8:30am - 9:15am

• Auditorium: Indiana’s Geographic Information Officer’s Keynote Address |  Megan R.L. Compton - Indiana Geographic Information Office

9:30am - 10:15am

• Auditorium: Esri Software Available to State Employees | Steve Aldrich - Indiana Geographic Information Office
• Room  A: Lead Concentration in Urban Soil | Zach Kemp - Indiana State University Earth and Environmental Systems
• Room  B: Digital Twins: A Convergence of BIM and GIS Technology | Liza Norden - geoConvergence
• Room  C: What Can the Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) Do for You? |  Ryan Bowe - Indiana Geographic Information Council
• Room  D: Esri Hands on Learning Lab

10:30am - 11:15am

• Auditorium: What Can You Do with IndianaMap? | Ben Grubbs - Indiana Geographic Information Office
• Room  A: Data to Science Engine (D2SE) for Geospatial Data Science | Jinha Jung & Ben Hancock - Purdue University
• Room  B: Visualizing Inequality: Using GIS to Teach the Past and Present of Redlining | Margarita Rayzberg - Valparaiso University
• Room  C: Shifting Ground: Datum Transformations and High-Accuracy Mapping in State GIS | Ben Scholer - DroneDeploy
• Room  D: Esri Hands on Learning Lab

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch Served in the Atrium Courtesy of Woolpert

• Meeting & Eating Rooms in Wabash Hall
• Dining in Room A, B, and C.

12:45pm - 1:30pm

• Auditorium: You're Just a Click Away from Making Your Very Own USGS Topographic Map | Cyndi Rachol - United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program
• Room  A: Indiana’s Statewide Geocoder: 2024 Updates and Lessons Learned | Matt Evans - Indiana Geographic Information Office
• Room  B: Smart Spaces, Elevating Space Planning and Navigation with ArcGIS Indoors | Derek Fuller & Steve Aldrich - Indiana Geographic Information Office
• Room  C: Overview of Hydrogeologic Products and Decision-Making Tools Related to Water Resources from the Division of Water | Sara Javanmardi & Kristiana Cox - Indiana Department of Natural Resources
• Room  D: Esri Hands on Learning Lab

1:45pm - 2:30pm

• Auditorium: Advancing Indiana’s Imagery and Elevation Resources and the 2025 - 2028 Program | Shaun Scholer - Indiana Geographic Information Office & Brian Stevens - Woolpert
• Room  A: How the FIRM Maps Are Made: Building a Flood Risk Database | Wanja Waweru Walkowski, Jordan Zimmerman, & Ted Dietz - The Polis Center, Indiana University Indianapolis
• Room  B: Arcade Across the ArcGIS System | Nathan Sommers - Esri
• Room  C: GIS and Indiana's Oil and Gas Resources | Jeff Motz - Indiana Department of Natural Resources
• Room  D: Esri Hands on Learning Lab

2:45pm - 3:30pm

• Auditorium: Governance – What Is It Good For? | Sandeep Barre - Indiana Geographic Information Office
• Room  A: Tips & Tricks: Key Consideration for GIS Data Quality for NG9-1-1 | Jeff Ledbetter (GISP, ENP) - DATAMARK Technologies
• Room  B: Damage Assessment in the 21st Century  |  Graham Jessiman - Indiana Department of Homeland Security
• Room  C: Extracting MicroStation Data for GIS with FME | Adam Tyra - Timmons Group
• Room  D: Esri Hands on Learning Lab

3:40pm - 4:00pm

• Auditorium: Closing Session + Giveaways! | Richard Gilyeat - Indiana Department of Transportation

Food and Beverage Sponsors

Giveaway Sponsors

Event Partners

Esri

• Nathan Sommers | Sommers is a Solution Engineer at Esri, specializing in providing innovative GIS solutions for local government agencies. With a robust background as a former GIS Manager, he brings over 10 years of experience in spatial analysis, project management, and data-driven decision-making. Passionate about enhancing community services through technology, Nathan collaborates closely with stakeholders to implement effective GIS strategies that improve planning, emergency response, and public engagement.

DATAMARK Technologies

• Jeff Ledbetter, GISP, ENP | Ledbetter is a GIS, public safety and technology subject matter expert with more than two decades utilizing GIS technologies. He is a certified GIS Professional (GISP) as well as an Emergency Number Professional (ENP).

DroneDeploy

• Ben Scholer | Scholer is a Geospatial Software Engineer with DroneDeploy, on the backend processing team. Much of his time at the company has been spent implementing datum transformations for high-accuracy maps.

geoConvergence

• Liza Norden | Norden is GIS Team Lead at geoConvergence where she and her team specialize in Indoor GIS solutions. She received her AAS in Design Technology from Ivy Tech in 2020 and will be pursuing her BA of Geography (GIScience) at BSU in 2025.

Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC)

• Ryan Bowe | Bowe serves as the current president of IGIC and works through the organizations membership to advance and improve the practice of GIS across Indiana to benefit Hoosiers throughout the state.

Indiana Geographic Information Office (IGIO)

• Megan R.L. Compton | Compton serves as Indiana’s Geographic Information Officer, appointed by Gov. Eric J. Holcomb in April of 2018.  In this role, Compton leads the Indiana Geographic Information Office and provides strategic oversight of the State’s GIS technology portfolio, as well as leadership on GIS governance for the State of Indiana.
• Sandeep Barre | Barre has over 20 years of experience in the GIS field in local government. He was an integral part of the enterprise GIS vision and leadership for the City of Indianapolis and Marion County, where he served as the enterprise GIS data custodian, GIS solutions architect, oversaw day to day operations and managed GIS custom applications portfolio. He built-on and fostered partnerships between utilities and surrounding county governments as the IndyGIS liaison, identified mutually beneficial data exchange needs and was the architect of Indy’s Open Data Platform. His most recent experience was working for the IGIO as an Enterprise GIS Architect.
• Shaun Scholer | Scholer manages the Geographic Information Office's imagery and elevation programs. He received his master's degree in Geography with an emphasis on GIS and Remote sensing from ISU in 1995.
• Steve Aldrich |  Aldrich has been using geospatial technology to address scientific questions for more than 25 years. Steve comes to the Indiana GIO from Indiana State University, where he was a Professor of Geography for 14.5 years. At ISU, Steve supported GIS users across campus, taught 8 different courses on GIS/remote sensing/spatial statistics, and used GIS constantly in research projects in a variety of contexts Steve has experience using and teaching GIS and remote sensing data and methods in a variety of contexts, ranging from watershed-level land use planning in Massachusetts to economic change at continental scale in the Brazilian Amazon. Steve has a PhD in Geography and GISP and FAA Part 107 certifications. Being a prolific user of public GIS data in his career so far, Steve is excited to join the GIO team to support public GIS in Indiana.
• Matt Evans | Evans is the GIS Data Harvest SME for the Indiana Geographic Information Office. In this role, he works to help collect and improve some of Indiana's framework GIS datasets.
• Derek Fuller | Fuller is a GIS Specialist within the Indiana Geographic Information Office. He joined the team in April of this year after working for INDOT the past 16 years. Derek's primary goal is the implementation of ArcGIS Indoors for State of Indiana agencies.
• Ben Grubbs | Ben is a GIS Analyst with the Indiana Geographic Information Office. Ben's primary responsibility with IGIO is to manage IndianaMap, which is the open geospatial data hub managed by IGIO.

Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS)

• Graham Jessiman | Jessiman is a Senior Business Systems Consultant with the Indiana Department of Homeland Security where he is learning new tricks and Using ESRi tools with ArcGIS and WebEOC.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR)

• Kristiana Cox |  Cox is Hydrogeologist with the DNR Division of Water, Resource Assessment
• Sara Javanmardi | Javanmardi is Hydrogeologist with the DNR Division of Water, Resource Assessment
• Jeff Motz | Motz earned a degree in Anthropology from Indiana University and has worked in geospatial technology for over twenty years.

Indiana State University

• Zach Kemp |  Kemp is a graduate Student at Indiana State University: Earth and Environmental Systems.

The Polis Center, Indiana University Indianapolis

• Ted Dietz | Dietz is a GIS Analyst at The Polis Center who works on the FEMA Risk MAP program and received his MPH Degree from IU Fairbanks.
• Wanja Waweru Walkowski | Walkowski is a GIS Analyst at The Polis Center who works on the FEMA Risk MAP program and holds a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan.
• Jordan Zimmerman | Zimmerman is a GIS Analyst at The Polis Center who works on the FEMA Risk MAP program and received his Bachelor Degree in Geology from IUI.
• Kevin Mickey | Mickey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and a Master of Planning degree from Indiana University.  He is also a Certified GISP Professional (GISP), a CompTia CTT+ Certified Classroom Trainer and an Esri Certified Desktop Associate.

Purdue University

• Ben Hancock | Hancock is a full-stack developer at Purdue's Geospatial Data Science Lab with 10+ years in web development. He’s currently developing an open-source platform for managing, visualizing, analyzing, and sharing UAS data.
• Jinha Jung | Dr. Jinha Jung is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University.

Timmons Group

• Adam Tyra | Tyra is a Senior Technical Analyst with Timmons Group with projects around the US. He previously worked for almost 10 years with INDOT, building tools and maps for Asset Management among many other things. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.

USGS National Geospatial Program

• Cyndi Rachol | Cyndi Rachol is the USGS National Map (TNM) Liaison for Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. She creates educational videos about TNM data and apps, and as part of the Geospatial Information Response Team, supports hazard response across the country.

Woolpert

• Brian Stevens | Stevens has been with Woolpert for 28 years managing a large number of projects. He is currently managing the Ohio Statewide Imagery Program and assisting with the state of Indiana Imagery and Elevation Programs.

Available all day to learn how to utilize ArcGIS.

Choose from the following lessons:

An Introduction to ArcGIS

• Exploring ArcGIS
• Getting started with ArcGIS Online
• Getting started with ArcGIS Pro
• Getting started with GIS

ArcGIS Apps and Extensions

• Discovering patterns using ArcGIS Insights
• Exploring ArcGIS Field Maps
• Getting started with ArcGIS Arcade
• Getting started with ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App
• Getting started with ArcGIS Notebooks
• Getting started with ArcGIS Survey123
• Getting started with ModelBuilder
• Managing parcels and land records using ArcGIS Parcel Fabric

Focused Topics

• Adding location-based data to a map
• Automating workflows using Python
• Creating interactive maps in spreadsheets and presentations
• Creating web apps using ArcGIS Experience Builder
• Exploring 3D analysis with ArcGIS Pro
• Exploring 3D visualization with ArcGIS
• Exploring ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
• Improving newborn health using ArcGIS Online
• Integrating CAD and BIM data with ArcGIS
• Mapping clusters with ArcGIS Pro
• Monitoring activity using ArcGIS Dashboards