Pre Conference Workshops

2026

MONDAY

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Roger Dunn (Orem City)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions

Attend this half-day, hands-on class to learn from experience how to use Arcade. Arcade is a small, proprietary ArcGIS programming language, usable on the desktop and online. In this class, you will use Arcade to calculate field values, make layer display expressions, customize label text, create symbology values, influence graph axes, and manage attribute rules in ArcGIS Pro. You’ll also be taught how to use Arcade in ArcGIS Online. This class is geared towards non-programmers and beginners.
To follow along in class, you will need to bring your own Windows laptop or tablet with ArcGIS Pro 3.5 or later installed on it. You must be able to use Pro while away from your work network, through wi-fi internet or VPN. You must also have access to ArcGIS Online.

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Dave Henrie (Utah County)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Jacob Adams (UGRC)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions

Want to take your data munging, analysis, and sharing to the next level? Come get hands-on with the pandas library for python. You’ll get experience loading, querying, analyzing, and reshaping data. And who needs desktop GIS when you’ve got the ArcGIS API for Python and geopandas libraries to perform your GIS analysis in code? This is a great class to learn how to use your python skills to create powerful, repeatable spatial and non-spatial data analyses that can be run anywhere you can run python: locally, on a server, or in the cloud.

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Roger Dunn (Orem City)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions

Attend this all-day, hands-on class to learn from experience how to use Python. Python is an open source programming language used throughout the world, and in ArcGIS Pro. In this class, you will use Python to create handy scripts, analyze and edit GIS data, and modify maps. This class is geared towards non-programmers and beginners.
To follow along in class, you will need to bring your own Windows laptop or tablet with ArcGIS Pro 3.2 or later installed on it. You must be able to use Pro while away from your work network, through wi-fi internet or VPN.

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Will DeLany & Hannah Larsen (ESRI)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions

This half-day hands-on geospatial AI workshop introduces participants to the practical use of artificial intelligence within the ArcGIS system, focusing on imagery analysis, feature extraction, classification, and other common GeoAI workflows. Through guided exercises, attendees will explore pretrained models, run basic deep learning and machine learning tools, and see how new generative AI capabilities can enhance geospatial tasks. By the end of the session, participants will understand core geospatial AI concepts, know when to apply different model types, and feel confident running foundational GeoAI workflows to support real-world decision-making.

***AM Session – 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Instructor: Chris LeSueur (ESRI)
***PM Session – 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Same thing both sessions