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A Guide to Real-Time GIS at the 2025 Esri Federal GIS Conference

By Dylan Molnar

The Real-Time GIS team is thrilled to welcome new and familiar faces to the 2025 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC, February 24-26. Join us to learn about advancements in ArcGIS Velocity and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server, the core products that bring powerful real-time capabilities for ingesting, analyzing, and disseminating critical information.

Federal GIS Conference Professional Development Sessions

This year, we’re excited to offer several engaging sessions that explore how real-time GIS is shaping the future of federal government operations. Our sessions provide valuable insights such as product overviews, best practices, and hands-on demonstrations for building real-time systems and applications.

ArcGIS Velocity: An Overview of Real-Time GIS

Offering 1: Monday, February 24 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Time | Room 156 | WEWCC
Offering 2: Tuesday, February 25 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Time | Room 143 B | WEWCC
Session Type: Professional Development
Join us to learn how to connect to virtually any type of streaming data, perform real-time analytics and processing, and automatically disseminate information and alert personnel when specified conditions occur. Discover how to create analytic models to process high-volume historical data to gain insights into patterns, trends, and anomalies in your big data.
Michael Seybert, Palak Matta, Jason Altman (Department of Energy via HMIS)
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ArcGIS GeoEvent Server: Best Practices for Real-Time Analytics

Tuesday, February 25 | 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Eastern Time | Room 143 B | WEWCC
Session Type: Professional Development
Learn how to optimize real-time analysis, continuously process streaming data using filters and processors, and generate new data streams that integrate smoothly across ArcGIS. Speakers also discuss recommended architecture, how to ensure reliability and scalability, and common risks to avoid in real-time workflows.
Kevin Armstrong, Yujing Wu, Michael Blair (Innovate Inc)
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Maritime Security: Advancing Your Maritime Domain Awareness

Tuesday, February 25 | 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Eastern Time | Safety & Security Theater | WEWCC
Session Type: Demo Theater
Join us to learn how to use configurable ArcGIS web apps and analytical tools to provide your organization with a robust maritime common operating picture. Discover various methods for integrating disparate static and dynamic data sources into ArcGIS, including best practices for using authoritative datasets and incorporating your own data layers and feeds.
Liz Ducey, Colin Cate
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ArcGIS Watch Center Solution: Real-Time Hazard Event Monitoring

Tuesday, February 25 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time | Room 158 AB | WEWCC
Session Type: Professional Development
Support all-hazard event monitoring, track emergencies, and provide situational awareness in real time with the ArcGIS Watch Center solution. In this presentation, learn about customizable dashboards and automated alerts that enhance decision-making and response efforts, improving your organization’s readiness and capabilities.
Jay Fowler, Daniel Peters
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ArcGIS: Incident Detection and Threat Management

Tuesday, February 25 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time | Room 143 B | WEWCC
Session Type: Professional Development
Join us to learn how ArcGIS GeoEvent Server and ArcGIS Velocity can be used to monitor and analyze real-time threat information to help improve response time and increase resiliency. This presentation highlights how to use indoor tracking and reporting to further enhance your threat awareness.
Kevin Armstrong
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ArcGIS: Improving Situational Awareness for National Security

Tuesday, February 25 | 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM Eastern Time | Safety & Security Theater | WEWCC
Session Type: Demo Theater
Safety is paramount, and whether it’s a national security agency, federal agency, or private company, your organization is likely addressing the safety and security posture of its facilities, employees, and assets more than ever before. A large part of this effort includes the ability to identify, triage, and respond to increasingly complex threats and hazards. Join us to see the Watch Center solution can be used to provide heightened situational awareness in real time where you need it most.
Jennifer Dillon, Grace Fernandez
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ArcGIS Velocity: Applying Real-Time and Big Data Analytics

Tuesday, February 25 | 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM Eastern Time | Room 143 B | WEWCC
Session Type: Professional Development
Join us to explore how to create real-time analytics for detecting incidents from continuous event streams. As data accumulates, learn to create and schedule big data analytic models for processing high-volume historical data to uncover patterns, trends, and anomalies. The presentation also reviews using stateful ArcGIS Arcade track functions and expressions in analytics, along with recommendations for selecting the right analysis tools for various scenarios.
Yini Song, Marques Munson, Andrew Patterson (Blue Raster)
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Esri Showcase: Come find us

Additionally, don’t miss the opportunity to visit the Spatial Analysis kiosk in the ArcGIS Showcase, where a member of our product team will be available to answer your specific questions and offer recommendations.
This year, Esri is providing an indoor mapping experience powered by ArcGIS Indoors. Attendees can use a web map or the Esri Events mobile app to easily navigate the conference center and locate everything they need.

Explore the Federal GIS Event Map

Map of the FedGIS showcase with the ArcGIS Showcase area highlighted in red

For further information, please visit our Real-Time Capability and Watch Center pages or post your questions for in the Esri Community places for ArcGIS Velocity and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server.

Join us for our upcoming webinar about how to deploy and customize the Watch Center solution. Register now!

Enjoy the show!

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