7 Esri Community Must-Knows for UC 2023
Esri User Conference (UC) offers both in-person and digital attendance again this year, and will be held July 10-14, 2023 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The Esri Community team will be present at the conference to connect with attendees. Here are the top seven must-know details about how to find us and what we’ll be up to.
1. Booth Location
You can find the Esri Community booth on the right-hand side of the showcase floor. We’ll be right across from the Startup Zone and Partnering with Esri. Visit us to learn more about how Esri Community benefits members, how to set up or use your Esri Community account, to grab a free button and sticker, or just to say “hi.” Getting to meet our members in person is something we look forward to every year!
2. Help More Esri Users Get Connected
Simi Basu (Community Operations Manager) shows Esri Community to conference attendees
If you’re reading this article, there’s every reason to believe you’re a regular user in Esri Community and already familiar with the numerous ways it supports GIS professionals of all sorts. There will be others present who don’t yet share that familiarity. Please feel encouraged to send them our way or even escort them over to our booth to initiate an introduction. We’d love to answer their questions and help them get an account set up. The more GIS minds we have in Esri Community, the more collaboration takes place!
3. Share Your Community Story
Our team has a renewed emphasis on telling meaningful stories about our members, which is exampled in our monthly Esri Community Member Spotlight series. If you’d like to share how Esri Community is helping you in your work, how it’s connecting you to GIS peers, or is otherwise an element in a story that others might be interested in then we want to hear about it. Feel encouraged to let us know ahead of time with an email to esricommunity@esri.com or just swing by our booth.
Esri Community member Krishna Murthy interviewed during UC 2022 for this story
4. Share Your ArcGIS Ideas
The ArcGIS Ideas Exchange is a great place to share your innovative ideas directly with Esri’s product teams. Customers with a free Esri Community account can propose product updates or new features at any time or vote for Ideas submitted by others.
In the course of 2022, the Esri team received 2,311 Ideas from customers that had 13,252 Kudos votes distributed among them. After review, 241 of those Ideas were implemented into product updates. This to point out that we’re serious about working with ArcGIS users to understand how ArcGIS products are being used and what updates will have the greatest impact.
At the Esri Community booth, we’ll be collecting Ideas and helping attendees navigate the Ideas Exchange, so feel encouraged to bring your inspiration our way! And if you hear someone else saying, “it’d be great if …” or “I really wish …” or “what if …” about an Esri product, be an ambassador by helping them find our team to make sure their thoughts are heard.
5. NEW: MVP Recognition Wall
Grab a coffee at the Starbucks kiosk by Entrance C in the Grand Lobby and you’ll find yourself beside a large wall dedicated to our amazing Esri Community MVPs. This small group of super-users have an outsized impact in this platform by contributing in numerous ways, including having collectively supplied 14,000 answers (and counting) to others’ questions!
If you’ve ever been helped by an Esri Community MVP, be sure to take a picture of yourself at the wall and tweet or post a LinkedIn message of thanks while using #esricommunity.
6. NEW: GIS Day Registration
Set in the second half of fall, GIS Day is an annual opportunity to celebrate and educate others on the role geographic information systems play in our world. Esri has been a strong supporter of this global event from its inception in 1999, and this year we’ll be supplying you and other User Conference attendees with details on how to join in on the fun in your own way from anywhere in the world. Make sure to swing by the GIS Day booth (marked in the map image above) for more information.
Learn more: GIS Day website
7. NEW: Esri Customer Benefits Program Passport
The Esri Community booth will be one of six areas to visit in the showcase where you’ll learn more about the benefits of being an Esri customer. To participate, pick up a passport from where they'll be distributed at registration desks, the info booth, or around the expo hall, then visit the six areas listed to earn the corresponding stamp. Participants who complete the passport not only receive personalized recommendations to boost career—and organizational—success, but they’ll also earn a limited-edition Esri Community badge!
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Now equipped with these need-to-know details, we can’t wait to see you at UC 2023! Our team loves meeting with the folks who spend time here on this platform and putting faces to usernames, so please don’t feel you need an excuse to just stop by for a friendly ‘hello’ or to pick up your Esri Community button and sticker.
Don’t forget to tweet about your visit to our booth and tag us @EsriCommunity_ and use #EsriUC2023 during the event!