00:01What's next?

00:02Well, we have a number of development initiatives, driven in large part by you, but also some…

00:08…like I said before, game changers.

00:11Certainly 64-bit desktop is in our future.

00:14You saw that beginning with the runtime pattern, building 64-bit there.

00:20GPUs, other things that you've asked for.

00:22But I'd like to engage you during the week, because we have over 1,000 of our development people here…

00:28…they're going to talk with you and interact with you.

00:31You can hammer on them.

00:33But I'll tell you something else.

00:34Last year we introduced something called the Ideas portal, which was a way that you can put in suggestions…

00:42…and then vote on them.

00:44This definitely had a huge impact on what we did on 10.1.

00:47I'd like to invite you to continue doing that and working with us in that regard.

01:00The biggest one that I'll call your attention to is in local government, where we're building maps and data models…

01:08…and workflows—actually, that's the foundation of all of these initiatives that help you do your job better.

01:15The local government one you'll see from Clint Brown later today, and it's freely available on the web.

01:23But we also have ones in defense and production mapping and geodemographics.

01:29And a couple of them are actually SaaS applications.

01:33Community Analyst makes available over 6,000 variables online with a nice little workflow, so people that…

01:39…don't have software, they don't have skills, they don't want to do GIS, they just want to use it…

01:45…this is also another pattern.

01:47It's a pattern that we're promoting for our broader communities, but also it's a pattern that you can copy…

01:55…those of you who are interested in this, and drive it yourself.

02:00Esri is, as you know, beyond simply software; we support you in technical support…

02:07…and this is getting better and more globalized.

02:10More education work, we're putting more on the web with free courses or inexpensive courses…

02:15…and we're also changing the courses so they're more experiential based.

02:19Rather than lecture/lab, they're learn by doing, and that's going to be powerful in its own right.

02:27Our Professional Services organization supports hundreds of engagements helping you…

02:32…and I appreciate the opportunity to do that.

02:35We also have a press that many of you have taken advantage of with over a hundred fine textbooks.

02:42Some of these are by you, and some of them are by our own people.

02:46This year we have about a dozen books, and two that I'll call your attention to are Understanding GIS…

02:52…and that's a really fine piece of work.

02:55It should be something that all of you professionals get.

02:59The other one is Roger Tomlinson, over the last year, has been working on a new edition…

03:03…it's released at this conference, it modernizes with all the new technology what's going on.

03:08And his famous book about thinking about GIS before doing something has guided me and I know many of you.

03:15And he's here today; I'd like to acknowledge you, Roger, once again, for all the great things that you've done.

03:32This last year we introduced something called certification.

03:34This is not professional certification.

03:37It's meant to be a benchmark for you in professional skills, and I acknowledge the people that worked on this.

03:44It's meant to distinguish you and those of you who are employers, better raise the standard about…

03:53…who really knows what in our tools.

03:56Esri is successful in part because of its Partner Program.

04:00And we have several thousand partners both on the technology side, people like Microsoft and IBM and SAS…

04:07…and Oracle, who've helped us make our software better.

04:12And the engagements that we have there are very powerful.

04:16And then we have thousands of these partners who actually extend our platform and provide…

04:21…well, they help you be more successful in domain areas and particular skill areas.

04:25And I want to acknowledge them.

04:27Because they truly have made us as a community much more successful.

04:34Esri is philosophically committed to supporting you.

04:38That's exactly where our mind is all the time.

04:42We of course are intrigued by this notion of understanding the world.

04:45It drives us, and we think we want to make the world a better place.

04:49Our goals are fundamentally advancing GIS and geographic sciences, and promoting spatial thinking…

04:55…in partnership with you.

04:57Our status is we're strong, we're growing.

05:00We have a conservative outlook on how we run our organization, and we have many strong relationships…

05:07…that help us make a difference in the world.

05:10And I always like to talk about our organization, because it's an organization that actually works, so I'm proud of that.

05:19And especially I'm proud of the fact that our relationship works.

05:24And if we are not doing what you want, I want to know about it.

05:27This is important to me, as well.

05:30Our relationships are distinguished on a lot of fronts—one of them is this list of organizations and actually…

05:37…1,000 more beyond them that help us make our organization successful.

05:43They allow us to extend our tools through gifts and collaborations into the world.

05:49Jane Goodall organization and Nature Conservancy and government agencies like NGA and USGS have helped us…

05:58…spread and connect our tools to the people who need them.

06:03Last fall we introduced a nonprofit organization program.

06:08This is sort of like the personal GIS program where we give all of our software, without cost, to NGO organizations.

06:16And there are thousands of them.

06:18They help others using our tools, and it's a distinct honor for us to do it.

06:32GIS, particularly in conservation, has been a leader in this regard.

06:36And one of those organizations, the Society for Conservation GIS, is one that I'm particularly proud of being related with.

06:43These are hundreds of people who volunteer time and go out in the mission of conservation around the world…

06:48…and work with NGOs to…I would say, to do God's work.

06:58Another initiative that we are working on heavily is education, both at the higher ed, and here our partner is…

07:08…the American Association of Geographers, and in the K–12, the National Geographic Society.

07:13They have initiated a strong geomentoring program for our users to adopt a school and adopt a classroom…

07:22…to provide GIS training within these organizations.

07:26And so again, I want to thank especially the National Geographic Society for being so strong.

07:32Those two organizations are also our partner in something we call GIS Day, which is next November.

07:37It's a chance for many of you to have an open house and invite in people to have a look at what you actually do.

07:44Well, it's the end of the morning, or the first part of the morning.

07:48I want to cover a couple of final points.

07:51First, your work already supports thousands of important activities.

07:56The slides that I showed you are evidence of that.

08:00And in a contextual way, I believe these are extending the human mind.

08:06Organizations, the people that you're belonging to, the organizations that you belong to…

08:12…are increasingly valuing GIS and what it does for them.

08:16And, at the same time, they want to see everything on a map.

08:20It's kind of like we opened Pandora's box.

08:23And they say well, I want to see it that way, which gives me the sense that this is a new language…

08:30…that we're working with.

08:32These emerging tools that Bernie and Jeremy showed are a kind of pattern—a technical pattern…

08:39…that will really enable us to deliver on that in that regard.

08:43They'll make your work easily accessible, discoverable, and empower you to deliver this across your organizations.

08:52This platform, I'm convinced, is going to open things up.

08:57It's going to improve understanding of our planet—the theme of this conference—and provide access…

09:03…across your organizations, but also, as you can see, beyond your organizations.

09:09I truly hope that this will stimulate your mind to think about collective knowledge and what that means for our world.

09:18I think you will be the ones that make this happen.

09:21Carl Sagan said, "Our species needs understanding of how the world works." A very powerful statement.

09:29Very simple, very concise.

09:32I think you're the ones to do it.

09:35Thank you very much for this morning…