[AISWorld] ICIS 2019 - Hands-on Location Analytics pre-Conference Workshop

[Daniel Farkas]

Colleagues,

Join SIGGIS in Munich for an exciting Pre-Conference Workshop - academic
and industry speakers, hands-on learning and peer-reviewed papers.

*Hands-on Location Analytics Workshop Using of ArcGIS Online, Business
Analyst, and Insights*



Munich, Germany
Sunday, December 15, 2019, 8:30am – 1:00pm

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing
services, and advanced data analytics are the terms defining the present
time. This workshop will introduce Web-based tools for GIS, location
intelligence, business analytics, and visualization.



The workshop focus will be to demonstrate how these tools can be leveraged
in research and teaching in multiple business fields including retail,
marketing, and decision support. Attendees with laptops can participate in
hands-on demos. You will learn how and when to use three of ESRI’s premier
web-based tools.

·         *ArcGIS Online*, an intuitive cloud platform that gives users the
ability to build, visualize and analyze models across multiple disciplines.

·         *ArcGIS Business Analyst* which provides location-based
intelligence for market planning, site selection, customer segmentation,
and risk assessment. It provides tools and data, such as demographics,
lifestyle, spending data, health, and education data, necessary to enhance
prediction and decision-making with map-based analytics for accurate
reports and dynamic presentations. Insights for ArcGIS, which is an online
data analytics and visualization tool.

·         *Insights for ArcGIS*, part of the Esri Geospatial Cloud, blends
location analytics with open data and business intelligence workflows. It
helps to answer questions we didn’t know to ask, analyze data completely,
and unlock new insights. It also empowers analysts of all skill levels, to
directly connect data, and perform advanced analytics.



This workshop will also include keynote talks from Academia and Industry
will highlight the emerging opportunities and issues in GIS and location
analytics and discusses how these technologies can enable digital
innovation.

·         Peter Keenan, Associate Professor, University College Dublin
School of Business

·         Carlien Stadhouders, Business Development, Esri

·         Andreas Wenzel,  Sales Director, Michael Bauer International GmbH



In the second part of the workshop, contributed papers will be presented on
a variety of topics related to emerging opportunities and issues with
regard to GIS and location analytics.




*Sponsored by AIS’s Special Interest Group in Geographic Information
Systems.*
*ORGANIZERS AND PRESENTERS:*
Daniel Farkas, Pace University, dfarkas at pace.edu
Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University, Brian.Hilton at cgu.edu
James B. Pick, University of Redlands, James_Pick at redlands.edu
Hindupur Ramakrishna, University of Redlands,
Hindupur_Ramakrishna at redlands.edu
Avijit Sarkar, University of Redlands, Avijit_Sarkar at redlands.edu
Namchul Shin, Pace University, nshin at pace.edu



WORKSHOP REFEREED PROCEEDINGS TO BE AVAILABLE in the AIS *eLibrary*:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/siggis/

-- 
Dan Farkas, PhD
Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Pace University