Live from the 2018 User Conference Plenary: Morning Session

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Welcome and thank you for following the 2018 User Conference Plenary! We will be sharing the latest news and updates during the plenary, and we look forward to seeing your feedback and contributions in the comments below!

Be sure to follow the User Conference space for daily recaps, pictures, discussions, and more. 
  

Esri UC 2018 Plenary ScheduleUC Exhibit Hall

Doors Open at 7: 45 a.m.

Morning Session: 8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Mid-Morning Session: 10:45 a.m. - noon

Afternoon Session: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

And We're Live with the GeoNet team and the Customer Advocacy team contributing to today's blog in the comments below. 

8:30 a.m. - Opening video and Jack's Welcome

Jack on stage8:33 a.m. -  The audience applauds, and Jack enters the stage. Jack opens the Plenary with his vibrant, “Welcome” to the audience. He continues with the purpose of the conference...GIS continues to evolve and increasingly plays a vital role in digital transformation, working smarter, providing a wealth of information at the fingertips of everyone all over the planet.

And to keep with his conference tradition and instill the sense of community, Jack encourages everyone to turn and meet someone around them they do not know.

Meet & Greet at UC 2018 Plenary

After the audience settles, he continues to discuss the fantastic work of others, 13 user slides showing examples of work submitted by Esri customers; work that demonstrates some of the most innovative of uses with Esri products and Applications. Each submission that was selected will receive a certificate.

And the categories are…

Environmental Modeling and Assessment
  • Air Quality Modeling 
Natural Resource Management 
Managing and Analyzing Land Information
  • CAMA

 Planning and Urban Design

  • South Korea - Urban Redevelopment
  • Abu Dhabi
Transportation Planning and Management
Engineering and Public Works
  • Sidewalk Vertical
  • The growth of Dashboards as a means of communication
Utilities and Telecommunications
  • Outage and Voltage dashboards with real-time status systems from Colorado 
Business Analysis and Location Intelligence 
Public Health and Demographics
  • High-risk schools index - San Bernardino
  • Kenya Presidential Elections - 3D democracy
Public Safety and Security
  • Incident planning response with Super Bowl
Preparing for and Responding to Disasters
  • Earthquakes to hurricanes, wildfires, and floods 
Portal, Open Data, and Citizens Engagement
  • Abu Dhabi – One-Stop Citizen Hub
  • Citizen Engagement
  • FEMA Open Data
  • And Org portals
Cartography
  • Swiss Topo as the gold standard in cartography
  • NGA - quantity and million updates per day
  • DNA mapping - London DNA Compass
 Story Maps | Telling Stories About Everything
  • Killer Whales
  • Columbia

8:46 a.m. - And the Awards go to…UC 2018 Awards

Story Map and Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards

Jack announces the Special Achievement in GIS Awards winners.

  

Enterprise GIS - Sempra Energy AwardSempra Energy receives award

Sempra Video - Representatives receive an award

Jimmy Cho - Senior Vice President

Katie Spears - Vice President

Debbie Booy - GIS Manager

Jamie Exon - Solutions Manager

 

Thomas Edghill‌ shares a comment for Sempra Energy. 

 

Leadership in Government Award

Governor Hickenlooper - Colorado

Governor Hickenlooper receives award

President's Award – American Red Cross

American Red Cross

8:59 a.m. Vision

Jack shares the vision of GIS and what we should do next. Envisioning what's possible. Accelerating and improving efficiency. Integrating environmental thinking in everything we do. 

Matt Ball‌ 

How do we take the next step? We need to embrace the digital transformation to create a societal GIS. My sense over the years is not whether this is possible, it’s essential and inevitable. You will be participating in this, and making it happen.

Web GIS is Driving Digital Transformation - Helping Organizations to re-envision their workflows.

Jack shares what's next. 

See comment shared below  >>

9:15 a.m. - Our Work

ArcGIS supports two kinds of community. It integrates and embodies all types of data by organizing content and information you creating a common language. It focuses on three main areas of the Enterprise - Systems of records, systems of insights and systems of engagement.

9:15 a.m. - Seedling to Shelf – The Transformation of GIS Across a Vertically Integrated Forestry Supply Chain

J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI)

Speakers: Jason Killiam, J.D. Irving and Heather Morrison, Esri

 

Jack introduces Jason Killiam, Chief Forester.

 

Jason reflects in time to 1882 when J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) began in a small town in Atlantics, Canada. This small family business continues to grow and diversify with 15,000 employees operating in 22 States and eight Provinces. JDI is pursuing a vision using GIS as a way to keep their growing business connected.

 

Jason continues to tell how JDI started their GIS journey in 1984 as a system of records for 6-million acres of woodlands that they managed. As the business grew, so did their records from paper maps to a digital GIS platform.

 

Lidar technology has changed how JDI, sees the forest; with a hyper-accurate scan of the forest, they can uncover new opportunities to use the technology to propel decision-making.

Jason shares the Seed to Shelf video. The video begins with the seedlings grown in the nurseries to the planting and harvesting to make paper.Waterways

 

He continues the demonstration with a Lidar image using modeling, displaying the outputs of our new precision inventory.

  • How much volume is standing in the forest
  • The percent of live crown of the trees
  • Map how deep the water table is below the surface of the land
  • Better protect waterways and areas in their operations

Over the last few years....we’ve been investing in precision forestry....which for us means taking the Lidar scan of the forest....and transforming the inner workings of our supply chain processes.

 

Heather chimes in with a Field Demo on Ops Explorer where they are taking advantage of the offline capabilities of Explorer and giving the power of GIS and precision forestry into the hands of foresters in the field.

Road Maintenance Map

Jason presents a second demonstration with location intelligence to track where the fleet of harvesters are operating. They are tracking more than 180 machines 24 hours a day and tracking data to capture treated and depleted areas of forest inventory.

Heather continues with a workflow demonstration for how JDI can conduct planting audits using ArcGIS Collector’s new offline workflows pre-planned in the office to downloads onto devices for auditors.

Routing is also made simpler for JDI’s supply chain management of harvested logs delivering over 20 forest products to more than 30 mills. They also track the road conditions and speed of their trucks.

Using Survey123, they found a solution for asset inspection for forest products moved by rail. With the offline version, they can update existing assets and collect new inspection records.

At the sawmill, JDI is using Drone2Map for ArcGIS to capture 2D and 3D products to calculate the volume of chip piles.

In our operations, nothing goes to waste. – Jason Killiam.

Logs turn to lumber. The residue (bark, chips, sawdust, and shavings) are used in other processes. The chips go to the paper mills producing paper and tissue.

Drone2Map

The real-time dashboard they display confirms their lean inventory is at the right level.

Looking at distribution maps, they can see opportunities for tissue sales in North America. They can identify and flag stores for growth opportunities.

JDI’s digital transformation doesn’t stop at the supply chains. Using location analytics, they are the primary funding partner behind the largest deer research projects in the Northeast, tracking over 100 deer with precise GPS collars over the last five years.

J.D. Irving, Limited Chip Supply

Jason shares the JDI inspiration. JDI’s story goes beyond the research they support and do, but also in sustainability. Their award-winning program protects over 1,450 special sites across more than 180,000 across of plants, wetlands, habitats, and biodiversity.

Jason continues, ”We planted our first tree over 60 years ago…and in less than 3-weeks, we will be planting our One Billionth Tree.” Before exiting the stage, he presents Jack with a sister seedling in celebration of their tree planting milestone.

9:28 a.m. Our Work

Speaker: Jack Dangermond

 

ArcGIS is advancing in many new and exciting ways with  Data Management and Industry Models.

 

Autodesk and ArcGIS direct product integration and interoperability for AutoCAD to ArcGIS Pro.

GIS Design and engineering > ArcGIS > Revit

Autodesk

Field Solutions

 

Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Operations Dashboard

ArcGIS Content - basemaps, imagery, demographics, shared by everyone

ArcGIS Content

9:33 a.m. - Earth Information System

Speaker: Bernie Szukalski, Esri

 

Jack introduces Bern Szukalski to talk about the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. The Living Atlas is always evolving. Bern’s demonstration shows the World Imagery Way-back application to create layers of imagery that show a progression of a map.

Living Atlas

He also demonstrates a map using the Sentinel-2 Imagery, OpenStreetMap and Chart Territory. 

He wraps it up with the Earth Systems Monitor. We can see history, forecasting, real-time data for land, ocean, and even the human footprint, taking the 2D map and turning it into a 3D map of the globe.

Living Atlas 3D

Written by Matt Ball

Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap, enabling users to access more than 80 different versions of World Imagery captured over the past five years. Each record in the archive represents a version of World Imagery as it existed on the date it was published. We can move forward and back in time and choose the imagery you want to use. Learn more about the Wayback App in this ArcGIS Blog post.

Sentinel 2 Sentinel-2 is now part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Sentinel-2 image service, powered by ArcGIS Image Server, includes daily updates, all Sentinel-2 imagery going back 14-months, and includes 13 bands of information. Image analysis can be applied to create image indices that show properties such as vegetation health or soil moisture as well as quantifying changes over time. Read more about Sentinel-2 imagery in this ArcGIS Blog post.

The ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor gives you a fast and easy way to create a custom basemap style that matches your brand and the type of app that you are building. Read this ArcGIS Blog post to learn more about the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.

9:35 a.m. Our Work

Speaker: Jack Dangermond

 

Jack shares more with a focus on Smart Mapping enabling everyone to make maps. The audience claps.

 

Mapping and Cartography with improvements in tools and technology with symbology and annotation.

Mapping and Charting

 

3D Mapping and Visualization

Mobile device and Web 

3D Analysis more than visualization - Analytics, Volumetrics, Apps 

 

Real-time analytics – improvements

Real-Time & Big Data GIS

 

Imagery - A complete system

Imagery and Remote Sensing

ArcGIS Imagery

Insights for ArcGIS takes us further.

ArcGIS Insights

Comprehensive Spatial Analysis - enabling geospatial data science

Spatial statistics, Raster Analysis, Charting, Improved Processing, Network Analysis

comprehensive analytics

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Geoprocessing tools, integration

AI & Machine Learning

9:43 a.m. - ArcGIS Pro Machine Learning & Analysis

Lauren Bennett, Esri

 

We're infusing machine learning and AI in many aspects of GIS.

 Lauren - cluster maps

We've made it simple... giving a demonstration of density clustering to show machine learning. All we have to do is tell it what we think is a cluster.Lauren clustering map

Ones in color are clusters, the ones in gray are noise.

 

Using the forest-based prediction tool to measure Childhood asthma we can use it to predict the asthma hospitalization rate in block groups.

Childhood Asthma

To train our Forest model – all we do is point it at an algorithm of clusters. Using R-squared, we are predicting with 80% accuracy.

Asthma variables

9:47 a.m. - Our Work – ArcGIS Hub, Indoors, Urban

ArcGIS Products

ArcGIS Pro - improvements, professional GIS, Pro 2.2

ArcGIS Pro 2.2

 

ArcGIS Pro Extensions – Integrating Focused Capabilities

New to ArcGIS Pro Extensions: Image Analyst and LocateXT (ArcMap Now) Pro later

ArcGIS Extensions

 

ArcGIS Online and amazing growth - world's largest data sharing platform available everywhere in the world.

 ArcGIS Online new to come

New & Improved features to Enterprise:

  • Sites (Microsite Builder)
  • Enterprise Builder
  • Announcing all level-one users are Now FREE in Enterprise only. (The audience cheers in excitement.)
  • User Experience
  • Performance
  • Resilience
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Distributed Collaboration
  • ArcGIS Monitor

 

Coming soon in ArcGIS Enterprise

  • Containerization
  • Intelligent Search 
  • Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics
  • Hosted Python Notebooks

 

ArcGIS Enterprise ArchitectureEnterprise Archictecture

Easy to set up and is modular and massively scalable with specialized servers, the ability to be independently scalable and flexible.

Monitor >

·       Portal > GIS Server - Data Store

o   Image Server > GeoEvent Server > GeoAnalytics Server > Supports distributed collaboration

ArcGIS Solutions

Industry-specific apps, maps, tools, and configurations - pre-configured with workflows, training, and support as configured packages. Had half a million downloads in the last year. The best part is that they are FREE.

 Solution Componments

 

Solution products - ready to use
  • ArcGIS Hub - consolidated to Open Data
  • Indoors (new), Portfolio Management, Operations
    • Watch for a new GeoNet space for Indoors coming soon
  • Urban (new) - most impactful as a landscape architect and will revolutionize how we do urban planning around the world.

Smart Solutions

Solution Products

 

9:59 a.m. - A New Revolution in Urban Planning

Company: Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA)

Speakers: Carolyn Bennett, BPDA and Brooks Patrick, Esri

 

Carolyn thanks Jack for his introduction.

 

Written by Matt Ball, Esri Staff Writer

We are also introducing a whole new class of software products that support focused workflows.

The first we actual introduced last Summer, ArcGIS Hub is about engaging communities through initiatives. Dozens of communities are leveraging their connections with open data, performance dashboards, and apps that engage citizens.

 

ArcGIS Indoors is about smart buildings, and looking at the use and management, including safety, security, energy use and wayfinding.

 

ArcGIS Urban addresses this challenge through software that holistically shares what’s being planned and what’s being built

 

The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) have partnered with Esri on a solution product centered on the workflows of urban development and planning called ArcGIS Urban.

 

Our cities are going through profound transformations, with greater density created to accommodate growing populations. Developers are spending $1.3 Trillion a year on construction. The key stakeholders—government, citizens, real estate, architecture, engineering, and construction—lack a common platform to address these challenges. Often this leads to unintended growth.

 

ArcGIS Urban addresses this challenge through software that holistically shares what’s being planned and what’s being built. No longer will government plans be locked into text-heavy PDF documents; planners will not be limited to outreach that centers on children’s building blocks; real estate professionals will get out from underneath the weight of large plan sets; and AEC designers will get away from designing in white space, instead designing in the context of the project’s geography.

 

City planners are engaged in work that must take into account a host of considerations in weighing different development scenarios for the physical and economic growth of their communities. They assess population metrics, zoning constraints (density, height constraints, etc.), transportation flows, and other factors throughout a thoughtful planning process, presenting this detail to leaders, citizens and other stakeholders in the march toward often difficult decisions.

 

ArcGIS Urban allows planners to visually present complex zoning codes calibrated to local parameters, allowing for the presentation of current code, the testing of changes, and the presentation of what the city would look like if the full extent of zoning restrictions have been reached. It presents a suitability score for different scenarios of planned development based on economic feasibility. It displays the mix of land use across the city, including residential, commercial, retail, industrial, and other development types. The tool provides quick visual feedback of zoning changes, allowing viewers unlimited vantage points, and an overall understanding of growth capacity.

 

ArcGIS Urban focuses on standard practices. The first iteration will provide the means to  evaluate and share zoning and land use plans at the city and county scale. It will include digital submission workflows to streamline this process while adhering to a city’s submission guidelines. It will also provide planners with multiple tools to measure the impacts of development.

 

Learn more about Boston Planning & Development Authority’s use of 3D GIS in the Esri_Blog https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/3d-gis-boston-digital-twin/

 

 

Partnering with Esri, the BPDA can develop a solution using ArcGIS Urban to illustrate patterns for “orchestrating urban development and planning workflows,” explains Brooks before turning the stage over to Carolyn.

BPDA Carolyn Bennett 

“ArcGIS Urban is streamlining our work,” begins Carolyn. Carolyn explains that population growth (seen in red on the slide), is resulting in an average of 80 large development projects per year. The BPDA is responsible for the planning, building, and indicators that impact decisions for these projects.

Carolyn gives a demonstration of the Dorchester Avenue Planning Initiative project to proactively accommodate for future changes in population growth and industry demands. Uploading zoning codes to ArcGIS Urban allows BPDA to begin zoning code scenario planning for current and future changes. Introducing Brooks to demonstrate how they are using ArcGIS Urban for the DOT Ave zoning project.

Brooks continues the demonstration with a look at the forecasted scenarios in 3D. You can see the changes in land development, height limits and new building uses by transforming from residential towers to commercial

office towers.

BPDA - Brooks

Carolyn wraps up with a look at how using the digital models can assist with running each project through a standard impact evaluation; such as measuring shadows on the historic Boston Common to determine building heights.

Shadows in evaluating maps heights - BPDA

“This collaborative platform will ensure a more economically prosperous, resilient, and vibrant city for generations.”

 

What's Next -The Road Ahead

Jack wraps up his closing with a few more works and what we can look forward to, the What's Next is GIS.

What

He shares how we are Serving Our Users.

Who is Esri?

In closing, Jack quotes Charles Darwin. “It is not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”

Thank for joining us for Part One of the morning session.

We're back! You can continue following along for Part 2 of the morning session here

27 Comments
KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

Esri Customer Advocacy is amazed by the maps on stage this year! A true testament to what's possible with ArcGIS! We're proud to be your advocates!

ThomasEdghill
Esri Community Moderator

Special shout out to the Enterprise GIS award recipient, Sempra Energy! It's incredible to see how they have leveraged the power of ArcGIS here.

by Anonymous User
Not applicable

"Collaboration happens at the speed of trust"

Speaking of trust check out the ArcGIS Trust Center for any ArcGIS security related questions!

KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

Jack asks us to envision "what's next?" Share your ideas with us in the ArcGIS Ideas‌ space. Did you know that ArcGIS Ideas is a space within the Esri Community on GeoNet, where users submit and upvote ideas for features they want to see implemented in a future release of ArcGIS software? Customer Advocacy Leads moderate and participate in this space to identify the most popular topics and meet monthly to discuss these with their respective Product teams. We want to hear from you!

 

ThomasEdghill
Esri Community Moderator

Very excited to see Jack spotlight the power of sharing and collaboration in fostering "Societal GIS." The power and potential of WebGIS is huge, and it's exciting to see how users are building a better future with it. Feel free to comment below on how sharing and collaborating data has worked for you, we'd love to hear it!

by Anonymous User
Not applicable

J.D. Irving is making great use of the Story Map Series template:

Story Map Series

KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

J.D. Irving demonstrating the analytical power of ArcGIS Pro‌! Great example of clustering analysis! For what's coming next in ArcGIS Pro, check out ArcGIS Pro Roadmap - June 2018‌.

AdamLake2
New Contributor III

When will the video be available to watch as a non-live stream? The JDI presentation was excellent and I want to point some of our resources analysts and technical director to it.

ScottPrindle
Esri Regular Contributor

In case you missed it: J.D. Irving included an embedded survey from Survey123 for ArcGIS as an embedded dashboard element!

MarkCausley
Esri Contributor

J.D. Irving "seedling to shelf" - what an incredible Implementing ArcGIS‌ success story.

ThomasEdghill
Esri Community Moderator

Hi Adam, videos of the plenary should be made available by the end of the week, though we're currently verifying when they will be uploaded. Stay tuned for information on this! 

KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

Impressed by Lauren Bennett's demo of machine learning in ArcGIS Pro? Checkout the "How Density-based Clustering Works" help article to get started integrating ML into your own workflows. Also, if you haven't upgraded to ArcGIS Pro 2.2, now's the time! --Take advantage of the new Forest-based Classification and Regression tool just released.

by Anonymous User
Not applicable

"ArcGIS Online is a complete mapping and intelligence platform" - Jack

ThomasEdghill
Esri Community Moderator

As the ArcGIS Enterprise Advocacy Lead, it was great to see Jack showcase ArcGIS Enterprise! If you want to learn more about this powerful and cutting-edge product, our documentation is a great way to get started.

Also don't forget to connect with fellow users over in our ArcGIS Enterprise space!

ShelbyConnors
Occasional Contributor

Spaces for ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS Urban coming soon to GeoNet!

by Anonymous User
Not applicable

ArcGIS Urban demo by Boston Planning Department is #wicked cool. 

Go Sox!

KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

Boston Planning & Development Agency demo of ArcGIS Urban... #groundbreaking  Wonderful realization of Esri's vision for focused solutions.

KirstenPinkston
Esri Contributor

"Our collective success applying GIS will help create and inspire what's next... a better future." -Jack Dangermond, UC Plenary 2018

Did you know your ideas are helping to shape the future of ArcGIS software? Checkout the long list of your ideas implemented in the most recent releases of ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro below:

https://community.esri.com/community/gis/web-gis/arcgisonline/blog/2018/06/27/ideas-implemented-in-t...

https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas/blog/2018/07/03/arcgis-desktop-ideas-on-the-move-j...

For ideas implemented in new releases of ArcGIS, checkout the blog section of the ArcGIS Ideas‌ space for blogs written by the Customer Advocacy team.

JacobBoyle412
Esri Contributor

Fantastic announcements so far, further growth of the Platform, more emphasis on ArcGIS Enterprise.

ChrisCatania
Esri Community Team

Hi Adam - The plenary videos will be available tomorrow on the Esri YouTube channel. 

DavidHendrick
New Contributor III

Hi Adam, videos of the Plenary will be available on YouTube and E360 sometime later today or tomorrow. We don't have a link to the location yet, but when it becomes available you'll be able to find it on the Overview page of the UC website and on the Plenary Session page as well.

MichaelGreen
Esri Contributor

Jack’s vision for the ArcGIS creates wonderful opportunities to change workflows within an organization. 

If if you are excited bout expanding your platform or introduce new departments to the use of location intelligence then consider integrating people focused change management into your implementation plans. 

It it is clear that more people will be interacting with the platform.  If you want to learn more about change management or would like to talk with a change management consultant, visit https://go.esri.com/cmsocial.

curtvprice
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Yeah, I really loved that building shadow!

BillFox
MVP Frequent Contributor

Hello Shelby,

Any other links for "Indoors"?

ArcGIS Indoors 

Is this the same as the GeoNet place? GIS Indoors 

-Bill

ShelbyConnors
Occasional Contributor

This isn’t the same place, it should be live next week, we’ll be sending out updates when it is but the name is ArcGIS Indoors

BillFox
MVP Frequent Contributor
MichelleMathias
Esri Community Manager

Hi Bill, the Indoors space is not live yet, and Nitin is out of the office this week, we should have a better idea next week. We will promote it once it is up and live. Thanks.