ESRI UC 2020 Day 1
What a year! Because of Covid/the Corona Virus/The Rona, the UC this year unfortunately was virtual. I was super sad about this. The UC is a fantastic reminder that I have a seriously cool job. Being able to attend the UC in person, you are overwhelmed with people from around the world that also do GIS, which is a stark contrast to doing GIS in Utah and being one of very few. That being said, ESRI did a FANTASTIC job with the UC! Being virtual, I had ZERO issues with connecting to classes, listening to speakers, I never lost a connection or was kicked out or had lagging issues, and that is a huge feat! So, great job! Because it was virtual, there were only a handful of class offerings each hour, and all from ESRI staff. They also split the plenary sessions into one hour segments each day, instead of all day Monday. I think that was a great idea. So Monday started with the Plenary. There were over 80,000 people attending virtually! From around the world. Can we take a moment