GIS DAY 2008

Registration (includes free lunch): Registration for 2008 is now open. Send an email to gisday@vcccd.edu with the following information in your message: :
    Name, Company/Organization, Address, Phone, Email
    Want lunch? Yes or No
    Will you bring a poster? Yes or No or Don't Know Yet? (You can decide later. If you do plan on bring a poster you can just show up with the poster and we'll try to find a spot for it.)
If you would like lunch, please register by 5pm Tuesday, Nov. 18.
If you don't need lunch, you can register through noon Nov. 20 or just register on site on the 21st.

Interested in presenting your GIS work via paper and/or poster? Contact Dawn Robbins
(Everyone please consider bringing a poster for the poster session. There will be good prizes this year for best posters.)

General Information: contact: gisday@vcccd.edu at Ventura College (for more detailed information on GISDay and the facilities, contact Steve Palladino.)

Map to Ventura College's Science Building
Directions: Once you get to campus see map above.

From Ventura or farther north: Hwy 101 South to Hwy 126 East. Go east on Hwy 126 until the Victoria Ave exit (first exit!). Left over freeway on Victoria until major light at Telegraph Road. Left on Telegraph. Ventura College ahead on your right at the 3rd light (Day Road). Either park right there in the East Lot and pick up a schedule outside of Science Building (SCI) room 116 and walk up to the Campus Theater (5min walk). If you are running late or don't want to walk, you can turn right on Day Road, then left at the light on Loma Vista Rd. Just past the theater, you can park in the West Lot. If you park on campus you will need to buy a $1 daily permit from one of the yellow parking pass dispensers.

From Oxnard or farther south: Hwy 101 North to the Victoria Ave exit (2nd exit after the Santa Clara River Bridge). Right on Victoria continue for a few miles until major light at Telegraph Road. Left on Telegraph. Ventura College ahead on your right at the 3rd light (Day Road). Either park right there in the East Lot and pick up a schedule outside of Science Building (SCI) room 116 and walk up to the Campus Theater (5min walk). If you are running late or don't want to walk, you can turn right on Day Road, then left at the light on Loma Vista Rd. Just past the theater, you can park in the West Lot. If you park on campus you will need to buy a $1 daily permit from one of the yellow parking pass dispensers.

GIS DAY SCHEDULE

Ventura College Sciences Building

8:00 - 8:30 Registration (Morning registration will take place outside SCI 116 near the East Lot, but schedules will be available outside the Ventura College Theater on the west side of campus. Registration will continue through the day outide SCI 116.)

8:30 - 9:30 Keynotes (Campus Theater off Loma Vista Ave.)
THIS IS A PUBLIC LECTURE OPEN TO THE WHOLE CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY.
Featured Speakers:
Will McClintock, Marine Map - Geospatial Tools for Marine Protected Areas Planning
Mary Hurley, CGIS - State of California GIS

9:30 - 9:45 Conference Welcome and Orientation (Campus Theater)

9:45-10:00 Coffee Break (Outside SCI 116)

10:00 - 3:30 Vendor Exhibits (SCI 113 and SCI 119)
Vendors can begin to set up at 8am. GIS Day Participants are encouraged to visit exhibits all through the day.

10:00 - 12:30 Breakout Sessions: GIS Application Examples and Marine Protection efforts (SCI 116, SCI 222, SCI 221)
Presentations by GIS users from around the Tri-County area. (see detailed Schedule at event)

12:30 - 1:15 Lunch (Science building loading dock, around the corner from SCI 116)
Free for pre-registrants (see top of this page).

1:15 - 1:45 Poster Session (Breezeway between SCI 119 and Loading Dock.) Judging until 2:45, awards at 3:15.
Poster presentations with maps that show how GIS is used to manage parks, map oil pipelines, do city planning, and the like. (Posters will be up all day until 3:30)

1:45 - 3:15 Sponsor Presentations (SCI 116) - Come join our primary sponsors as they showcase the use of their GIS products.

1:45 - 2:30 ESRI
2:30 - 3:15 Kasraie Consulting and Noble Systems joint presentation

1:45 - 3:15 Hands-on Session with CIRGIS: Using the CIRGIS Data Viewer and making KMLs for data display (SCI 113) - Come to one of these sessions with Paul Van Zuyle as he shows us how to access our regional imagery and put data on top of it.

1:45 - 2:15, 2:15-2:45, 2:45-3:15 (Pick one session)

3:15 - 3:45 Poster Session Awards, Raffle, Cookies (Breezeway)

For more information contact Steve Palladino, Ventura College, 805-654-6400 x1365, spalladino@vcccd.edu

Ventura College GIS webpage

GISDAY Poster (Word format, JPEG Image)

Last updated November 19, 2008

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