Wednesday, May 27. 2009

Update 2: ACSM 2011 to be held in Conjunction with ESRI Survey and GIS Event/UC

Update: [This update is updated 5/28/09 to include Mr. Sumner's complete statement. Only a part of it was included originally. My apologies for any further confusion.] Curt Sumner, executive director of ACSM confirms:

Sorry for the confusion. ACSM and ESRI have agreed in principle that it is a good idea for ACSM to hold its 2011 (and possibly beyond) conference in conjunction with the ESRI conference.

We have not made any official announcements because we are still working through the logistics and financial issues to make sure that each organization benefits from such a collaboration, before finalizing an agreement.

The meeting planners at ESRI are currently working through the information we have provided in order to get a handle on how our conference works.

I am hopeful that everything will be worked soon so that we can make an official announcement. I am just wary of announcing anything related to proposed activities of any kind until I know that it is actually going to happen.

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Update 4:46 pm: An ESRI rep says nothing is final but that the company is in discussions with ACSM on the matter.

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