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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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Jordan Hamann
Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council
Associate Planner, GIS
rtc.wa.gov
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
10:00am
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
10:30am
PDT
A brief history of topographic mapping
Atrium
Elaine Guidero
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
11:33am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 3 - Designing Accessible Static Maps: WCAG Compliance at Metro
Columbia
Franz Arend
11:42am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 3 - Beyond the Slogan: Testing 15 Minute Neighborhoods in Seattle
Columbia
Weixuan Teng
11:51am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 4 - Modeling Streams & Drainage from High-Resolution Elevation Data
Columbia
Bob Chappell
12:00pm
PDT
Lunch Buffet (Provided)
Cascadia
1:30pm
PDT
This Time the AI Builds Everything
Auditorium
Christopher Moravec
2:00pm
PDT
A GIS Workflow for 3D Printing Topgraphic Models
Classrooms 1-4
Noah Flick
2:30pm
PDT
Simplifying GIS Workflows with Arcade
Auditorium
Nicholas Cramer
3:00pm
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
4:00pm
PDT
Geospatial Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Freshwater Ecosystems in the West
Atrium
Amanda Temple
4:30pm
PDT
Oregon Multi-Modal Case Study: Hillsboro
Columbia
Josh Ahmann • Ryan Peterson
Thursday
, April 30
8:00am
PDT
Remote Sensing to Restore a Degraded Jurisdictional Wetland in Urban Washington County
Atrium
Emma Colburn • Carly Holzschuh
8:30am
PDT
Snowplows, traffic cameras, and an unfixable Esri bug - A tale of resilience
Classrooms 1-4
Lauren McKinney-Wise
9:00am
PDT
Geospatial Professional Network - PNW Board Meeting (Tentative)
Columbia
10:00am
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
10:30am
PDT
(Virtual) Accessibility best practices in GIS and mapping
Auditorium
Jessica Mccall
11:00am
PDT
Accessibility Updates
Auditorium
Lauren McKinney-Wise • Emma Brenneman • Hallie Liu Rogers
11:30am
PDT
Designing Maps for the Next Generation: A Retrospective on the Third Edition of the Student Atlas of Oregon
Classrooms 1-4
Aaron Menconi • Rachel Rudick • Owen Scholes.
12:00pm
PDT
Lunch Buffet (Provided)
Cascadia
1:30pm
PDT
Responsive Mapping to a Food Access Crisis
Atrium
Kyle Curtis • Rebbeca Robinson
2:00pm
PDT
Geospatial Live: Real-Time GIS for Operational Intelligence
Atrium
Christopher Ratcliff Iverson • Devin Doring
2:30pm
PDT
(in)visible Oregon
Classrooms 1-4
Joseph Bard
3:00pm
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
3:30pm
PDT
Closing Plenary and Keynote - Spatial Storytelling: Making the Case for an Essential (Vulnerable) Service
Auditorium
Evan Landman
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