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Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.
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Alexa Todd
Oregon Metro
Systems Analyst
Portland, OR
Wednesday
, April 29
8:30am
PDT
Opening Plenary and Keynote - Creating Capacity in Times of Change: Understanding the Brain and Moving Forward
Cascadia
Dr. Jessica Lorenz
10:30am
PDT
ArcGIS Pro and Python: Potentially Helpful Bits and Bobs
Classrooms 1-4
David Howes
11:15am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 2 - Investigating Affordable Homeownership Program Impacts on Homeowner Equity: A GIS-Based Real Estate Index Approach
Columbia
Kari Shippen
11:24am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 3 - Data equity in transportation safety
Columbia
Nat Moss • Kate Gregory
11:30am
PDT
GIS for Wildfire Response at the Oregon Department of Forestry
Atrium
Erik Larsen
12:00pm
PDT
Lunch Buffet (Provided)
Cascadia
1:30pm
PDT
This Time the AI Builds Everything
Auditorium
Christopher Moravec
2:00pm
PDT
Lessons Learned in The Special Operations Community - Inspiring GIS & Indoor Mapping
Auditorium
Josh Longenecker
2:30pm
PDT
Simplifying GIS Workflows with Arcade
Auditorium
Nicholas Cramer
2:42pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 7- Pishno Pi̱yakni (Our Land): Environmental Justice, Colonialism, and Indigenous Land Sovereignty of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Columbia
Allison McClaughry • Professor Gunwha Oh
3:30pm
PDT
Legacy Data, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mess.
Classrooms 1-4
Jordan Hamann
3:48pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 8 - LiDAR in Complex Natural Forest: Practical Implications for Inventory and Management
Columbia
Avishek Hamal
4:00pm
PDT
Reappraisal Pilot Project: Multnomah County Leverages ArcGIS Survey123 to Inspect Residential Properties
Auditorium
Jerry Oelerich
4:30pm
PDT
Oregon Multi-Modal Case Study: Hillsboro
Columbia
Josh Ahmann • Ryan Peterson
5:30pm
PDT
Opening Night Reception (drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres and live music)
Cascadia
Thursday
, April 30
8:00am
PDT
Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning
Auditorium
Noah Flick
8:30am
PDT
Snowplows, traffic cameras, and an unfixable Esri bug - A tale of resilience
Classrooms 1-4
Lauren McKinney-Wise
Fire Data Transparency with ArcGIS Dashboards, Experience Builder, and ArcGIS Hub
Atrium
Tabitha Fraser
9:00am
PDT
Geospatial Professional Network - PNW Board Meeting (Tentative)
Columbia
9:30am
PDT
Mobile Clinic Collaborative
Atrium
John Ruffing • Heather Fara • Verian Wedeking
10:30am
PDT
(Virtual) Accessibility best practices in GIS and mapping
Auditorium
Jessica Mccall
Metro Data Resource Center (DRC) Updates: New RLIS Layers, App Enhancements, and Upcoming Work
Atrium
Madeline Steele
11:00am
PDT
Accessibility Updates
Auditorium
Lauren McKinney-Wise • Emma Brenneman • Hallie Liu Rogers
11:30am
PDT
Accessibilty Q & A
Auditorium
Chance Morrison • Lauren McKinney-Wise • Franz Arend • Emma Brenneman • Hallie Liu Rogers • Jon McDowell • Neil Green-Clancy
1:30pm
PDT
Geospatial data storytelling to promote street art (Panel)
Auditorium
Tiffany Conklin • Libby Martin • Lorena Nascimento • Elana Eisenberg • Grace Galvin • Cherise Frehner
2:00pm
PDT
Geospatial Live: Real-Time GIS for Operational Intelligence
Atrium
Christopher Ratcliff Iverson • Devin Doring
2:30pm
PDT
Analyzing Risk with GIS at WSRB
Atrium
Guillaume Turcotte
3:30pm
PDT
Closing Plenary and Keynote - Spatial Storytelling: Making the Case for an Essential (Vulnerable) Service
Auditorium
Evan Landman
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