Session Guide for Data Managers and Analysts

This is a suggested list for folks in charge of securing, backing up, preparing data, and gleaning trends from data. And don’t forget to register!

MONDAY - NOVEMBER 2 - HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS

We have several workshops catered to data caterers from beginner to advanced. Unfortunately, several are at the same time, so you’ll have to choose.

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Beginner: Hitchhikers guide to QGIS - Randal Hale

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Beginner: Open Methods for Disaggregating Commodity Flows - JJ Paul

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Advanced: Wrangling uncomfortably large spatial data with Python and SedonaDB - Vishal Kumar; Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria

1:00 PM - 4:00 P.M 

All Levels: Make FEMA Flood Maps Cloud-Native: A GeoParquet + DuckDB Pipeline

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 3 - CONFERENCE TALKS

11:00–11:25

State of GeoServer - Andrea Aime and Simone Giannecchini

02:00 - 02:25

From Shapefiles to Spatial Databases: PostgreSQL Basics - Timothy Steward

WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 4 - CONFERENCE TALKS

11:00 - 11:25 From Geoportal to Platform: Introducing the BTAA Geospatial API - Eric Larson

03:30 - 03:55 Precision farming with GeoServer:  lessons learned and future directions - Andrea Aime; Simone Giannecchini

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