Community Beyond DevSummit 2023
Thousands of developers from around the globe are making their way home from Palm Springs, California, where they joined peers and Esri staff for the 18th annual Esri Developers Summit (DevSummit). Many more tuned in virtually for what is the largest gathering of geospatial developers in the world. The momentous force of so many incredible ArcGIS users coming together to learn and to collaborate promises long-lasting impacts.
Our Esri Community team is carrying that energy home with us after having had the pleasure of meeting face-to-face with folks who’re active users of our platform, hearing first-hand stories about how members are helping each other find solutions to challenges and collaboratively solving problems daily.
Members of the Esri Community team pose with Krishna Murthy (2nd from left), who was
featured in our December Esri Community Member Spotlight
We’re equally energized by those folks we met for the first time, and who we had the opportunity to introduce to Esri Community either at our booth or via Tuesday evening’s well-attended SpeedGeeking session. If you count yourself among the freshly initiated crew and are just now getting acclimated in this space, welcome! As our membership continues to grow in the hundreds of thousands, know that you’re landing in a large community of peers recognized for their intelligence and generosity, and who share your enthusiasm for what GIS can help accomplish in our world.
Be curious. Ask questions. And consider giving back by answering others’ questions when able. Your contributions of all sorts enrich the ecosystem found here.
ArcGIS Ideas Community Manager, Dara Burlo, leads a SpeedGeeking session in which users were
challenged to participate in Esri Community, including via contributing to the ArcGIS Ideas Exchange
As DevSummit attendees witnessed Jack and other presenters emphasize throughout the event plenary, Esri recognizes the body of its users as active participants in addressing challenges across a truly enormous range of issues—including existential threats to humanity. As Jack identified, we need common solutions for our troubled world. ArcGIS users are a crucial part of that.
Exciting demonstrations shared throughout DevSummit underscore Esri’s commitment to providing the best geospatial tools available, expanding the reach of what’s possible while enabling users to enact ever more powerful solutions. This requires that ArcGIS’s capabilities grow not just deeper, but wider as well in response to the need for increasingly robust tools in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Esri Community members apply GIS to all manner of fields. That’s no limit on any user’s role in building a better world through GIS. Instead, it’s a strength. Asking good questions, producing answers, and submitting feature requests through the ArcGIS Ideas Exchange are entangled in the work and needs of others. They aid Esri in building better tools and support others who you may never know, multiplying the impact of this space where GIS professionals and enthusiasts can collaborate at any time, from virtually any location.
We’re glad to have you all here and look forward to supporting you through provision of this place where users can find solutions, share ideas, and collaborate to solve problems with GIS.