SWUG 2005 - Key Note Speaker
Monday September 26, 2005 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

We are very fortunate to have a tremendous keynote speaker for this year's conference, Mr Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI.  Jack will be talking about his vision of the future and GIS's role in that future.

Questions: conference@swuggis.org

Jack Dangermond

Founder and President of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), headquartered in Redlands, California.

Founded in 1969, ESRI is the leading geographic information systems (GIS) company in the world, providing software like ArcInfo, ArcView GIS, and ArcExplorer to clients in 90 countries. Over the last thirty years, Jack has delivered keynote addresses at numerous international conferences, published hundreds of papers on GIS, and given thousands of presentations on GIS throughout the world. He is the recipient of a number of medals, awards, lectureships, and honorary degrees, including the 2000 LaGasse Medal of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Brock Gold Medal of the International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society, the EDUCAUSE Medal of EduCause, the Horwood Award of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, the Anderson Medal of the Association of American Geographers, and the John Wesley Powell Award of the U.S. Geological Survey. He is a member of many professional organizations and has served on advisory committees for such U.S. agencies as NASA, EPA, NIMA, the National Academy of Sciences, and NCGIA. Jack was educated at California Polytechnic College-Pomona, the University of Minnesota, Harvard University's Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Design.  Mr. Dangermond holds two honorary doctorate degrees from Ferris State University and the University of Redlands, respectively.

Jack also presides over the annual ESRI (GIS) User Conference in San Diego with attendance this year approaching 10,000 people from around the world.