[AISWorld] AMCIS 2016 - Conference GIS Keynote & SIGGIS Workshop on Location Analytics and Spatial Analysis

[Daniel Farkas]

AIS Members,

AMCIS Keynote (Saturday Luncheon) will focus on GIS and Business with
Christopher Cappelli, Director, Global Business Development, ESRI, Inc.

AND it's not too late to regiser for the SIGGIS Workshop on:

*AMCIS 2016 *

*SIGGIS Workshop*



*RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN LOCATIONAL *

*ANALYTICS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS*

Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina

Executive Center 3A

Thursday, August 11, 2016, 8:30am – noon

This workshop focuses spatial analysis as an area of research within MIS.  The
area has been expanding very rapidly during this decade in the business
world.  Estimates indicated geo-services revenues approach $300 billion,
and spatial applications are spreading rapidly on mobile, cloud, big data,
and analytics platforms.  The workshop seeks to provide the background from
leading researchers and practitioners on how spatial analytics can provide
new and promising avenues for MIS research, what the current status is of
locational/spatial research is across the MIS community, and how leading
business practitioners are using research techniques to apply spatial
analytics and geographic information systems (GIS) for business
decision-making.  The keynoter from Esri Inc. will cover applying GIS
methodologies, spatial statistics, and space-time pattern mining for
practical spatial applications, particularly in crime analysis and forest
loss. The workshop also includes discussion of the Call for an upcoming
special issue of the journal *Decision Support Systems* on locational
analytics and decision support.

8:30-9:00 am                        *PRE-WORKSHOP COFFEE and TEA*

9:00-9:15 am                Introduction to Workshop: Spatial Research
Highlights  (James Pick)

9:15-10:00 am               Research approaches to Locational Analytics and
GIS:

                                    Findings from a 2016 AIS Member survey.
(Rama Ramakrishna & Avijit Sarkar)

10:00-10:20 am             *   BREAK – COFFEE and TEA*

10:20-10:50 am             Breakout groups to discuss missing research gaps
in Locational and Spatial Analysis in the MIS discipline (Introduced and
facilitated by Dan Farkas)

10:50-11:30 am             Keynote Pesentation

Lauren Bennett, Spatial Analysis Product Engineer, Esri (to be introduced
by Brian Hilton)

GIS Methodologies, Spatial Statistics, and Space-Time: Practical
Applications in Crime Analysis and Sustainability
11:30-11:45 am             Discussion of Call for Papers for Special Issue
on “Locational Analytics and Decision Support” of the journal *Decision
Support Systems*, with the guest co-editors.  Submission date September 20,
2016. (James Pick & Avijit Sarkar)

11:45-noon                   Workshop Summary.  Key takeaways.

                                    What spatial research in MIS have
emerged?

                                    What are next steps for participants?
(Namchul Shin)
Presenters:                       Lauren Bennett, Esri (Keynoter)

                   Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University

                   James B. Pick, University of Redlands

                   Avijit Sarkar, University of Redlands

                   Hindupur Ramakrishna, University of Redlands

                   Dan Farkas, Pace University

                   Namchul Shin, Pace University



*REGISTRATION*.  *Registration is available as part of the AMCIS 2016 *

*                    Conference Registration, which is now open. *

                    Go to https://amcis2016.aisnet.org  and Click on
Register.



                     If you have any questions about registering for the
Workshops

                     please contact Dan Farkas (djf2128 at gmail.com ) or

                     James Pick (james_pick at redlands.edu ).