Note: Selected list of events held 2013 – present. If you would like to present at a future meeting, host a meeting, or conduct a field trip open to GISMO members, please contact us at gismonyc@gmail.com.
June 8, 2022
“GISMO’s Virtual AppFair
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- “GIS @ OTI” presented by Christopher Rado, Director of GIS, NYC Office of Technology & Innovation (OTI)
- “New York City Policy Department GIS Enterprise System” presented by Douglas Williamson, Executive Director of Analysis and Mapping, NYPD and Francis Cabibbo, City Research Scientist, NYPD
- “GIS @ NYCEDC”presented by Reza Tehranifar, Senior Technical Lead Multimedia/GIS, NYCEDC
- “GIS @ NYC Emergency Management” presented by Josh Friedman, Executive Director, Geographic Information Systems, NYCEM
- “Maps, Data Visualizations, and Accessible Design” presented by Walei Sabry, NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities
- “Metadata Standards for NYC Geospatial Data” presented by Cynthia Nicklin, Data Operations Manager, Office of Data Analytics, NYC OTI
- “UNUM” presented by Alan Leidner, GISMO Board Member; Peter Gmelch, UNUM Project Manager; and NYU
- “Ears on the Channels, Feet on the Ground: OGC DP21” presented by Theo Goetemann, Founder, Basil Labs & GISMO
May 19, 2022
“Get That Job! Jumpstarting Your GIS Career”
2022 GISMO Job Fair Series
GISMO held a virtual job preparation workshop offering tips on resume building and successful job interviews. Guest panelists were Jim Hall and Piyali Kundu.
May 17, 2022
“Applications of NYC Open Data by the GIS Community: Tips and Tricks”
GISMO’s Open Data Initiative
Interested in learning some tips and tricks about using GIS data from NYC Open Data? Doug Williamson, a NYC Open Data Ambassador, sets the stage at this kick-off for the GISMO open data initiative. GISMO will catalog information about how NYC Open Data is being used by the GIS community and encourage the sharing of tips and tricks.
May 6, 2022
“GISMO Introductory Mentorship Meeting”
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March 2, 2022
“GISMO General Membership Meeting”
Meet Tom Swanson, Executive Director of Citywide GIS,
Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI)
December 22, 2021
“Civil Engineering / Geospatial Data Harmonization”
Co-sponsored by GISMO and NYU
Presenters:
- Professor Debra Laefer, NYU CUSP
- Alan Leidner, Board of Directors, NYC GISMO
- Phil Meis, Member, Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
October 28, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“2020 Census Reconfiguration of New York City’s Statistical Boundaries”
Presented by Stephen Wolkwitz, Population Division, NYC Department of City Planning
September 22, 2021
9/11 GISMO Remembrance Event
July 27, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
World Population Day Celebration
Presenters:
- “Geospatial Highlights from the 2020 Census and Where Next in Vision” by Gregory F. Hanks, Jr., Deputy Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau
- “Geospatial Population Data: Sources and Tips – Publicly Available Sources of US and Global Population Data and Addressing Population Change Over Time” by Frank Donnelly, Geospatial Data Librarian, Brown University, and author of “Exploring the Census: Your Guide to America’s Data”
- “Urbanization and Population Change in Low Elevation Coastal Zones (at Risk of Coastal Hazards)” by Deborah Balk, Director, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR); Professor, Marxe School of Public & International Affairs, Baruch College
June 24, 2021 GISMO GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“Showcase of Lehman GISc Students’ Capstone Research Projects”
Presenters:
- Diana Calderon – Using GIS to Identify Optimal Espeletia grandiflora Habitat Location in the Paramo of Chingaza, Colombia
- Robert Dennett – Mapping Wildfire Susceptibility: A Geospatial Analysis for Long-term Wildfire Susceptibility in the North Fork John Day Ranger District
- Caitlyn Linehan – An Application of the SLEUTH method: Future Urbanization of Nashville, Tennessee
- Yanitza Piedra – Developing a Habitat Suitability Index for Myotis septentrionalis in New York State
- John Vona – Spatial Relationships between access to Primary Care and ACSC Hospitalizations in Brooklyn, NY
May 25, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“Mapping and Reporting of Anti-Asian Hate-Related Incidents”
Panelists:
- Deputy Inspector Jessica E. Corey, Commanding Officer, Hate Crime Unit, New York City Police Department
- Douglas Williamson, PhD, Executive Director, Analysis and Mapping Section, Office of Management Analysis and Planning, New York City Police Department
- Chris Kwok, Board Director, Asian American Bar Association of New York
- Karen Kithan Yau, Esq., Of Counsel, Kakalec Law, PLLC; Board Director, Asian American Bar Association of New York
- John Choe, Professor at Queens College and Executive Director of the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce
April 29, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“How can we data mine + NLP our way to unique location insights?”
Presented by Theo Goeteman, Founder of Basil Labs
March 30, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“Demo of SPEED Environmental Mapping Portal“
Presented by Lee Ilan, Chief of Planning, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation
February 25, 2021 GISMO Presents On-Pointes
“Green Book: Color Line“
Presenters:
- Jiin Wen, SVP, Multimedia+Geospatial Information Service, NYCEDC
- Adeola Awe, Analyst, Multimedia+Geospatial Information Service, NYCEDC
August 19, 2020 Workshop
“Use of Precision Location Data to Support COVID-19 Operations”
On August 19, 2020, Ross Baldwin, South Hampton GIS Director and Chair of the Regional Committee of the NYS GIS Association; and Alan Leidner, President, NYC GISMO co-hosted a Workshop on Precision GIS for COVID-19 Operations Support. During the webinar, organizers, presenters and expert panelists explored the benefits of capturing and analyzing COVID case data to precise address points and building footprints to detect patterns of spread and to support contact tracing operations, and also discussed the advantages of geocoded addresses to aggregate data into a variety of geographic areas, and to support logistics, facility siting and public information.
Presenters:
- Frank Winters, NYS GIO
- Doug Schuetz, GIS and Transportation Commissioner, Rockland County
- Jim Daly, GIS Director Suffolk County; Chair, NYS GIS Association Chair, Regional Committee
Panelists:
- Dr. Sean Ahearn, Hunter College; Director, CARSI Lab
- Dr. Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium
- Dr. K.C. Rondello, Professor Public Health and Emergency Management, Adelphi University
June 10, 2020 GISMO
30th Anniversary Celebration & Membership Meeting
“GIS 2020 and Beyond: Seeing our Spatial Future Clearly”
Presenters:
- GISMO historic overview and founding principles presented by
Jack Eichenbaum, GISMO, Founder - Description and status of legislative initiative presented by Wendy Dorf, GISMO, Board Member
- “Underground Infrastructure Initiative, and relationship with OGC” presented by Alan Leidner, GISMO, President
- “The Value of GIS in the Pandemic” presented by Frank Winters, NYS GIO
- “The Geospatial Triade & C19 – Case Geocoding, contact/proximity tracing, & spatial diffusion” presented by Sean Ahearn, Professor Hunter College, Director CARSI
- “Geospatial Data Science considering COVID-19” presented by George Percivall, Chief Technology Officer, OGC
November 20, 2019 GISMO / NYU CUSP Meeting
“NYC Agency GIS AppFair”
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- City Planning: “Open Application Development for Open Geospatial Data.” Presenter: Andy Cochran, Director NYC Planning Labs
- DOITT: “Data Management & Integration (DMI) GIS” Tim Keane, GIS Application Architect; Erika Kamptner, GIS Product Manager
- Buildings Department: “Community Profiles” Ben Mancell, GIS Manager; Cathy Simon, Front-End Developer; Feng Guo, Back-End Developer
- Design and Construction: “NYC DDC CAD/GIS Integrations” Cherian Pooppallil, Director CAD
- Economic Development Corporation: “Re-Purpose Data – Dark* Data” Jiin Wen, Director GIS
- Education: “GIS Applications for Sustainability” Peter Barker, Sustainability Specialist, DOE Office of Sustainability
- NYU CUSP: “BigData for Big Cities” presented by Professor Debra Laefer
- Emergency Management: “Automating Field Data Management – Heat Season 2019” Yury Higuchi, GIS Specialist
- Finance: “Property Valuation and Mapping” Amanda Cruz, Tax Map Unit
- Fire Department: “GIS Support of FDNY Operations” Michael Brady, GIS Director; Matt Adams, GIS Specialist
- Health: “GIS Based Approaches for Emergency Preparedness and Response” Mustafa Ali, MPH, City Research Scientist, Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation: “Speed 2.0” Maksim Kleban, IT Director
- MTA: “Modernizing Work Planning in MTA – NYCT Using Enterprise Asset Management and Enterprise Linear Referencing” Simon Liu, Analyst, Subway GIS
- Police Department: “Precision Policing Using Operations Dashboard: An Operational Use Case for Dynamic Mapping” Francis Cabibbo, Chief of Strategic Initiatives, Office of Mgmt, Analysis and Planning
March 6, 2019 GISMO’s Open Data Week Event
“User Experience With Spatial Data On The NYC Open Data Portal”
The purpose was to discuss the benefits of the City’s Open Data program and to suggest ways of making the program even more valuable. The meeting featured talks given by Mitsue Iwata of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics and Josh Lieberman of the Open Geospatial Consortium. In addition, attached are notes from the meeting recorded by GISMO President Alan Leidner. GISMO would also like to thank Albert Webber from DOITT who provided support for the MODA presentation. GISMO’s interest in Open Data is based on the fact that almost all of the City’s open data sets – including those also made available by the Department of City Planning – are spatially enabled. GISMO expects to become a regular participant in future Open Data programs.
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“NYC Analytics”
Presented by Mitsue Iwata, Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
“Open Geospatial Consortium: Open Standards for Open Geospatial Data”
Presented by Josh Lieberman, Director of Innovation Programs
“Notes from the GISMO Open Data Event”
Presented by Alan Leidner, GISMO President
February 25, 2019 GISMO Membership Meeting
William (Bill) Johnson, a former New York State GIO and President of the NYS GIS Association, has been a great friend of GISMO and NYC GIS in general. For example, during the response to 9/11, Bill helped lead State support for the City’s mapping efforts, organizing aerial photography and remote sensing flights over the World Trade Center. In his talk, Bill urges GIS managers and practitioners to seize opportunities to assert the power of GIS, coining the term “Carpe Geo.” Bill, who now works for Applied Geographics, was joined by Kate Hickey, also of AppGeo, who spoke about the importance and methods of GIS strategic planning. More than thirty GISMO members attended the meeting, including Frank Winters the current NYS GIO who traveled from Albany.
“Carpe Geo & The Case for GIS Strategic Planning”
Presented by William (Bill) Johnson, Carpe Geo Evangelist, AppGeo
“Effective Geospatial Strategic Planning”
Presented by Kate Hickey, VP Consulting Services, AppGeo
November 14, 2018 2nd Annual GISMO Job Fair
October 19, 2018 GISMO Membership Meeting
“Business and Residential Data”
Presented by Bill Loges, Infogroup
June 20, 2018 GISMO Membership Meeting
“NYC Finance’s 3D GIS Capabilities”
Presented by Amanda Cruz, Director of Mapping and Property Tax System, NYC DOF
April 23, 2018 GISMO – Hunter Forum
“The Future of GIS in NYC”
Speakers:
– History of GIS in NYC presented by Sean Ahearn, Director, CARSI; Professor, Hunter College
– GIS Principles and Policies presented by Alan Leidner, President, GISMO; Director, Center for Geospatial Innovation; FCNY
Panelists:
– Gregory Yetman, Associate Director, CIESIN, Columbia University
– George Percivall, Chief Technology Officer, OGC
– Amen Ra Mashariki, Director, Urban Analytics, ESRI
– Jeff Ferzoco, Public Sector Technical Advisor, Carto
– Tim Keane, GIS Manager, NYC DoITT
– John Konarski, Executive Director, AGS
March 9, 2018 Women in GIS Forum
“Plotting the Stars: A Celebration of Women in GIS”
Moderator: Noreen Whysel, GISMO
Panelists: Wendy Dorf, GISMO and NY GeoCATS; Aileen Gemma Smith, Vizalytics Technology; Juliana Maantay, Lehman College; Michele McInnes, NYCDCP; Lynn Seirup, NYCDCP; Rachel Weeden, ESRI; Jiin Wen, NYCEDC
October 24, 2017 GISMO Job Fair
June 15, 2017 GISMO Membership Meeting
“Urban Modeling using OGC Standards”
Presented by George Percivall, CTO, Chief Engineer, Open Geospatial Consortium
April 4, 2017 GISMO Membership Meeting
Meeting Notes by Alan Leidner, GISMO President
November 30, 2016 GISMO Webinar
“NYCyclist Data Editor”
Presented by Conor Clarke, NYC Department of City Planning
Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World
GISMO Exhibit & Forum @ Queens Museum
October 29-30, 2016
Exhibit Description
Detailed Speaker Program
Exhibit Catalog
Interactive Maps
Photos can be seen on our Facebook page
NYS GeoSpatial Summit
October 20-21, 2016
Summit Website
Photos can be seen on NYS GIS Association Facebook page
International Geocaching Day 2016
August 20, 2016
We gathered at Central Park to complete the Bridges and Arches of Central Park multi-cache. Hiking 12+ miles and 10 hours later, our grand adventure drew to a close as we solved the puzzle and were awarded with a commemorative coin.
Video from June 8, 2016 GISMO Meeting
“GIS & NYC Elections”
“Voting geography, voting/voter trends, and spatial electoral patterns in NYC”
Presented by Steven Romalewski, CUNY Mapping Service
“Following The Money Using Locations In Campaign Finance Data”
Presented by Jon Reznick, Competitive Advantage Research
“The geography of campaign finance”
Presented by Sam Hudis, Competitive Advantage Research, and GISMO Treasurer
February 10, 2016 GISMO Meeting
“GIS & NYPD”
Presented by Doug Williamson, Director of Operations Research at the NYPD
Video from May 1, 2015 GISMO@25 Celebration
“25th Anniversary of GISMO Celebration”
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Photos view-able from our Facebook page
Video from February 5, 2015 GISMO / MITC Meeting
“Agency GIS Forum”
Video from November 18, 2014 GISMO/NYPL Meeting
“Geodata Startup Showcase”
Video from June 18, 2014 GISMO/NYPL Meeting
“Spatial Analyses for a Stronger, More Resilient New York”
Presented by Erika Lindsey, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency
Video from May 2nd, 2014 GISMO/NYPL Meeting
“FDNY & Super Bowl XLVIII”
Presented by Captain Steven Pollackov, Fire Department City of New York (FDNY)
Video from Jan 24, 2014 GISMO/NYPL Meeting
“Engaging the OpenStreetMap Community: A NYC Government Perspective”
Presented by Colin Reilly, NYC DoITT
Videos from the Feb 19, 2013 GISMO/Google Meeting
“New GIS Horizons in Emergency Response”
Presented by Google Crisis Response Team
“Empowering Transparency: Breaking Down Silos for Transparency Geospatial Data”
Presented by Google Geospatial Solutions
Watch more videos from the NYS GIS Association’s brand-new YouTube Channel.