Tidbits from the #Geodesign Summit

“Is what I wrote on your white board yesterday still there?” “Yes.” “Then I need to get into your office.”
- Conversation between Carl Steinitz and an ESRI employee.

I ran into Zsolt Nagy once of the state of North Carolina and NSGIC fame. He now works for AECOM, a nationwide engineering firm. While it saddens me that we no longer have his strong voice in the public sector, I do applaud his and other NSGIC efforts to grow the next generation of leaders and look forward to hearing their voices grow geospatial within their states and the country and the world. He notes he is still involved in NSGIC in his new capacity.

“Fear is a great motivator. It’s how we get out in front of an enormous challenge.”
- Will Rogers, CEO of the Trust for Public Lands

Many conversations I had on the first day of the summit at some point came to the same statement: “My organization is already doing geodesign, we just are not calling it that.”

You can follow the summit on twitter: @geodesign2010 penned by ESRI’s Matt Artz.

ESRI helped cover some travel and lodging costs related to Directions Media’s attendance at the Summit.