[AISWorld] AMCIS 2015 GIS and Big Data Workshop Keynote Announced

[Daniel Farkas]

Explore the intersection of Big Data, Analytics and Location Analysis by
attending the SIGGIS Pre-Conference workshop at this year's AMCIS conference
in Puerto Rico (Thursday, August 13. 2015).

We are excited to have Mansour Raad, from Esri, Inc as the workshop Keynote
speaker:

Mansour Raad is a senior software engineer at Esri and Esri's Big Data
Advocate. As part of Esri's development team, he helps users implement Big
Data solutions with ArcGIS server. With over 25 years of experience in the
IT/GIS field, Mansour is also a Cloudera Certificate Hadoop Developer and
HBase Specialist. He is using his command of GIS technologies to design and
implement the next-generation BigData geospatial solutions. Mansour holds a
Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and
frequently blogs on Big Data topics and examples of Big Data
implementations at http://thunderheadxpler.blogspot.com

.

NOTE: the Workshop is divided into two parts (register for both) and will
include the following topics and activities:


*Location Analytics, GIS, and Spatial Big Data: **Conceptual
Foundations, **Applications,
Opportunities, and Challenges*

   - Overview of Big Data and Analytics
   - Geospatial Backdrop and Location Analytics
   - How and where do Big Data, Analytics, and GIS intersect? Tying Them
   Together
   - Breakouts (small group discussions focused on academic concepts)
   - Industry Keynote Presentation - Mansour Raad



Registration is through the AMCIS 2015 Conference Website (
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org

).


-- 
Dan Farkas, PhD
Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Pace University
Pleasantville, NY,  10570 USA

Visiting Professor of Computing, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales, UK