GIS Day: Implementing GeoAI to Optimize your Workflows

Date: Wednesday November 20, 2024
Time: 1:30 – 2:20 p.m. 
Location: Dana Porter Library, Room 329 
Facilitator: Chris Hewitt 

Discover how to harness the power of GeoAI to revolutionize your spatial analysis tasks! 

This workshop, a combination of presentation, demonstration, and question & answer session, will equip you with the knowledge and skills to effectively integrate pre-trained models from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World into your workflows, streamlining processes and enhancing decision-making.  

By the end of this workshop, participants will: 

• Learn model selection, customization and integration techniques 

• Explored real-world use cases and best practices 

This workshop assumes you already know the basics of how to use ArcGIS Pro. To participate, please bring a higher-end laptop, preferably with a dedicated GPU, that has ArcGIS Pro 3.0 or higher and ArcGIS deep learning libraries installed.  

This in-person workshop has limited capacity; please register to reserve your seat. If you have accommodation requests or questions, reach out to Eva Dodsworth (edodsworth@uwaterloo.ca) with your needs. 

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Facilitator: Chris Hewitt is a Research Associate with Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN). He has a PhD in Geography (GIS) from Western University with a specialization in data analytics, human/environment interactions, cartography and GIS. His work to date has focused on applying advanced data and spatial analysis and cartographic techniques to a variety of fields including housing, demographic and population characteristics, environment and climate change and others.