KEYNOTE: Next Generation GIS in the State of Hawaii: Let's Go!

Sonny Bhagowalia
CIO, State of Hawaii Office of Information Management and Technology (OIMT)

Monday March 5, 2012 - 8:45 to 10:15 am

While GIS professionals in the State of Hawaii have done a good job in maintaining GIS as a viable technology and capability of supporting users in existing mission requirements (e.g., online maps, broadband service mapping, basic analytics), the efforts are largely fragmented and not unified in taking advantage of the additional capabilities of GIS in solving many mission needs that remain to be met. Hawaii GIS can solve many needs with additional new capabilities such as:

· "On-the-fly", direct, on-line, visualization, mobilization, socialization and business analytics of geo-coded information for decision-making and problem solving
· A unified registry to avoid duplication of effort and coordinate efforts more effectively
· New mobile applications that provide needed solutions quicker
· A geo-spatial governance that is nimble and responsive to customer needs and a marketplace for ideas
· GIS is included in the Life-cycle management
· An agile open architecture and platform to deliver services for Web 3.0/Gov 3.0

Next Generation GIS technology, processes and policies are here! We need to empower Hawaii users to use it - now! OIMT is soliciting input from all citizens on the State of Hawaii Business and IT Transformation Plan at
http://www.hawaii.gov/oimt

Get involved with the GIS groups to ensure Next Generation GIS is included in the plan!

KEYNOTE: Positioning the Pacific

Juliana Blackwell
Director, NOAA National Geodetic Survey

Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 8:45 to 10:15 am

This presentation will highlight NOAA's National Geodetic Survey and other NOAA geospatial activities in the Pacific Region. Topics to be covered include an overview of selected NOAA geospatial data and services supporting mapping and charting, comprehensive ocean and coastal planning, new approaches for visualizing and using NOAA data, including the latest mobile applications, and the development of a new NOAA Geospatial Platform for access to the breadth of NOAA's geospatial data, services, and applications.

KEYNOTE: Planning and GIS in Hawaii: Past, Present and Future

Jesse Souki
Director, Hawaii Office of Planning

Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 8:45 to 10:15 am

For more than 20 years the State Office of Planning through the Statewide GIS Program has been the lead agency for GIS in state government and is statutorially mandated to "establish, promote and coordinate the use of geographic information systems (GIS) technology among Hawaii State Government agencies". How did this come about? What is the Statewide GIS Program doing now? What about the future?

· PAST - Important historic events , statutory mandate, important projects.

· PRESENT - Current project goals, objectives, and activities.

· FUTURE - Improved use of GIS in statewide planning, improved use of GIS across all state government (State CIO-lead initiatives)