Monday, May 22  |  Tuesday May 23  |  Wednesday May 24  |  Thursday May 25

 Monday May 22 

 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

 Pre-Symposium Workshops

 6:00 – 9:00 pm

 Board of Directors, Officers & Committee Chairs:  Dinner and Board Meeting

 Evening

 Symposium Attendees:  Dinners on your own

Tuesday May 23
 7:00 am

 Breakfast available

 8:30 am

 Opening Session with President Shaowen Wang

  • Welcome greetings and introductions
  • Updates on key and new UCGIS activities and opportunities

 10:00 am

 Break

 10:30 am

 Keynote Presentation: Daniel Sui, National Science Foundation

 12:00 pm

 Working Lunch - UCGIS General Council Meeting #1

 1:30 pm

Panel: Mentoring Strategies and Recommendations (graduate school, research funding, and related topics)

  • Marc Armstrong, University of Iowa
  • Kate Beard, University of Maine
  • Budhu Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Nina Lam, Louisiana State University
  • Robert McMaster, University of Minnesota
  • Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota

 3:00 pm

 Break

 3:30 pm

Keynote Presentation: Francine Berman, RPI and Research Data Alliance

Got Data?  Building a sustainable ecosystem for data-driven innovation

 5:00 pm

 Free Time

 5:30 - 8:30 pm

 Reception and Student Poster Presentations

Wednesday May 24
 7:00 am

 Breakfast available

 8:30 am

New Frontiers in Research and Data: Lightning Talks and Breakout Sessions

 10:00 am

 Break

 10:30 am

 Panel: Is GIScience up to the challenges of a smart and connected world?

  • Bhudu Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Mark Dowd, University of California at Berkeley
  • Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland
  • David Wollman, National Institute of Standards & Technology

 12:00 pm

 Working Lunch: UCGIS Council Meeting #2

  •  Elections for President-Elect and Board Directors

 1:30 pm

GIS&T Body of Knowledge, GIS&T Course Enrollment Survey, the AP GIS&T class, and additional related educational topics

  • Jon Wilson, University of Southern California
  • David DiBiase, Esri
  • David Cowen, University of South Carolina (retired)
  • Michael Solem, AAG and Texas State University
 2:45 pm

 Break

 3:15 pm

Summer School Scholar Presentations

 4:15 pm

 Award Presentations:

  • Ann Johnson, 2017 Education Award
  • Budhu Bhaduri, 2017 Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award
  • Dan Griffith, 2017 Research Award
 5:00 pm

 Free Time, and Dinner on Your Own

 5:30 pm - on

 Optional Field Trips: Discovering Georgetown
Thursday May 25
 7:00 am

 Breakfast available

 8:30 am

 Panel: Industry and Government Partnerships with Academia

  • Amy Walton, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program, NSF
  • George Percivall, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Engineer, Open Geospatial Consortium
  • Michael Tischler, Director of the National Geospatial Program, USGS
  • Steven Ward, Director of Geospatial Services, The Climate Corporation
  • Gene Whitney, Chair of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

 10:00 am

 Break

 10:30 am

 New Frontiers in Research and Data: Group discussion

 12:00 pm

 Lunch, with Incoming President Shashi Shekhar's Closing Remarks

 1:30 - 5:00 pm

 Optional: Meeting space available for small group project/proposal planning and writing
 5:00 - 7:00 pm

 Optional: Informal No-Host Gathering at Local Venue