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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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Cindy Pederson
Metro
DRC Analytics and Applications Manager
Portland, Oregon
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
Lightning Talks Round 1 - Multi-Season UAV and LiDAR Assessment of Landscape and Vegetation Dynamics Following Dam Removal in the Klamath River Basin
Columbia
Su Jin Lee • Jordan Nowell • Zia Hill Sparks • Samantha Davenport
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
11:15am
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
2:06pm
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
2:33pm
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
3:00pm
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
3:30pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 7 - For a Good Time Call: Bathroom Graffiti & Private Space
Columbia
Joshua Weill
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
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
9:30am
PDT
Mapping the Future of Gresham’s Parks
Classrooms 1-4
Brandon McCullough
10:00am
PDT
Break (Refreshments Provided)
TBA
10:30am
PDT
Metro Data Resource Center (DRC) Updates: New RLIS Layers, App Enhancements, and Upcoming Work
Atrium
Madeline Steele
11:00am
PDT
Animating Urban Growth: Storytelling with RLIS Housing Data in ArcGIS Pro
Atrium
Al Mowbray
11:30am
PDT
ODOT Multimodal Inventory - Year 2 Updates
Atrium
Josh Ahmann • Theresa Conley • Ryan Peterson
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
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