Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.
Last year, I closed this very conference by letting AI generate my slides dynamically. It crashed spectacularly. We laughed, I cried. Apparently, I haven't learned yet. This year I'm back! But instead of fixing my approach, I've doubled down. I'll narrate, David Attenborough style, while Claude attempts to build a complete ArcGIS web application. I won't write a single line of code. At least, that's the plan, anyway. AI scales effort, not judgment. With my hands off the keyboard, I'm freed up to make the real decisions: what to build, when to pivot, and whether the output is even good. Will it work? Probably (not entirely). Things will break, and we will all learn something. That's the whole point.
