Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) GIS Conference – November 13th, 2020

Thank you for those who have registered for the conference! This is a reminder to register before 5pm CST next Wednesday (11/11). We recommend to use your university or work email for registration if possible. Meeting links will be sent after the registration deadline.

BTAA GIS Conference is a one-day conference that brings geographic information users across disciplines from different Big Ten institutions. It will be entirely online. Registration is free and open to all. More information is available here:

https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/btaa-gdp/btaa-gis-conference-2020

Program highlights:

• Keynote Address: Spatial Data Science: Turning Big Spatial Data to Timely Action, 2:00 - 3:20 pm EST / 1:00 - 2:20 pm CST

• Presentation tracks
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Agriculture and Natural Sciences
• GIS Infrastructures

• Social Hours: 3:30 – 4:30 pm EST / 2:30 – 3:30 pm CST
• GIS Education Programs at Big Ten
• GIS Career Discussion

• Lightning Talks: 11:50 - 12:30 EST / 10:50 - 11:30 CST
• Open Humanitarian Street Mapping Mapathon: 3:45 - 5:30 EST / 2:45 - 4:30 CST
• GIS Day Trivia Night: Thursday Nov. 12th, 6:30 EST / 5:30 CST
• Map Gallery will be live from November 10th!

For questions about the program, please contact Nicole Kong (Associate Professor, GIS Specialist, Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies) at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask].