Attending an ESRI Conference in San Diego USA

I will be blogging my day-by-day activities during my trip to the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California, United States of America.

I am so excited to be selected to attend this International GIS conference in America. It's my first time leaving South Africa. Wow! "America, here I come!"

The conference will be hosted at the award-winning conference and exhibition facility, the San Diego Convention Centre on the 17-22 June. On the 22-24, I will definately be visiting the Grand Canyon, one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. (Grand Canyon is number 1 on the must see list of places you
must visit in your lifetime, published by Jim Shahin in American Way Magazine
) I also intend to visit the famousSan Diego Zoo and, only if I can miraculously get extra bugs I can visit, the DisneyLand Park in Anaheim, CA (2 hours drive from San Diego).

Visit my blog daily for an experience of my American Trip.

Preparations for a conference presentation

Today, I will be submitting my PowerPoint presentation for a National GIS Conference that I will be speaking at on the 4th April 2007. I will be presenting a CASE STUDY on the "Sustainability Atlas of the Western Cape 2006" that we developed last year. I was the project leader for this product that display the set of thematic maps that spatially represent the local municipalities of the Western Cape in terms of the Sustainable Development categories.

See the Sustainability Atlas cover

The conference "GIS for Environmental and Land Use Management", which is organised by TCI, will be hosted in Cape Town on the 3rd and 4th of April 2007. About 200 delegates from around the country will be attending. I will be sharing the stage with some of the top GIS experts in the country.