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MN GIS/LIS Conference 2026

Minnesota GIS and land information conference with workshops, technical sessions and a vendor hall

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About this event

The 36th annual conference, organised by the MN GIS/LIS Consortium, includes instructor-led workshops, technical sessions, panels and project updates. Topics include ArcGIS Pro, web development, utilities, natural resources and drones. It is aimed at government GIS staff, surveyors, engineers, utility professionals, consultants and students. A vendor hall hosts up to 35 organisations.

Who it's for

Government GIS StaffSurveyorsUtility ProfessionalsGIS Consultants

Government officials who implement GIS and land information systems, surveyors, engineers and land managers, utility professionals and consultants, plus students and educators. The organiser also names homeland security and emergency preparedness staff and managers of GIS teams.

Speakers

Opening keynote: Storytelling with Maps

Christy Christensen

Panel: Free GIS Tools and Solutions for Counties

Washington County

Panel: Free GIS Tools and Solutions for Counties

Panel: Free GIS Tools and Solutions for Counties

U-Spatial, University of Minnesota

Glowing Up While Burning Up: A Heat Vulnerability App's Transformation from ArcGIS Dashboard to Web Experience

U-Spatial, University of Minnesota

Glowing Up While Burning Up: A Heat Vulnerability App's Transformation from ArcGIS Dashboard to Web Experience

City of Blaine, MN

Creating a Content Catch-All: Building the MyBlaine App for the City of Blaine, MN

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Wright AccessPoint - Connecting HHS Resources to the Community Through Experience Builder

Tali Ahrens-Church

Making Documentation with Markdown

Gopher State One Call - 811 and FuzionView

Minnesota Water Risk Atlas

Exploring the STACs

Adventures in Address Parsing

Minnesota DNR - Resource Assessment Program

Operationalizing Lidar Derived Forest Inventory

Minnesota DNR Resource Assessment

Lidar QAQC Workflows for producing Lidar Derived Forest Inventory Models

Beltrami County

After the Storm: Using GIS to Navigate Risk and Reforestation in the Northwoods.

ArcGIS Velocity: Real-Time Analysis and Deployment Patterns

ArcGIS Data Pipelines: Modern, No-Code Data Engineering Workflows

MNIT Services @ MNDNR

Host Metrics & Offenders: Advancing ArcGIS Monitor in Portal

From FGDB to Web GIS: Automated Layer Replacement in ArcGIS Pro

It's Not as Scary as it Seems: Integrating CAD Workflows with GIS in the Construction Industry

It's Not as Scary as it Seems: Integrating CAD Workflows with GIS in the Construction Industry

Sebastian Brauer

Isthmus Engineering

"The Glue Guy": Building a Data Interoperability Hub for Complex Infrastructure Projects using GIS

Designing, Planning, and Building Utility-Scale Wind Energy Projects

Mapping Together

Empowering the Next Generation: A K-12 GIS Education Initiative

Let the LLM Read, Not Draw: Automating Boundary Creation from Legal Descriptions

GeoCP 360: Turning Field Maps Photo Attachments into a 360° Asset Viewer

Let the LLM Read, Not Draw: Automating Boundary Creation from Legal Descriptions

GeoCP 360: Turning Field Maps Photo Attachments into a 360° Asset Viewer

Pro-West & Associates

Mastering Arcade for Everyday GIS Workflows

MN GIS/LIS Consortium Board Member

Panel: Resume Review

Panel: Professional Development in GIS

Washington County

Hunger Has No Boundaries: Mapping Food Access Across Seven Counties

Hunger Has No Boundaries: Mapping Food Access Across Seven Counties

Research in Action

The Statewide Systems Report Card: A Tool for Tracking the Responsiveness of Systems to Support Black women, Girls and Femmes

Research in Action

The Statewide Systems Report Card: A Tool for Tracking the Responsiveness of Systems to Support Black women, Girls and Femmes

Moore Engineering Inc.

GIS...But With More People: Using GIS for Public Engagement

Moore Engineering Inc.

GIS...But With More People: Using GIS for Public Engagement

ArcGIS + AI: Finding the New Capabilities and Putting Them to Work

Connecting Operations and Community: A Modern Approach to Work Management and Public Engagement

You're going to need an app for that! Lessons Learned on Nested Repeats and Survey123

GIS Response to Spring Tornados in Rochester: Lessons Learned

Cleared for Survey: Integrating Field Maps, Survey123, and QuickCapture for Minnesota's Aerial Moose and Elk Surveys

Red-Eye Flights: Tracking Nocturnal Bird Migration

Andra Bontrager

Cleared for Survey: Integrating Field Maps, Survey123, and QuickCapture for Minnesota's Aerial Moose and Elk Surveys

The Nature Conservancy

Leveraging GIS tools to inform grassland protection in South Dakota

How Your GIS Data Will be Used in NGCS Systems, a NENA Perspective

Automated Approach to Linear Conflation for the Transportation Community

Thoughts on Spatial Data Governance, Quality, Infrastructure, Content and Preservation

Champlin's Digital Edge: Implementing the GIS Foundation for the Future

ROK Technologies

Is it time to move beyond ArcGIS Online?

Minnesota IT Services partnering with DNR

Managing and Utilizing DEM Overlap for Creation of an Authoritative Seamless 0.5-meter DEM for Minnesota

Soren Rundquist

Using STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) to Organize and Access High-Resolution Lidar Data in Minnesota

Minnesota IT Services partnering with DNR

Minnesota 3D Geomatics Contour Development: Creating Statewide Authoritative, Static 1-Foot Contours for Minnesota

University of Minnesota

Evaluating Urban Development Levels in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area using Large-scale Human Mobility Data

RINA North America

Apache Spark for GIS Big Data Workflows

Florida Keys Roadway Vulnerability Analysis

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)

Network Metrics of Oversized Overweight Vehicles on Minnesota Roadways

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)

Network Metrics of Oversized Overweight Vehicles on Minnesota Roadways

Diana Flores Castillo

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT)

Guardrails & Good Data: GIS Holding Metro District Assets Together

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Bolton and Menk

Panel: Professional Development in GIS

Panel: Professional Development in GIS

Panel: Professional Development in GIS

No Shapefiles! Pick the Right Storage for The Job

Metropolitan Mosquito Control District

Where's the Risk: Focusing West Nile Virus Prevention Efforts

Automating Utility Billing Transparency for Major Municipalities

Putting Images In Their Place: Oriented Imagery Workflows in ArcGIS Pro

Putting Images In Their Place: Oriented Imagery Workflows in ArcGIS Pro

U-Spatial University of Minnesota

Turfgrass Health Monitoring Dashboard Using Time-Series Satellite Imagery

NOAA's Office for Coastal Management

NOAA's New High-Resolution Coastal Land Cover

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Manual Edits: Attribute Rules in Action

Saving Lives with Data: The Vital Role of GIS in Next Generation 911

City of Eden Prairie, MN

Are you suggesting that GIS Workflows Migrate?: Expanding Our Tree Inventory into Asset Management Software

Three Rivers Park District

Holistic Wayfinding in Parks- Part Two

GIS and Data Analysis Coordinator

City of Brooklyn Park

City of Brooklyn Park's Internal GIS Apps used every day

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Making (more) Accessible Instant Apps from Pop-ups to Panels

Catherine Hansen

MNIT @ Department of Natural Resources

Series Overview: Managing a Migration: Building, Moving, and Communicating Through a Major GIS Transition

Natural Resources Research Institute

Using GeoAI to understand changes in water quality of Minnesota lakes

University of Minnesota

Geospatial Big-Data Processing of Satellite-Derived Water Quality and Temperature Data with Ancillary Information to Identify Cyanobacteria Blooms Across Minnesota

University of Minnesota

Opening keynote: Spatiotemporal Social Sensing and GeoAI

Maggie Duerwachter

City of Brooklyn Park

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

City of Bloomington

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Dennis Turmberg

City of Chanhassen

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

City of Columbia Heights

Panel: Metro Cities GIS Meetup

Minnesota Geospatial Information Office

Discover the Modernized Geospatial Commons: Enhanced Services, Improved Publishing, Better Data

Overview of MnTOPO2 and Accessing Lidar Derivatives

Survey Coordinator

Panel: Sh#t Surveyors Say!

Local Government Information Systems (LOGIS)

Traffic Sign Management and Reporting

Dakota County BMP Mobile Inspection Database

Panel- How to Support 911 with GIS: An Overview

Panel- How to Support 911 with GIS: An Overview

Panel- How to Support 911 with GIS: An Overview

Panel- How to Support 911 with GIS: An Overview

Houston Engineering

Transforming Watershed Planning with GIS and LiDAR

University of Minnesota

Look to the Past to Model the Future: The Mississippi River Gorge

From FGDB to Web GIS: Automated Layer Replacement in ArcGIS Pro

David Orthengren

Houston Engineering Inc.

TMBCI Master Sanitary Sewer Master Plan

We Want the Func!

Asset Management: Using basic asset information to create action plans and long-term models

Michael A Koutnik Consulting

Maximizing Carbon Capture via Reforestation using a GIS-based Decision Tool

Update on COGs for rapid imagery access and use in web applications

American Engineering Testing (AET)

From URL To IRL: Recreating our favorite YouTube videos by using Metro Transit to play Hide and Seek

Archiving Minnesota Geospatial Data

Minnesota Department of Revenue

Building Disclosure-Aware GIS Layers: Tax Data at the Minnesota Department of Revenue

Unmapping GIS: Building GIS into an Enterprise Information Discipline

Robert McMaster

University of Minnesota

The Complicated Relationship Between Maps-GIS and Society

The Complicated Relationship Between Maps-GIS and Society

Saint Louis County Auditor's Office

Election Data Chaos?

Gerhard von Rabenau

Saint Louis County Auditor's Office

Election Data Chaos?

Saint Louis County Auditor's Office

Election Data Chaos?

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Elevating Environmental GIS: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Drone Integration at the MPCA

Right-Sizing GIS Infrastructure: Choosing the Right Platform for Today and Planning for Tomorrow

Harnessing GIS for Municipal Asset Management

U-Spatial, University of Minnesota

GeoCommunities AI: Using AI to Map Research Expertise Across the University of Minnesota

Gayatri Tatineni

U-Spatial, University of Minnesota

GeoCommunities AI: Using AI to Map Research Expertise Across the University of Minnesota

City of Bemidji

Practical Generative AI: Enhancing Organizational GIS Workflows

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