knowledge graph.
Learn More
Here are some additional resources about ArcGIS Knowledge that may be helpful as you prepare for UC.
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