San Luis Obispo GIS Day – November 16, 2011

Oct 3, 2011

This year’s SLO GIS Day will be held at the Downtown SLO Library on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 from 11:00am to 2:30pm.  We invite you to help make this a successful event by being an exhibitor, making a presentation, contributing a map, or by attending.  We will be expanding the venue this year into an adjacent presentation area, which will allow for more exhibitors, presentations, and room to browse the event.

Register today for this free event.

Here is a link to the GIS Day Flyer: http://gisug.calpoly.edu/gisday/GISdayFlyer.pdf

Exhibitors

Exhibitors are provided a table upon which you can display maps, brochures, or have a laptop for canned or interactive presentations. Internet connectivity can be provided. Wall space and a small map gallery will also be available for map display.

Presenters

We are also looking to have four or five presentations that will be made in a room adjoining the main Community Room. These will be on the order of 20-30 minutes, and can cover a variety of GIS-related topics. The willingness of our small GIS community to be involved our GIS Day events successful.

Jeff Orton

I am currently the President of Central Cal URISA. My employer is Paramount Citrus where I am the Director of GIS.  I was previously the GIS Coordinator for Kern County for 9 years and the GIS Administrator for the Utah Transit Authority for 7 years.  I am a big believer in collaboration within the GIS community and  I have served on the Central Cal URISA board for the past 5 years.   I also sit on the CGIA board.