Tennessee Geographic Information Council  - Ninth Annual Conference March 25 - 27, 2002
Middle Tennessee State University, Business and Aeronautics Building,  Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Monday March 25
8:00 a.m. - 5:00p.m.		Pre-conference Workshops		Instructor:
1:00 pm - 5:00pm		Introduction to ERDAS IMAGINE		Julie Teal, ERDAS		Classroom No. 308, Geog. Dept., Kirksey Old Main (KOM)
8:00 am - 5:00 pm		Introduction to Visual Basic & MapObjects		Dr. Cheng Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory		Classroom No. BAS 137F, Bus. & Aero. Blding
8:00 am - 5:00 pm		Introduction to GIS		Curt Hinton, GTG		Classroom No. BAS128, Bus. & Aero. Blding
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm		TNGIC Board Meeting				Business & Aeronautics Blding
Tuesday March 26
7:30 am - 9:00am		Registration & Continental Breakfast in Vendor Area     ~     Sponsored by EnSafe
		State Farm Lecture Hall		Classroom No. S128		Classroom No. S260
9:00 am - 10:00 am		Opening Remarks
		Welcome by Conference Coordinators Chris McKissack, MTSU and Marie Colson, TNGIC. Remarks by Lindsey Galyen, TNGIC President.  Keynote Address - Mike Domaratz, "USGS's Role in Office For Homeland Security"
10:00 am - 10:30 am		Refreshment Break in Vendor Area      ~      Sponsored by Earthdata International
10:30 am  - 12 noon		Emergency Response		Socio-Economic		Technical and Internet
		Moderator:		Moderator:		Moderator:
		David Speight, Infocode                                                  Panel Discussion:" Emergency Response and the Key Role of GIS"		Star Lakavage,  Aegis Services		Jason Duke, US Fish and Wildlife Service
		Panelists:		Speakers:		Speakers:
		Randy Porter, 911 Board, Chair, State Emergency Com. Board		Dennis Pedersen and Bryan Michell, Office of Local Government for TN.,  "Using Census Data for Local Redistricting and Beyond"		Jason Duke, US Fish and Wildlife Service -    "Tennessee Spatial Data Server - The Technical Side of Serving Large Amounts of Data and the General Side of What Direction We Are Heading In".
		Ray Croutch, Mun. Fire Consultants, Mun. Tech. Advisory Svce.		David Wiggins, US Census Bureau, "Using Census TIGER® and Population Data in GIS"		Chris Holliday, P.E., Mgr. Mapping Applications and Data, FedEx Express,  "FedEx Makes a Stop for GIS"
		Bill Pogue, Chief of Technology Services, Tennessee Department of Safety		Bruce Bauch, U.S.Geological Survey, National Mapping Program Liason, "An Overview of the Evolving USGS National Map Initiative"		Shridhar Sunkara, Center City Commission, "Uses of Web Technology and GIS"
		Carl Pearsall, E911 GIS Manager, Huntsville, Al. Emergency Management				Costi Tudan, Ensafe, Inc. - "Local Government GIS: A Resource Sharing Opportunity for Local Government"
		Thomas Alford, Tennessee Valley Authority Emergency Management
		Pat Bohannon, Chief of Information Systems, TN Emergency Management Agency
12 noon - 12:45 pm		Box Lunches in South Lobby provided by MTSU    ~    Sponsored by: Miller Legg and Associates
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm		TNGIC Business Meeting ~ Everyone Invited
		State Farm Lecture Hall		Classroom No. S128		Classroom No. S260
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm		Professional Issues		Transportation/Utilities		Natural Resources
		Moderator:		Moderator:		Moderator:
		Alan Voss, Tennessee Valley Authority                             Panel Discussion: “The Role of GIS and Survey Professionals"		Jon Walden, The University of Tennessee (CTAS)		Jeanette Jones, TN Wildlife Resource Agency
		Panelists:		Speakers:		Speakers:
		Joe Sewash, State of Tennessee, Dept. of Finance and Admin., OIR, GIS Services		Paul B Boyd,  Information Systems Manager, TDOT, Planning Division, TRIMS Support Section, "Highlights and Uses of TRIMS at TDOT, SCITE Project and GIS and TRIMS Interface"		Mike Hart, Natural Resource Conservation Service, "NRCS Data Layers and Products in TN"
		Max Billingsley, PLS, Inc., Member TN Board of Examiners		Charles Hunt, Columbia Power & Water Systems, Informations Systems Manager  "Discussion of how CPWS has used GIS Applications from ESRI to map our Electric & Water Systems over the past 3-4 years"		Chris Baker, Ducks Unlimited,"GIS as a Tool for Advancing Habitat Conservation in the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture"
						Kurt Snider, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, "Ecosystem GIS"
						Bill Wilkins, TN Dept. of Agriculture, Forestry Division, "GIS and Tennessee's Forestry Division"
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm		Refreshment Break in Vendor Area          ~          Sponsored by  Emerge
		State Farm Lecture Hall		Classroom No. S126		Classroom No. S260
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm		Professional Development		Remote Sensing		Local Government
		Moderator:		Moderator:		Moderator:
		Dr. Sergei Andronikov, Austin Peay State University                              Panel discussion: "Education in GIS at different levels in TN"		Chris Baker, Ducks Unlimited		Dan Hawk, State of Tennessee Local Planning Office
		Speakers:		Speakers:		Speakers:
		Pat Wurth, Professor at Roane State Community College, "GIS Curriculum Development:  Community College Certificate and Associates Degree Program"		Brett Thomassie, DigitalGlobe - President of Mississippi Operations, Dir. Civil Government Programs, "Satellite Imagery Technology and Uses of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery"		Joe Bishop, Clarksville-Montgomery County Regional Planning Commission, "Doing 'On-the-Fly' Land Use Classification for Planners"
		Kim McDonough: "URISA GIS Certification Program"				Bob Brundage, GIS Manager Clarksville/Montgomery County GIS Center, "The Use of GIS in the Land Use Planning Process"
				Peter K. Gottfried, Manager of GIS & Environmental Services, Miller Legg and Associates, "Enhancing GIS with the Lastest High Resolution Satellite Imagery from Space Imaging".		Tim Kuhn, GIS Administrator, Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, "17 Years Later:  One Department's Role in the Nation's First Multi-participant GIS"
				Nancy Thompson, Ducks Unlimited, "Waterfowl Habitat Characterization of Mid-Coast Texas Rice Prairies Using Multidate Satellite Imagery"		Bill Wells, Geographical Information Systems Administrator Maury County Assessor, "Maury County, The Success of GIS Since Implementation"
6:00pm - 7:00 pm		Garden Plaza Hotel - Heartland Ballroom Cash Bar		Sponsored by ESRI
7:00 pm  - 9:00 pm		Banquet, Entertainment by Comic Roger Keiss		Announce Poster Winners		Announce Most Outstanding Contribution to GIS Award
Wednesday March 27
8:00 am - 5:00 pm		Workshop - ArcGIS1 (Part I)		ESRI Instructor:  - Dale Loberger		Classroom No. 308, Geog. Dept., Kirksey Old Main (KOM)
8:30 am - 9:00 am		Continental Breakfast in Vendor Area   ~   Sponsored by: Geographic Information Services. Inc.
		State Farm Lecture Hall
9:00 am - 9:45 am		Mark Tuttle, Director of GIS Services, State of Tennessee
		"Status of State Basemapping Program"
9:45 am - noon		TNGIC Strategic Plan Update and Report by Committee Chairs
		Closing Remarks - David Speight, Incoming President of TNGIC
Thursday March 28
8:00 am - 5:00 pm		Workshop - ArcGIS1 (Part II)		ESRI Instructor:  -  Dale Loberger		Classroom No. 308, Geog. Dept., Kirksey Old Main (KOM)
		Special Thanks to:
		Chris McKissack and her Supporting Staff at MTSU for their Assistance
		Anna Phillips, Hamilton County GIS Dept. for her Signage and Informational Posters
		Dennis T. Pedersen, Office of Local Government, for Nominations and Elections
		Chris Weber,  Metro Nashville Public Schools, Vendor Coordinator
		Bryan Blackburn, Earthdata International, Poster Contest Coordinator