The second and last day of the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2009 is now over. As the day overlapped with the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 presummit sessions, there was a big increase in attendees. There was some great ESRI Developer Summit 2009 presummit sessions to start of the day. An Introduction to ArcGIS Explorer 900 kicked off one of the morning presummit sessions. To save me typing up what was talked about and showcased, Dave Bouwman has already written up about this. Have a read here: http://blog.davebouwman.net/2009/… Switching back to the ESRI Business Partner Conference 2009, I...

The ESRI Business Partner Conference 2009 kicked off yesterday in a very sunny Palm Springs. While everyone made their way into the main plenary area I looked around and noticed that there wasn’t many people there. I don’t know if this is just me but numbers looked down compared to last year. The main plenary session was quite a WOW. I was very impressed with a number of the announcements and demonstrations. In fact I came out energised! There was a new stage layout for this year. Angled screens which switched from presentations to videos. This years plenary was broken up into a number of different...

Time goes quickly and it’s nearly upon us already. I’m just catching up on news and other happenings. I’m currently at my parents house in Auckland. Arrived this morning to spend the day with them. I’ll be catching up with the rest of our team shortly at Auckland Airport. We’re flying out to LA this evening and should arrive around 11am on Saturday (US). We’ll then be finding our way over to Palm Springs and should be there for Saturday afternoon. I am really looking forward to catching up with everyone! We have quite a few meetings planned but it’s going to be good to see everyone again....

The full agenda along with session times, information on each session, sponsor and exhibitor information as well as a conference map has been made available online. This comes as a convenient PDF that you can download and print off to carry along. You can find this here: http://downloads2.esri.com/edn/… I am already making my way to Palm Springs for the ESRI Business Partner Conference and ESRI Developer Summit 2009. I am currently in Auckland spending the day with the parents. Will be flying out to LA this evening. Right through I will be blogging about what’s going on. I’ll also be on...

The ESRI Developer Summit 2009 and Business Partner Conference is not to far away. The Developer Summit is dedicated to GIS, mapping, and spatial developers. This event exists to give you access to the help you need and the ideas you crave, from detailed technical presentations led by ESRI’s development team to one-on-one meetings with ESRI staff representing all areas of the ArcGIS platform. Early bird registrations close on the 6th of February 2009. If you haven’t yet registered now’s a good time! You can find all the registration information here: http://www.esri.com/events/… If...