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Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies hosting GIS Day on November 7

October 9th, 2024

Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies invites you to attend Purdue GIS Day 2024: Exploring GeoAI on Thursday, November 7, 2024 in STEW 214.

Join us in learning from and networking with GIS experts from academia and industry regarding groundbreaking GIS research, tools, and techniques. Purdue GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society.

The conference will also feature keynote speakers Gregory Brunner and Michael Johns; please view the schedule for additional conference details. 

Gregory Brunner is an experienced scientist, award-winning professor, and principal data scientist at Esri—global market leader in GIS software, location intelligence, and mapping. He will be speaking about the rapid growth of the AI model ecosystem and the potential impact it has and will have on GIS in his talk titled, “The Burgeoning AI Model Ecosystem and Its Potential Impact on GIS.”

Michael Johns is a lead geospatial product specialist at Databricks, a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence company. He will focus on how to use Databricks to perform scaled spatial analysis while retaining full visibility and control over all of the underlying processes, code, models, and data lineage in his talk titled, “Any-Scale Spatial Analysis on Databricks.”

Please register by October 18, 2024 to ensure your place in this year’s GIS conference, receive a free T-shirt, and attend the career panel lunch. For more information, check out the GIS Day page.