Campus Operations in Higher Education Webinar Series

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With budgets and enrollments shifting, colleges and universities need to focus on building efficient and effective operations—now more than ever.

Throughout this series, leading universities—along with Esri—will discuss and demonstrate how spatial collaboration, decision-making, and analytical tools can help with a broad range of workflows across campuses.

Join Esri for a four-part webinar series that will walk you through steps that can be taken today:

Webinar 1 (September 16)—Getting Started: Building Your Spatial Foundation

GIS isn’t just a campus basemap. GIS is real-time dashboards for VP’s and department heads, it pulls disparate asset management and work order systems into a contextual framework, and it provides a hub upon which all departments and users can share and collaborate to work more effectively. This webinar will show campus operations users how:

• To frame the conversation around the return on investment (ROI) that GIS provides
• GIS can be used to monitor and report on KPI’s
• Where and how to get started with a technical roadmap
• Integration with other business systems can take place
• Key campus workflows can be quickly configured

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Webinar 2 (October 7)—Bringing GIS Indoors: Space Planning and Optimization

Getting directions to a building? No problem. What about real-time, floor aware directions to the specific valve that will stop the water leak? Now that’s valuable. Not only does GIS enhance outdoor workflows, but by pulling together building, floor, room, and asset information, indoor GIS takes you a step further. The ability to optimally route visitors to rooms, find nearest AEDs, integrate with calendars, and pull together asset management systems into a floor aware GIS, are just some of the powerful aspects of bringing GIS indoors. Join us for the second webinar in the series to show campus operations users how:

• GIS is being used to tie work management and location together
• To build and manage dynamic, routable networks
• Peers are starting to leverage indoor GIS

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Michigan State University's story map

Webinar 3 (October 28)—Building a Mobile Workforce: Getting Decision Support into the Field

In our home lives – smart phones have become a part of daily life. So why do we still rely heavily on printed maps, CAD diagrams, and hand-drawn notes to find assets while at work on campus? GIS is no longer about just producing printed maps, it provides out of the box tools for data collection, data discovery, and data sharing. It also provides applications that can be rapidly configured for a wide variety of workflows. This webinar will feature 2 leading universities sharing their best practices for mobile GIS as well as showing campus operations users:

• The value of configure first, customize second
• Updates to Esri mobile applications
• The ROI of mobile data capture
• How to provide real-time operational awareness to crews and managers

Webinar speakers you can look forward to hearing from:

• Seth Kiser, Project Manager for University Facilities Construction & Renovation, Clemson University
• Grant McCormick, Enterprise GIS Manager, University of Arizona
• Brian Baldwin, Senior Solution Engineer – Education, Esri

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Webinar 4 (November 18)—Optimizing Utilities: Digitally Transforming Network Management

It’s 3AM and the power goes out. You or your staff need to locate the right switch, but do you know where it is? When a construction project is taking place and you want to ensure that a dig-in won’t occur, how confident are you in the mapped location of your underground assets? These are just 2 common use cases for the times when an accurate spatial representation of your network assets would be incredibly valuable. This webinar will focus on the value of moving your utility assets from CAD to GIS and many of the advances that allow users to view and trace network assets in the field, incorporate real-time information, and represent your data in 2D, schematics, and 3D. This webinar will feature 1 leading university and showcase: 

• Network management for electric, gas, water, sewer, stormwater, fiber, telecom, district heating, and more
• Scaled deployment options (from hosted solutions to Enterprise management)
• Moving from CAD to GIS

Webinar speakers you can look forward to hearing from:

• Mary Colomaio, Utility Mapping Program Manager, Cornell University
• Brian Baldwin, Senior Solution Engineer – Education, Esri
• Tom DeWitte, Solution Engineer, Esri
• Junjie Ma, Solution Engineer, Esri

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