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Spatially Enable Facilities Management for Your Campus

Higher Education Webinar Series

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Use GIS to Better Support Operations

University and college facilities management departments are constrained by budgets, staff, and time. Yet the pressure to use space more efficiently, sustainably, and intelligently has only been increasing.

This webinar series page features leading universities and Esri professionals who discuss and demonstrate how facilities management staff can deploy and use GIS to better support operations. The goal of the series will be to lay out a pathway showing educational institutions what they can do with the tools they have today to work toward building a more integrated and intelligent campus.

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Leveraging Indoor GIS on Campus

Date: May 11, 2023

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Language: English

Indoor GIS location technology provides visibility into asset locations, patterns of use, and analytics to understand spaces and find smarter ways to interact with your built environments. The ArcGIS Indoors mapping system includes tools to create and manage indoor data, maps, and apps. In this webinar, learn how the enterprise GIS team at a leading university deployed ArcGIS Indoors and is now leveraging it for efficient routing and to manage day-to-day operations.

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Understand, Plan, and Act: Campus Safety and Security with GIS

Date: November 17, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Language: English

In this webinar, you will learn how the Campus Safety and Security solution in ArcGIS can be used to gain a deeper understanding of where to focus efforts to prevent, protect against, and mitigate complex threats and hazards and use real-time data-driven insights to aid in mission-critical decisions so departments can respond to and quickly recover from the threats that pose the greatest risk.

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Streamline Campus Field Operations with GIS

Date: October 20, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Language: English

In this webinar, you will learn how ArcGIS Field Maps and mobile solutions are used to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing using data-driven maps, find assets and information around campus, report real-time locations and tracking, and streamline the critical workflows field personnel use every day.

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Digitally Transform Vegetation Management on Campus

Date: September 15, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

Language: English

In this webinar, you will learn how the Tree Management solution in ArcGIS can be used to inventory publicly owned trees, streamline inspection and maintenance activities, understand tree conditions, and cultivate a volunteer workforce and inform stakeholders.

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Tying Together Assets, Spaces, and Places: Indoor Mapping and Navigation for Campus Operations

Date: May 19, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

In this webinar, Esri and a leading university will discuss how to improve space management, create more productive work spaces, increase service delivery, and route personnel around campus with ArcGIS Indoors.

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Developing a Geospatial Strategy for Campus Operations

Date: April 21, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Creating a geospatial strategy is an end-to-end journey that helps establish a vision and a path for an organization's success and transformation, leveraging geospatial resources in a complex system with evolving priorities. In this webinar, you'll learn how a geospatial strategy will help align your people, processes, and technology to your organization's needs.

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The Value of Esri Educational Licensing for Campus Operations

Date: March 17, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

In the first webinar, Esri and a leading university discuss the value of the Esri Education Institution Agreement, the departmental agreement, and best practices for managing Esri licensing.

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Spatially Enabling Campus Public Safety

Date: November 18, 2021

Time: 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

With ArcGIS, you'll gain a deeper understanding of where to focus your efforts to prevent, protect against, and mitigate the effects of the complex threats and hazards found in and around your campus. Equipped with data-driven insights, you can better respond to and recover from the threats that pose the greatest risk to your community—all in real time.

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Network Management for Campuses with ArcGIS Utility Network

Date: October 21, 2021

Time: 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Campus utilities need to provide a safe working environment, deliver reliable service, and maintain a focus on customer support. ArcGIS Utility Network is designed to be the next generation spatial information system to provide greater functionality over massive datasets at every scale of resolution. Now, campus utilities can leverage the power of ArcGIS Enterprise to provide tools with a focus on the user experience and improve communication across your organization.

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Spatially Enabling Campus Utility Data

Date: September 23, 2021

Time: 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Learn how to use GIS as an authoritative record that can simplify editing, expand connectivity capabilities, and be scaled to any size. Understand how to integrate all types of data to give users access to the information they need for better collaboration and to support their digital transformation. See how real-time business intelligence dashboards provides insights and out-of-the-box analytics to uncover new data patterns and trends.

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Smart Campus Operations: Integrating GIS with Facility, Work, and Space Management Systems

Date: April 29, 2021

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Video

ArcGIS is deployed on college and university campuses across the world, helping them operate more effectively and efficiently. This webinar will focus on the use of Esri solutions that create an integrated smart campus that delivers real-time facility awareness; drives Internet of Things (IoT) systems; and provides analytics that help you elevate the experiences of your students, staff, and visitors. Using data from sensors, facility systems, and utility databases, the enterprise system presents insightful operations information that can be connected to an indoor network via web apps, enabling visitors and maintenance workers to use smart routing to navigate buildings. The well-managed environment keeps people focused and productive.

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Configuring Solutions: Building Information and Decision-Making Tools

Date: April 8, 2021

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Video

Hear from leading universities and Esri for a discussion and demonstration on how facilities management staff can utilize configurable Esri solutions to better support operational workflows. The goal of this webinar will be to show educational institutions what they can do with the GIS tools they have available to work toward building a more integrated and intelligent campus.

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From CAD to GIS: The Value of Spatially Enabling Utility and Facility Information

Date: March 18, 2021

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (PT)

Location: Virtual

Cost: No cost

Language: English

Video

In this webinar, leading institutions provide their experience and best practices converting their CAD data into their GIS. You'll get information tools, techniques, and best practices to convert that data and learn how to get started at your own institution.

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