AMCIS2014WorkshopAgenda

= ** GIS for Smart Sustainability Workshop, AMCIS Savannah, Aug. 7, 2014. ** = = ** Agenda ** (Rev 3, 7-12-14) =

Participants and Attendees Introduced ||  || Overview of GIS Concepts, methods, and architecture. GIS in organizations. Spatial business intelligence. Spatial analysis and statistics. || James Pick University of Redlands and Dan Farkas, Pace University || Claremont Graduate University || University of Redlands || Director of Utility Solutions, Esri Inc. former Vice President at a major electric and gas utility. ||  ||
 * 8:15-8:30am || Introduction and Welcome.
 * 8:30-8:40am || Overview of Workshop ||  ||
 * 8:40-9:05am || Making a case – why is GIS and spatial analysis relevant for IS academics?
 * || Connection with MIS concepts. Includes a short demo. ||  ||
 * 9:05-9:15am || //Short Break// ||  ||
 * 9:15-9:50am || GIS and smart sustainability – how GIS is a tool to explore, analyze, designing solutions for decision support to environmental, health, and urban problems and challenges for organizations, government, and society. Includes a demo. || Brian Hilton
 * 9:15-9:50am || GIS and smart sustainability – how GIS is a tool to explore, analyze, designing solutions for decision support to environmental, health, and urban problems and challenges for organizations, government, and society. Includes a demo. || Brian Hilton
 * 9:15-9:50am || GIS and smart sustainability – how GIS is a tool to explore, analyze, designing solutions for decision support to environmental, health, and urban problems and challenges for organizations, government, and society. Includes a demo. || Brian Hilton
 * 9:50-10:20am || Hands-on Small Group Activity. Search and discussion by group members for spatial layers relevant to their own potential GIS projects, i.e. exploring the Business Analyst Online list of 8,000 spatially-enabled attributes and discussing/identifying potential for each participant.  ||   ||
 * 10:20-10:50am || //Break// ||  ||
 * 10:50-11:15am || Why (and how) is GIS & spatial analysis relevant for IS/IT curriculum and teaching? -- GIS and spatial analysis as curricular innovation. Strategies for teaching GIS in IS/IT and business school context. Curricular stages. Case studies. || Hindupur Ramakrishna and Avijit Sarkar
 * 10:50-11:15am || Why (and how) is GIS & spatial analysis relevant for IS/IT curriculum and teaching? -- GIS and spatial analysis as curricular innovation. Strategies for teaching GIS in IS/IT and business school context. Curricular stages. Case studies. || Hindupur Ramakrishna and Avijit Sarkar
 * 11:15-12:05am || Keynote talk, Bill Meehan
 * 12:05-12:15pm || //Break// ||  ||
 * 12:15:-12:40pm || Why (and how) is GIS & spatial analysis relevant for IS research? -- Research in GIS from an IS/IT perspective. Approaches used. Methodologies, Opportunities. Journals. Discussion of research opportunities. || Namchul Shin, Pace University, and James Pick, University of Redlands ||
 * 12:40-12:50pm || 10-min. Demo of Business Analyst Desktop or another cutting edge Spatial Tool. ||  ||
 * 12:50-1pm || Concluding Discussion of workshop on GIS for Smart Sustainability || All ||
 * 12:50-1pm || Concluding Discussion of workshop on GIS for Smart Sustainability || All ||