Social Media Integration - URISA's Vanguard Cabinet of young professionals will lead a session on social media in the workplace.  You'll learn how to effectively and safely incorporate social media into your business activities.

Open Street Map Lab - There will be an interactive lab to teach you how to incorporate your own map symbology and create your own tile set in Open Street Map.

GIS Return on Investment - URISA has partnered with the Federal Geographic Data Committee and the University of Washington Benefit Cost Center to develop a standardized methodology to measure GIS return on investment.  Measuring ROI is how to make the case for GIS in your organization.  

Geospatial Management Competency Model - URISA has been tasked by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to develop the final tier of the Geospatial Technology Competency Model. This tier will establish the competencies needed for GIS managers.  Most organizations use the DOL models to establish position descriptions and hiring requirements.  You can help define these competencies.  

Geospatially Enabling Decision-making - The Kansas Legislature is integrating geospatial data and location into the process of making laws.  You'll gain ideas about how to geospatially enable your own state or provincial legislatures, county commissions, municipal councils, tribal councils, or any deliberative body.

One Government and Data Sharing - The Executive Director of the Singapore Land Authority will tell you in the Opening Keynote how they use a 'one government' approach to motivate agencies to work together and how they've developed a policy framework to successfully guide data sharing.  They won an Exemplary Systems in Government Award from URISA last year and have been invited to present their approach at conferences around the world.

Executive Support for GIS - Executives from a variety of national and international corporations that use GIS to solve their own problems will tell you why they decided to use GIS, and how they convinced their organizations to invest in geospatial data and technology.  In this Thought Leaders Panel Discussion, you'll get to ask questions to help make their knowledge pertinent to your own organization.