Esri UC 2020 – Welcoming Our Users Virtually, Jack Dangermond (1 of 4)

Good morning everybody my name is Jack Dangermond and it gives me great pleasure on behalf of all of my colleagues at esri around the world to welcome you to the 40th annual users conference this year it's different we're not in san diego we're not in palm springs we're actually right back home in redlands about 200 meters from here 40 years ago we had our first users conference but it was only 11 people so it was definitely something very different i want to begin by thanking you thanking you first for connecting in and being here with us helping us create this community and of being together people that are are doing gis around the world uh i i i guess i need to acknowledge that this is a challenging time for for you and me for all of us actually we have not just one issue covid but we have a a kind of multi challenging aspect of all of our lives today it definitely is coveted it's definitely the impacts of covet on jobs our our world is talking about the issues of racial disparity racial inequities uh racial need to balance things again get rid of issues like racism hate these sort of things that trouble all of us around the world listen on top of those challenges we have issues of the economy and jobs and your health and at this very time we also are living at a time of of polarized political activities not just in our country here but around the world and it's difficult for us but at the same time we're holding in the midst of all of that this meeting with now actually over 40 000 no sorry excuse me 80 000 of you connected right now live these are a special audience of people that are are are exactly the people that are challenging many of these issues and if you are science people your data people you're analytics oriented uh you're thinking about solutions so it's quite an extraordinary time when you really think about it and i i have the great pleasure of hosting you for the next couple of days to go deep on technologies but also see some of the work that you are doing which is from my perspective totally inspiring to begin this conference we put a short video together we call it gis in the time of covid so i'd like to have our people show this now as our world gets smaller and what happens somewhere else it's closer and closer to home there's so much the world wants to know but we don't know a lot of things there's a lot of questions out there people very insecure hmm it's not enough to know we're interconnected we have to understand how and collaborate to build a better future your answers matter more than ever thank you for your vital work yes so beyond simply welcoming you here and and thanking you for being here it's my great pleasure on behalf of the world to thank you for your work it's just extraordinary and very meaningful to to all of us frankly the purpose of this meeting is largely the same purpose as we had 40 years ago when there were only 11 of us and it was to connect and and show each other's our work create some new friends create a kind of sense of understanding and get inspired and also have some fun uh well this is not san diego we can't you know have exactly the same experience but let me just say we are intending to do all of these things in various ways and this is our first year of doing virtual but i think it won't be our last year and we're going to give it our give it our best ladies and gentlemen at the beginning of this meeting it's also important that you know who you are first this 80 000 group of people right now online which to me is a little bit uh how would you say it intimidating in a way but then i just began to think about who you are and i realized i'm safe i'm i i'm your friend and you are rich in diversity you come from virtually every country on the planet dialed in right now and you have different backgrounds different disciplines you come from different sciences some of you are teachers some of you are are planners some of you are working in government some of you are working in the private sector some of you are working in ngos and normally what we do at the live conference in san diego is we have everybody stand up for a moment and turn to their neighbor and introduce themselves to a total stranger and this has the effect of of opening people's eyes to the connectedness of us building new friends and so in a way i can't do that now but in a way i want that same experience for you so imagine that you're there imagine that you turn to your right or your left and you explain to somebody totally new from a different land uh perhaps with a different discipline what you do and the remarkable thing is that while they're often very different from you they're also connected they understand your language because they are they are practicing with the same kind of dedication and spirit that you have the science of geography and its applications and the use of gis in many ways i like to think of you as a global community and the footprints of amazing work that you are doing as evidenced in that short video is well it's energizing to me every day i wake up i have the same sense of purpose that i had 50 years ago as a young student starting esri and i know that i know somehow that so many of you have had those lights turn on in your life and as a strike no turning back because it's such a powerful important thing that you are doing and i appreciate it i get the privilege to go through so much of your work in the last month i've looked at thousands and thousands of your maps and i'd like to share some of those because they give a kind of profile of of the important work you're doing you are working in environmental monitoring and modeling and assessments for example the real-time weather example in japan are looking at whale tracking off of alaska look at this interesting map in the upper right about arctic biodiversity it's really opened my eyes to the richness of what's there some of you are working on amazon deforestation and others are creating new integrated landscape approaches for bringing it all together in a sustainable way these examples show your work in natural resources in agriculture and aquaculture these examples in the center here just fascinate me because i had no idea managing honeybee colonies moving back and forth for pollenization across the united states every year in the left we see sustainable forest management planning and in the upper right we see your work in creating renewable energy our future well these are but a few and these examples show the richness of your work in managing land information now ladies and gentlemen this is central to a civilized society to a modern society the organization of property rights who owns what and we think about this as a system of record keeping yes but look at the interesting examples of how you're using it to look at taxable property value or what's happening with subdivisions or here one of my favorites is up in the upper left 3d well leasing this means property leasing in three dimension as it relates to wells many of you are working on creating our future this means urban design and planning the little example there in downtown san francisco is showing urban design of buildings your work extends for example finding housing for homeless in los angeles or this great piece of work in jakarta of interactive community planning making more inclusive the planning process and there are just hundreds that i that i can't show you of examples jess has moved into buildings and campuses and cities to visualize them like this great bim model brought into gis for visualization but visualization is only the beginning you are now using gis to do indoor space management uh you're also doing analytics with gis and buildings and doing navigation for example my old alma mater harvard now has routing from building to building from room to room it's remarkable work actually and this is just the beginning in the field of transportation you're not only interconnecting and building the fabric of interconnections but you're looking at powerful things like accident analysis being able to detect things and then fix them some of you are working on highway operations looking at dashboards of what's going on in real time and look at the railroads and lightning strikes wow that's a putting two gis layers together and it goes on into modeling i'm particularly fond here of what the bavarians are doing in object recognition using ai and machine learning engineers public works organizations around the world are using it for asset management and also in operations being able to track vehicles and be more efficient about it but here i'm attracted to the one the green one that shows infrastructure planning targeting where money should be spent on a rational science-based method next this is this is also extensively used in water and wastewater management you're working in dashboards showing water consumption spatially and water quality spatially and what areas need water main breaks managing your field people and do doing lots of analytics actually utilities of all types electricity and gas are now supporting a complete life cycle of designing using powerful network design tools for fiber for example and then management and then planning for the future but i'm attracted on this set of slides to the green one which shows network availability and i suspect for many of you this will ring bells because network access to the internet in these times particularly where kids have to stay on can define the the digital divide so very powerful work here in the field of public safety you are making communities safer you are responding to emergencies not only statewide for example in arizona but look at the work with nextgen911 our partners here of rapid sos and geocom have come together and they intend to put in next-gen 9-1-1 systems across the whole country but also in crime analysis in fire analysis in emergencies of all type you are not only looking at the data but also increasingly using gis to link citizens for citizen reporting a more inclusive strategy for public safety we face you and i disasters happening around the world some of it is caused by climate others just naturally occurring right now this week in japan monsoons flooding are resulting in depths of of water enormous flooding like 10 meters thick deep it's amazing actually well your work is responding it's responding to typhoons and earthquakes and fires look at the map of the amazon the fires that were damaging and wiping out landscapes last summer last fall remote sensing is enriching gis in multiple ways these examples show first simple work like using imagery as a base map to do updating of base maps features on a base map but then simple applications like extraction of land cover from imagery multi-spectral data and then it gets more interesting feature extraction the use of geoai tools and on the lower right there's estimates of snow depth from remotely sensed data so that we can forecast how much runoff will occur and what the farms will be what the water levels will be with respect to farming imagery is becoming more real time and we see this with radio frequency capture like tracking ships but we also see almost real time like the great work being done by planet labs where they're downloading imagery almost in real time this is an example of the their work on responding to the floods last week in michigan these are just a few interesting maps that i picked up as i was going through and uh well the my favorite is the one in the lower right showing wine consumption in europe and i had no idea that per capita england is ahead of france and italy all right this is supposed to be a joke but it probably doesn't come across virtually anyway i thought it was complete completely charming look at the map on mars colonization this was done by a young high school student looking hopefully not to the future but uh it was interesting much the same js is being used extensively in business these days businesses are waking up to the power of it not only to do site selection the best location of distribution centers but also real estate and look at the one and the four in the lower left this is a public set of public private relationships where governments are looking to where to target loans and grants in these difficult times to small businesses that are vulnerable or for many communities they've sho they have websites that show businesses that are open and not this is the year for census in the united states the 2020 census is being carried on a lot by the aids of of gis and geography and it's a extraordinary event because it's not just national it's state and local and then there's a few maps that i'm just picked out of what you shared of what people are displaying from census information interesting work right across the board public health has been enormously blessed in a way you would say by the application of gis and this extends into social equity these maps of disease trends like malaria and african swine flu show relationships and patterns also the rest of the maps show this issue that's on all of our minds today social equity racial and ethnic disparities on things like uh covet social vulnerability access to food stores healthy food stores and it goes on and on gios is not just about making interesting maps it's being used for analytics that help people really not only understand but make important decisions this is the time of covid and we have seen your work show up in thousands and thousands of dashboards around the world in poor countries and rich countries some of them are focused like executive decision support shown there in baton rouge and others are open for the public to see what's going on hospital admissions patient status cases deaths and these maps in the lower right are showing operations work of dashboards like what's the potential impact of coveton operations for the us army corps of engineers or firefighters that are impacted and it goes on this is not just dashboards your work goes much deeper in creating responses the work in tacoma is about looking at forecasting case demand and assessing it against hospital resources getting right down to the details of iuc beds and people that are available or looking at social distancing in london walking on the streets your work in statistical analysis and spatial temporal analytics is affecting jakarta it's affecting the whole us in these interesting maps from johns hopkins time testing sites and picking the right location is important and understanding vulnerable urban populations all of these are part of your work listen i'd like to take a moment and share with you a a short video like i did before showing some of your work amazing work can we show that for right now please so wow wow that's great as a video said be proud of your work i'm very proud of your work i mean it's it's meaningful it's meaningful to all of us because of so much of it was done not as part of your job description you stood up these sites you did the investigative work you supported people i mean it was just heroic work no matter how you measure it and so thank you for that each year we give out a series of special achievement and gis awards this year these are the ones that are being given here in the united states these are organizations who represent people who've done especially effective gis efforts these are the ones around the world and it's actually quite a list of people however it's a very small fraction of our user community less than one hundredth of one percent and we pick these people out because we like to of course make them feel good that's that's always nice i love to make people feel good through acknowledgement that's important in life that we acknowledge each other but it also isn't a way for us to highlight what i'd call great gis practices and so by the way ladies and gentlemen uh congratulations normally i would have you stand up in our audience of 15 or 20 000 people and and other people could recognize you firsthand because they're in some ways there's no greater uh acknowledgement that we can give gis people than to be acknowledged in front of their peers only they really know what it took to build the systems to get the support to do the right science to build the right workflows to create the right maps to do the right now all those things that all of you in this audience do so it's my great pleasure to acknowledge you and say congratulations but i also want to encourage you to share your work and normally we would be sharing all week but now we won't so please look for these people to publish their work presented at conferences and hopefully next year we'll be back together and we can do it once again each year we pick a few people for very special awards this year the making of deference award is going to johns hopkins university the center for system science and engineering for their amazing work these people collected data from many sources brought it together did all of the manipulation to get it correct and then published it this organization made ladies and gentlemen over a trillion maps in the last few months billions every day and billions of people saw them so the map was interesting but more importantly it woke up the world to seeing it in context we began to understand what started in china or emerged in new york would move here and we could begin to forecast where that would go i mean it it's it's an amazing amazing thing and so i would like to recognize personally and on behalf of our entire community first mr dong who is a young graduate student who came up with this idea and then his team and then his leader dr lauren gardner for bringing this together doing the work as i say uh not just having the idea and then standing it up making it scale all of those important things and so i once again congratulations to you on behalf of our community you had a huge impact and also on behalf of the entire world thanks for for what you did you helped all of us we also give an enterprise gis award each year and this year is being given to the louisiana department of transportation and development because they implemented a complete enterprise gis in their highway department now this is this is an amazing event as i study this further they've got jazz with every field person in their organization last year about this time they were getting on a plane flying back to louisiana because a huge hurricane was coming and they stood up the response system for it i am certain they saved lives and saved a lot of well and they just did a great job and so like johns hopkins i'd like to acknowledge brad duchette and his amazing team for doing their work it shows us across the community across the world in front of these 80 000 people what really it looks like to have a great enterprise gis system in transportation this year we're also giving a enterprise gis award to nl green power this is likewise a company that has implemented gis across their entire organization and it was selected not only because of some of their creative work but also because it's doing pioneering work in in renewables now gr inelt green power is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world with power coming from wind as it's shown here in the diagram and also from solar and also from geothermal and also from hydro they're bringing and and tapping into this amazing vision of making our world um green power generated so i'd like to acknowledge them and particularly uh keith oben and his core team here for the work that they're doing not just the technology work but also the push and the creative work that they're doing in showing us the way to build methods to generate power in new ways the last award is well in some ways it's it's my favorite award because it's my award the other the other awards are given uh by very carefully reviewing thousands of applications and nominations but this one i just get to pick and uh so i pick it because uh because i because i i'm drawn to this one this is the regional regional municipality of york in ontario canada for those of you who don't know the geography here it's due north of toronto and it's a regional government but we are giving this award because this organization built one of the first pioneering shared infrastructure systems for gis it's really geospatial infrastructure at its best and it involves many other local organizations working with utilities and others so i'm giving this especially this year and congratulations to york and i think we have john howling who runs this organization coming in from from york uh right now so john thank you jack what a wonderful acknowledgement of our incredibly talented team together working with our partners we are connecting our world here in york region and we're doing this through a culture of collaboration that encourages sharing breaks down silos and puts our collective data to work oh well thank you john that wasn't exactly live that they came in he made that video and asked that we would share it but again i would like to invite you to connect with john and his team amazing team actually because they're pioneering not just new technical ways of implementing infrastructure but also the social stuff the institutional stuff building the right partnerships for sharing and it's it's really working so i invite you to go up there next time you're in the region of toronto you

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Length: 33min 1sec (1981 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 13 2020