Are you planning to soak up some sun and GIS insights next week at Esri’s newly named Developer & Technology Summit in California? On March 11th-14th, developers from all over the GIS world will flock to picturesque Palm Springs for one of the most anticipated educational networking events of the year––now in its 20th!

Members of GEO Jobe’s GIS Services and Innovation teams have carefully curated a list of events and sessions you don’t want to miss from this year’s summit.

Plan Not To Miss the Plenary

The Plenary Session is your best opportunity to hear directly from Esri President Jack Dangermond and Esri’s senior thought leaders about the organization’s current and future business direction, strategies, products, and more.

We’re also excited to hear from Baron Weather Digital Meteorologist Jeff Huffman and Data Services Manager Matthew Havin as they showcase how integrating high-resolution weather data into GIS applications can unlock smarter solutions and better decision-making. Whether you’re building for logistics, public safety, or infrastructure, weather plays a critical role.

📅: Tuesday, March 11th

🕘: 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

📍: Oasis 3-4

Baron Weather is a business partner of GEO Jobe and fellow Esri Partner based in Huntsville, Alabama. Baron specializes in superior solutions and accurate data to help organizations across all industries confidently respond to the impacts of weather and climate.

Esri Showcase

The Esri Showcase allows you to interact with experts, discover solutions, and get the latest product and technical information directly from Esri’s experts. The showcase features:

• Esri Developer and Experts: Looking for guidance from subject matter experts in the industry? Here’s your chance to gain valuable input, technical support, learn to maximize your GIS investment, and more from Esri Service experts. 
• GIS Product Areas: Hoping for a chance to ask Esri experts your burning questions about a product? This is it! Find answers to your workflow challenges, and see the most up-to-date product solutions.
• GIS Review: Hoping to have the Esri experts review your current code and GIS workflow? Discuss the current state of your app, get practical advice for architecting a new app or system, or receive feedback on the security of your GIS.
• Demo Theatres: Want to learn about tools and techniques you can apply to your own projects? These half-hour demo sessions are provided each day of the conference and are led by Esri developers and subject matter experts on a variety of focused topics.

Live Sessions to Look For

When it comes to sessions, DevSummit offers more than enough to choose from. We recommend reviewing the detailed agenda to find out what sessions will work best for you. Below are sessions we recommend based on the technology you are interested in learning more about. All times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

The Road Ahead

Curious to know what the future holds for ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Enterprise? These sessions provide insight into release plans for various products, as well as demos of some new capabilities.

• Calcite Design System: What’s New and the Road Ahead – Wednesday, Mar 12, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• ArcGIS Online: Road Ahead and Best Practices with Hosted Feature Services – Thursday, Mar 13, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• ArcGIS Field Apps: The Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• ArcGIS Pro: The Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• Road Ahead: ArcGIS Location Platform – Thursday, Mar 13, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• ArcGIS Enterprise: The Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Game Engine Maps SDKS: What’s New and Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Native Maps SDKs: Road Ahead – Thursday, Mar 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

ArcGIS Enterprise

• Architecture Diagramming for ArcGIS Systems – Tuesday, Mar 11, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
• ArcGIS Enterprise: An Introduction for Developers – Tuesday, Mar 11, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• ArcGIS Enterprise: Integrating Cloud Native Services – Tuesday, Mar 11, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes: Wreck It and Recover It – Tuesday, Mar 11, 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
• Extending ArcGIS Enterprise with Custom Data Feeds – Wednesday, Mar 12, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Designing and Implementing Well-Architected Systems – Wednesday, Mar 12, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Upgrading ArcGIS Enterprise – Wednesday, Mar 12, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Extending ArcGIS Enterprise with Webhooks – Thursday, Mar 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Enterprise and Cloud Migration – Friday, Mar 14, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

ArcGIS Online

• Strategies for Managing Updates to Hosted Feature Layers – Tuesday, Mar 11, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
• ArcGIS Online: An Introduction and What’s New – Tuesday, Mar 11, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Deployment Patterns and Practices: ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise – Wednesday, Mar 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Visualizing Large Datasets on the Web – Wednesday, Mar 12, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• ArcGIS Data Pipelines: Empowering Developers for Data Engineering – Wednesday, Mar 12, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• Apps for All: Building ArcGIS StoryMaps, Empowering Authors to Share Stories – Thursday, Mar 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Field Applications

• ArcGIS Field Apps: Integration and Automation – Tuesday, Mar 11, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• ArcGIS Survey123: Getting Started with the Survey123 JavaScript API – Wednesday, Mar 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Editing Workflow Automation Using ArcGIS Field Maps – Wednesday, Mar 12, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
• Automating End to End Workflows with Webhooks and ArcGIS – Wednesday, Mar 12, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• ArcGIS Field Apps: Best Practices for Field Workflows – Wednesday, Mar 12, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• ArcGIS Field Maps: Advanced Workflows with Arcade – Thursday, Mar 13, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• Advanced Survey123 Form Expressions – Thursday, Mar 13, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
• Unlock the Power of ArcGIS Configurable Apps with HTML, CSS, and Arcade – Friday, Mar 14, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

ArcGIS Platform

• Architecture Diagramming for ArcGIS Systems  – Tuesday, March 11, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
• The ArcGIS Well-Architected Framework: An Overview – Tuesday, March 11, 4:00 PM  – 5:00 PM
• License Esri PaaS, SaaS, Software: Common Patterns and Architectures – Wednesday, March 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Security and Authentication for Custom Applications – Wednesday, March 12, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Essential Tools for ArcGIS Location Platform Developers – Thursday, March 13, 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
• ArcGIS in the Cloud: Demystifying SaaS, PaaS, Cloud, and Cloud Native – Thursday, March 13, 2:30 – 3:30

ArcGIS API for Python and ArcPy

• Spatial Analysis Using ArcGIS API for Python – Tuesday, March 11, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
• Working with ArcGIS Apps Using the ArcGIS API for Python – Wednesday, March 12, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• ArcPy: Beyond the Basics of arcpy.mp – Thursday, March 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Analyzing Imagery with ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online – Friday, March 14, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

ArcGIS Javascript API and Other Languages

• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: Using Animated Symbols in Your Maps – Tuesday, March 11, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: Better UX with Popups, Tuesday, March 11, 5:30 PM- 6:30 PM
• An Introduction to JavaScript for Future Web Developers – Wednesday, March 12, 11:00 PM – 12:00 PM
• Building Accessible Web Apps with ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript and Calcite, Wednesday, March 12, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: The Secrets Behind 10 Inspiring Web Apps – Thursday, March 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Harnessing Web Maps to Create Engaging Experiences Across Your Applications – Thursday, March 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Automation and AI 

• Developing Civic AI Assistants – Tuesday, Mar 11, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
• Building Tailored Deep Learning Models and Avoiding Pitfalls – Tuesday, Mar 11, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM
• GIS Chatbot Using Esri Restful & JavaScript APIs, LangChain LLMs Function Call – Wednesday, Mar 12, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
• Don’t Panic, It’s Just AI: Live App Building – Wednesday, Mar 12, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
• Extracting Features Using AI Models – Wednesday, Mar 12, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM
• Enhancing GIS Workflows with Chat Assistants – Wednesday, Mar 12, 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
• ArcGIS Pro SDK for .NET: Extend ArcGIS Pro AI Assistant with Skill Functions – Thursday, Mar 13, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
• ArcGIS: Best Practices for Leveraging GeoAI Models – Thursday, Mar 13, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Knowledge Graphs & Data Engineering – Tuesday, March 11, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• Data in ArcGIS: A Lightning Tour of Storage Options – Tuesday, March 11,  2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
• Expanding Geospatial Analytics: ArcGIS & Snowflake for Scalable Intelligence – Tuesday, March 11, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
• Introduction to Front-end Web Technologies for New Developers – Wednesday, March 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Fundamentals of Building Spatial Analysis Applications – Wednesday, March 12, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• ArcGIS StoryMaps: URL Parameters, Custom Domains, Python Automation, and More – Thursday, March 13, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
• Best Practices with ArcGIS Basemap: Styles, Static Basemap Tiles and Static Maps – Thursday, March 13, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Parquet, Parquet!

GeoParquet is a powerful geospatial columnar data format that helps increase data processing efficiency, especially with large datasets. The data format can already be used in certain ArcGIS products, and recently has been updated to be able to be supported in future ArcGIS Pro versions. We are particularly excited for this session that includes Overture Maps data that is leading the way to a new frontier of spatial data types and workflows that include GeoParquet.

An Introduction to Using Overture Maps Foundation Data – Tuesday, March 11, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Want to set-up a meeting with our team to discuss solutions for your organization? Contact us at connect@geo-jobe.com, or call 1-844-GEO-JOBE to discuss how we can help!

About Our Company

GEO Jobe is a leading GIS software and geospatial solutions provider, serving over 10,000 organizations globally. GEO Jobe is best known for developing the most popular applications in the ArcGIS Marketplace, including Admin Tools for ArcGIS, Backup My Org, Clean My Org and Scheduler for ArcGIS.

GEO Jobe offers U.S.-based 24/7 Support solutions for organizations using Esri’s ArcGIS© System. GEO Jobe also offers professional services focused on Esri’s ArcGIS© System, including custom software development, enterprise solution implementation, data science and UAV data collection.

Founded in 1999, GEO Jobe is in its 25th year of operation, has been an Esri business partner since 2002 and is currently a Platinum Partner.