What Is Missing at the 2006 ESRI User Conference?
I’ve been checking up on the agenda for the ESRI User Conference 2006 (online, can’t find a PDF to print out) and I’ve been trying to figure out what I should go to. Since I went to all those “What’s new in ArcGIS 9.2″ last year I won’t bother with them this year, so I’m going to focus on probably ArcIMS (our bread and butter) as well as some ArcWeb stuff. I was surprised to see that there isn’t any session called “Creating Mashups with ArcWeb Explorer”. You’d think ESRI would want to capitalize on this mashup phenomena with a session tied to creating quick mashups using Public ArcWeb Services. The sessions for ArcWeb have scary names such as “ArcWeb Services: Managing Medical Surge Capacity – Integrating Web Services to Support Real-Time Decision Making for Patient Transport During Casualty Incidents”. The Dev Summit is where you can get nutty with development stuff, but the ESRI UC isn’t aimed at developers. Its not too late to add a “Mashup Camp” island to the floor where you can suck people up and teach them how they create mashups.
Is there anything else you think ESRI is missing on their agenda?
How about a blogging session? Or at least something for those of us who want to get more involved.
I’d like to see some ESRI Support sessions where we can talk directy to ESRI support staff.
Oh totally, a mashup session would be great. I’m been thinking about doing something in support of our work, but I’ve never really gotten into it.
A release date for 9.2.1 (or shall we call it 10.0.0.0.0).
Be good to see Cartographic representations in the geodatabase (with out crashing)
and the generalising of polygons in the model builder.
An ArcGIS ArcExplorer demo alongside Google Earth 4 Beta.
I would like to see something beyond 9.2, I could not find any Road Ahead sessions.
right on james…
it would have been nice to see ESRI participate in something like the Mashup Camp.
This laid back event had microsoft, adobe, sun, intel and others written all over it.
http://wiki.mashupcamp.com/index.php/MashupCamp2Grid
A PDF of the Agenda here:
http://www.esri.com/events/uc/docs/uc06_agenda.pdf
I recll in years past I used to get an agenda in the mail prior to the event.. this was very handy. The online planner is good but its huge and at first look the sessions don’t state who the presenter is.. something that’s key in picking a presentation in my mind. Myslef I llook for all the stuff that starts with “what’s new” or “the road ahead” etc… and anything by key ESRI managers is always a good bet (ie. Moorhouse, Brown, Maguire, Clarke, Calkins, etc… )