Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies invites you to attend and present at Purdue Geospatial Information Science (GIS) Day 2024: Exploring GeoAI on Thursday, November 7, 2024 in STEW 214.

Take your research to the next level by presenting it to leading scholars and members of the broader GIS community. Undergraduate and graduate students can submit proposals for a poster presentation and/or a 5-minute lightning talk on any GIS-related topic. This is a great opportunity to practice public speaking and add noteworthy skills to your resume. The best of the student posters and presentations will receive cash awards.

Please submit your proposal by September 30, 2024 which will also get you registered for the conference to receive a free T-shirt and to attend the career panel lunch.

The conference will also feature keynote speakers Gregory Brunner and Michael Johns.

Gregory Brunner is an experienced scientist, award-winning professor, and principal data scientist at Esri—global market leader in GIS software, location intelligence, and mapping. He will be speaking about the rapid growth of the AI model ecosystem and the potential impact it has and will have on GIS in his talk titled, “The Burgeoning AI Model Ecosystem and Its Potential Impact on GIS.”

Michael Johns is a lead geospatial product specialist at Databricks, a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence company. He will focus on how to use Databricks to perform scaled spatial analysis while retaining full visibility and control over all of the underlying processes, code, models, and data lineage in his talk titled, “"Any-Scale Spatial Analysis on Databricks.”

Thank you for your consideration.

Gang Shao
Director of Purdue GIS Day & Assistant Professor of Data Science
Libraries and School of Information Studies