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Event

GIS Day

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 13:00to18:00
Burnside Hall 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA

GIS Day
Wednesday, November 14, 1 p.m. onwards

Our GIS day this year will revolve around Space and Place.
Stop by and learn about Geographic Information and Geospatial Data Science!
Keynote speech by Prof. Grant McKenzie at 1 p.m., BH511 on “Space, Place and the Fourth Paradigm of Scienceâ€
Further talks by ESRI, Statistics Canada, LocalLogic and our former grad students, Chris Liang and Noé Schultz (schedule see below). We will also have a mapathon by OMG McGill!
We will have the students’ GIS works session (McGill students, please send your GIS related poster or presentation to gicsupport [at] mcgill.ca by Nov, 9 and have the chance to win a price!), free coffee and, of course, the Wine & Cheese reception.
GIS Day schedule:
1:00 p.m. Prof. Grant McKenzie, new faculty member at Geography, McGill
2:00 p.m. Chris Liang and Noé Schultz: Mapping Accessiblity, Health and Wellness
2:30 p.m. Frederic Blouin-Michaud, ESRI: What’s next in GIS?
3:00 p.m. Gabriel Damant-Sirois, LocalLogic: Adding value to place searches
3:30 p.m. Jean le Moullec, Statistics Canada: Statistics Canada and the Building Canada 2020
Initiative
4:00 p.m. Open Mapping Group (OMG McGill): Mapathon
5:00 p.m. Open Wine & Cheese reception
around 5:45 pm. GIS students’ awards for posters and presentations

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