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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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Sarah Behrman
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Emergency Response GIS Coordinator
Portland, OR
Wednesday
, April 29
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
Cascadia
Dr. Jessica Lorenz
10:30am
PDT
ArcGIS Pro and Python: Potentially Helpful Bits and Bobs
Classrooms 1-4
David Howes
10:39am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 1 - The Great Burn
Columbia
Daniel Welch
10:48am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 1 - Orthometric Correction of Ground Control Points
Columbia
Ryan Lennon
10:57am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 2 - Greater Cooling Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration in Water-Limited Urban Environments: Evidence from Portland, Oregon
Columbia
Tarannum Khandoker
11:00am
PDT
Building a Resilient Imagery Program
Atrium
Savannah Heckman • Josh Weilert
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
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
1:30pm
PDT
This Time the AI Builds Everything
Auditorium
Christopher Moravec
1:38pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 4 - What would a road map of the Moon look like?
Columbia
Heather Sauerland
1:48pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 5 - Scaling Utility UAS Inspections Through GIS-Driven Operation Efficiency
Columbia
Heather Sauerland
1:57pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 5 - Student Project: Potential Permanent Ground Deformation on Emergency Transportation Routes
Columbia
John Thai
2:00pm
PDT
Data Integration for Jetty Structure Mapping
Atrium
Danuta Greblowska
2:06pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 5 - Historic Counties of Oregon
Columbia
Nicholas Cramer
2:15pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 6 - Hoop Dreams: Mapping American Streetball
Columbia
Joshua 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.
Columbia
Erin Zipper
2:30pm
PDT
Stepping Out of The Shadows: Utilizing Invariant Color Spaces to Build a Shadow Mask in ArcGIS Pro
Classrooms 1-4
Kate Pope
2:33pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 6 - Remote Sensing Based Digital Inventory and Management System for Urban Forestry
Columbia
Ruby Clark • Nathan Kossnar
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
2:51pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 7 - Metro's Safe Routes to School Walkshed Application
Columbia
Jake Lovell
3:30pm
PDT
Legacy Data, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mess.
Classrooms 1-4
Jordan Hamann
3:39pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 8 - Spatial Patterns of Salp Blooms in the California Current: A Decade of Change
Columbia
Jo Lipps
3:48pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 8 - LiDAR in Complex Natural Forest: Practical Implications for Inventory and Management
Columbia
Avishek Hamal
4:00pm
PDT
Geospatial Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Freshwater Ecosystems in the West
Atrium
Amanda Temple
4:04pm
PDT
Technologies of Containment and Bordering: Community Resistance Against the NWDC
Columbia
Kati Sosa
4:30pm
PDT
Integrating PFAS Data in GIS
Atrium
Christopher Ratcliff Iverson
Thursday
, April 30
8:00am
PDT
Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning
Auditorium
Noah Flick
8:30am
PDT
Fire Data Transparency with ArcGIS Dashboards, Experience Builder, and ArcGIS Hub
Atrium
Tabitha Fraser
9:00am
PDT
How a Plan to Learn AI Became a Companion for ArcGIS Pro
Auditorium
Tim Rawson
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
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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