Join us for a presentation this Wednesday, October 25th from 11am-12pm in River Rd RM 325! Ridge Waddell from Esri will be giving an overview of the Esri Education Institution Agreement Licensing Updates and Training Resources that Esri has created for Modern GIS. He will also be talking about industry trends related to modern and cloud-based GIS.

Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/my/jma3zoom

Speaker Bio:

Ridge Waddell is a Lead Account Manager on the Esri Higher Education team.  He manages our Higher Education accounts in the Northeast region of the USA.  He works collaboratively with Esri Industry solutions teams to help disseminate the value of GIS across both Academia and Operational Administration in Higher ED and k-12 academia & administration, along with libraries and museums. He is responsible for making sure educators are developing the next GIS professional workforce and bringing to them the value of Esri's Geospatial cloud.  He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing and Management Information Sciences.  Before joining Esri, Ridge served more than 13 years working in Higher Ed Technology Business Development within the CAD software industry.