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ESRI Speaker Series Podcasts
The Speaker Series offers free short audio recordings that feature GIS technology insights from GIS users, business partners, and ESRI staff.

• ESRI Introduces Enterprise License Agreement Program for Small Utilities
  Jeff Rashid, manager of ESRI's Utility Team, introduces the Small Utilities Enterprise License Agreement (SU-ELA) program. This program provides utilities, including electric, gas, water, telecommunications, and others, in the United States serving less than 100,000 meters with unlimited access to a complete array of GIS technology for a fixed price.
• GeoCove Applications Use ArcGIS Mobile Technology to Increase Efficiency of Damage Assessments
  Karyn Tareen, president of GeoCove, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses her company's use of ArcGIS Mobile-based field data collection applications to improve damage assessment workflows and quickly provide decision makers with a common operational picture.
• NOAA's National Geodetic Survey Integrates Remotely Sensed Data and GIS to Provide Precise Positioning
  David Zilkoski, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), discusses how the NGS uses remotely sensed data and GIS to provide the geospatial infrastructure to meet the nation's economic, social, and environment needs.
• Interview with Authors of Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World
  Rosario Giusti de Perez, director of ESRI Venezuela, and Ramon Perez, president of ESRI Venezuela, discuss their ESRI Press book, Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World. With thirty years of experience using GIS technology to manage urban problems in Venezuelan barrios, the authors describe how they developed sustainable solutions that go beyond conventional planning programs.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-Bureau of Land Management Uses GIS for Cultural Resources Data Sharing Program
  Kirk Halford, national data sharing coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Eric Ingbar, director of Gnomon, Inc., discuss the BLM's Cultural Resources Data Sharing Program and its use of GIS to enable cultural resources professionals to have consistent, reliable, easy-to-use spatial information systems on their desktops.
• Collect GIS Field Data More Efficiently with ESRI and Laser Technology Inc. Solutions
  Paul Adkins, marketing communications manager at Laser Technology Inc., an ESRI hardware partner, discusses how his company's laser systems allow users to collect field data that can be used with ESRI software for any number of remote features from the convenience of a single location.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-Newport News Public Works Integrates Asset Management System with Geodatabase
  Tim DeSalvo and Kirstin Platt of the Public Works Department for the City of Newport News, Virginia discuss the process of replacing the Department's existing legacy command line infrastructure management system with a GIS-based asset management system to more accurately assign and track maintenance activities.
• ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 Provides ArcGIS Mobile Users with Improved Performance and New Functionality
  Myles Sutherland, ArcGIS Mobile product manager at ESRI, discusses the enhancements and new functionality available in the recently released ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1, including ArcGIS Mobile out-of-the-box application support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 smartphones and a multi-user geodatabase.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Helps Less Developed Countries through GIS Education, Research, and Services
  Dr. Martien Molenaar, chancellor at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), discusses how for over 50 years ITC has been using GIS in its program courses, research approaches, and projects that train professionals in less developed countries to deal with drastic changes in their operating environment such as trends, increased competition, and government policies.
• ESRI's ArcLogistics Helps Governments Improve Routing and Scheduling of Vehicles and Staff
  Christopher Thomas, government industry solutions manager at ESRI, discusses how ESRI's ArcLogistics allows governments to make the most of the resources they already have by optimizing the routes of employees in the field, eliminating inefficient district designations, improving productivity, and reducing vehicle use.
• The Role of GIS in Renewable Energy Development
  Mitchell Garnett, ESRI's electric utility industry solutions manager, discusses how GIS can be used in the growth and integration of renewable energy generation. Garnett explains how the ModelBuilder application in ArcGIS can accelerate and simplify the process of assessing potential areas for wind energy generation.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award – City of Akron, Ohio Public Utilities Bureau Completes Expansive Asset Conversion to Create GIS-Centric Business Workflow
  Darren Rozenek, GIS administrator for the City of Akron, Ohio Public Utilities Bureau (APUB), discusses the process of creating the City's centralized GIS which included in-house migration of its expansive utility assets into a versioned geodatabase environment. The City's GIS assets now provide a strong foundation for customer support, design, infrastructure planning, and pro-active business operations.
• Printing Large Complex GIS Files Quickly and Easily with Oce Solutions
  Bob Honn, director of marketing at Oce, an ESRI hardware partner, explains how the TCS500, Oce's innovative, full-color, large-format printer offered by ESRI, allows users to increase their productivity by easily and quickly plotting their data-rich GIS files from their desktop to printed maps.
• ESRI's ArcGIS API for Flex Gives Developers Direct Access to ArcGIS Server 9.3
  Mansour Raad, senior software architect at ESRI, discusses the recently released ArcGIS API for Flex, which allows users to transform their local data into a visually rich interactive map, query and display GIS data features and attributes, locate addresses, identify features, and perform complex spatial analytics.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-–United Nations Population Fund Uses ESRI GIS to Complete Afghanistan Population and Housing Census
  Dr. Bolaji Taiwo, chief technical adviser for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), discusses how the UNFPA used ESRI GIS to help the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Afghanistan conduct the first complete, accurate population and housing census for Afghanistan since 1979. With the state-of-the-art GIS infrastructure now in place, the CSO can efficiently conduct future censuses.
• Smart Grid and Enterprise GIS for Electric Utilities
  Bill Meehan, director of utility solutions at ESRI, explains the concept of smart grid electric solutions and how enterprise GIS technology can help to manage these systems, allowing consumers to make more informed and efficient decisions regarding their electricity usage.
• Interview with the Author of Designing Geodatabases for Transportation
  J. Allison Butler, the managing member of MilePost Zero, a transportation GIS consulting firm, discusses his ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases for Transportation. Butler's book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing a GIS to manage data about transportation facilities and services, from railroads to traffic-monitoring systems.
• Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreements from ESRI and Azteca
  Thomas Palizzi, executive director of sales and marketing at Azteca Systems, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses Azteca System's local government enterprise license agreement (ELA) program. It is designed to work together with ESRI's Small Municipal and County Government ELA program, which provides small governments with wide access to GIS for faster and more efficient enterprisewide deployments.
• 2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-Reliance Energy Limited Implements ESRI GIS to Leverage Spatial Information Across Diverse IT Network
  Uday Kale, vice president of IT at Reliance Energy Limited, India's largest private sector enterprise in power utility, describes how ESRI GIS has helped to expedite the implementation of enterprisewide projects and the integration with SAP, SCADA, and other IT systems.
• NOAA's National Geodetic Survey Uses GIS to Promote Geodetic Standards and Applications
  Kendall Fancher, supervisory cartographer, and Eric Linzey, cartographer, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), a participant in the 2008 ESRI International User Conference MAPS Industry Showcase, discuss how the NGS uses GIS for shoreline and coastal mapping and in their outreach to the geospatial community.