Purdue GIS Day 2025 Agenda
Thursday, November 6, 2025 in Stewart Center
| Time | Session | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30–8:00 AM | Student poster and exhibitor set up | STEW 218 |
| 8:00 AM | Check-in and registration open | 2nd floor hallway |
| 8:00–9:30 AM | View posters, meet with exhibitors, coffee and refreshments | STEW 218 |
| 9:30–10:30 AM | Welcome: “Unlocking GeoAI Data and Tools” Gang Shao, Director of Purdue GIS Day and Associate Professor of Libraries and School of Information Studies | Purdue University Keynote: “Integrating AI across GIS” Gregory Brunner, Principal Data Scientist and Team Lead | Esri | STEW 214 |
| 10:30–11:30 AM | Research presentations: “Using GIS Across the Solar System to Unlock the Geologic History of Planets” Ali Bramson, Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences | Purdue University “Data to Science: Open source ecosystem for GeoAI” Jinha Jung, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Geomatics | Purdue University “QGIS on HPC Clusters” Xiao Liu, Senior Research Software Engineer at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing | Purdue University | STEW 214 |
| 11:30 AM | Boxed lunches available | STEW 218 |
| 12:00–1:00 PM | Career panel lunch: Gregory Brunner, Principal Data Scientist and Team Lead | Esri Marianne Cardwell, Geographic Information Officer | State of Indiana Joan Keene, GIS Director | Hamilton County, Indiana Government Thomas Peck, Senior Associate | Ecopia AI | STEW 214 |
| 1:00–1:30 PM | View posters, meet with exhibitors, coffee and refreshments | STEW 218 |
| 1:30–2:45 PM | Industry presentations: “Geospatial on AWS” David Conklin, Solutions Architect | Amazon Web Services Brian DeKemper, Enterprise Account Executive | Amazon Web Services Luke Coady, Solutions Architect | Amazon Web Services “Hamilton County’s GeoAI Journey – 2024 Basemap Update Project Acquisition to Application” Joan Keene, GIS Director | Hamilton County, Indiana Government “GIS at the State of Indiana: The Role of the Indiana Geographic Information Office” Daniel Council, Geographic Information Outreach Coordinator | Indiana Geographic Information Office Shaun Scholer, GIS Technical Specialist (Programs and Outreach) | Indiana Geographic Information Office | STEW 214 |
| 2:45–3:30 PM | GIS Faculty Panel: Nicole Kong, Professor of GIS and Associate Dean for Research for Libraries and School of Information Studies | Purdue University Ian Lindsay, Associate Professor of Anthropology | Purdue University Songlin Fei, Professor and iDiF Director for Forestry & Natural Resources | Purdue University | STEW 214 |
| 3:30–4:00 PM | Student poster awards and closing remarks | STEW 214 |