Featured Presenters

The complete conference schedule will be published shortly after the January 31 abstract submission deadline. 

Pete Croswell
Independent Information Technology and Services Professional, author of The GIS Management Handbook

Pete Croswell is an expert in information technology and GIS implementation and management with over 40 years’ experience as an IT and GIS practitioner, manager, and consultant. He is President of Croswell-Schulte IT Consultants, a consulting firm specializing in GIS/IT program assessment, design, planning, project management, and implementation support. He works with a wide range of clients in the U.S. and around the world with a focus on local and State/Provincial governments, regional agencies, and utility organizations. He is also an Adjunct Instructor with Penn State University teaching online courses in the Masters of GIS program. Previously, he was a consultant and company officer with PlanGraphics, Inc. and worked as an analyst and manager in charge of the Kentucky Natural Resources Information System. He received a Bachelors’ degree in geography and mathematics from UAlbany (NY) and Masters’ degree in geography/geology from Western Illinois University.  Mr. Croswell is a certified PMP, ASPRS CMS, and GISP. Pete is a former Board member and President of URISA. He is the author of The GIS Management Handbook and many other papers and publications on a range of GIS and IT technical and management topics.

Mr. Brunner is an experienced scientist, award-winning professor, and principal data scientist at Esri, the global market leader in GIS software, location intelligence, and mapping. Through his vision and guidance, he has helped organizations across the world understand how to manage, disseminate, and analyze vast quantities of imagery in support of a wide range of missions and problems. Mr. Brunner’s current focus is developing custom AI and computer vision driven spatial analysis tools in support of extracting features from imagery and attributing those features. He is also exploring extended reality applications and the incorporation of 3D GIS data into extended reality environments. As a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher, Mr. Brunner served as an Adjunct Professor at Saint Louis University from 2017 through 2022 where he also was the recipient of the 2019 award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Mr. Brunner has written multiple lesson paths for Esri’s ArcGIS Learn website that teach ArcGIS users how to use the ArcGIS API for Python for data science. Mr. Brunner’s unique ability to solve abstract quantitative geographic problems and explain those solutions has enabled him to give presentations around the world on topics such as advanced image processing, augmented reality, and GeoAI.