Monday

Morning: 9.30am - 12.00pm    

Workshop:

NZEUC and ArcGIS Platform Orientation

If 2019 is the first time you will be attending the New Zealand Esri User Conference this workshop is a must for you. The Workshop will cover helpful hints to make the most of the conference as well as giving you a high level overview of the ArcGIS Platform to help demystify the plenary and Esri Technology stream.

Facilitator: Claire Thurlow

Special Interest Groups:

Utilities

Meet and network with GIS Professionals who are using ArcGIS in the Utilities space (3 Waters, Electric, Gas). Explore how utilities are deploying GIS, including Esri's Utility Network, across their enterprise while maintaining good data management practises and future proofing their investments into the future.     

Facilitator: Dan Clark

Primary Industry

Explore the advantages of GIS in the primary industry space, including Forestry and Agriculture. Talk about projects, participate in discussions and learn about ArcGIS apps that are often used in the primary industry areas.

Facilitators: Murray McCallum & Jamie Till

New Zealand Emergency Response

Preparing for or responding to Emergencies, Disasters, or Security breaches  in a local or national setting? Come join other GIS Professionals in this space to share experiences and ideas.

Facilitators: Kate Waterhouse, Susan Shaw & Derek Phyn

Smart Cities

Meet and network with GIS Professionals who are involved in creating safe, healthy, liveable, sustainable, prosperous, well-run cities.

Facilitators: Greg Price

Data Science

Interested in solving data-intensive, large scale, location based problems? Come network with other GIS professionals interested in this space.

Warning: phrases like

• big data
• business intelligence
• advanced analytics
• machine learning
• deep learning
• artificial intelligence
• remote sensing 

might all star prominently during this special interest group.

Facilitator: Doug Stark

Transport

Transport is an integral part of daily life for all New Zealanders. We use transport to travel to work, education, or health facilities, for visiting family and friends, and for the movement of freight and other goods.  In this session we'll explore how geospatial contributes to delivery of a transport system that improves wellbeing and liveability through the design of a 'healthy and safe transport system

This session is for anyone:

• Working in the transport sector
• Collecting, maintaining or using transport-related data
• Interested in a future transport system that is safe, efficient, resilient and minimises greenhouse gas emissions

Facilitators: Bonita Gestro, Chris Morris & Kirsten O'Neill

GIS Managers

This session will connect you with people at various stages of this journey to:

• Establish a "relationship and ideas" network that can accelerate the rate of spatial evolution across industries
• Communicate techniques and initiatives (failures and successes) at branding spatial and pitching substantive business cases
• Achieve confidence in delivery capability, and aiming for those watershed moments when colleagues realise "spatial is a core competency"

Come along and learn from the combined experience of others.

Facilitator: James Gunn

Biosecurity

Explore, discuss and learn about the use of GIS in biosecurity. Biosecurity covers a wide field ranging from surveillance and investigation, responses, long term management to border security and so on. Organisations in central, local and regional government as well as companies in the private sector are working in this space. Hear from these organisations how GIS is supporting biosecurity, how various organisation collaborate and connect to other practitioners.

Facilitator: Andre Post

Plenary: 1.00pm - 4.30pm

Digital technology is transforming our world at an accelerating pace through rapid innovation and adoption. At the same time Geography, the science of our world, provides both the content and context as well as a Common Reference System. This enables us to see Complexity, Relationships, Patterns and Associations within the countless and diverse sources of data now available to us. 

This powerful combination of Technology and Geography known as GIS, allows us to bring it all together, understand and intelligently respond to both opportunities and challenges that we face at a local, national and global scale.

This is not some abstract idea or future vision in a far-off land.

This is Your Work, in New Zealand, today.

This year at the NZ Esri User Conference, around 600 Managers, Executives and GIS professionalswill gather to learn, share and connect on the topic of GIS.

One of the key compoents of the conference is the Monday Plenary session where Esri Director, Jim Higgins will begin with an overview of Esri’s ArcGIS as well as the vision which drives its ongoing development. the team from Eagle and Esri will then focus on sharing some of your own work which showcases the latest capabilities of ArcGIS reflecting the varied applications and domains where it is used in New Zealand:

• Exploring the latest advances in ArcGIS Online including Smart Mapping and Analysis;
• Working with the brand-new ArcGIS Story Maps to combine mapping and narrative to tell the story of saving New Zealand’s Unique wildlife;
• Learning how we can combine Science and GIS through the new Python Notebooks within ArcGIS Enterprise;
• Working to engage communities and promote biosecurity, including Kauri dieback,around Auckland using ArcGIS Hub;
• Learning how NZ users are creating stunning maps and visualisations using the next generation of Vector Basemaps and other Living Atlas content;
• Using ArcGIS Pro to analyse school locations and their accessibility in relation to public transport networks;
• Analysing and exploring location feeds from e-Scooters in Christchurch;
• Applying Artificial Intelligence to automatically draw spatial layers from traffic cameras;
• Using Imagery and Machine Learning to identify critical locations during forest fires;
• Combining ArcGIS Apps for the Field to automatically support sophisticated field workflows for Emergency Management on the West Coast;
• Using 3D Cities to visualise and model the impact and costs of sea level rise in Wellington;
• Showing how NZ Electric and Water utilities are working with the latest Utility Network technology to design and manage their vital network assets;
• Looking over the Tasman to the City of Melbourne to learn how they are working with ArcGIS Urban to plan and collaborate in 3D.

We're excited to share these stories and much more with you and are looking forward to having you join us at the 2019 NZEUC Plenary.

Welcome Function & EXPO Opening: 4.30pm - 6.00pm