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    • February 19, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
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    BeSpatial YPN presents -  Global Valentine's Trivia @ February 19, 12:00pm

    Love is in the air—and so is geography! Let’s celebrate our love for GIS with some spatially sweet trivia. Did you know that there’s a place called Valentine, Nebraska, or that Love, Saskatchewan is a real location? How about the fact that the heart-shaped island of Tavarua in Fiji can be seen from satellite imagery?

    From mapping heart-shaped landscapes to analyzing love-themed place names, GIS helps us explore the world’s most romantic locations. So grab your favorite geospatial valentine and test your GIS love knowledge!

    Winner takes home a $25 gift card!

    Host: Courtney Dunn

    • March 18, 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
    • County of Peterborough - Council Chambers
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    From Education to Experience to Excellence: A Day of Learning

    BeSpatial Ontario is thrilled to invite you to our in-person one-day conference! This is your chance to gain valuable knowledge from industry experts and peers who will share their experience and insights. 

    Why Attend?

    • Engage with thought leaders and professionals in the spatial data community
    • Learn from real-world case studies and practical experiences
    • Network with peers and expand your professional connections

    Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn, share, and grow. Mark your calendars and submit your presentation proposals today!

    Event Details:

    Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 - 8:30AM-4:30PM

    County of Peterborough - Council Chambers (470 Water St, Peterborough, ON)

    Lunch and Coffee/Tea Service is included.

    On-Site Registration fees:

    Member $50

    Non-Member $75 

    On-Site Student $25

    On-Site Non-Member Student $35

    Can't attend the event in person? Stay tuned for details on new satellite on-site locations to be announced soon!

    Email education@bespatialontario.ca or ypn@bespatialontario.ca if you have questions or have dietary restrictions.

    Hotel Accommodations:

    Holiday Inn Peterborough Waterfront - 150 George Street, Peterborough

    The rate varies by room type, starting at $147.59 for Standard Rooms and up to $179 for River View Rooms. 

    To secure this special rate, reservation requests must be made directly by sending an email with the request or calling the Sales Office line and referencing BeSpatial Ontario or Peterborough County.

    Your attendance plays a crucial role in supporting BeSpatial events and ensuring the success of this event as well as BeSpatial continuing to host in-person events in the future.

    • April 29, 2025
    • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    • Holiday Inn Burlington Hotel & Conference Centre
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    DON'T WAIT TO REGISTER!

    When: April 29, 2025

    Time: 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM

    Where: Holiday Inn, Burlington Conference Centre

    Early Bird Draw Prize Announced!  

    Win the ultimate coffee companion! Register early for your chance to win the Ember Travel Mug 2 - the smart mug that keeps your drink at the perfect temperature, from the first sip to the last drop. 


    BeSpatial Spotlight

    Who Should Attend?

    The intended audience for this 1 day event includes public and private sector with participants from the federal, provincial, regional and municipal levels, private industry, consulting, IT leaders, GIS professionals and practitioners, end data users, managers, senior staff, CAOs, and First Nations. Other key stakeholders include community activists and visionaries from the private and not-for-profit sectors.

    Program Agenda - coming early 2025!

    The BeSpatial annual event is for the geospatial and information community. The BeInspired event offers program sessions, keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and industry updates in an expo showcase. The event attracts attendees from a diverse cross-section of public and private disciplines: Geospatial (GIS) professionals and Information service (IT/IS) managers, engineers, surveyors, consultants, analysts, technicians, technologists, specialists, senior managers, end data users, professors and students from Ontario and beyond!

    Do you have an Inspiring Story of GeoSpatial Greatness?

    Call for abstracts and proposals! If you are interested in presenting and speaking at BeSpatial's 2025 BeInspired Annual Event in Burlington please reach out to us at programs@bespatialontario.ca with your presentation title and abstract.

    • May 30, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    • Bridgeworks (200 Caroline St N, Hamilton, ON L8R 0A6)
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    When: Friday, May 30, 2025

    Time: 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM

    Where: Bridgeworks (200 Caroline St N, Hamilton, ON L8R 0A6)


    About This Event

    Welcome to futurenew.

    The future of innovation in geospatial.

    This isn’t just a conference; it’s a movement to reimagine what’s possible when visionaries, creators, and technologists converge to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. At the intersection of artificial intelligence, geospatial innovation, and sustainable progress, futurenew is where the boldest ideas take centre stage.

    Built around Esri's powerful technology stack, futurenew showcases how organizations and technology leaders are leading the charge, using data-driven solutions to break boundaries, redefine industries, and accelerate a smarter, more connected future.

    https://futurenew.canopymapping.co/events/futurenew


    What to Expect

    Keynote Presentations:
    Hear from the pioneers shaping tomorrow with game-changing innovations in:

    • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: See how AI is creating predictive models for cities, businesses, and the planet, turning data into foresight.

    • Autonomous Systems and Robotics: Explore how GIS integrates with autonomous technologies for transportation, agriculture, and infrastructure monitoring.

    • Next-Gen Digital Twins: Experience the power of immersive, real-time digital replicas that transform decision-making at every level.

    Expert Panels & Discussions:
    Dive deep into the challenges and opportunities defining our era:

    • The Geospatial Internet of Things (GeoIoT): Connecting everything, everywhere—how sensors, devices, and GIS create a live feed of the world’s heartbeat.

    • Sustainability Through Innovation: Combatting climate change with location intelligence, renewable energy mapping, and environmental monitoring.

    • Smart Cities, Smart Regions: The future of urban and regional planning powered by automation, equity-first strategies, and 3D geodesign.

    • Resiliency and Disaster Response: Building adaptive systems to respond to global crises—from wildfires and hurricanes to cybersecurity threats.

    Interactive Demos and Case Studies:
    Experience hands-on demonstrations of groundbreaking projects and see how Esri-powered solutions are used to:

    • Map carbon footprints and identify high-impact areas for decarbonization.
    • Monitor critical infrastructure and assess risk dynamically.
    • Plan sustainable housing that balances economic growth with environmental stewardship.
    • Improve connectivity and equity in rural and underserved areas.

    Workshops and Training:
    Gain exclusive access to workshops led by experts, where you’ll learn to:

    • Build AI-ready GIS workflows for advanced analytics.
    • Harness the power of spatial data science to uncover new patterns and insights.
    • Create actionable dashboards for real-time decision-making.
    • Develop apps that integrate seamlessly with Esri platforms, driving impactful user experiences.

    Vision for the Future:
    At futurenew, we don’t just imagine what’s next—we build it. This conference pushes the boundaries of geospatial innovation, exploring the fusion of technology and humanity to create lasting change. Be part of conversations that challenge norms, disrupt industries, and ignite collaboration for a brighter tomorrow.

    Why Attend?
    Whether you're a policymaker, technologist, sustainability advocate, or business leader, futurenew will inspire and equip you to lead innovation in your field. You’ll leave with actionable insights, transformative ideas, and connections to a global network of changemakers ready to push the limits of what’s possible.

    Join us at futurenew—where the future begins, and innovation knows no bounds.

Past events

January 30, 2025 GIS Return on Investment (ROI) Fundamentals
January 28, 2025 Promote and Grow your GIS for Successful Geospatial Managers
January 23, 2025 GIS Staffing Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers - Greg Babinski
December 12, 2024 Urban Forestry: Unlocking the Potential of your Digital Twin City
December 02, 2024 Young Professionals Network's Map the Halls: GIS Holiday Hunt!
November 21, 2024 Planview USL's GIS Day 2024
November 20, 2024 GIS Managers' Open Forum - November 20, 2024
November 13, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's GISP Exam 101
November 06, 2024 Pathfinders 2024 Year in Review: 20 Episodes in 30 Minutes
November 04, 2024 GIS and the Future of Infrastructure
October 29, 2024 Sharing Data and Collaboration: Shaping a Connected, Innovative Future
October 02, 2024 GIS Return on Investment (ROI) Fundamentals
October 02, 2024 GEO-Enabling Digital Twin with AEC and GIS (SOLD OUT!)
September 30, 2024 GIS Funding, Budgeting & Financial Management for GIS Managers
September 18, 2024 Promote and Grow your GIS for Successful Geospatial Managers
September 16, 2024 Leveraging Geographic Theory and Thinking for GIS Managers
September 11, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents GIS Professional Panel
September 10, 2024 The Geospatial Management Competency Model for Successful GIS Managers
August 26, 2024 Using the GIS Capability Maturity Model for Effective GIS Managers - Greg Babinski
August 21, 2024 GIS Staffing Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers - Greg Babinski
August 15, 2024 GIS Governance Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers and Operations - Greg Babinski
August 13, 2024 GIS Strategy Management for Successful GIS Managers - Greg Babinski
July 31, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents Esri User Conference Recap
July 24, 2024 GIS Managers Open Forum - Greg Babinski
June 20, 2024 Using GIS for Equitable and Sustainable Development
June 19, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents Working with ArcGIS Field Maps and Arcade
June 04, 2024 Addressing Chaos: How GeoSpatial Manages our Changing Reality
May 01, 2024 BeSpatial'24 BePrepared
April 16, 2024 ROW Risk Mitigation - Understanding the Provenance and Nuances of Boundary Data
April 10, 2024 The Location Equation for Smarter IoT
March 27, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents Have your Survey123 and PDF Form Too!
March 26, 2024 Guelph’s Long and Winding Road to NG9-1-1 GIS Readiness
March 19, 2024 Coast to Coast with EagleView
March 05, 2024 Report Maps Making Themselves: Report Mapping Modernization Project
February 27, 2024 BeAdaptive - virtual event - Seneca Polytechnic Newnham Campus
February 21, 2024 GIS Management: Geospatial Business Management Challenges
February 15, 2024 Making Tracks: Sharing the Progress of Road Operations Across the Town of East Gwillimbury
February 07, 2024 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Drones in Canada
January 30, 2024 Creating lasting geospatial partnerships
January 17, 2024 GIS Management Academy™ - GIS Code of Ethics for GIS Professionals
December 20, 2023 BeSpatial Ontario - Geoliday Trivia
December 14, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents – GIS Holiday Trivia!
November 28, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's GISP Exam 101
November 09, 2023 More than the Numbers - ForestEDGE: a first in-kind geospatial platform
November 02, 2023 GIS Management Academy™ - GIS Equity and Social Justice
October 30, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Mentorship Program
October 26, 2023 The City of Welland CCTV Inspection and Rehabilitation Program Development
October 24, 2023 Leveraging Geospatial Data for Health and the Environment
October 17, 2023 Automating Land Planning Applications using ArcGIS Pro
September 21, 2023 GIS Management Academy™ - Introduction to the Locus Charter for GIS Projects, Programs, and Professionals
September 19, 2023 GIS and Digital Water: Transforming the Global Water Industry,
September 12, 2023 Canadian Open Data Society & LinkDigital Present an Open Data Revolution
June 29, 2023 'Learn what I Learned' - A BeSpatial Eastern Regional Event
June 06, 2023 GIS Management Academy™ - Introduction to the Locus Charter for GIS Projects, Programs, and Professionals
May 02, 2023 BeSpatial'23 BeCreative
April 18, 2023 GIS Capability Maturity Model
March 30, 2023 City of Mississauga Migrates to the ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric
March 27, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Working with APIs in GIS
March 17, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's MApps Contest
February 16, 2023 BeSpatial February Webinar: A Cloud Based Data Library for Managing Municipal Survey and Asset Applications
January 26, 2023 BeSpatial January Webinar: Region of Peel: Census Information Hub
January 17, 2023 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Introduction to FME in GIS
December 08, 2022 BeSpatial December Webinar: ClickUp - A Project Management Tool
December 07, 2022 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Open Source GIS with Cliff Patterson
November 23, 2022 BeSpatial November Webinar: How the Broadband One Window Online Map Based Platform...
November 03, 2022 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's GISP Exam 101
October 26, 2022 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Professional Development and Advancing Your Career
October 19, 2022 BeSpatial October Webinar: Hamilton's Enterprise GIS Roadmap: How to Measure Progress and Report Successes
September 28, 2022 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network's Back to School Social & Mentorship Launch
September 22, 2022 BeSpatial September Webinar: Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis with Geospatial Data
June 09, 2022 BeSpatial Webinar: Federal Airborne LiDAR data acquisition Guideline and the USGS LiDAR Base Specification
May 04, 2022 Workshop: Application Integration in a SAAS context using FME
May 03, 2022 BeSpatial'22 BeConnected
April 07, 2022 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents – GISP Exam 101
February 17, 2022 BeSpatial Webinar: VertiGIS (Geocortex) Studio for Forestry & Extractive Industries
November 17, 2021 BeSpatial Webinar: Open Data: Driving Economic Development
October 28, 2021 BeSpatial Webinar: Using High-Resolution Imagery and AI-led Vector Creation to Transform Municipal Data Procurement
October 07, 2021 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents – GIS Trivia Day!
September 29, 2021 BeSpatial Webinar: Work Task and Infrastructure Projects completed with Go360 Dispatch and CrewOps powered by Location Warehouse and municipal data
June 17, 2021 BeSpatial’s Young Professional Network presents – GISP Exam 101
June 02, 2021 BeSpatial Webinar: 6 Steps to a Better Business
May 20, 2021 BeSpatial Webinar: Source Water Protection Program
May 05, 2021 Build your own Esri Operations Dashboard using open data and FME
May 04, 2021 NG9-1-1 Townhall
May 04, 2021 BeSpatial'21 Going Virtual
March 22, 2021 BeSpatial YPN’s Talk to a Geospatial Hiring Manager
December 17, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: Alternative Data Collection and Surveillance using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
December 14, 2020 BeSpatial YPN December Virtual Social - Ask me anything!
December 07, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: Visualizing Urban Density
October 20, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: NextGen 9-1-1 and GIS
October 14, 2020 BeSpatial Northern Region Webinar: Spatial Data to Drive Value Chain Development: Economic Fibre Supply Model Case Study
September 23, 2020 BeSpatial: A Special Virtual Program Event with AGM meeting
September 21, 2020 BeSpatial Young Professional Network Fall Social
August 25, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: Enabling better interoperability with road condition reporting
June 23, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: Taking the Plunge into Open Source GIS
June 03, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar: Clarity from Chaos: Maps and Apps that Drive Decisions
May 12, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar - Preparing and Validating your data for Next Gen 9-1-1 standards using FME
May 05, 2020 BeSpatial: COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall
April 23, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar - Enforcing Cannabis Ordinance Using Satellite Imagery
February 26, 2020 Esri Canada GIS Partner's Session for BeSpatial's Western Region
February 20, 2020 BeSpatial Webinar - Mobile LiDAR Surveying For Municipal Infrastructure Asset Management Applications
December 04, 2019 BeSpatial Webinar - Peer Success Stories: Unlocking the Secrets of Maturity-Driven Strategy
October 29, 2019 Utilities and Municipal Assets
October 22, 2019 BeSpatial Webinar: It’s All About the Data – York Region’s Analytics Journey
September 25, 2019 BeSpatial Webinar: The Next Generation of Growth Forecasts: A Data Science Approach
May 02, 2019 FME Workshop - server technology - PM session
May 02, 2019 Intro to FME Workshop - AM session
May 02, 2019 BeSmart _Executive Forum!
May 01, 2019 BeSpatial'19 - Day 1 or 2 Full Days!
February 20, 2019 BeHealthy Event
February 14, 2019 BeEmployed Webinar
December 06, 2018 LiDAR 301 - How do I do it? Software Applications
September 18, 2018 LiDAR for Dummies Webinar: Published LiDAR Specifications and How To Use Them
June 28, 2018 Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Common Street Address Database
May 03, 2018 Preparing your Data for Smart Cities using FME 2018
May 01, 2018 LiDAR 201 - Applications of LiDAR Data
April 25, 2018 Northern Ontario GIS Users Event
November 08, 2017 Learn What I Learned
September 22, 2017 22nd Annual Geodetic Picnic
September 22, 2017 2017 Open and Smart Communities Forum
September 19, 2017 Back to School - LiDAR 101
May 04, 2017 FME and Asset Management Workshop
May 03, 2017 BeSpatial 2017
October 31, 2016 GIS-Pro 2016
May 05, 2016 BIM Workshop by Consortech
May 04, 2016 BeSpatial 2016
April 28, 2016 Peterborough Leverages Ecopia's Visual Recognition Solution for HQ Property Vector Map
April 14, 2016 Introduction to sUAS
October 20, 2015 Asset Management

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