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What are good conferences for GIS and spatial developers to attend. For ESRI desktop users I think the User Conference is a must attend but if you are an ESRI developer I think the ESRI developer conference is a better event. If you can't make the big shows then the regional events are also a really good deal. FOSS4G is great when it is in your neighborhood but that is a big if. |
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If you're into open source GIS, I would recommend FOSS4G, 6-9 September in You have another week or so to submit an academic paper if you want to present. |
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I've attended two ESRI UCs and got to go to the ESRI Dev Summit in Palm Springs this year. If you are drinking the ESRI Kool-Aid, then the Dev Summit is your best bet over the UC, in my opinion. Everything at the Dev Summit is developer-centric. Code everywhere. ESRI engineers everywhere. The engineers are at the UC as well, but not in such a massive concentration as at the Dev Summit. Plus, the Dev Summit is a little bit more intimate (like 3,000 people as opposed to 14,000). Not to mention Palm Springs in March is awesome. |
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The O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference is a bit on the expensive side, but has a decent spatial developer turnout. It happens in late March each year. If you're going to be working with ESRI software, then the ESRI User Conference is the place to be. 2008 claimed 14,000 attendees, representing a good swath of both their user-base and developers. |
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A little less technical but also interesting is GeoWeb in Vancouver. It happens every year at the same time, next week. |
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State of The Map is a conference that gathers people using/mapping/interested in OpenStreetMap. It might be labeled as less technical, but nevertheless a lot of developers from all around the world attend this event every year. For example, this year lot of people from MapQuest engineering team were there. |
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GISScience - http://www.giscience2010.org/ SDH - Spatial Data Handling More focussed on cartography: ICC - International Cartographic Conference - http://www.icc2011.fr/en/ AutoCarto - http://www.cartogis.org/autocarto On theory: COSIT - Conference on Spatial Information Theory - http://www.geosensor.net/cosit/ |
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I like the ESRI Petroleum User Group conference held |
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Anything run by the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) - of course, that kind of assumes you're down our end of the world. |
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GeoViz - not regular, but looks good. |
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If you're a member of ACM SIGSPATIAL, I found that you get regularly notified of a variety of upcoming conferences via call for papers. Not everything is strictly GIS related in the classical sense (indoor positioning technologies is a topic as well, for instance), but it is one option for keeping ajour with the research and conference scene. |
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I've never been, and no idea how the content is there, but URISA's Caribbean GIS Conference has been on my bucket list for a while :) |
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Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2011 |
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