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Helping People and Building Resilience
How can GIS supports communities before, during, and after crises? Learn how coordinated geospatial efforts strengthen local, national, and international support, and hear lightning talks on scaling safety for large community counts and using open mapping with AI to power cross‑platform disaster response. A technical demonstration shows how customizing GIS solutions enhances special event operations and coordination. The session concludes with key reflections from day two, reinforcing how data, technology, and collaboration help communities adapt, recover, and build long-term resilience.

Presentations

  • American Red Cross: Enabling Our Humanitarian Mission with GIS

    When a hurricane makes landfall, a hospital needs platelets, or a neighbor steps forward to give, communities are at the center of the American Red Cross mission. GIS is the connective tissue that brings the full strength of our services, such as disaster response, blood services, and fundraising to the communities we serve. In this session, see how geospatial capability helps us meet people where they are, direct resources where they matter, and serve where it's needed most. Discover how the power of where fuels our humanitarian impact.

    , VP, Digital Product Management - Humanitarian Services, American Red Cross

  • Counting What Matters: Modernizing LA’s Homeless Count
    The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) advanced the nation’s largest unsheltered Homeless Count by transitioning from a manual, time and resource-intensive process to a secure, GIS-driven system supporting 5,000+ volunteers across 4,000+ square miles. A mobile app streamlined field data collection, while real-time geospatial validation, boundary controls, and coordinator review strengthened accuracy and reduced risk. The result: faster processing, full geographic coverage, and defensible data used to inform county-wide funding and policy decisions.

    , Associate Director of Government and Community Relations, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

  • The World Bank and ArcGIS: Letting Conflict Country Teams Finally See the Board

    For decades, development actors have made high stakes choices in conflict countries blind—like playing chess without seeing the board—fragmented maps, disconnected datasets, and no shared view of ‘where.’ The World Bank is using Esri’s ArcGIS Hub to build geospatial data hubs that put our country teams at the table facing the board: one place to manage and share layers, connect maps/apps/dashboards with partners, set permissions, and support use cases like portfolio mapping and risk monitoring. This presentation shares what’s working, with real time impact, and how country teams are requesting, using adapting these hubs.

    , Lead Specialist Risk Monitoring and Forecasting, World Bank

  • Open Mapping Meets ArcGIS: Community Data and AI for Disaster Response
    When disasters strike, responders need fast, reliable map data. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) mobilizes volunteers and local mappers to create open geospatial data—buildings, roads, and critical infrastructure—in crisis areas where data is scarce. Using HOT’s open‑source fAIr tool, AI-assisted feature detection from satellite imagery accelerates mapping. This data feeds OpenStreetMap and the ArcGIS Living Atlas, supporting real-world disaster response, analysis, and coordination. This session highlights OSM use cases in ArcGIS and ways the GIS community can contribute back.

    , Senior Product Owner, Imagery Services, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

    , Conflict & Displacement Program Lead, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

  • Enhancing and Customizing the Special Events Solution to Enrich Functionality
    ArcGIS Solutions serve as a strong starting point for deploying workflows and application to your organization, but they are just starting points. See how a solution can be customized, added to, and personalized with Esri software to meet public safety needs. Last known location tracking, floor aware data, and field maps tasking will be added to the Special Events Solution to enhance day-of readiness and situational awareness for a dynamic event.

    , Esri

  • Closing Remarks
    Join us as we conclude day two of the Esri Safety & Security Summit and transition into the Public Safety and national Security Social. We'll recap presentations discussing how GIS connects data, people, and action to help communities anticipate risk, respond with confidence, and adapt to what comes next.

    , Esri

    , Esri

Session Type: General Session
Session Level: All Attendees
Access Type: In-Person