This year\u2019s ESRI Annual Conference took place once more in the QEII Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster.\u00a0 It was good to meet up with several Newcastle graduates, each making their mark on the GI industry.\u00a0 The major \u2018take-away message\u2019 from this year\u2019s conference was the increasing ease by which the traditionally \u2018clunky\u2019 ArcGIS desktop can be left behind in favour of developing using ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, products with regular and frequent update cycles and increasingly comprehensive functionality.<\/p>\n
From the perspective of ESRI, David Rix (1976 graduate) and Dominic Stubbins (1995) were amongst the welcoming corporate hosts, contributing to an efficiently-run and informative event, well worth the trip from the north!\u00a0 Nathan Ward (1993) was manning the Leica stall, one of several associated partners exhibiting in the building.\u00a0 Laura Hanson (2003 graduate), now with Arup, and Rachel Oldroyd (2011 graduate), now with the University of Leeds, were ex-staff members spotted, along with Meredith Williams (staff 2000-2010).<\/p>\n
Joining Dominic from the 1995 cohort was Ian Moodie, whilst from even further even back, Rob Knight and Helen Durham (both 1985) are both thriving.\u00a0 Clive Surman-Wells (1988) and Andy Hopkins (1996) made their presence known also, along with some 21st<\/sup> century graduates \u2013 Bruce Ford (2009), Claire Watkins (2009), Victoria Short and Matt Bowerbank (2010), Matthew Bierton (2014) and Jonathan Hallam (2015).<\/p>\n Next week, the re-unions will continue in London at the GeoBusiness event.\u00a0 There is a formal Newcastle alumni meeting on Tuesday 24 May at 15:00 hrs.\u00a0 Come along to the Business Design Centre in Islington, if you are in town \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year\u2019s ESRI Annual Conference took place once more in the QEII Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster.\u00a0 It was good to meet up with several Newcastle graduates, each making their mark on the GI industry.\u00a0 The major \u2018take-away message\u2019 from this year\u2019s conference was the increasing ease by which the traditionally \u2018clunky\u2019 ArcGIS … Continue reading “ESRI UK User Conference Tuesday 17 May”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-events","category-reflections","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}