Data Analytics and Visualization events

The goal of the Motion in Games conference is to bring together researchers from this variety of fields to present their most recent results, to initiate collaborations, and to contribute to the establishment of the research area. The conference will consist of regular paper sessions, poster presentations, and as well as presentations by a selection of internationally renowned speakers in all areas related to interactive systems and simulation. The conference includes entertaining cultural and social events that foster casual and friendly interactions among the participants.

The 3rd biennial conference will be held on October 11, 2017, at Hart House, University of Toronto. This year the conference will include more hands-on workshops led by Esri Canada staff and special interest group meetings to encourage networking, as well as a number of presentation sessions.

This year’s keynote will be delivered by Dr. Cynthia (Cindy) Brewer, Chair of Geography at Penn State University, internationally known and leading cartographic researcher, and developer of the widely used ColorBrewer colour picker that can be run directly from inside ArcGIS Desktop.

The forum will be held October 1-6, 2017, and will include programs for students, academics, artists, industry and commercial practitioners, government researchers, and anyone with interests in visualization and data analytics. The conference trend has been to draw over 1,000 participants from dozens of countries to a week of research presentations, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations, posters, and exhibitions.

The ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017, which is devoted to promoting international cooperation and exchanges in surveying and mapping and the development of geospatial science and technology, will be hosted by International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and WuHan University on September 18-22, 2017 at Wuhan East Lake International Conference Center. The theme of the GIS-SmartCity 2017 is “Geospatial For Smart City” in the first day. Plenary session will be in the first whole day. There will be ten workshops and technical exhibitions in the next four days. There will be several academic activities and social programs, such as the main venue, the sub-venue, commercial exhibitions, new product release, awards & honours, social parties and recruitment.

The conference will bring together research scientists in both academic institutes and industrial organizations to report progress and address challenges for fundamental research and rapid knowledge translation arising from big data in relation to visualization, information processing, health informatics, and application to emergency simulation and management. This will also be the third annual meeting of the annual conference series previously held in Xian (2015) and Changsha (2016). The conference and its associated international journal aims to build an international network to share experience, examine current status, and assess future challenges. This network will be built on the common core “analytics” of big data and information.

The conference will include a few sessions when we will organize lectures and discussions around a few problem-driven data analytics challenges and progress, where end-users talk about their experience and success of using data analytics in business operation, health data informatics and emergency management and academic researchers share their methodology development. The focus is on building the interdisciplinary collaboration, and building reciprocal linkage between academic research and industrial applications for rapid knowledge generation and translation in a truly bi-directional and iterative fashion (from application to theory and from theory to application).

CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

CANVAS is an annual visual analytics summer school/conference held by members and partners of the Canadian Network of Visual Analytics Centres (CANVAC). The CANVAS Summer School series provides Canadian students from CANVAC member universities with an opportunity to learn about visual analytics (VA) from both academic and industry experts in the VA field. The two-day summer school includes lectures, keynotes and panels with industry, non-profit and academic experts in the field, as well as hands-on workshops for a focused VA learning experience for participating students.

The CANVAS Summer School series has provided Canadian high quality personnel (HQP) from CANVAC member universities with an opportunity to learn about visual analytics (VA) from both academic and industry experts in the VA field. Past CANVAS events have included a focused VA learning experience for participating students. CANVAS 2016 will continue this format.