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GIS in Action 2026

Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.

Joshua Weill

https://joshuaweill.weebly.com/

About me

Joshua is a second-year student about to finish his GIS Certificate at Portland Community College. He specializes in interactive GIS experiences,
cartography, and content development.

By craft a content strategist and digital storyteller, Joshua is adding GIS to his content toolkit. Career goals include transportation and transit network GIS work, infrastructure development, and public-facing GIS marketing. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.

8:00am PDT

Map Gallery Open Cafe

8:30am PDT

Opening Plenary and Keynote - Creating Capacity in Times of Change: Understanding the Brain and Moving Forward CascadiaDr. Jessica Lorenz

10:00am PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

10:30am PDT

GPN-PNW Emerging Professionals Mentorship Program AuditoriumJohn Thai • Lorena Nascimento • Roxanne Garcia • Daniel Carter • Vyla Grindberg • Joe Hayes • Lindsey Karr • Joe Bard • Kyle Curtis • Kate Pope • Eliza Yurkov • Kyrian Nnadi • Jake Lovell • Catherine Green • Leah Bollin • Zack Kasson

10:39am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 1 - The Great Burn ColumbiaDaniel Welch

11:24am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 3 - Data equity in transportation safety ColumbiaNat Moss • Kate Gregory

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:38pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 4 - What would a road map of the Moon look like? ColumbiaHeather Sauerland

2:00pm PDT

Lessons Learned in The Special Operations Community - Inspiring GIS & Indoor Mapping AuditoriumJosh Longenecker

2:15pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 6 - Hoop Dreams: Mapping American Streetball ColumbiaJoshua Weill

2:24pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 6 - Burning Up the Walkshed: How Land Surface Temperature in one Portland, Oregon neighborhood restricts access to transit and other services. ColumbiaErin Zipper

2:30pm PDT

Stepping Out of The Shadows: Utilizing Invariant Color Spaces to Build a Shadow Mask in ArcGIS Pro Classrooms 1-4Kate Pope

2:51pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 7 - Metro's Safe Routes to School Walkshed Application ColumbiaJake Lovell

3:00pm PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

3:30pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 7 - For a Good Time Call: Bathroom Graffiti & Private Space ColumbiaJoshua Weill

4:00pm PDT

Identifying Patterns of Residential Summer Landscape Irrigation Via Remote Sensing Classrooms 1-4Daniel Welch

4:30pm PDT

Oregon Multi-Modal Case Study: Hillsboro ColumbiaJosh Ahmann • Ryan Peterson

5:30pm PDT

Opening Night Reception (drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres and live music) Cascadia

8:00am PDT

Map Gallery Open Cafe

10:00am PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

11:30am PDT

ODOT Multimodal Inventory - Year 2 Updates AtriumJosh Ahmann • Theresa Conley • Ryan Peterson

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:30pm PDT

Indoor GIS: Step by Step Guide to Implementation and Sustainment Classrooms 1-4Brock Saylor

2:00pm PDT

Bringing SCADA to the Map: Using GIS to Integrate Sensor Data for Wastewater Operations Classrooms 1-4Carrie Schmidt

2:30pm PDT

(in)visible Oregon Classrooms 1-4Joseph Bard