GeoDesign Summit: Preliminary Presentation Schedule

The world’s first GeoDesign Summit will be held 06-08 January 2010 at ESRI in Redlands, California. The summit will be a gathering of pioneering professionals and academics involved in transforming technology, engineering, and planning in a rapidly changing world.  The presentation schedule below is preliminary and is subject to change.  For more information on the GeoDesign Summit, visit www.GeoDesignSummit.com.

Day 1 (Wednesday, 06 January 2010):

Opening statement by Jack Dangermond

Tom Fisher: What is GeoDesign and Why Its Time has Come

Will Rogers: GeoDesign in Conservation Planning: Stakeholder Driven Geoprocessing through Greenprinting

Mike Goodchild: Spatial by Design: Understanding the Special Role of GIS

Kim Tanzer, Visualizing complex systems: The role the National Academy of Environmental Design in advancing evidence-based design research

Lightning Talks: (view abstracts)

• Geodesign: Fundamental Principals and Routes Forward
• Participatory GeoDesign
• Site Selection for Solar-Electrical Powerplants from a regional level to a Community location using GIS processing – and scetching tools
• GeoDesign in environmental analysis and planning: an example
• GeoWeb 2.0
• 3D Visualizations of Cyber Security Events
• GeoGames – Board Game Metaphors for GIS
• Landscape Design with Tangible GIS
• Lessons learn from geodesign applications by communities and farmers employing GIS and relational databases in landscape planning and management
• GeoDesign Utilization in a Participatory Land Use Planning Process
• Ge@Design: a multimedia design studio for geospatial collaboration

Day 2 (Thursday, 07 January 2010):

Carl Steinitz: Complexity, collaboration and scale in geographic design and planning

Ron Stoltz; Karen Hanna: Conceptualizing Geo-Design in the University Curriculum

Chris Overdorf and Grant Jones: Private Stewardship Networks: GIS Tools that Promote Conservation Corridors

Lightning Talks: (view abstracts)

• Geospatial Campaign Design for COIN Civil Affairs
• Real-time, sketch-based GIS database updates to support crisis command and mobile resource deployment.
• Object-Oriented Diagrams in Geo-Design
• Practical Considerations for Integrating BIM and GIS
• Building Interior Space Optimization and GIS/RDBMS Space Management tools
• Site Engineering Design – Live start to finish using ArcPad
• Using GIS to Facilitate the Design of a Sustainable City
• Building high fidelity 3D landscapes in a design charrette setting with participants using GIS, CityScape, and Augmented Reality
• Open Exchange for Semantically Rich City Models