On March 8th, Esri Belux organizes a STUDENT DAY in collaboration with Digitaal Vlaanderen. This event will take place at the Hendrik Conscience building, near the Brussels North Station. The day will be filled with a variety of GIS inspirations from different fields. You can expect workshops, guest speakers, and interesting customer cases, among other things. Furthermore, we will also provide lunch and drinks, so be sure to mark March 8th in your calendar!

This event is for all academics: teachers, researchers, and students. We are not only addressing established GIS users, but also fields of study where GIS is just beginning to emerge. Think, besides geography, of areas such as topography, engineering, economics, but also marketing or history, for example. Therefore, we kindly ask you to pass on this event to the students and colleagues of the respective faculties. We look forward to it, see you then! (Languages spoken: Dutch, French, and English)

Take a look at the agenda in advance:

• 09h00 Welcome Intro Frederik Wauters with coffee (CEO, Esri Belux)

• 09h10 Interactive opening session (poll)

• 09h25 The Why’s of Where (Joseph Kerski Phd GISP, Esri Inc US)

• 09h55 Climate Robust Cities (Sander Taragola)

• 10h15 Data Platform Municipalities (Silke Broidio, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen)

• 10h30-10h45 Coffee break

• 10h45 Esri The Science of where: When BIM meets GIS (Wim Driessens, Esri Belux & CFL Luxembourg)

• 11h05 Workshop ArcGIS Storymaps & Remote Sensing (Enrico Bonino, Esri Belux)

• 11h25 Unlocking GIS applications with AI Large Language Models like ChatGPT & Co-Pilot (Nico Vd. Weghe, UGent & Gert Bergers, Esri Belux)

• 11h55 Workshop ArcGIS Dashboards + Python/Arcade (Gaëlle Seffer, Esri Belux)

• 12h15–13h00 Lunch + Drinks

• 13h00 ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World (Joseph Kerski Phd GISP Esri Inc US)

• 13h30 Data Collection and Geopunt (Plugin ArcGIS Pro) (Digitaal Vlaanderen)

• 14h:00 Use of GIS with Seabed Survey data to support Offshore Windfarm lifecycle (Nicolas Strivay, G-TEC-DEME)

• 14h20 Time is money, what about distance is money? (Koen Mommens, VUB-Mobilise)

• 14h40 Workshop ArcGIS GeoBIM & Digital Twin (Mohamed Elamine Zighem, Esri)

• 15h00-15h10 Coffee break

• 15h10 Harmonizing GIS across nautical borders (Maxine Jonckheere, North Sea Port)

• 15h30 Portail ‘ Chasse On Web’ Wallonie (Marie Wénin, SPW)

• 15h50 Veranderend Vlaanderen, trends uit 23 jaar grootschalige kartering (Digitaal Vlaanderen)

• 16h10 Job opportunities (Marie-Ange LeBon, Esri Belux)

• 16h15 End – Networking Reception