Standards and Interoperability Blog

The 2025 Esri User Conference is right around the corner, and we are excited to connect with you. UC is filled with many presentations and events, with hundreds of topics covered. To help you get the most out of your experience, we’ve created a custom agenda for Geospatial Standards and Specifications. We hope these sessions will be enjoyable and informative as you continue your geospatial journey.

View our Geospatial Standards and Specifications custom agenda that you can add directly to your UC account.

We also have SIGs (Special Interest Groups) available for you to attend this year. Two great SIGs that you might find particularly interesting are the:

Geospatial Ecosystems SIG: Improving ROI for Modern SDI

Community Engagement SIG: Using Hubs for Deeper Collaboration

SIGs are a great way to hear from and network with like-minded professionals. This year advanced sign-ups for SIGs will be required, ensuring everyone who signs up will have a seat, and that there is ample room. It’s easy to reserve, just register for UC and add sessions to your schedule. You can also join a waitlist if your SIG is full, as seats will open as others update their plans. Reservations will be held until 5 minutes before the start time.  If you forget to sign up, or find yourself available at the last minute, any extra spots will be made available at the door on a first-come, first served basis.

The Geospatial Standards and Specifications kiosk will be in the Open Platform area. If you would like a pdf of the entire Open Platform schedule to print and take with you, it is attached below.

We hope you have a wonderful UC experience this year!

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The Esri User Conference (Esri UC) has many presentations and events covering hundreds of topics. To help you navigate, we have prepared focused agendas.

So you know ArcGIS Data Interoperability can write to cloud warehouses; want to do it fast?

Yes, the whole internet, in either direction, with optional analysis on the way.  What's not to like?

To help you find your way to the Open Platform related sessions and events, we have prepared a more focused agenda for Open Geospatial Standards, Metadata, Catalog, & Search, Geospatial Collaboration, SDI & INSPIRE, and Data Interoperability.

You don't have time to worry if the programs you use are going to keep pace when your hardware or operating systems change. We wanted to reassure you that Esri is already hard at work testing ArcGIS with Windows 11 to ensure your seamless transition to the new operating system later this year.

See lots of links to resources related to our Technical Session at the 2021 virtual Esri User Conference.

ArcGIS: Data Interoperability and Integration

User Conference - Session Link for Registered Users

13 July 2021 - 11:45 a.m. — 12:45 p.m. PDT

The GeoNet Community platform will be updating on November 12th and the new community features provide several ways to stay in touch with content regarding Open Platform topics that you are interested in the most.

Followers:

If you’re a follower of this space, you will need to Subscribe to our Place in the new platform.

Additional guidance for Subscriptions in the new platform will be available under a new help section.

Thank you for being a part of the Open Platform space and we look forward to seeing you in the new GeoNet! For more information about the platform update, visit the GeoNet Lounge for the latest announcements.

Sincerely,

Your Open Platform space owners

Checkout this great new document which discusses how the ArcGIS Platform and its various components are open and interoperable. To learn more about Esri's open vision, please checkout: esri.com/software/open .

Enjoy,