The 21st annual GIS in the Rockies Conference offers a set of innovative opportunities to foster education and networking across the geospatial industry focused around the Real Property Asset Management theme. 

For the first time, GIS in the Rockies will offer a set of full day seminars focusing on technology and management issues in the geospatial industry as part of the conference’s admission fee. The conference offers three seminar tracks to provide participants with in-depth exposure to critical concepts in the industry:

•    Geospatial Issues Supporting Organizational Asset Management Goals
•    Concepts of Computer Science for Geo-Technologists
•    Business Transformation: Accounting for Geospatial Intelligence in Enterprise Architecture.
Further, each of the conference’s sponsoring organizations promises to educate and inspire both professionals who are new to the GIS industry, and those who have been involved for many years:

•    American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) hosts Remote Sensing and LIDAR Technology: The New Digital Frontier
•    GIS Colorado hosts Serving the Community: Getting GIS Information Into the Hands of Non-GIS Users
•    Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) hosts Return on Investment and Workflow Process
•    Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado (PLSC) hosts Geodetic Surveying for Geospatial Applications
•    Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) hosts GIS for Managers and GIS for Urban and Regional Governments
GIS in the Rockies also includes a trade show, with over 40 exhibitors, including ESRI, Microsoft Digital Globe, Compass Tools, USGS, and The University of Denver, who participated in last year’s event.  This year, the committee anticipates an even larger trade show, with up to 70 exhibiting organizations from business, government and academia.