GIS-Pro 2026

What if your team could walk into a room with a list of challenges and walk out with a prioritized set of actionable solutions - all in under an hour? Solution Mapping makes that possible. In this hands-on exercise, participants will experience Solution Mapping firsthand - a facilitated group exercise developed by the Geospatial Professional Network that blends the structured prioritization of Lean Coffee with the collaborative clustering of Affinity Mapping.

Participants will identify real problems facing their organizations, use dot voting to surface the issues that matter most, and collectively brainstorm solutions in an open, low-barrier format. Whether you're a analyst looking for fresh ways to engage stakeholders, a team lead navigating organizational change, or a practitioner who wants to bring more collaborative energy to your workplace, Solution Mapping is a technique you can take home and use immediately.

Keywords: solution, mapping, collaboration, actionable, confidence

Tim Nolan, GISP, CGCIO, LAVM, Senior IT Manager, Collin County, McKinney, TX - USA

This session examines how spatial analysis is used to understand population change, infrastructure access, and transportation safety in urban and regional contexts, with attention to equity. Together, the presentations show how displacement, shifting populations, and uneven access to infrastructure and safe mobility shape conditions across cities and communities. By highlighting patterns of movement, access, and risk, the studies demonstrate how spatial analysis makes these uneven geographies visible and measurable.

Keywords: Spatial analysis, Planning, Infrastructure, Demographics, Municipal GIS

Advancing Equity and Efficiency in Sidewalk and Ramp Requests: A GIS-Driven Approach for the City of Houston
Jessica Lott, Director of Technical Solutions, dymaptic, Paducah, KY – USA

Mapping Safety for Children: Using GIS to Prioritize Traffic Safety Around Schools and Parks
Oghenetega Ogodo, AICP, Transportation Planner, TYLin International City Solutions (Formerly Sam Schwartz), Chicago, IL – USA

Mapping the Impacts of Gentrification: A GIS Framework for Analyzing Displacement
Reginald Archer, PhD, GISP, Associate Professor, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN – USA

Population Shift-Share Analysis:  Planning in No Growth Scenarios
Lynn Dupont, GISP, Licensed Landscape Architect, GIS Manager, Principal Planner, New Orleans Regional Planning Commission, New Orleans, LA - USA
Malissa Givhan, Title Vi Coordinator, New Orleans Regional Planning Commission, New Orleans, LA - USA

This session explores how to strengthen GIS operations across an organization by connecting efficient field data collection, strategic system management, and accessible geospatial resources. Attendees will learn how an organization leveraged ArcGIS Field Maps for accurate, rules-driven workflows, best practices around planning and executing Esri upgrades and migrations while minimizing risk and downtime, and how an internal centralized geospatial storefront can improve data access, collaboration, and user engagement. Together, these approaches demonstrate how to build scalable, resilient GIS programs that deliver greater organizational value.

Keywords: Data collection, administration, best practices, administration, collaboration, ROI

Inside the Rock County Employee Geospatial Storefront
Jennifer Borlick, Geospatial Services Administrator, Rock County, Janesville, WI – USA

Preparing for Esri Upgrades and Migrations
Wendy Peloquin, GISP, LAVM, Director of Commercial Sales Operations, Avineon, Jacksonville, FL - USA

Building Smarter Field Workflows with ArcGIS Field Maps
Jessica Lott, Director of Technical Solutions, dymaptic, Paducah, KY - USA