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Building Maps to Analyze Your Data

Mansour Raad (ESRI), Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems)
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Location: Ballroom V

Having access to online maps is a start, but often you may need to include functionality that goes beyond simply displaying a map with points. The session will provide a fast-paced introduction to the essentials of how to create rich map-based Web applications using the ArcGIS API for Flex. Attendees will learn how to integrate free online resources from ESRI such as interactive maps and GIS tasks in their existing applications. Also, attendees will be exposed to how to manage rich graphics and use multiple graphic layers. The session will take a hands-on approach to show how GIS/mapping components can be integrated into a Flex environment through demonstrations and exercises. The session materials will be available prior to the class to download and examine and attendees can use their own computers to create their own applications.

Bio: With over 20 years of experience in the mapping and GIS industry, Mansour Raad is a Senior Software Architect at ESRI. Currently, Mansour is a Flex evangelist within ESRI and is leading the development of the ArcGIS API for Flex. Mansour graduated from Boston University with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering and designed and implemented an airport noise and operation monitoring system (ANOMS) that is currently used in over 30 airports world- wide.

Mansour Raad

ESRI

With over 20 years of experience in the mapping and GIS industry, Mansour Raad is a Senior Software Architect at ESRI. Currently, Mansour is a Flex evangelist within ESRI and is leading the development of the ArcGIS API for Flex. Mansour graduated from Boston University with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering and designed and implemented an airport noise and operation monitoring system (ANOMS) that is currently used in over 30 airports world- wide.

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Duane Nickull

Adobe Systems

As Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Duane Nickull is responsible for Adobe’s messaging around Enterprise Architecture in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services spaces plus Web 2.0. Previously Mr. Nickull co-founded Yellow Dragon Software Corporation, a privately held developer of XML messaging and metadata management software, acquired by Adobe in 2003. He previously served as CTO and President of XML Global Technologies, a publicly traded company acquired by Xenos Group in early 2003 where he co-architected several key technologies including XTRACT, an intelligence gathering and Bayesian theorem inference engine to flag persons of interest to law enforcement officials and recover stolen property.

Mr. Nickull has been called Mr. SOA by his peers during introductions to speak on the subject due to his overwhelming experience writing and contributing to the major Service Oriented Architectures (SOA’s). Between 1995 and 2008, he spoke at over 750 venues in various countries around the world.

Duane Nickull is the author of Web 2.0 Architectures .