Hi GIS managers & leaders. If you are planning to attend the Esri 2023 User Conference this year, we've put together an agenda of recommended workshops, presentations, and events you may find useful. We know combing through the hundreds of offerings can seem daunting at times, so we went ahead and put together a list of items we think you might be interested in.  **Edit. There is now an evening social event for the GIS Manager's Summit. See the updated attached agenda for time and location.  ... View more

The 11th GIS Manager’s Summit will be held in-person at the 2023 Esri International User Conference (UC). For the first time in its history, it will occur on the Sunday before UC, July 9th.  It will run from 9AM to 3:30 PM in Marina Ballroom EF in the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina (333 W. Harbor Dr.), which is connected to the San Diego Convention Center. There is no charge for the event. If you are interested in attending, please visit the web page below and add the event to your schedule using the button in the bottom right of that web page. https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/gis-managers-summit?date=2023-07-09  At the last Summit in 2019, there were over 350 attendees from 46 U.S. states and 17 countries. This event has a history of providing valuable content to current and future GIS managers on how to become leaders. It is full of interactive and participatory opportunities to meet and work with your peers and Esri SMEs, so bring lots of business cards and be prepared to get involved.  The content will closely follow what is on the Path to GIS Success site - including the five key components to success: Strategy, Governance, Data & Technology, Enablement, and Skills Development. Scheduled presenters include:  Adam Carnow, Esri  James Pardue, Esri  Marna McLain, City of Austin, TX Anika Smart, LA Metro Kara Shindle, Franklin Co., PA Deepti Kochhar, Esri  Jim VanOstenbridge, Esri  Michael Green, Esri  Justin Ogden, Esri  Matt Lewin, Esri Canada  Here are some comments from attendees at past Summits:  …the speakers I saw were all phenomenal and I took a lot away from them. Thank you for putting on such an inspiring and validating summit. I'm a fairly new manager, so it was great to learn management tools applicable to GIS. I definitely plan on attending next year.  This was worth my whole day investment at the conference. I don't know how to tell you to improve since I was blown away by everything from the format, quality of the speakers and the diverse attendance. I will come again!  I don't have any suggestions for improvements. You continue to knock it out of the park each year. Thanks!  Great meeting. I learned a lot. My best experience at UC. I am definitely coming back next year.  Everyone did a great job. I am not exaggerating how helpful this session was.  I am a new manager and I think experience through the summit can give insight to all new managers and existing managers. It is a great experience for all managers to take part in.  Thank you so much for putting this summit together.  It was amazing. Thank you for providing such a fantastic experience with the Summit at Esri UC this year. It was my first time attending both and I gained so much from the Summit. The speakers were engaging, and it was nice to learn of management tools that were GIS oriented.  I just wanted to write to thank you for the GIS Manager’s Summit that you provided at the Esri conference in San Diego.  I found the session so helpful to me as a manager and felt it touched on many topics that I struggle with as a coordinator.  The quality of your speakers was great, and I loved the fast-paced format.  The day went by too quickly.  I am already recommending it to my fellow managers and coordinators.  It was a pleasure to attend the GIS Manager's Summit for the third year in a row.  I have consistently found this to be the most important session I attend at UC. I find the summit important for the following reasons:  It provides me with ways to approach executive leadership at the company and to show business value for GIS  It helps me think about new ways of collaborating with my team to make them more productive and collaborative  It gives me new tools for how to solicit ideas from my team and to build buy-in from them on the work that we do  ... View more

Hi all: Wrote an article on tips for making your GIS Departments proactive instead of reactive.  I'm wanting to take this and transform it into a workshop format. Tips & thoughts on how to do this? My thoughts are: 1. take people through the analysis I did to identify my roadblocks 2. Identify goals to help overcome roadblocks in a brainstorming session 3. Identify data to support goals 4. Implementation ideas for tools & data collection    I really want a guided, interactive format, but I've not really done a workshop before, so looking for guidance.   Note: I am in Local Government so that is how mine is framed, but not tied to this  Thanks! ... View more

The GIS Manager Summit will be returning live and in-person at the 2023 Esri International User Conference (UC) for the first time since 2019, and now it will be on Sunday, July 9th, the day before the start of UC. So be sure to make your travel plans accordingly. This full-day of interactive presentations from Esri and your peers includes networking and group discussions and is designed to help GIS Managers become GIS Leaders in their organizations. So bring your business cards and be prepared to start off your UC week with a great group of GIS professionals. Be on the lookout for more details... https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/overview   ... View more