Explore the Directions LIVE 2020 agenda
Directions LIVE 2020 delivers a day of inspirational local GIS user stories and a first look at the latest developments in ArcGIS.
Plenary
- Agriculture 4.0: Enabling Malaysia agricultural future with GIS | Gs. Mohd Zahlan Mohd Zaki, Chief Scientist II, Sime Darby Plantation Research Sdn Bhd
Despite technological advancements in mechanisation and biotechnology, Malaysia’s agricultural industry remains quite traditional in its practices. The oil palm industry — one of Malaysia’s oldest industries in existence over more than a century — offers a prominent example of the need for a modern GIS that empowers stakeholders to extend their geospatial data content and analytics to drive informed decision-making. This modern GIS, coupled with IoT connectivity and AI capabilities, is essential in enabling Agriculture 4.0 in Malaysia.
- Future Tech: A look at what's to come | Joanne Loh, Chief Technology Strategist, Esri Malaysia
Get a summary of the latest platform updates and take a look at the future of Esri tech ans understand how geospatial infrastructure is transforming organisations by interconnecting information, processes and workflows. Explore the tools and capabilities offered and see how ArcGIS capabilities are advancing.
- GIS Development in Solid Waste Management Industries | Abdul Rahman bin Yahya, GIS Head Unit/MIS, E-Idaman Sdn Bhd
The application of GIS has helped waste management operator, E-Idaman, manage inventory data – from preliminary data collection on the ground using GPS to data storage, analysis and visualisation using maps. Follow their GIS journey and see how spatial data has been extended to support non-GIS staff across the organisation. Go behind the scenes of their inspirational GIS solution that will be used as a reference for other agencies (Hub GIS Center) across Malaysia’s Northern Region via ArcGIS Portal.
Engage
- Digital transformation solutions for local government | Alvin Khaw, Senior Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Local and state governments can leverage a suite of business continuity solutions that include key capabilities and applications that address common government workflows and processes. Explore workforce applications and see the benefits of leveraging the visualisation tools of dashboards to monitor government activities, monitor staff health and support the management of daily operations. This session will also demonstrate how safety and compliance officers can leverage facility status apps to monitor local government facilities.
- Enhance your insights with data visualisation & collection | Nur Farhana Jafri, Consultant, Esri Malaysia
In today’s connected world, we are exposed to massive volumes of data on a daily basis, hence understanding what this data means and interpreting it accurately is the key. Discover the latest ArcGIS tools and apps that you can use to visualise and even collect your own data; and see how you can derive valuable information from it to keep your stakeholders informed and connected.
- Introducing ArcGIS Experience Builder | Amir Faisal, Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Part of the Esri Geospatial Cloud and built into ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Experience Builder empowers you to quickly transform your data into compelling web apps without writing a single line of code. Discover how you can create immersive map centric and non-map centric applications that can run on the web, integrate with other ArcGIS Apps, and work with both 2D and 3D data to deliver agile web apps that support your decision-making processes.
- Geo-Precision Agriculture: Tools for smarter, predictive farming | Luk Ing Ping, Senior Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Go behind the scenes of the digital transformation that is currently unfolding in the agriculture and plantation sectors and see how connected information is key to effective plantation operation. Explore Esri Malaysia’s latest Geo-Precision Agriculture Solution and find out how you can jumpstart your journey towards smart farming with production trends, future insights and learning from past mistakes.
- Real-time situational awareness | Azlina Mahad, Lead Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Real-time GIS and situational awareness give you the ability to simultaneously integrate, analyse, and display streaming data from many sensors, devices, and social media feeds. Take a closer look at the data workflows, resources, templates and ready-to-use apps for emergency management that help you understand the impact of an incident on public infrastructure and human populations. Discover how to integrate authoritative, reliable, and current real-time information for effective emergency preparedness and rapid response.
- 10 steps for better disaster preparedness | Wan Mohamad Nazmeen, Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Agencies around the world are using ArcGIS to plan for and mitigate complex threats and hazards and coordinate response and recovery efforts when disasters occur. Discover how to support emergency management and disaster response efforts and create safer, less vulnerable communities. This session will help you develop a deeper understanding of risk and how to maintain real-time data insights to prepare for what’s to come.
Achieve
- Proximity Tracing: Ready-to-use tools for contact tracing | Firdaus Asri, Lead Consultant, Esri Malaysia
We face several challenges in today’s constantly changing world – but a clear understanding of these challenges and how we can manage them helps us respond faster to save more lives. As restrictions begin to ease, contact tracing is becoming a priority. Watch how using raw data and the proximity tracing tool can help you identify individuals within pre-defined parameters of a contagious person. This is your chance to get a closer look at the ready-to-use tools that have helped organisations around the world set up solutions and understand the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to be able to respond faster.
- Smart planning using ArcGIS Urban & Indoors | Lo Kit Yeng, Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Explore an immersive 3D experience designed to improve urban planning and decision making with ArcGIS Urban and go on a tour inside a venue using ArcGIS Indoors. See how city planners around the world are redesigning and replanning their cities to better serve their residents.
- GeoAI: Object detection & predictive analytics | Md Afif Bakar, Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Deep Learning is an AI technique using Deep Neural Networks to solve complex problems. ArcGIS provides powerful capabilities to integrate with Deep Learning Frameworks to solve a wide array of Geospatial Problems like Detecting Objects and Features from Imagery and Videos, Optimizing Patrol Allocation, and Sentiment Analysis from Textual Data. In this session, you will get a chance to see different examples of the integration with deep learning frameworks and how GeoAI is unlocking many possibilities that weren’t possible before.
- Shah Alam City Council: Digital transformation to smart city status | Tpr. Nurul Sheema Abdul Rahman, Deputy Director of Planning, Shah Alam City Council
Follow Shah Alam City’s digital transformation journey to becoming a smart city and hear the lessons learned along the way. Get insights into management expectations and the role the council’s planning department has played in leading the process.
- ArcGIS Monitor: An introduction | Mohd Akmal Bin Jasman, System Architect, Esri Malaysia
Part of the Esri Geospatial Cloud, ArcGIS Monitor is a tool uniquely tailored to monitor the health of your ArcGIS implementations throughout the lifecycle. It provides awareness of system usage and performance, helping you get the most from your GIS and IT investment. Join this session for a guided tour of ArcGIS Monitor, its capabilities, use cases and how you can leverage it to improve your ROI.
- Managing your unstructured data with LocateXT | Patihe Suip, Senior Consultant, Esri Malaysia
Discover how to extract geocoordinates, place names, and other critical information from unstructured text and place them instantly on a map uisng LocateXT. In this session you will understand what unstructured data is and see how to extract it from almost any source including messages, reports, briefings, and even social media.