Themes

[andyanderson]

Please update the Theme description to:

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Themes — one general area that describes your presentation:

FOSS4G Development

The traditional cornerstone of this conference, new and updated:

• Tools
• Projects
• Standards
• Data

New Technologies

Emerging trends that will have an impact on geospatial:

• Drones
• Internet of Things
• Remote sensing
• Machine learning
• Big Data

Business

Geospatial tools used in commerce:

• Products
• Business intelligence and logistics
• Customer relations management and marketing

Government

Local, state, and federal agencies are geographically rooted:

• Policy and planning
• Citizen engagement
• Disaster management

The Sciences

The natural and social sciences are often inherently geospatial, e.g.:

• Climate and environment
• Energy and natural resources
• Agriculture and forestry
• Biology
• Public health
• Archaeology

Education

Teaching and using geospatial tools, in and out of the classroom:

• Curricula
• Community and Participatory GIS

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Notes: I removed “Business Adoption” and “Local, state, and federal agency adoption and use” because they are redundant with the separately chosen topic of “Adoption”.

Added a couple more subheadings, modified others to make them less repetitive and more explanatory.

[GuidoS]

The list was synced with the information on the CVent, so we cannot change this list at this point.